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Saturday, December 1, 2012

The Apostle To The Indians, John Eliot (1604-1690)

Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn:
 
Sir: — I am happy to acknowledge the receipt of the Lithograph you were so kind as to send me, of the proposed Monument to the memory of one of the greatest of men — John Eliot the Apostle to the North American Indians..This will be a lasting memento before your children and our children, what true greatness is; and would to God, that while they are under its shadow, the self-sacrificing spirit which was in Eliot, might be felt by them, for the moral elevation of man and glory to the Great Spirit.
While the localities of the labors of the Apostle were shown to me, my natural stern character was overcome, and I could pour out tears of joy as well as grief, over the ground where it is said he walked and knelt with the red man. My mind was carried back two hundred years, and I could see John Eliot bending over the Forest Child, while he sought the guidance of the Great Spirit, and whispering in his ears — "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." This sweetest of sentences, this gentlest of truths, this purest of God's own design, elevated the mind of the Indians. Yes, absorbed in thought, it appeared to me that I could see into the future, while angels held up the curtain of time, and that I could behold group after group around Eliot the Apostle, in the home of the blessed in Heaven.
I need not mention his love of literature,—his zeal for it remains before us—his translations of the Bible and other works,—a monument of itself, what Christian Heroism can accomplish. Should I be successful, in securing a Home for my brethren in the North West, it has been my intention to erect two qolumns of granite to the sacred memory of two of the best friends, in years gone by, of the Indians—John Eliot and William Penn.
 
--I have the honor to be, Your humble and ob't servant,
 
KAH-GE-GA-GAH-BOWH,
Or, Firm-standing,
Alias G. COPWAY,
Of the Ojibway Nation.
 
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE ELIOT, PREFATORY TO A SUBSCRIPTION FOR
ERECTING A MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY.
BY HENRY A. S. DEARBORN. ROXBURY:
NORFOLK COUNTY JOURNAL PRESS. OVER CENTRAL MARKET. 1850.

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