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Michigan Abel Bingham
This gentleman they thought was a " pagan white man." Here we can see how readily educated infidelity and heathenish paganism can unite their forces against evangelical Christianity. But this effort utterly failed, and I was molested no more. Soon after the mission received an appropriation of $300 per annum from the Federal Government, and also gifts from Christian friends in New York city, which enabled them to obtain a good location for building a mission house, and establishing a boarding school, within half a mile of the council grounds and pagan village. This necessarily brought
more intercourse and deal with them. Mr. B------, by his kindness and
unselfish devotion to their best interests (temporal as well as spiritual of both factions,) gradually overcame their prejudices, and they felt he was indeed their friend. So great was their confidence that those Indians, formerly most bitterly opposed to him, trusted their business matters al-most entirely in his hands.
Early Michigan Preachers
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