Peter Jones (missionary)

thumb|Peter Jones Peter Jones (January 1, 1802 – June 29, 1856) was an Ojibwa Mississauga Methodist preacher from Upper Canada. Quotes 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. In Life and Journals of Kah-ke-wa-quo-nā-by: (Rev. Peter Jones,) Wesleyan Missionary, quoted in: Rev. Ken Herfst Peter Jones - Sacred Feathers - and the Mississauga Indians Free Reformed Churches of North America Messenger, May 2004. About Peter Jones I first said "No; that is the white man's God, and the white man's religion; and that God would not have anything to do with the Indians." …I thought that God could only understand English... I then met with Peter Jones, who was converted a few months before me, and, to my surprise, I hear him return thanks, at meal, in Ojibway. This was quite enough for me. I now saw that God could understand me in my Ojibway, and therefor went far into the woods and prayed, in the Ojibway tongue. Pahtahsegay (Peter Jacobs), quoted in: Hope MacLean (2002). A positive experiment in aboriginal education: The Methodist Ojibwa day schools in Upper Canada, 1824-1833. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies XXII: 29. External links Author:Peter Jones Peter Jones The Canadian Encyclopedia: Jones, Peter Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: Jones, Peter The Peter Jones Collection at the University of Toronto's Victoria College Library. Category:Christian leaders Category:1802 births Category:1856 deaths Category:Canadian Methodists Category:First Nations people Category:Religious leaders from Canada Category:Translators from Canada Category:People from Ontario