Wesleyan Honje Mission.

Feilding Star, 17 November 1891, Page 3

Wesleyan Honje Mission.

v ' J~* i, > This branch of the -mission worl includes, the < supplying of Mtiv'i ministers and European missionaries ■to the work •of preaching the Gospel among the Maories and the sparsolj populated distr cts in the colony Iv order to give an impetus to this cau<?e, the Revs G Hammond and Hamaki Paul (native clergyman) wera appointed to visit the various circuits m connection- with the Wesleyan (Methodists Last Sunday- night the Rey H. Paul preached to a large congiegationin the Feilding Wesleyan Chuich, taking for his text P&alrn cxxxm, r v. 3: \' As the dew of Hei--mon', and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion , for there the L rd commanded the blessing, even life foi eyermoie " The reveL gentleman gave a graphic desci iption of the effects which the dew had upon the grass on these mountains, and said that God was glorified in all his works, and even where man had oveicome the t obstacles piesented by and "had accomplished the feat of climbing and descending higk mountains by means of^iailways, the pow oi thus exerted wastiaceableto the goodness ofjGod. j t During the sermon many piaoticable applications to the present age were denved from the jt \At the conclusion of the discouise the choir (with instrumental accompaniment) sang 1 the piece " God,, be wi^h* > r ou,till we meet again" id, an appiopiiate manner. The Home/ }Mißsiou meeting will be held this (Tuesday) + night, when the Rev. Hauiaki'Pau.l will give some interesting mfoimation in reference to his work amongst his fellow countiymen injthe Kaipara and Waikato^distncts. He will also give an illustration of Maori singing on this occasion. Doubtless many -who aie interested iq this work will take advantage of the present oppoitunity of hearing authentic information from so excolJeiit an r Authority m legard to this important 1 and noble woik