A History of the English Church in New Zealand

The chief part of the Church's work is to keep open the way to heaven. The English Church understands this duty in New Zealand no otherwise than it does elsewhere. That the Lord...

The native bent of the Maori mind caused the people, as they embraced Christianity, gradually to place themselves as a matter of course under the guidance of a sort of Christian...

The armed truce which lasted from June, 1861, to May, 1863, was marked by strenuous efforts on both sides to bring about a lasting peace. To appreciate the gravity of the situat...

We now approach the climax of the missionary period. The plant which had been rooted with so much difficulty, nursed with so much care, watered with so many tears of disappointm...

Unlike their brethren in Africa and some other parts of the world, the New Zealand missionaries did not attempt much in the way of exploration. Marsden discovered the Manukau Ha...

When Bishop Selwyn removed his headquarters from the Bay of Islands, he was in no doubt as to whither to betake himself. Auckland was the seat of government, and the most centra...

With Bishop Selwyn there appeared in New Zealand a type of churchmanship which was new to the Maoris, and even to their teachers. Much had happened in the mother country since M...

The period which begins with the year 1860 presents an aspect so desolate that it is hard at first to find a single cheering feature. The prospect which seemed so bright in 1859...

The land-grant controversy did not, of course, occupy the whole of Bishop Selwyn's time during the years of its painful and weary course. The journeys by land and sea were still...

The position of the missionaries when left alone at Rangihoua was not an easy one. Ruatara was dead, and there was no one to fill his place. His successor at Rangihoua, though f...

And he spake to me, "O Maeldune, let be this purpose of thine! Remember the words of the Lord when he told us, 'Vengeance is mine.' His fathers have slain thy fathers in war or...

The missionaries had worked wonders in New Zealand, but the very success of their work proved to be its undoing. Now that the islands were safe and quiet, they attracted a rush...

The earliest stage of church-life in colonial New Zealand may be called the _Eucalyptus_ or Blue Gum period. These dark-foliaged trees mark from afar the lonely sheep-station, a...

For the seed-plot of Christianity and of civilisation in New Zealand we must look away from the present centres of population to the beautiful harbours which cluster round the e...

With the departure of Bishop Selwyn, the Church which he had governed entered upon a new phase. It was no longer _one_ in the sense in which it had been one. It still had a gene...

The inward life must not be separated in practice from the external unity of the body of Christ. The law of unity is the essence of its strength, its purity, and its holiness. -...

If the religious condition of the Maoris was such as to cause lasting grief to their teachers, there was not much in white New Zealand to relieve the picture. For the crash of t...

The fourth year of waiting brought signs of approaching change. The Society at home, encouraged by Marsden's hopeful letters, sent out another catechist, Thomas Kendall. They we...

A commercial message of trifling import may now be flashed in a few minutes from Jerusalem to the Antipodes: the message of Christ's love took nearly eighteen centuries to make...

The document which was solemnly put forth on June 13th, 1857, as the "CONSTITUTION for associating together, as a Branch of the United Church of England and Ireland, the members...

Selwyn visits Chatham Islands--Melanesia--Progress at Otaki and Wanganui--Troubles--Epidemic at St. John's--Failure of communistic system--Lutherans at Chatham Island--Porirua--...

Position in 1862--Meeting at Peria--Position of Waikato Maoris--Grey brings on another war--Rangiaohia--Defeat of "king" forces--Henare Taratoa--His rules--Heroic action--Death-...

Arrival of Hobson--Treaty of Waitangi--Opposition of New Zealand Company--The work of the missionaries--Absence of authority--Kendall the Gnostic--The new workers--Bible transla...

Re-occupation of Rotorua and Tauranga--Visit to Opotiki--Station there --Maunsell at Waikato Heads--Visit of Bishop Broughton--Influenza-- Octavius Hadfield--The east coast--Tau...

Position of settlers--Hall at Waitangi--Communistic experiment-- Difficulty with Kendall--The mission in trouble--Visit of Rev. S. Leigh--Renewed zeal--Second visit of Marsden--...

Bishop Selwyn's ecclesiastical position--Religious divisions-- Formation of St. John's College--Death of Whytehead--Communism in practice--A lesson to the world--Ordinations--Bi...

Settlement in Auckland--College founded at Tamaki--Continued disagreement with C.M.S.--Heke's rebellion--His tactics--Burning of Kororareka--Charge against Henry Williams--Ohaea...

Difficulty of creating ecclesiastical government in the colonies-- Governor Grey drafts constitution--Its favourable reception--Discussed by Australian bishops--The Royal Suprem...

Sudden darkness--Working of constitution--Paucity of Maori clergy-- Inadequacy of mission Staff--Tamihana Te Waharoa--His ideals--The king movement--Suspicion of its loyalty--Go...

Arrival of immigrants--Principles of the New Zealand Company-- Opposition of the C.M.S.--Henry Williams and the Wellington settlers-- Arrival of Bishop Selwyn--His ideals--His c...

Exploration--Expedition to Kaitaia--Station formed--Cape Reinga-- Expedition to Thames--Evening service--Surprising reception--Visit to Te Waharoa--Station at Puriri--Visit to W...

Changes produced by war and immigration--Separateness of Maori and pakeha--Maoris and Sir George Grey--Siege of Waerenga-a-hika-- S. Williams at Te Aute--Return of Bishop Willia...

The Bay of Islands--Te Pahi--His visit to New South Wales--Meeting with Marsden--Te Pahi's return and death--Ruatara--His arrival in England--Marsden at Home--The Church Mission...

Troubles in the colonial Church--Dunedin--Nomination of the Rev. H. L. Jenner--Opposition to his appointment--His rejection by General Synod --And by the Synod of Dunedin--Illne...

Conditions more favourable--Preliminary voyage of _Active_--"Noah's Ark"--Arrival of mission in New Zealand--Interview with Whangaroans-- "Rangihoo"--Landing of Marsden, &c.--Pr...

Need of the mission--Arrival of Rev. H. Williams--His character-- Settlement at Paihia--New workers--Difficulties in farming--Richard Davis--Building of the _Herald_--Schools--F...