MISSION SISTERS' WORK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18566, 26 November 1923, Page 10

MISSION SISTERS' WORK.

KING COUNTRY INCIDENTS.

MEANING OF "GLORY LAND."

[BY TELEGRAPH.--OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHimCH. Saturday.

When speaking of her work among the Maoris to the Presbyterian General Assembly, Sister Allison, who is in charge of the Maori mission work at Taumarunui, related many incidents of her daily life— amusing and some serious.

"There is a piece of territory near Taumarunui called 'glory land,'" the sister stated, "and it is very difficult to got i.h. One day I asked two Maoris why it was given that name. 'Oh! they said, white people call it "glory land" "because it is so hard to get at, and the Maoris becauso there are no parsons there!' " One day, the sister went on, it was coming on to rain, and she accepted an invitation to go into the whare of an Indian and his familv. Thev talked of Christianity. The Indian said to her:— "The light of Asia grows dim; for me it •will be my only faith, but for my son I hope for better 'things. There will be your Christian faith for him. It is wonderful Christian faith; it is wonderful; it glows." The Rev. W. J. Comrie said that it would be criminal for the Church to withdraw from Taupo, where there was need for a minister, both for Maoris and Europeans alike. The Maoris wanted a school at Waimana, and many of them had offered to give money to assist in the building of it.