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Excerpt from Addresses Delivered by Rev. J. P. Sheafe Jr., And Rev. Horatio Alger, at the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Dedication of the First Unitarian Church, South Natick, November 20, 1878
That man was John Eliot, born in N azing, England, in the year 1604. Bear in mind that England had not yet made a Single permanent settlement in this western world. James town, Quebec. Manhattan Island, and Plymouth Rock were only names without a local habitation; but he who was to be the Apostolic man among the Indians of this place, had ai ready begun to imbibe the Spirit and the love of God in a home Where dwelt, according to his own words, the fear of God, his word and prayer. He received a liberal education. And took hisidegree from College in 1623. Eliot began his public life as a teacher; but tradition informs us that he had a way and a will of his own, and so persistently did he main tain them that he was forbidden to teach in his native land. If one field was denied him, he would take another, and Wt find him in 1631, embarked in the ship Lien. Bound for the New World. It was new; the Pilgrims had landed but 11 years before. This beautiful valley was then almost an utter stranger to the face or form ofthe white man.
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