Lectures On the Growth And Development of the United States volume 9
Lectures On the Growth And Development of the United States volume 9
Edwin Wiley
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But where before there had been union and cooperation there was now diver- gence and an intensified denomina- tional alignment which led to much independent work and even to sectar- ian jealousies and animosities. The slavery question was looming large and in its pulpit discussion, North and South, were already overshadowed the church divisions which were to come in the next generation. Undoubtedly the most notable religious activity of this period was the beginning and development of mis- sion...ary work. The permanence and magnitude of these results stand out as the preeminent achievement of the Church in the first half of the century. Almost from the beginning of col- onization the missionary spirit of the pioneers was in evidence, nearly every charter impressing upon the settlers their duty to propagate the gospel among the Indians. Indeed one of the first books printed in the country was the Indian Bible from the Cambridge Press in Massachusetts in 1640. John Eliot and others devoted themselves to the christianizing of the Indians in the Seventeenth century* and the * See Volume I.
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