WAIKATO MAORIS.
FEW ARE CHRISTIANS. BISHOP CHERRINGTON’S DISCOVERY. ' Auckland, Aug. 8. In an appeal for prayers, interest and financial help for the Maori Mission, made at Claudelands on Sunday morning, Bishop Cherrington said that only a handful of the Maoris here and there in the Waikato diocese were Christians, In England people had an idea that the Maoris were Christians. That idea he had found to be erroneous. The Maoris in the Auckland diocese might be Christians, said Bishop Cherrington, but the religion of the Maoris in the Waikato' diocese appeared to be a queer mixture of various kinds of “isms,” superstition, and some weird ideas taken from the Old Testament. The Maoris had a grievance against the Governnment. and in some way identified the Government with the Church, although the aims and ideals of the two institutions were as wide apart as the Poles.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 201, 9 August 1927, Page 5
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