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Grandfather’s Chair

CHAPTER VIII
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Here was a Bible for the Indians.

Those long-lost descendants of the ten tribes of Israel would now learn the history of their forefathers.

That grace which the ancient Israelites had forfeited was offered anew to their children.
There is no impiety in believing that, when his long life was over, the apostle of the Indians was welcomed to the celestial abodes by the prophets of ancient days and by those earliest apostles and evangelists who had drawn their inspiration from the immediate presence of the Saviour.

They first had preached truth and salvation to the world.
And Eliot, separated from them by many centuries, yet full of the same spirit, has borne the like message to the New World of the west.

Since the first days of Christianity, there has been no man more worthy to be numbered in the brotherhood of the apostles than Eliot.
"My heart is not satisfied to think," observed Laurence, "that Mr.
Eliot's labors have done no good except to a few Indians of his own time.


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