MAORIS AND CHURCH
REVIVAL OF INTEREST
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
NEW PLYMOUTH, 7th April. The growth of interest among Maoris in church activities was mentioned by the Bishop of Aotearoa (the Right Rev. F. Bennett) when preaching at New Plymouth. The Maoris were now organising in districts to a greater extent than had been evident since before the Maori Wars, the Bishop declared. His Lordship took for his text the Biblical incident of Moses and the burning bush. He drew a parallel between the burning bush which was not consumed and the Maori Church, which appeared to some to have succumbed to resentments following the Maori wars. It had gained fresh energy, fresh followers, and a degree of earnest support unknown through two generations. The. present period would be one of historical significance for the Maoris of/faranaki. For the first time since the wars of the 'sixties quite a large number of the Maori people, descendants of the combatants in those wars, were anxious to receive Christianity. For two generations those people had held aloof from the church. Down the coast they had most beautiful services entirely in Maori, the worshippers sitting on the floor of the little meeting-house in the accustomed style before the Maori wars.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 April 1930, Page 6
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