...General Association was organized into the "Missionary Society of Connecticut," whose objects were " to Christianize the heathen in North America, and...promote Christian knowledge in the new settlements of the United States." The Rev. David Bacon, sent out in 1800, was its first missionary to the heathen....

...General Association was organized into the " Missionary Society of Connecticut," whose objects were " to Christianize the heathen in North America, and...promote Christian knowledge in the new settlements of the United States." The Rev. David Bacon, sent out in 1800, was its first missionary to the heathen....

...themselves into a Missionary Society, with a constitution which said: "The object of this Society shall be to Christianize the heathen in North America, and...in the new settlements within the United States." When the Spirit of God moved upon American piety to undertake missions for the heathen world at large,...

...London there arose missionary efforts in New England. A General Association was formed in Connecticut to " Christianize the heathen in North America, and...promote Christian knowledge in the new settlements of the United States." A minister, David Bacon, was forthwith despatched to the tribes on the shores...

...efforts ripened into a missionary society in 1798, designed — as its constitution expressed it — "to Christianize the heathen in North America, and...in the new settlements within the United States." f The missionaries supported by this society were •See Massachusetts Missionary Magazine, in, 395-400;...

...income of such funds held by them as have for their object, according to the terms of their charter, " to Christianize the heathen in North America, and...support and promote Christian knowledge in the new settlemants within the United States," in supporting in part one or more of the superintendents, or...

...Hebron, Tolland county, in 1798, declaring it to be their object to '• Christianize the heathen of North America, and to support and promote Christian...in the new settlements within the United States." These words sound like a refrain from the New England hills, wafting westward the Lord's great commission...

...business of the Society in the manner hereafter described. IV. The objects of the Society shall be, to christianize the Heathen in North America, and...Knowledge in the new settlements within the United States : and both shall bo pursued as circumstances shall point out : and as the Trustees, under the superintendence...

...for the " Missionary Society ef Connecticut" was adopted, the object of which was declared to be " to Christianize the heathen in North America and to...promote Christian knowledge in the new settlements of the United States." But the work of this Society formally dates back to 1792. In 1800 Rev. David...

...General Association was organized as the Missionary Society of Connecticut, the objects of which were, " to Christianize the heathen in North America and to...promote Christian knowledge in the new settlements of the United States." In accordance with the first specification Rev. David Bacon was sent in 1800...