MAORI MIRACLE WORKER

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 6159, 3 March 1921, Page 3

MAORI MIRACLE WORKER

MISSIONARY'S TESTIMONY TO ' SATANA A FINGER POST (Dy Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, i-hifi 2a?. j In the course of an adddress at the Methodist Conference, the Rev. Robert Baddon, the well-known Maori missionary, gave some most interesting informa- I tion concerning Ratana, the miracle worker. Ho said Ratana's father was a Christian man. The "call" came lo Ratana to surrender himself completely to God, to isolate himself. He fasted for six days, living on prayer, and then power came. He went to a sick child and prayed, and immediately she was healed.. The Maori thought more of the Mana than of Christianity. " You must put away this Mana kol," said Ratana; "it is tohungaism. Have taith and God will help you." When they did this at Ratana's request they were able to say, "My eyes can see," or " I can walk.'* It was, declared Mr Haddon, out and out j Christianity. Ratana was against everythit.g that tied the Maori down. To accept Christ as our saviour was the 1 only way to build the Maori up, Ratana 1 had said to him, "I get the people, you 1 ministers feed them with the word. 1 KatanP, he declared, was on right 7 lines. Ratana declared, "I am only "a t finger post, pointing 'pu to Cod." (Loud apyiausr).