ANCIENT SCRIPTURAL HISTORY.
Chapter 11. THE DELUGE. When man had thus become wrong, God had no more regard for the world. He wished to uproot the bad grass, that new grass might be freshly planted, that is, that man should be newly created. But our God is a patient God: hence it is said, he is slow (he does not hasten) to anger. He waited one hundred and twenty years, and caused Noah to preach to that generation. But by no means would they incline to his discourse : eating, drinking, marrying, trading, planting, building, and such like, was all they cared for. They perhaps thought that the world was or an immense age, and would last for ever. But there is Noah working away at his ship, at the ark which Hod had told him of. When it was finished, God ordered him to take some of the living creatures into it, that they might raise slock for the world. Then the waters broke loose, from the heavens above, and from the earth helow, and the high mountains were hidden. The marks of that deluge are still to be discovered in every part of tho world. It is remembered by every nation. Although other things may be forgotten, it is well known that our earth came out of the water. And it was traditionally known to the ancestors of the Maories: hence the saying that "Maui fished up the earth." That was Noah.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 11, 15 August 1861, Page 27
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243ANCIENT SCRIPTURAL HISTORY. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 11, 15 August 1861, Page 27
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