Micmac Bible History (3)

**List: Micmac Ministry the Bible ( the Bible ) Micmac... MICMAC. "THE Micmacs are the Souriquois of French writers: they inhabited the peninsula of Nova Scotia, with Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, and the western shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.   According to the most recent information, they number between two and three thousand.   They were long firmly attached to the French, from whom they had received their first ideas of religion; and, until the conquest of Canada, they were always at war with the British colonists.    The Micmac language belongs to the north-eastern branch of the Algonquin-Lenape stock, which division also embraced the Algonquin dialects spoken in Labrador, the dialects of two Etchemin tribes not yet extinct, and the Abenaquis, hereafter to be mentioned.   Some small portions of Scripture, and also a Prayer-book, are said to have been rendered into Micmac by the early Jesuit mies., but neither had been printed, and the little knowledge of them that remained among the Micmacs of the present day had been preserved by means of transcription and oral tradition.   It was reserved for the British and Foreign Bible Society to confer on the Micmac Indians the blessing of the Divine Word translated into their own tongue.   The Gospels of St. Matthew and St. John were the first portions issued, in 1854.   An edition of the Gospel of St. Luke, from a translation made by the Rev. Mr. Rand, was printed (at the cost of the Society) at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1856, and the Book of Genesis has since issued from the same source.   Brief as is the time that has yet elapsed since the execution of these versions, some promising results have already been observable, and the prospect of the religious elevation of the poor Micmacs is regarded as very encouraging."--The Bible of Every Land. (1860, Second Edition)   Samuel Bagster   [Info only] MICMAC.   [IN THE PHONETIC CHARACTER, BY ISAAC PITMAN.]--1860   S. Bagster   [Info only: n.d. John 1:1-14 unknown.]

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