His advice and assistance must often have been valuable to his countrymen, in their transactions with the Indians.

Occasionally, perhaps, the governor and some of the counsellors came to visit Mr.Eliot.
Perchance they were seeking some method to circumvent the forest people.
They inquired, it may be, how they could obtain possession of such and such a tract of their rich land.

Or they talked of making the Indians their servants, as if God had destined them for perpetual bondage to the more powerful white man.
Perhaps, too, some warlike captain, dressed in his buff-coat, with a corslet beneath it, accompanied the governor and counsellors.

Laying his hand upon his sword hilt, he would declare, that the only method of dealing with the red men was to meet them with the sword drawn, and the musket presented.
But the apostle resisted both the craft of the politician, and the fierceness of the warrior.
"Treat these sons of the forest as men and brethren," he would say, "and let us endeavor to make them Christians.

Their forefathers were of that chosen race, whom God delivered from Egyptian bondage.