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    sionary journies among different nationsu of Indians , and when upon one to the Baure Indians , was killed by some of them on the 16 th

    Sep . 170 % having baptized above 40 , 000 idolaters , and reduced a brutal people to civility and the greatest sense of religion * .

    For a more full account of Father Cyprian , from which the above is taken , see the Missionen / Travels , translate ^ fro m the French , printed for R . Gosling , 1714 . 8 vo . pp 230 to 254 .

    Mr . Kalro , in his travels in North America , states that the following conversation took place between a governor of New York and an Indian on their conversion to the Christian religion , that redounds very much to the good sense of the Indian * but which

    her majesty ' s governor was not enlightened enough to sec the wisdom and propriety of : Even in these days , the best mode is perhaps not pursued by the missionaries of the enlightened nation of Great Britain . An

    Acute and sensible wnterf observes in his History of Monmouthshire , that iron , gunpowder and mili *

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    tary discipline have been tho legislators of nations , and the rights of man have depended more on his mechanic than on his

    speculative faculties . Professor Pallas , in his travels through Russia , traces with difficulty the ancient Tshudes , rich in the

    possession of . copper and gold , while the Tartars , inferior in civilization and general knowledge , but having the use of iron , subdued and nearly extirpated them .

    At a conference governor Hun * ter had with the five nations of Indians , residing in the state of New York , at ' Albany , after he

    had presented these Indians by order of queen Anne , with many clothes and other presents , of which they were fond , he intended to convince them still more of

    her majesty ' s good will and care of them , by adding , that their good mother , the queen , had not only generously provided them with fine clothes for their bodies ,

    but likewise intended to adorn , their souls , by the preaching of the gospel ; and that to this purpose some ministers should be sent to them to instruct them .

    ? The following account shows that the Moravians understand the true principles for converting men , a ** they have transformed the inhabitants of . Labrador into useful citizens as well as good Christians . When the Moravian missionaries first landed in Labrador , they found it the practice of the natives to put to death widows and orphans , for as they were improvident of their ovirn families , they could not furnish the means of support to those of others . The Moravians , instead of encouraging the natives in their rambling disposition from place to place , laboured to fix them to one spot , and instead of preaching to them the mysterious parts

    of the gospel , they instructed them in useful and industrious habits , and instead <* f building a church they erected a storehouse . They caused this common store to b « divided into as many compartments as there were families , leaving one at each end larger than the rest , to be appropriated solely to the use of the widow * and orphans : and having taught them the process of salting and drying , fish , caught in vast multitudes in the summer months : they were placed in this general

    depository of their industry , to serve as a provision for the long and dismal wiarer which reigns in . that climate ; deducting however from the compartment of every family a tenth of the produce , to b « deposited in those of the widows and orp hans , Their Jabpurs were crowned with complete success ; for from t > iat tfime a division igyas made for the preservation of thene desolate and hdple . 0 * * creatures . Editi * mireh Rev . voL viii . p . 43 6 . - . 1 Mr . David Williams . v * -

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    195 Father Cyprian ' s method of Converting tie Indians ..

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/20/