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the Bible stole the Indians' belongings, sold 

 them into West Indian slavery, and when they 

 conquered and killed, in 1675, their leader, 

 Chief Philip, they cut off his head, brought it 

 to Plymouth and stuck it high on a pole where 

 the skull rattled for generations over the heads 

 of these pious savages. The wrens at last came 

 to nest in this brain-box, wherein had been 

 hatched many daring schemes before ever a 

 wrenlet saw light there. 



Rev. Dr. Rand, with great zeal and ability, 

 mastered the Micmac language and translated 

 and printed the New Testament, Genesis and 

 Exodus, together with reading-books ; and some 

 Indians learned to read it, but they had no 

 great inclination in that direction, not more 

 than white people, and that is not much. Dr. 

 Rand says that many of the Indians had not 

 " so much as heard of the Bible," although they 

 were all Christians by baptism. That Dr. Rand 

 filled a long-felt need by furnishing them with 

 the scriptures is not credible. They were evi- 

 dently not greatly neglected by their own 

 church, for even Dr. Rand said after he spent 

 forty years in this work : 



"I have never made it a special object to 

 change their religion ; 1 could not see the 

 slightest advantage it would be to them." 



