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... Christianity in this group ; and the early missionaries record with thank- ful wonder , that many Areois were among their earliest and most zealous converts and steady ad- herents , and became hard - working and successful teachers and ...
... Christianity in this group ; and the early missionaries record with thank- ful wonder , that many Areois were among their earliest and most zealous converts and steady ad- herents , and became hard - working and successful teachers and ...
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... Christian neighbours as have pre- sumed to eat this incarnate god . About fifteen years ago , a party of about eighty persons reached Samoa , after drifting over the wide seas for several weeks . They had been driven away from the isle ...
... Christian neighbours as have pre- sumed to eat this incarnate god . About fifteen years ago , a party of about eighty persons reached Samoa , after drifting over the wide seas for several weeks . They had been driven away from the isle ...
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... Christian . Previous to that time he too had been a heavy drinker , and being a man of gigantic strength , and six feet eleven inches in height , he was not pleasant company when drunk . So it was a happy hour in which he vowed never ...
... Christian . Previous to that time he too had been a heavy drinker , and being a man of gigantic strength , and six feet eleven inches in height , he was not pleasant company when drunk . So it was a happy hour in which he vowed never ...
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Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. LAKE TEMAE . 83 the ancient marae . Now the Christian church occupies the site where formerly human sacrifices were offered to the cruel gods . At a distance of about two miles from this village there ...
Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming. LAKE TEMAE . 83 the ancient marae . Now the Christian church occupies the site where formerly human sacrifices were offered to the cruel gods . At a distance of about two miles from this village there ...
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... Christians , according to the teaching of the London Mission , had positively refused to allow certain French priests to settle in the isles , and found a Roman Catholic Mission , with a view to proselytising . These proving obstinate ...
... Christians , according to the teaching of the London Mission , had positively refused to allow certain French priests to settle in the isles , and found a Roman Catholic Mission , with a view to proselytising . These proving obstinate ...
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