PIPE AND BIBLE
KEEPING OFF EVIL INFLUENCE RATANA and superstition [Special to tub ‘ Star,’] WANGANUI, February 8. A well-known Maori who has been in the Ratana movement practically since its inception, and who has now resigned, states that even in Ratana there is a certain amount of superstition of evil spirits. The old Maori people cling to the tiki as a means of warding off evil spirits. Ratana in his teaching does his best to comiter-act tin's idea, and the large collection in the Ratana museum goes to show that hundreds of Maoris have east aside various . articles that formerly they they thought warded off evil influences. Now Ratana himself is very rarely without his pipe in his hand, which he holds when addressing a gathering. The only time ho , discards the pipe is when ho is preaching in the : temple. On those occasions he has a Bible between him and the congregation, so that both Bible and pipe are looked upon by the leader as an effective means of keeping off evil influences.
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Evening Star, Issue 19786, 9 February 1928, Page 2
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174PIPE AND BIBLE Evening Star, Issue 19786, 9 February 1928, Page 2
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