The New Land and the New Race 7 



This was the first general collection made for 

 missions in England, and the people generously 

 responded by contributing the large sum of 

 4,000. 



The first Protestant missionary to preach to John EHot, 

 the aborigines, and the first to earn the title of 1646 

 &quot;apostle to the North American Redmen,&quot; was 

 John Eliot, one of the non-conforming ministers 

 who left England at the time of Archbishop 

 Laud. The New England Puritans set forth 

 many curious opinions to account for the origin 

 of the natives. One of their most famous preach 

 ers declared: &quot;the natives of the country now 

 possessed by the New Englanders, had been 

 aorlorn and wretched heathen ever since their 

 ^srst landing here, and though we know not or 

 how these Indians first became inhabitants of 

 sais mighty continent yet we may guess that 

 eonbably the Devil decoyed those miserable 

 ulf ages hither, in hopes that the Gospel of the 

 Bood Jesus Christ might never come here to 

 vororoy or disturb his absolute empire over them. 

 L our Eliot was in such ill terms with the Devil, 

 dphoalarm him with sounding the silver trumpets 

 fif Heaven in his territories, and make some 

 fsble and zealous attempts towards outing him 

 rttancient possessions here.&quot; 



In general, &quot;the Indian regarded the colonist 

 as an interloper who had come to despoil him of 

 the land of his fathers, while the Virginian Puritan 

 considered himself as the salt of the earth and the 

 Indian as a heathen or Ishmaelite sent by the 



