RATANA MOVEMENT IS NOW CRUMBLING, SAYS MISSIONARY.
LEADER SIDE-TRACKED FROM DOING GOOD. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 22. A woman worker in the Maori mission field told a Presbyterian missionary meeting last night that the Ratana movement was crumbling in Taupo and Waikato districts. She said that Ratana had done some fine work for the Maori people, leading them to give up their belief in atuas. Ratana knew they were idolators at heart, and by his simple teachings had led them back to the Church. His great power, however, was in the direction of divine healing, and he would have made a fine teacher if left alone, but, unfortunately, committees of the elder men had side-tracked him from the simple truth.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18188, 22 June 1927, Page 8
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