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MISSIONARY LIFE 
CHAPTER XXIY. 
THEOLOGY, DEVIL-WORSHIP. 
Their theological views are so diversified and 
vague as not at all to constitute a system of doc- 
trines and practice; and hence they have no fixed 
forms of worship. Some worship images of stone, 
which, as I suppose, were made by former gener- 
ations, and kept as curiosities, or as hieroglyphical 
representations. They have also some wooden 
images. A degree of reverence is attached to 
these images by the people, and some say that 
they were made by God himself. 
So far as I was able to learn, they all believe in 
the existence of a supreme Jehovah, who is the 
creator of the world, and of all things therein ; 
that he is almighty, and just in all his ways. 
Some believe that the earth is his wife, and hence 
they sacrifice and pray to her. 
They do not think that the great God concerns 
himself much about the affairs of men, but has 
committed the government and regulation of this 
world to inferior deities. They say, however, 
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