Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1895. COGITATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1759, 14 August 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1895. COGITATION.

• This above all—to thine own self be tree, ind it raueb follow as the nights the ; dey ■ * Thou const not then be false to any man.' SIIAKItSFKABO.

“ He that caUeth a tWrjj iiito lies in.old whether by impression or reco-'da-v. ' tion, co"itatoth and conslclei.oth and he that einployeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitalefh/’ —Loan Bacon,

Zamtel, in last Saturday’s Auckland Star, after referring to the recent fatal onslaught on Missionaries in China, has a few lines

New. ZeaiaNd’s: MISDIRECTED Missionary Enterprise

on the subject of Christians neglecting the

heathen-at their own door for the fame of going to a far off field. Wet cull the following from the article referred to : —“ New Zealand has contributed its quo,ta of missionaries for work in China and India, but of what avail have their services been so far ? The Chinamen, it would seem, take 3 about a century or so to understand the rudiments of Christian teaching, and when he does dimly comprehend them, he * savees ’ that it is all : ‘ no good ’ and sticks to his old joss. The language, too, as was remarked on the lecture platform here the other evening, seemed specially devised by ‘ auld Clootie ’ to keep the white man’s religion out. Cannot our young mission zealots find work unto their hands in this country ? If they answer not then they must be very blind or very stupid. Are there not hundreds of young girls living a degraded life on the streets on New Zealand cities whom no hand is raised to save, many of them.scarcely in their teens, and are there, not thousands of people in the colony who are in as much heed of missionary effort as any Chinese barbarian ? Have we no Maoris who need a mission amongst them to supplement the feeble efforts made.at present by some of the religious sects ? I would advise some of bur innocent young budding ‘ missionaries for China ’ to pay a visit to Rotorua at Christinas time, and say whether they had any idea that there were such people in this province so degraded as many" of the unfortunate natives there, demoralised to the depths by. the white man’s vice and drink ? Or let them take a few nights’ run through the lowest portions of even Auckland, and relate what they see there. 1 I think their eyes would be opened thereby, and if they would not abandon the self-glorification of a mission to China or India, they would at least he compelled to admit that even their own homes would be greatly the better for a little of the mistaken, zeal displayed on outlandish places thousand of miles away.”, ... •; V' .