Show nas V las 7 first bible printed in U T U T effs iffs so newberry library in chicago also possesses parliament act ordering it translated INTO RED TONGUE government ordered collection in eng land and wales to defray cost of propagating gospel in new england Ch lengo alive arst first bible printed in the lie united suites sprang direce directly aly from a national solicitation of funds fund in itald wales in a manner soine ahat bat akin to the liberty loan lin arbes according to george it utley librarian of tile the new Nem bemberry berry library here the library it lias as both the first american bible and the act of the english parliament which led to it the bible was a translation into the tongue of the massachusetts indians for years john ellot eliot a part ton tan fl fleeing eeling from persecution t ion i ho hit landed 11 ears after the mayflower had been sending rending back to england reports about missionary success among the indians ordered by parliament when the puritans came into powei lie round found a I 1 friendly government and in 1049 1649 m within athin six months after charles I 1 was wag 9 eluted when nhen cromwell was supreme parliament ameril passed an net act for promoting notIng and pro propagating 1 the gospel in new england th the e act S created a corporation consisting of 10 londoners Lon doners which thereafter carried on the work rut but more especially it ordered a ger general teral collection in idl tile countries cities and parishes of england and wales it required the alie minis tern ten to to rend read the act to their congregations and instructed them with mith others outliers ot liers to go with nil all convenient speed front from house to house to every one of the lie inhabitants of the said parishes and places respectively and to take tile the subscription of every such person in a schedule to be presented to them for that purpose and accord angly nt the same time to collect and gather the lie same 11 to educate red brother retter better education of the indians was also named among the of the corporation twenty five years later there were ere four indian towns with schoon schools in massachusetts and the praying indians there numbered this collection ordered by parliament brought in about it Is II reported lour fourteen teen bears ears later inter in 1663 eliot furril slit libil d tile lie first farst conar complete olete bible printed prin teil in the western hemisphere its title page bears bear the lines 0 at the charge antl with mith the consent of the corporation in england for the lie pro j motion of the gospel amongst the in deans in new england j the place of if printing was its cam bridge muss mass 23 ears bears before mot eliot livid helped compile tile the bay isalin book ill the first book to come oft off the press in what Is now the united f states |