MISSIONS.
The Missions in the Friendly Islands and in New Zealand, are happily distinguished from our other Missions in the signal and complete success, which by the blessing of God, has attended the labours of his servants. With the exception of a few British settlers, in New Zealand the entire
population of these islands was within a brief period heathen and cannibal, abandoned to the grossest vices, and almost continually engaged in war. Now the inhabitants without exception are nominally Christians, and about 10,000 are members of the "Wcsleyan Church, under the care of twenty seven Missionaries. This state of things, however encouraging, requires peculiar watchfulness, and your missionariesrejoice indeed, but with "fear and trembling." These infant Churches need much training is this their transition state, especially as increased intercourse with Europe and Australia brings them more frequently in contact with the vices as well as the virtues of our civilization. None but a Missionary can fully understand the difficulty of carrying on the progressive work of Christianity among a people] nurtured in heathenism, especially after the first! excitement and novelty attendant upon the introduction of the new religion have subsided.—lieport Australian Conference 1854.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 8, 1 November 1855, Page 13
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194MISSIONS. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 8, 1 November 1855, Page 13
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