THE REV. SAMUEL. MARSDEX, Coming into contact -with, a native chief at the house of Governor King in Sydney, conceived an intense desire to undertake missionary work m New Zealand After many disappointments, he succeeded, largely at his own expense, in equipping a party, and arrived in the brig Active in time to hold tha first Christian service in New Zealand, on Christmas Day, 1814. His duties as Government chaplin in New South Wales necessitated his speedy return there, but from time to time he revisited New Zealand, always loved and welcomed by the Maoris
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 17 (Supplement)
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95THE REV. SAMUEL. MARSDEX, Coming into contact -with, a native chief at the house of Governor King in Sydney, conceived an intense desire to undertake missionary work m New Zealand After many disappointments, he succeeded, largely at his own expense, in equipping a party, and arrived in the brig Active in time to hold tha first Christian service in New Zealand, on Christmas Day, 1814. His duties as Government chaplin in New South Wales necessitated his speedy return there, but from time to time he revisited New Zealand, always loved and welcomed by the Maoris Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 17 (Supplement)
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