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an elder , and then the . casting vote , if the votes were equal . If out of the general body , he
would vote only when the votes were equal : and for this reason I should prefer always the taking of the bishop from the general body ; but ifc seems better not to confine the elders in their choice . In my next , I shall consider the mode of
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choosing elders , arid the duration of their office , in which of course ihy readers will have anticipated rne that in this , as in the office " of a bishop , the canvassing for the place is an obvious disqualification . I remain ever , Your * s , &c , ¦ •¦ ¦ ¦¦ . : F .
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with some small presents of fishhooks ; needle ' s , glass-bead ^ and other trifiefe of that nature , b y degrees made them familiar with him . During the first four years he resided among them , he en * dured very much as well by the change of air , as the frequent inundations with almost continual
rains , nipping colds and the difficulty of learning the language ; for besides that he had neither master nor interpreter , he had to do with a people so rude that they could not name to him that ^ vhieh he endeavoured to make
them understand by signs . These and many other-fatigues weaken-Ing him , he was most of the time afflicted with a quartan-ague which obliged him to return to Sahcta Cruz de la Sierra , where he soon recovered his health .
Being sensible he must first make the Indians men , before he could pretend to make thenx Christians , he learnt to weave cotton cloth that he might afterwards teach some of thent , in order to clothe such as received baptism , for they went almost naked . While at Srfncta Cru ?
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Tut her Cyptian ' s method of Converting the Indians * * 93
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31 IU BROOKES ^ ON THE METHOD OF FATHER CYPRIAN AHJ > OTHERS , IN CONVERTING THE INDIANS .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
SIR , The plan which tire government of the United States of America is now so judiciously adopting to effect the civilization of the Indiin
ans ., I find ^ was pursued some measure by an individual of that zealous missionary society , the Jesuits with considerable success , more than a century ago among the Indians in South America ,
These Indians resided in Moxos ; a people of Peru . The Moxos territory is an immense tract , which appears when , departing from Sancta Cruz de la Sierra , we keep along a great chain of steep mountains that run from North to
South : the country is in the tor . rid zone , and extends from 10 to 15 degrees of South latitude ; its utmost bounds are vet unknown . Father Cyprian Baraza had long courted his superiors to send him to some laborious mission , and at
length the mission of the Moxos was allotted him : he was 12 days going from Sancta Ciuz de la Sima on the river Glmpay , before lie arrived in the country of the Moxos . The Father ' s modtesty sand courteous behaviour , together
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 193, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/17/
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