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Title: The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statistics. With a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Belcher, Joseph, 1794-1859
Subjects: Sects Sects Religions
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and other furniture, were liberally contributed.
A college was in a fair way of being founded; to the support of which
lands were appropriated, and brought into a state of cultivation. Some
few instances of the influence of gospel principles on the savage mind,
particularly Pocahontas, already mentioned, and Chanco, gave sanguine
hopes of success, and even a massacre of many of the Indians, did not
abate the ardor of that hope in the minds of those who indulged it.
The experience of almost two centuries has not extinguished it. There
may be some fruit which, though not splendid nor extensive, yet may
correspond with the genius of a religion which is compared by its au-
thor to Leaven hid in the meal. The power of evangelical truth on
the human mind must not be considered as void of reality, because not
exposed to public observation. Thus many large-hearted Christian
shelped on these good beginnings. The Bishop of London raised one
thousand pounds towards the expenses of their infant college; an un-
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POCAHONTAS.
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EPISCOPALIANS 441

known benefactor sent five hundred pounds more, to be laid out in in-
structing the young Indians in the faith of Christ. Money to be spent
in building churches, and providing communion-plate for those already
built, flowed in from other quarters. An exemplary zeal appears in all
the dealings of the company. They impressed upon their governors
that they 3 Should take into their especial regard the service of Al-
mighty God, and the ob
servance of his divine laws; and that the peo-
ple should be trained up in true religion and virtue." They urged them
" To employ their utmost care to advance all things appertaining to the
order and administration of divine service according to the form and
discipline of the Church of England, carefully avoiding all factious and
needless novelties, which only tend to the disturbance of peace an
dunity.3 They besought them To use all probable means of bringing over
the natives to the knowledge of God and his true religion; to which
purpose long the whole coast, and continually more and more inland,

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