Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT. the American Academy of ArtsSciences, the American Philosophical So-ciety, etc. He has given many noteworthy addresses on educational scientific subjects. He is the author of It is claimed that Eliot was the firstManual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis Protestant minister who preached to the? -- - Manual Indians in their native tongue. An Ind- (with Prof. Francis H. Storer)of Inorganic Chemistry (with the same) ;Five American Conirihutions to Cirili^a-tion,
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT. the American Academy of ArtsSciences, the American Philosophical So-ciety, etc. He has given many noteworthy addresses on educational scientific subjects. He is the author of It is claimed that Eliot was the firstManual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis Protestant minister who preached to the? -- - Manual Indians in their native tongue. An Ind- (with Prof. Francis H. Storer)of Inorganic Chemistry (with the same) ;Five American Conirihutions to Cirili^a-tion, and other Essays; Educational Re-form, etc. ian town called Natiek was erected on theCharles River for the praying Indiansin 1057, and the first Indian church wasestablished there in 1660. During King 213 ELIOT, JOHN. JOHN BLIOT. Philips War Eliots efforts in behalf ofthe praying Indians saved them from de-struction by the white people. He trav-elled extensively, visited many tribes,planted several churches, and oncepreached before King Philip, who treatedhim with disdain. He persuaded many to adopt the customs of civilized life, andlived to see twenty-four of them becomepreachers of the Gospel to their owntribes. His influence among the Indianswas unbounded, and his generosity inhelping the sick and afflicted among themwas unsparing. Cotton Mather affirmed, We had a tradition that the countrycould never perish as long as Eliot wasalive. He published many small workson religious subjects, several of whichwere in the Indian language. His great-est work was the translation of the Bibleinto the Indian language (1661-66), andwas the first Bible ever printed in Amer-ica. It is much sought after by language in which it was written hasperished. He died in Eo.\bury, Mass.,May 20, 1690. The B
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