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The seventeenth-century New England Puritan missionaries largely set the course for modern missions. They defined their task as preaching the Gospel so that Native Americans would be converted and receive personal salvation. But early in their missionary experience these New Englanders concluded that Indian converts could only be Christians if they were "civilized." The model by which they measured their converts was English Puritan civilization. The missionaries felt compassion and responsibility for their converts. They gathered these new Christians into churches for nurture and discipline and set up programs to transform Christian Indians into English Puritans.

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Michner mangled history . . .

but the missionary efforts in Hawaii were also plagued with a lot of nonsense in the first decades--with seemingly few if any missionaries having any Holy Spirit-led sense about how to go about it in a truly Godly way that also respected God's unique creation in the Hawaiians.