 | François Raymond J. de Pons - 1807 - 572 pages
...nay, even mutters, the doctrine which IS' taught him, with a docility which has all the appearance of submission, whilst it is only the effect of carelessness...has revealed to his church, no man can be considered achristian. It istrue the Indian never refuses his assent to any article of religious faith, but expresses... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1822 - 844 pages
...whether the minister of religion, with all the mildness of his morality, has been more successful. What will always baffle the most zealous apostle to...Indians is, that they are utterly destitute of faith. It is true, the Indian never refuses his assent to any article of religious faith, but expresses his... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1822 - 846 pages
...whether the minister of religion, with all the mildness of his1 morality, has been more successful. What Will always baffle the most zealous apostle to...Indians is, that they are utterly destitute of faith. It is true, the Indian never reftises his assent to any article of religious faith, but expresses his... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1824 - 570 pages
...in a truly heathenish condition, and even systematically hostile to the reception of Christianity. ' What will always baffle the most zealous apostle to...Indians is, that they are utterly destitute of faith. It is true, the Indian never refuses his assent to any article of religious faith, but expresses his... | |
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God be already above his conception, what 240 signify to him the mysteries on which the Christian religion is founded? They are barriers which he does not think of approaching, much less of surmounting. What will always baffle the most zealous apostle... 