{"date":"June 17","id":"06-17","intro":["John Eliot put his life at the mercy of the redmen to get them to listen to his preachings. He wrote vividly about his settlements of Christian Indians. Now villages and Indians have disappeared. Only his story remains."],"minutes":18,"readings":[{"author":"John Eliot","end":146,"start":138,"volume":43,"work":"Brief Narrative"}],"slug":"june-17","status":"proofread","title":"Risked His Scalp in Prayer","url":"/harvard-classics/june-17/","words":3681}