Perchance he has destined us to deliver the children from the more cruel bondage of ignorance and idolatry.

Chiefly for this end, it may be, we were directed across the ocean." When these other visitors were gone, Mr.Eliot bent himself again over the half written page.

He dared hardly relax a moment from his toil.

He felt that, in the book which he was translating, there was a deep human, as well as heavenly wisdom, which would of itself suffice to civilize and refine the savage tribes.

Let the Bible be diffused among them, and all earthly good would follow.