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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. A PRAYER-MEETING NATIVE CHRISTIANS OLD PAGAN CHIEFS MOUNT EDEN---AN OASIS ANCIENT SEPULCHRE THE KAURI A DESERTED HOME MAGIC-LANTHORN A GIFT HORSE AN INAUGURATION--A WAR-DANCE, AND BREAD AND JAM MAN AND WOMAN EATING VOYAGE TO THE BAY OF ISLANDS WAHAPU KORARARIKA CAUSES OF ILL-BLOOD TROOPS APPLIED FOR--HEKI HIS FIRST OUTBREAK CONFERENCE OF WAIMATE TRUCE BROKEN PANORAMA OF THE BAY OF ISLANDS KORORARIKA SURPRISED, SACKED, AND BURNT. Auckland--Christmas-day.--Divine service at the little brick-built church of St. Paul's. The interior was prettily decorated, Christmas fashion, with the graceful fronds of the tree-fern, some of them eight and ten feet long entirely covering the windows. I perceived none of the Aborigines among the congregation, nor do I know whether they are encouraged or permitted to frequent the parish church, there being separate houses of prayer devoted to their spiritual teaching apart from the white population. I observed, however, several bushy heads and wild tattooed faces peeping at times through the windows during the service; and towards its close two or three stole into the body of the building, stared about them for a few minutes, and quietly withdrew. In my afternoon stroll I passed the door of the Maori chapel, a short way out of town, where a very A NATIVE PRAYER MEETING. 131 attentive and crowded congregation were engaged in singing in excellent time and time a well-known psalm in their own language. As a Chinese artizan, in working from a pattern, faithfully copies into a new garment all the holes and other defects observable in the old one, so the New Zealand Christian servilely imitates the English rural fashion of psalmody, enlisting the nose into the service as an important vocal organ--the national NG giving hi...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235647987
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 104
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235647986
  • Publisher Date: 03 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 200 gr


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