The conversion of the Maoris

Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-school work

1899

English

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Chapter 1: the Maoris: the origin of the Maoris - recent researches - physiology - tattooing - habitations - Maori house in the Museum at Wellington - occupation - Maori canoe, and relics in the Auckland Museum - the moa
Chapter 2: discovery and cannibalism: Tasman - Cook - horrifying stories - Tohungas' stories - sailors married Maori women - Maori chiefs visited Australia and England - the "Boyd" massacre - Poverty Bay massacre - feeling of revenge - cruelties - improvements in dress, home and living
Chapter III: legends and superstitions: language - Polynesian dialect - orators at land court Wanganui - legends - songs - proverbs - rowers - Atua - native god - tapu - muru - the supernatural power of the Tohunga - (S.P. Smith) - Maori superstitions - Maoris had no temple, no priestly robe, no sacrifice, no conception of a Supreme Being - souls of the departed not worshiped - baby named when eight days old - traits of character - moral side dark - cannibalism - how they told the years, months and days
Chapter IV: government and war customs: Maoris constituted three communities - nations - tribes - families - marriage civil act - polygamy common - domestic affection not strong - tribes clannish - war custom - war dance - cruelties inflicted on the vanquished - poem on a Maori chief
Chapter V: the apostle of the Maoris: his early life - his voyage to New South Wales - arrival at Sydney - assuming duties and increasing responsibilities - opposition - loss of his boys - Chief Te Pahi - Mr. Marsden in England advocating a Maori mission - successful - returned to Sydney - Ruatara - sent as pioneer to New Zealand - Maori mission suspended for five years owing to the "Boyd" massacre - the ship "Active" - Wall and Rendall sent to New Zealand - acted as peacemaker at Wangaroa - landed at Bay of Islands - reception - land secured - deed signed - meetinghouse - flagstaff - Marsden's first sermon in New Zealand - returned to Sydney with young chiefs - much encouraged - the prospect of the mission - death of Ruatara - Marsden's influence over the natives - their devotion and kindness - missionaries' trials - their fidelity - Marsden's graphic picture of the effective power of the gospel - Rangi the first convert - confessions and desires - the scriptures and the printing press - the fruit of the mission - death of the apostle
Chapter VI: tribal war: Hongi the Napoleon of New Zealand - Pomare - Te Whoro Whoro - Ruaparaha - his conversion - barriers to the early progress of the mission - Bishop William Williams' testimony
Chapter VII: missionary leaders: Rev. Henry Williams - his traits of character - Christianity among the New Zealanders - Chapman's experience - the three mighty men - Bishop G.A. Selwyn - his work - Bishop J.F. Pompalier - a Maori's opinion of the differing Churches
Chapter VIII: the Methodist mission: Rev. Samuel Leigh - experience - Wangaroa chosen as mission station - the mission staff - destruction of the mission property - Maugungu selected as a mission station - the mission church and station - missionaries - great awakening - days of blessing - visible fruit - Rev. James Buller's journey to Cook's Strait - happy deaths - native martyrs - conversion of Chiefs - Pita - Kaitoke - Patene - effect of baptism - Chief Ngakuku's advice to his tribes - conversion of rival cihefs - Puna and Panapa - French sailors - thirty-five thousand Maoris out of fifty-six thousand nominal Christians - testimonies - Governor Hobson - Judge Fenton - Dr. Thompson - Sir George Grey - rescue of the crew of the "Delaware" by a galland chief and wife - Maoris' regard for the Sabbath - Maoris' kindness to sailors - fond of feasts
Chapter IX: a bit of history: attempt to colonize - failure - lawlessness and disobedience - scheme to establish an independent native government - Maoris claimed New Zealand by conquest and inheritance - New Zealand Land Company - Col. Wakefield and thirty-five passengers arrived in ship "Troy" at Port Nicholson - purchased land - arrival of several ships - Hobson - the growth of Wellington - Captain Hobson's mission to New Zealand - the treaty of Waitangi - Hobson first governor of New Zealand - New Zealand Company - Hone Heke and the government - the Waikato tribe - the Maori king - lesson from the candle and the wick - Wm. Thompson - the war - Sir George Grey - King Tawhiao's speech - Maori subjects of the Queen - Hau Hau apostasy - Te Kooti - the demoralizing effect of war
Chapter X: Premier Sedden's influence - surveyor's experience - Hone Heke - Parahaka - Prophet Ti White - who is responsible? - the Maori population - Hon. Wm. P. Reeves - why the Maoris are dying out - Maori fond of horses - fond of Europeans - law and justice - churches - Maori sermon - schools - members of parliament - Queen's jubilee - customs and habits - marriages - hospitable - what the Gospel has done for the Maoris
Chapter XI: religion in New Zealand
Chapter XII: education in New Zealand
Chapter XIII: Samoa
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