“HEAVY JUDGMENT ON PAKEHA”
A RATANA CUSTOM Dominion Special Service Palmerston North, August 5. The Right Rev. A. E. Bennett, Bishop of Aotea Roa, preached at St. John's Church, Feilding, last night before a large congregation of Pakeha and Maori worshippers. Maori clergy and the Rev. W. G. Williams assisted in the service. The Bishop said he believed that the average Maori was more religious than the average Pakeha. The mythology of the Maoris was partly a proof of that, They believed that the ancestors of their tribes were partly divine and partly human. Emphasising that point of the religious feeling of the Maori, the Bishop said he had heard that the Katana people had changed the name of “Jesus Christ” in their prayers and praises, and substi-
tuted the name “Son of God.” The reason given for that was that the name of the Saviour was so much used as a curse word bv Pakehas that the Ratana people altered'it. That was a heavy judgment on the Pakeha.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 266, 6 August 1929, Page 8
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