"When I looked at the conduct of the whites who were called Christians, and saw them drunk, quarreling, and fighting, cheating the poor Indians, and acting as if there was no God, I was led to think there could be no truth in the white man's religion, and felt inclined to fall back again to my old superstitions."
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Peter Jones (missionary)
Peter Jones (January 1, 1802 – June 29, 1856) was an Ojibwa Mississauga Methodist preacher from Upper Canada.
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