Show Mission arys utter letter WI ELLINGTON new zealand januar january 11 1903 editor vernal express Ex prean Vor vornail vernal nril utah I 1 now take a few to write you a few lines lilies in appreciation 0 of f your valuable paper which cornea coines to annd regularly every emery mail day I 1 also feel that thero there is ig tin nn apology duo due on my part for rom remaining balent so BO long in studying and using the native language an eggo exclusively and ill order to leat ledin n t the e same correctly I 1 hate hare lad bad to deny ma myself self the privilege of read ing much english litora literature ture I 1 look 1001 anxiously for mail days and the first piper that receives my attention is what I 1 call my houie home letter ex press I 1 also alao use it to fortify against not dot receiving a letter frow from homo hoine bl oral of my friends here her highly compliment it ns as a lively little town paper I 1 have been here in now new zealand boalan d over wo two y ears and havo have taken laken quite a bancy to the country the cli climate niale aud and the people especially have I 1 learned to love loie the tha native race I 1 would albo 1160 like to write a few words concerning them as I 1 think some borne of our i cople at horne home have queer ideas concerning conc eining abia people their habits and traditions IQ in fact I 1 was waa told before leaving home that I 1 was apt to le be b cled arid and vaten eaten by the natives inan who told me this yarn about tho the maon p people koplo must certainly have been ignorant of their dietor history since at least 1810 at this time and previous they were sere uncivilized and ra tho old is 13 liked a flesh n man an lot foi breal breakfast fast butcho but the maoris laoris say bay now dys adys a that after the gospel had been introduced among them 3 lie church of england that oan can abali m ceased among them and at the arc present sent lay day you can only find a few of the old I 1 loros horos whose fathers wore inere uncivilized some of this gen cration is highly civilized and well educated I 1 le he government is not slack in providing schools and en cour nging education it h b vi is only been in the last beai eat that tho the government has bas given the alafris maoris power to make and regulate their own laws which greatly encourages cou rages them thein contrary to what I 1 heard about the alafris maoris at home I 1 found them to be a imo free and geno genei geneiosa on oua hearted people in fact I 1 have efti often n said that I 1 believe y could set the world tin an example in hospitality at then homes the weary finds rest refit and if he bo a missionary generally gets a chanco chance to hold bold kadakia Ka rakia religious service in the oN evening ening the natives are naturally religious and q much sincerity in worshiping the abua bod god so this is how i I 1 havo have found the maori slid and if I 1 could have the privilege of talking with ana anyone one about them who alio lave have an idea that they ore are an ignorant uncivilized people I 1 would tell hita him that lie he is badly so much lor for the maoris laoris I 1 could strite much morp corp about them but time will not permit just a few words concerning the abo new zealand Alis mission sion from vi hat I 1 can learn the mission was never in better shapo shape than at tile the present time if I 1 am correctly informed there ate aie more elders eldera from vernal hero than rom any other one town bartlett is a lively man full of we oil all think he be is the right man in the right place I 1 had not the pleas uro ure of meeting him here until a foi few days daya before chi mas when lie ho came to my conference and found me awk with pleurisy and he brought me hero here to wellin toa until I 1 regain my health I 1 have now become well again and expect to return to nay my 4 labors in ia a few days wo ive are having roal real summer here bore nov nom and the fruits are all ripe 1 wellington is ia the capitol of oe now new zealand and ii a t grent great shipping center the inhabitants of 0 this city uio j A a pleasure plea auro suro seeking booking people tho the gos goa pil seems to ho be the lat thing in their heir consideration abero are four elders laboring here tr acting in tile tho day time and holding from three to four street ine eting each neek eek and so BO goes the work of the lord in this land I 1 did not intend to arito such a lengthy lottor letter n I 1 began and fr far fear of tiring you I 1 enill i chogo with best wishes for our paper may alay it continue tu to prosper in ill this thia new year apar eliat has dm damned tied upon us and lot thanks to brother me B ogain aln say eay dan from your for far off friend WM WORKMAN spring crook creek marlborough N Z |