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All this, and a great deal more besides, did the Spanish missionaries in behalf of the poor Indians; but how were the to succeed in their appointed mission where every t ing tended to neutralise their efforts? How were they to \convince the savage of the paramount importance of religion, when he saw among his rulers no anxiety except for gold? How were they to press upon him the necessit of patience, purity, meekness, and humility, when pride, rapacity, crueltv, and revenge, were the chief characteristics dis layed for their imita tion? Or how were they to tel of the glory of a soul absolved from sin, while the body of the hapless listener was wasting and withering away in chains provided b.
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All this, and a great deal more besides, did the Spanish missionaries in behalf of the poor Indians; but how were the to succeed in their appointed mission where every t ing tended to neutralise their efforts? How were they to \convince the savage of the paramount importance of religion, when he saw among his rulers no anxiety except for gold? How were they to press upon him the necessit of patience, purity, meekness, and humility, when pride, rapacity, crueltv, and revenge, were the chief characteristics dis layed for their imita tion? Or how were they to tel of the glory of a soul absolved from sin, while the body of the hapless listener was wasting and withering away in chains provided b.
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- Publication date2024
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- ISBN 13 9781334249389
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