Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . d withinthe settlement from the usual sources. The traders,the lovers of rum, the superstitious, and the vilest, wereall aroused to oppose the Gospel. Christ evidentlycame not to send peace, but a sword. The Indians manifested the best fruits of a godly the time of distributing the Government presents,which had usually been the occasion of a drunken frolic,the Christian Indians pitched their tents by themselves,and Peter Jones exhorted them to steadfastness, andthey spent much time in prayer for the pagans. Whenwhat Pe
Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . d withinthe settlement from the usual sources. The traders,the lovers of rum, the superstitious, and the vilest, wereall aroused to oppose the Gospel. Christ evidentlycame not to send peace, but a sword. The Indians manifested the best fruits of a godly the time of distributing the Government presents,which had usually been the occasion of a drunken frolic,the Christian Indians pitched their tents by themselves,and Peter Jones exhorted them to steadfastness, andthey spent much time in prayer for the pagans. Whenwhat Peter was doing became known the desire to hearan Indian preach drew crowds of white people. Peterwas wont at times, changing his address to English, toplead with the crowd no longer to hasten down to ruin,and many of the white people were convicted and con-verted. Peter Jones very soon became a power. Edu-cated, speaking English and the native tongues fluently,and having great zeal, he gathered about him nativesof like spirit, and their labors became abundant, and. Peter Jacobs. Missions to the Aborigines. 129 very successful. In this connection the names of WilliamBeaver and Peter Jacobs must be specially mentioned. The American Bible Society about this time printedportions of the Gospel in the native tongues, and theMissionary Society printed a selection of hymns. In all this work Rev. William Case, General Super-intendent of Aboriginal Missions for the province,took a most lively interest. He raised money and pur-chased an island named Sauguin, in the upper part ofthe Bay of Quinte, on which the Christian Indians mightbe settled, the better to protect them and furnish themwith school privileges. The effect was happy. Thewhole body of Indians in the neighborhood, and eventhose about Kingston and Guadanoqua, embraced Chris-tianity. The small island chosen was insufficient, andthis Christian settlement extended to Big Island. In all parts of the Church the interest in these mis-
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