OTAKI NATIVE SCHOOL.
«' APPRECIATION. j “ The following extracts from a kv-.t i.eeived dated Lagos, Nigeria, 'heali .A prove of interest. —“Last October tie -A j Otaki Native ,8. SAkooi children >3 1 a gift to the Bible Society for a Chris’-" d ' mas present to the African children oi h | Calabar. You can hardly realize hov »• j much I appreciate such a gift: 15 •« j shows that those Maori boys and girl* ■l l are thinking 01 others—such thought* 'I enlarge a man’s vision of the work y. j Not long ago I was at Calabar and ;a w I s.omo of the good work done by Arc-- 5 e ' slessou. 1 saw the house sue lived B, •i ' aad -.ome of the twins, now grown d 1 bo vs and girls, whom she saved from » vj cruel death. That district can r. forget the gracious work of that -• I derful woman—she is an 'example 11 what the Grace of God can do throegs k i one, so bodily frail, who yielded ■ j whole heart and life to Him.” ABA j Alary Slessori died in 1914, after year* f j of the most marvellous pioneer wars f- j among wholly savage tribes. Bh* ; -y-‘ > I fled against native customs, witch; craft and cruelty; against fever a ! such conditions of life a* very “ * -*•»- would endure, and died, a comps**" ■ tivc-ly young woman, gica.,.. - i natives, whites alike, and the bor.r-*" > ed friend of the British Govercn.tr..•
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Otaki Mail, 10 August 1923, Page 2
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