A distinction Hare draws, with the caveat that historians would qualify it
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The Jonathan Hare and Wickwire families were Seventh-day Adventist missionaries for generations, working in remote and often dangerous territories.
Hare's claim, recorded as his: that Adventist missionaries preached and then left, rather than remaining to govern — and that this differs in kind from the Spanish and Portuguese Catholic missions, the French orders in North America, the Dutch, and the English Puritans and Anglicans, all of whom spread Christianity in company with conquest.
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The structural point holds. Adventism arose in the nineteenth-century United States, after the age of confessional conquest and without a state or an army attached. Its missions were not instruments of territorial administration, because there was no territory to administer. That is a genuine difference and it is not a matter of virtue — it is a matter of what was available.
The comparative claim is where a historian would push back. Protestant missions of every kind operated inside colonial structures they did not create and frequently benefited from, and “leaving the culture intact” describes an intention more often than an outcome. Literacy, dress, marriage practice and language were reshaped by missions that carried no soldiers at all.
Both are recorded. The distinction Hare draws is real; it is narrower than the framing suggests.
One correction: the Huguenots were French Protestants, persecuted rather than sponsored. The French Catholic missions were the work of Jesuit, Récollet and Sulpician orders.
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