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south to Hartford, then over the fair, rolling hills of Woodstock, immortaliz- ing Pulpit Rock, beside the very trail rerhaps over which his dear friend Hooker had travelled to Hartford years before. Southward then down the valley of the Quinebaug, holding ser vices in the wilderness where the mu- sic of Cargill water was their only hymn of praise. East to Cape Cod, thence to Martaa's Vineyard and the adjoining isies, went the good apostle, carrying his message to the rowing, war-ioving savages, teaching patient ly till the sullen faces grew trusting and his labors bore rich harvests of converts. In Massachusetts colony alone were HOO Praying Indians, as they were called, and many schools and churches were kformed. Natick was the most famous of these towns. A church was founded there in 1860 that lasted until the death of its last Indian pastor, Daniel Jaekawombpait, in l7l6
 The crown off Eliot's labors for his people was his translation into the In dian language, the entire Bible with a metrieal version of the Psalms and page of catechism. This, published in 1868, was the first Bible printed in America. The despised Irdian tongue was found capable ofleonyeying spiri- tual truth.
 Seven books, cniefiy on theological l subjects, he wrote in the English Ian- guage besides score of pamphlets and seven in the Algonquin. The dons of Cambridge would have far to seek to find a servant of God more profitable, a religious zeal more sincere!
 But patience must, have her perfect work in this our life and trials from without and within laid heavy pres sure on the good apostles soul as his years advanced.
 King Philips war was sore dis tress to the Praying Indians. White enemy and red brother each suspected them of faithlessness and while their hand was against no mans, every mans hand was against them. IL is 1 believed that their timely warning say ed more than one white settlement, 1 but not, alas! their own. War and | plague destroyed great numbers. The l good Eliot was grown old; no longer l could he make his valiant pilgrimages l to his people, and they, with the rest l of their noble, cruel, doomed race, went, 1 let us hope, 10 the reality of the apos. ties vision for them-to a better coun try, that is an heavenly.
 To Eliot's house in Roxbury came l many guests. Two London agents i speak of him as "the best minister we | have heard in these parts" John i Dunton, bookseller, also from Lon- don, describes him as "the Glory Of i RoNbury.a X further evidence of his | record of the friendship between him 1 and Jesuit father who in 1850 spent 1 the night before Christmas with him  and whom Eliot earnestly prayed to spend the winter there.
 0t his children the only daughter and one of the five sons survived their parents. Three years before his death he gave most loving tribute at his wife's funeral service: "She was dear, faithful, pious, prudent, prayer ful wife p
 He was man of overfiowing heart. One of his last recorded acts was to give by deed 75 acres of land in Jamai- ca Plain for the maintenance of a school and sehoolmaster, ''for the edu- cation of the cAlldren in that part of inc town, together with such Indians and negroes as may come 10 said school.