Bishop Stuart.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume I, Issue 11, 1 May 1911, Page 171

Bishop Stuart.

We have learned through a cablegram, that the veteran Bishop has passed to his rest. As far back as 1850 Bishop Stuart began his ministry m India, a ministry which continued till 1876, when he was compelled, through ill-health, to seek work m a more temperate climate. The following year he was consecrated Bishop of Waiapu, and for sixteen years he presided over this diocese, but the call of the East grew louder and more persistent, and the example of his old friend, Bishop French, appealed strongly to him, so that when a New Zealander m Persia, the Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall, wrote to him: "Come out to Persia!" Bishop Stuart left his bishopric, and, following the example of Bishop French, returned to the East as a simple missionary again. Who would have thought that he would have lived to work for yet another period of sixteen years ? Readers of the C.M.S. publication have read, from time to time, of the growth and progress of the work m Persia, and of the large part that Bishop Stuart and his daughter had m it. A niece, also of the Bishop's, a qualified doctor, joined them, and the progress of the mission has been m a large measure due to the splendid work of the C..M.S. hospitals. Last year he returned to England, but what an example he has left to the church! A Bishop only three or four years short of three-score years and ten, taking up work m a comparatively new and most difficult mission field, and continuing till, at the age of 83, he is compelled to return to England. We are very sorry to hear that his daughter, Mrs Marsdon Clarke/ who left New Zealand someiweeks ago, would not have reached England m time to see her lather.

We are glad indeed that Bishop Williams, who succeeded Bishop. Stuart, and who is only three years his junior, is still with us, and wonderfully active, as the account of his trip to the Waikato m this number of the "Gazette" sufficiently shows. TE TUATI, PIHOPA. Kua jmta mai i tawahi te korero, ko Te Tuati, Pihopa, kua moe i te 18 o Maehe, ona tau, c waru tekau ma toru. No te tau 1851 i haere atu ai ia i Ingarani ki Inia Id te kawe i te Rongo-pai o Te Karaiti ki nga iwi o tera whenua. E rua tekau ma rima nga tau i main ai ia i tera mahi ki reira, a, i te tau 1876, ka tae mai ia ki Niu Tirani nei, i te mea kua pangia a Te Wireniu, Pihopa, c te mate i mutu ai tana mahi Pihopa. No te tau 1877 ka karangatia c te Hinoti o te Pihotanga o Waiapu a Te Tuati Ida tv hei Pihopa mo tenei takiwa. Kei te mohio ano te iwi Maori o tenei Pihopatanga ki tana mahi i haereere ra ia i ia tau, i ia tau, ki te tirotiro i a ratou, ki te whakangahau i nga mahi a te Hahi* ki nga wahi katoa. I te mea ka tekau ma onb nga tau i Pihopa ai ia ki konei, ka puta tona whakaaro Ida haere ia Id Persia ki te kawe i te Rongopai ki o reira iwi, he Mohametana nei nga tangata o tera whenua. He mahi uaua tana mahi me ta ona hoa ki reira, he nui no te riri o o ratou tohunga Mohametana. Otira kua whai hua ana he inea manaaki na te Atua. Tona hoa ake, ko tana tamahine, i haere tahi atu ra raua i konei. Noho tonu ana ia i runga i tera mahi, a taea noatia te tau kua mahue tata ake nei; katahi ka hoki ki Ingarani i te mea kua nui haere nei nga mate o te koroheketanga. Ka tuarua tona hoki mai ki Niu Tirani nei i rnuri i mai o tona taenga ki Persia.