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.

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.