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| <p> styled "the apostle of the Indians," was born in the county of Essex, England, in 1604, and studied at the University of Cambridge. Emigrating to New [[England]] in 1631, he joined the [[Church]] in Boston. He was settled over the Church in Roxbury November 5, 1632. Here he studied the Indian language, with the view of converting the natives to Christianity. "The first Indian Church, established by the labors of [[Protestants]] in America, was formed at Natick in 1660, after the manner of the Congregational churches in New England. Those who wished to be organized into a [[Christian]] body were strictly examined as to their faith and experience by a number of the neighboring ministers, and Mr. Eliot afterwards administered to them baptism and the Lord's Supper. Other Indian churches were planted in various parts of Massachusetts, and he frequently visited them; but his pastoral care was more particularly over that which he first established. He made every exertion to promote the welfare of the Indian tribes; he stimulated many servants of [[Jesus]] to engage in the missionary work; and, although he mourned over the stupidity of many who preferred darkness to light, yet he lived to see twenty-four of the copper-colored aborigines fellow-preachers of the precious [[Gospel]] of Christ. In 1661 he published the New [[Testament]] in the Indian language, and in a few years the whole Bible, and several other books best adapted for the instruction of the natives. When he reached the age of fourscore years he offered to give up his salary, and desired to be liberated from the labors of his office as a teacher of the Church at Roxbury. It was with joy that he received Mr. [[Walter]] as his colleague in 1688. When he was bending under his infirmities, and could no longer visit the Indians, he persuaded a number of families to send their negro servants to him once a week, that he might instruct them in the truths of God. He died May 20, 1690, saying that all his labors were poor and small, and exhorting those who surrounded his bed to pray. His last words were, 'Welcome joy'" (Allen). In 1649 Mr. Eliot published The glorious [[Progress]] of the Gospel among the Indians; in 1653, [[Tears]] of Repentance; in 1655, A further [[Manifestation]] of the Progress of the Gospel among the Indians; and in 1670, A brief [[Narrative]] of the Progress of the Gospel. Baxter says, in one of his letters, "There was no man on earth whom I honored above him." A handsome memorial to the "Apostle of the Indians, and the pastor for fifty-eight years of the first Church in Roxbury," has been erected in the [[Forest]] [[Hills]] Cemetery, Roxbury. — Life and Death of John Eliot, by [[Cotton]] Mather (1691); Mather's Magnalia, 3:270; Francis, Life of John Eliot (Edinb. 1828); Sprague, Annals, 1:18; Allen, American Biography. </p> | | John Eliot <ref name="term_38608" /> |
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| | <p> a Unitarian minister, was born in Boston, May 31, 1754. He prepared for college in the North Grammar-school in Boston, and in 1772 graduated from Harvard College. Soon after his graduation he took charge of a school in Roxbury, where he remained one year. He studied theology at Cambridge. In 1775 he commenced his labors as a preacher at Dover. In 1776 he received an earnest request from several leading members of the Episcopal Church at Halifax, N.S., to become an assistant to their aged pastor, but declined. He officiated for a short time as chaplain to the recruits of colonel Marshall's regiment, then raised in [[Boston]] for the expedition to Canada. After this he passed several months at Littleton as the assistant of [[Reverend]] Daniel Rogers, and during the winter of 1778-79 supplied the First Church in Salem. In 1779 he was ordained and installed pastor of the New North Church in the same town. In 1804 he was chosen a member of the corporation of Harvard College. He was also a member of most of the literary and charitable societies in Boston and vicinity, and in some of them he held important offices. Dr. Eliot died February 14, 1813. He published several single Sermons. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 8:92. </p> |
| == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_72639" /> ==
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| <p> The apostle of the Indians, born in Hertfordshire; entered the [[Church]] of England, but seceded and emigrated to New England; became celebrated for his successful evangelistic expeditions amongst the Indians during his lifelong occupancy of the pastorate at Roxbury (1604-1690). </p>
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John Eliot [1]
a Unitarian minister, was born in Boston, May 31, 1754. He prepared for college in the North Grammar-school in Boston, and in 1772 graduated from Harvard College. Soon after his graduation he took charge of a school in Roxbury, where he remained one year. He studied theology at Cambridge. In 1775 he commenced his labors as a preacher at Dover. In 1776 he received an earnest request from several leading members of the Episcopal Church at Halifax, N.S., to become an assistant to their aged pastor, but declined. He officiated for a short time as chaplain to the recruits of colonel Marshall's regiment, then raised in Boston for the expedition to Canada. After this he passed several months at Littleton as the assistant of Reverend Daniel Rogers, and during the winter of 1778-79 supplied the First Church in Salem. In 1779 he was ordained and installed pastor of the New North Church in the same town. In 1804 he was chosen a member of the corporation of Harvard College. He was also a member of most of the literary and charitable societies in Boston and vicinity, and in some of them he held important offices. Dr. Eliot died February 14, 1813. He published several single Sermons. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 8:92.
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