Welcome to five minutes in church history hosted by Dr Stephen Nichols, where we take a little

break from the present to go exploring the past. Travel back in time as we look at the people,

events, and even the places that have shaped the story of Christianity.

This is our story, our family history. Let's get started.

Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history.

Last week we were looking at three Bible firsts, and the first of those firsts was the Bible published by John Elliot a Bible in the Algonquin language.

It's important to go back and catch this story of John Elliot,

The Apostle to the Indians.

He was born in 1604 in England. As a young man he was sent off to

Jesus College at Cambridge University and was educated there. Jesus College had

quite a significant alumnus Thomas Cranmer had just recently

graduated from there. And John Elliot did very well and while he was there he came to know

Thomas Hooker. In fact he worked with Thomas Hooker as an assistant

and an instructor in a school. And in the late 1620s and right at the early 1630 as the pressure was turned up on these of a Puritan

mindset there in England Thomas Hooker left England and went to Holland and

and John Elliot boarded a ship on November 3rd, 1631 and set sail for the New World.

He actually served as a chaplain upon that ship.

When he arrived in the New new world he was installed as a minister in

Roxbury, Massachusetts. He participated in the trial of Anne Hutchinson. He

was involved in a number of publishing efforts. He was one of

those Puritan ministers that was involved in the printing of the Bay Salter, the Bay Psalm

book, which was the first book printed in the United States. He began to be

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