The New Land and the New Race 9 



it is our privilege to trace to the far West and 

 North of the New World. 



The author of an early history of mis 

 sions, and clearly by no means an admirer of 

 the &quot;Lord Protector,&quot; delivers himself thus: 

 &quot;To the usurper , Cromwell, belongs the credit 

 of having first planned a mission from the 

 Reformed Churches to the less favoured parts of 

 the world. His project, as Bishop Burnet re 

 marks, was certainly a noble one. He resolved 

 to set up a council for the Protestant religion, in 

 opposition to the congregation, de Propaganda 

 Fide at Rome. He intended it should consist 

 of seven Councillors and four Secretaries for 

 different Provinces. These were the first : France, 

 Switzerland, and the Valleys; the Palatine and 

 the other Calvinists were the second; Germany, 

 the North, and Turkey were the third; and the 

 East and West Indies were the fourth.&quot; These 

 general aspirations took form in the organization 

 of the oldest existing missionary society, one which 

 is still carrying on effective work for the Canadian 

 Indians. 



The Long Parliament passed an Ordinance 

 which recited that &quot;the Commons in England, in pany 

 Parliament assembled, had received certain 

 intelligence that divers heathen natives of New 

 England had, through the blessing of God, for 

 saken their accustomed charms, sorceries, and 

 other satanical delusions, were now calling upon 

 the name of the Lord, and that the propagation 

 of Jesus Christ among these poor heathen could 



