Description: The Church Missionary Society (CMS) was founded in April 1799. Originally called the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, the new body was renamed The Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East in 1812. The CMS was part of a new wave of evangelical mission societies emerging out of the evangelical revival that swept out of continental Europe across Britain, Ireland and the colonies during the eighteenth century. As a voluntary society with no official standing in the Church of England, the CMS initially attracted little interest or support from the great and the good in church, state and society. English elites sometimes looked disdainfully on early evangelical missionaries as fanatics likely to do more harm than good. The CMS had great difficulty attracting ordained Anglican clergy during its early decades and so had to rely mainly on skilled laymen, often from skilled working class or lower middle class backgrounds. The first CMS "mechanic missionaries" in the Bay of Islands-William Hall, a joiner, and John King, a ropemaker, soon joined by Thomas Kendall, a schoolteacher-reflected these difficulties of recruitment. To enroll ordained ministers, the early CMS relied heavily on German Lutheran clergy. Several CMS missionaries in New Zealand came from such a background, including Johann Wohlers of Ruapuke, J.F. Riemenschneider, and Carl Volkner, killed by Hauhau at Opotiki in 1869. CMS missionaries and MΓori worked with expert linguists at the University of Cambridge to formulate a written script for te reo MΓori into which they translated the Bible and other literature. Literacy in their own language was one of the attractions of Christianity to MΓori, many of whom made Christianity their own during the 1830s and '40s.--by Associate Professor John Stenhouse, from the Marsden Online Archive.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: The Church Missionary Society (CMS) was founded in April 1799. Originally called the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, the new body was renamed The Church…

Description: "The letters which have already appeared before the Public in the very interesting account of New Zealand by the Rev. W. Yate, are now published in the present form by his permission, and wit the sanction of the Committee of the Church Missionary Society. It is hoped that by the blessing of God, they may be the means of creating among the English poor, an interest in behalf of heathen nations ; and also of exciting in their minds an anxiety to improve those religious privileges which so largely abound in their own favoured land." -- Advertisement on the page after the title

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "The letters which have already appeared before the Public in the very interesting account of New Zealand by the Rev. W. Yate, are now published in the present form by his…

Description: 'Mr Bumby was an able Wesleyan missionary who arrived at Hokianga in March, 1839, and during his short residence travelled much through the country. Replete with valuable journals and letters, and description of days of earliest colonisation, and of the early mission. Account of many missionaries - Lawry, Waterhouse, Turton. List of missionary stations in 1840.'--Hocken, pages 164-165.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: 'Mr Bumby was an able Wesleyan missionary who arrived at Hokianga in March, 1839, and during his short residence travelled much through the country. Replete with valuable…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: "A potpourri seemingly dashed off before the second edition of his Te Ika a Maui. Several chapters on the history of the missions, the King movement, Maori Education, Maori and European biographies (Tamihana Te Waharoa, John Williams Hipango, Dr. A. Sinclair, Bishop Monrad, De Thierry and Huria Matenga), acclimation, statistics, reprint of a talk on Wanganui past and present, and hints to emigrants." -- Bagnall, 5488.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "A potpourri seemingly dashed off before the second edition of his Te Ika a Maui. Several chapters on the history of the missions, the King movement, Maori Education, Maori…

Description: "An account of the voyage of Rev. Robert Young (1796-1865), who, together with Rev. John Kirk, visited the South Pacific to determine if the New Zealand and Polynesian missions should be taken over by Australia and form a self-supporting institution. Young arrived in Australia after a tumultuous journey and preached initially in Melbourne before moving to Sydney. He visited missions in New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji as well as the Victorian goldfields, and was a key figure in early Wesleyan presence in the Antipodes.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "An account of the voyage of Rev. Robert Young (1796-1865), who, together with Rev. John Kirk, visited the South Pacific to determine if the New Zealand and Polynesian…

Description: "An excellent account, gathered from letters and manuscripts of Mr. J. L. Nicholas and Lieut. Sadlier, of Parramatta. Sketches [Marsden's] difficulties and labours amidst the convict scenes of New South Wales ; his labours for the missions, especially those of new Zealand and his seven visits there, well entitling him to the appellation of the 'Apostle of New Zealand.' The Church Missionary Society's Proceedings and Missionary Register have long reference to him and to his journals, some of which are printed in part."-- Hocken, 189.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "An excellent account, gathered from letters and manuscripts of Mr. J. L. Nicholas and Lieut. Sadlier, of Parramatta. Sketches [Marsden's] difficulties and labours amidst the…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: "Lang's ... New Zealand impressions were from an obligatory call in January [1839] at the Bay of Islands because the vessel was in a leaky state. He was impressed with the suitability of New Zealand for colonisation and European demoralisation of the Maori but was strongly critical of the missionaries and Marsden whom he knew well in Sydney"--Bagnall.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Lang's ... New Zealand impressions were from an obligatory call in January [1839] at the Bay of Islands because the vessel was in a leaky state. He was impressed with the…

Description: "Two chapters on geography and climate precede the main text equally divided between the Maoris, their customs and history and European discovery and occupation. His perceptive use of statistics, his interest in Maori physical anthropology and health [?] his journey, his contacts with officials and politicians [?] his almost unique recourse to documents and official papers (footnoted) as well as to books and pamphlets underpin a text which takes its strength from his own perception and character. He gives, repeatedly, cogent and piquant summaries of aspects of New Zealand life and events such as pakeha Maoris, the pettiness of provincial government, the New Zealand Company's brazen impositions which would repay a reading by even modern historians. The bibliography, a worthy milestone, listed over 500 publications."-- Bagnall 5537

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Two chapters on geography and climate precede the main text equally divided between the Maoris, their customs and history and European discovery and occupation. His…

Description: "Verses by "An Etonian" in honour of Selwyn's last sermon before his departure for New Zealand"--Bagnall.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Verses by "An Etonian" in honour of Selwyn's last sermon before his departure for New Zealand"--Bagnall.

Description: "Beyond Betrayal delves into New Zealand's pioneering history, and asks why such promising partnerships descended into decades of distrust. After the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, a succession of governors resisted missionary advice, despite their local knowledge and peacemaking skills, and influenced a raft of misunderstandings that provoked violent outbreaks across the country."--Back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Beyond Betrayal delves into New Zealand's pioneering history, and asks why such promising partnerships descended into decades of distrust. After the Treaty of Waitangi was…

Description: "First episcopal visit to New Zealand, Bay of Islands, paid in December, 1838, in H.M.S 'Pelorus', Captain Francis Harding, from Sydney, accompanied by Mr. Hadfield, who the Bishop admitted to deacon's and priest's orders. Virulent influenza (rewharewha) raging. Translation of New Testament just completed, chiefly through the labours of the Rev Wm. Williams (afterwards the first Bishop of Waiapu). Confirmation service and form for consecrating a churchyard translated and printed in time for those ceremonials"--Hocken p.82.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "First episcopal visit to New Zealand, Bay of Islands, paid in December, 1838, in H.M.S 'Pelorus', Captain Francis Harding, from Sydney, accompanied by Mr. Hadfield, who the…

Description: "Marjoribanks, although an early New Zealand Company settler (Bengal Merchant in 1840), did not stay and the book is largely made up of quotations from other works, The voyage out, summary of the various settlements, the 'Wairoa Massacre' - objective and not Company comment -, Maori and Polynesian, limited area of flat and fertile ground - the Montefiore statement on title-page is quoted ironically. Some useful extracts from papers such as the Glasgow constitutional, and impressions of the odd humble traveller."--Bagnall, 3363.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Marjoribanks, although an early New Zealand Company settler (Bengal Merchant in 1840), did not stay and the book is largely made up of quotations from other works, The voyage…

Description: "General description with historical background of the county, the Maoris, missionaries, 'progress of the colony', land laws and regulations (with lengthy appendices on current and earlier regulations within separate land districts) and emigrants' prospects." -- Bagnall, 750.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "General description with historical background of the county, the Maoris, missionaries, 'progress of the colony', land laws and regulations (with lengthy appendices on…

Description: "Nicholas, a New South Wales settler of two years standing, accompanied Marsden on his historic mission to the Bay of Islands in Dec. 1814 and was his close companion for the duration of their stay, to the end of Feb. 1815. The two men landed at the North Cape from the Active on the return voyage.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Nicholas, a New South Wales settler of two years standing, accompanied Marsden on his historic mission to the Bay of Islands in Dec. 1814 and was his close companion for the…

Description: Dutch translation of "Narrative of a voyage to New Zealand, performed in the years 1814 and 1815, in company with the Rev. Samuel Marsden, Principal Chaplain of New South Wales" by John Liddiard Nicholas

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Dutch translation of "Narrative of a voyage to New Zealand, performed in the years 1814 and 1815, in company with the Rev. Samuel Marsden, Principal Chaplain of New South…