My Maori Friends, I am much gratified to find that the advice communicated to you from time to time has a beneficial influence upon your minds. In some districts of tliis beautiful country, you arc making rapid strides in a.ricultnre and other useful arts. Your excellent Missionaries, while they place before you the nllimporlant truths of our holy religion, also remind you cf the many advantage* to be derived from industry. The good and greal of this world have said, that no Christian can be idle ; and is this not true ? Cannot you truly love your Maker and be industrious too ? Yea, are not your services much inoro acceptable btcausc your time is fully taken up in
what will lie either useful to yourselves or your fellmv men ? I say this, knotting that many of you sit about, rending your Testaments, while your companions are. toiling in ihe field. Von are willing to acknowledge that time is mouev. Is it not of infinitely more value to immortal beings th.in money ? Can all the gedd of Per",' Califuruh, and o|>hir, brins; hack 'ne moment of lime from ill.) aby*" of eternity ? Let me pray yon, then, to " rcdeciii the time because tbe <l»)' s arc evil.'' I have Icirncil willi much pleasuie that the people of Or.iki'i, neir Auckland, are now bcuiiining to h-.siir themselves, P.iora Tnhaere, of tb.it place, has purchased two horses and a and others are being bought bv members of the same tribe. This augur* well. It shows vonr Kuropeau friends that you may he acted iipon after indolent habits hive become almost a second imture. I trust that this is the dawn of better days, not only to Ihe Ngatiwhaiua but to all the surrounding tribes. Your old I'riend, Pakeim. Aui'klnnd, August 25th, 1801.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 3, Issue 70, 28 August 1851, Page 3
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298Untitled Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 3, Issue 70, 28 August 1851, Page 3
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