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ill BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bill. 25
today. On much the same plan were his settlements founded where
the colonies of " praj'ing Indians," with the government of the people
by the people and for the people, and with the o^'ersight of a l)ene\'o-
lent judge in Israel, were his coadjutors and pupils. It is, alas,
impossible to tell what would have been the outcome of this remarkable
experiment, for the outbreak of King Philip's war in the year
1GT.5 broke it up before it was fairly tested.
Eliot's first religious service among the Indians was on Octooer 28,
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