<P> In the centuries that followed, Protestant churches began sending out missionaries in increasing numbers, spreading the proclamation of the Christian message to previously unreached people . In North America, missionaries to the Native Americans included Jonathan Edwards (1703--1758), the well - known preacher of the Great Awakening (ca 1731--1755), who in his later years retired from the very public life of his early career . He became a missionary to the Housatonic Native Americans (1751) and a staunch advocate for them against cultural imperialism . </P> <P> As European culture has been established in the midst of indigenous peoples, the cultural distance between Christians of differing cultures has been difficult to overcome . One early solution was the creation of segregated "praying towns" of Christian natives . This pattern of grudging acceptance of converts played out again later in Hawaii when missionaries from that same New England culture went there . In the course of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the Catholic missionaries learned the languages of the Amerindians and devised writing systems for them . Then they preached to indigenous people in those languages (Quechua, Guarani, Nahuatl) instead of Spanish, to keep Indians away from "sinful" whites . An extreme case of segregation occurred in the Guarani Reductions, a theocratic semi-independent region established by the Jesuits in the region of the future Paraguay between the early 17th century and 1767 . </P> <P> From 1732 onwards the Moravian Church began sending out missionaries . </P> <P> Around 1780, an indigent Baptist cobbler named William Carey began reading about James Cook's travels voyages in Polynesia . His interest grew to a furious sort of "backwards homesickness", inspiring him to obtain Baptist orders, and eventually to write his famous 1792 pamphlet, "An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to use Means for the Conversion of Heathen". Far from a dry book of theology, Carey's work used the best available geographic and ethnographic data to map and count the number of people who had never heard the Gospel . It inspired a movement that has grown with increasing speed from his day to the present . </P>

Which of these was not a motivation for christian missionaries in colonial countries