Company for Propagating the Gospel in New England and Parts Adjacent in North America

British missionary company

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    In John Eliot

    …inspired the creation of the Company for Propagating the Gospel in New England and Parts Adjacent in North America (1649). This was the first genuine missionary society. Eliot’s methods set the pattern of subsequent “Indian missions” for almost two centuries. Civilization, he believed, was closely bound up with evangelization. His…

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