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Christians here, that they have had, and still 

 have, their notions of Christianity, which God 

 knows hath been generally such that it hath 

 made the Indians to hate our religion; the 

 Christians selling the Indians so much rum, is a 

 sufficient bar, if there were no other, against 

 their embracing Christianity.&quot; 



Mr. Thoroughgood Moore having thus proved, 

 in spite of his announced &quot;firm courage and 

 resolution,&quot; that he was unequal to the &quot;excellent 

 designs of the Society, retired eastward to more 

 congenial surroundings, and returning to England 

 was lost with all on board. He was succeeded 

 by men who evidenced all the qualities required 

 in a missionary; one of whom, the Rev. John st e uar*t h 

 Stuart, was destined to be the founder of the 

 Church of England in the Province of Ontario. 

 The labours of the missionaries were on behalf, 

 mainly, of the Mohawks, but some converts 

 were made from among the Oneidas and Tus- 

 caroras. Then the storm of the Revolutionary War uSn55 v war 

 broke, with all its fury, over the infant Church, 

 and drove, in the end, both missionaries and 

 converts across the boundary into Canada. 



The circumstances under which a clergyman Rev. j. ogiivie 

 of the Church of England first visited the bound- at agara 

 aries of Ontario, are set out by the Reverend 

 John Ogiivie, who, in a letter said: &quot;Last summer 

 I attended the Royal American Regiment upon 

 the Expedition to Niagara; and, indeed, there 

 was no other chaplain upon that department, 

 though there were three regular regiments and the 



