Christian Missions Volume 2; Their Agents, and Their Results by Thomas William M Marshall
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Author: Thomas William M Marshall
Number of Pages: 250 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236104496
File size: 36 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...to place settlers, that they undertook"--and then he describes at length the noble efforts which they made, and of which we are going to examine the results. The Canadian Company established under the auspices of Cardinal Richelieu, who wisely prohibited the admission of Protestant colonists as sure to be fatal to the welfare of the heathen, bound themselves by a solemn compact, "to maintain missionaries for the conversion of the sayages."f The pledge was faithfully observed, in the same religious spirit which made Champlain exclaim, " The salvation of one soul is of more value than the conquest of an empire." "The principal design of French settlements in Canada," says Mr. Alfred Hawkins, --we shall quote, as usual, only Protestant authorities, --" was evidently to propagate the Christian religion." With this object, they sent the agents whom the Catholic Church always provides for such labors, and it is in the following words that Mr. Hawkins attempts to describe them. "The early history of Canada teems with instances of the purest religious fortitude, zeal, and heroism; of young and delicate females relinquishing the comforts of civilization to perfonn the most menial offices towards the sick, to dispense at once the blessings of medical aid to the body, and of religious instruction to the soul, of the benighted and wondering savage." He alludes, no doubt, though he does not name them, to 6uch ministers of consolation as Marguerite Bourgeoys, Marie Barbier, Marguerite Le Moine, Marie Louise Dorval, and a hundred more, "renowned for their piety," as the Swedish traveller J. S. Buckingham, Canada, ch. xv., p. 203 f Hutoire du Canada et de sea Mimont, par M. l'Abbe Brasseur de Bourbourg, tome i....
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