Show MORE morr ABOUT THE BK courtesy of sister elizabeth newby of joseph sevier sesler county we vve are enabled to publish the foll following QwIng extract from her husband eldered w ward newby giving an acco account hint fint ofa of a missionary experience among the aborigines P of new zealand owin owing to the almost phenomenal work I 1 in n progress among 0 the he mao maorice rles ries it will doubtless be perused with interest by I 1 many of our readers I 1 on the morning of the of october I 1 got ready to go ato the people sent a buggy for tor that place and we started to hastings and when we arrived there were four forr more buggies loaded waiting for us containing the saints of Pa Pak kohal ohal after a tew few delays delass we started for nga carawa tarawa and arri arrived there after about two hours ride we were greeted with crus cries of welcome and waving of handkerchiefs and then one of the aia Ala mabries orles ories c acme me to us and told us they wanted newby to dedicate a new that had been built there so 80 I 1 proceeded proceed dd to the charell Vh Wh arely arety are and I 1 can say it iss a beautifully built house and finished off very nicely I 1 then had the bell run mug and then the peo people le assembled till they tilled the ilog se full fuli li ii 11 and I 1 should ludge judge there ther e must one congregated from Pak ohai Le haute padl and and some flom other pisces vlices that I 1 do not know the name I 1 opened the meeting by singing and prayer and then id addressed dressed them on tiie tile principles of the gospel of christ 1 I was followed by a few tew of the native brethren I 1 dismissed the meeting and then we vve sat downto downto dinner which was yas vas quite sumptuous I 1 then appointed a meeting in trie the evenin evening 1 the house was waa again filled after opening ening the meeting in th the 0 usual way I 1 then preached to tile the people on the first principles of the gospel in maori in my feeble way and occupied about one hour and add was followed by some oi of the native breth brethren rep twenty three presented their thefil names for baptism and four to be bi blessed essed I 1 appointed 9 next morning to attend to the baptisms ile he went down to the river N adoro the people be gan to come can you it was a beautiful sight h the white clothes making a contrast with the dusky skins of the people after arranging them in rotation I 1 offered a lew tew words of prayer to god entered the water a and nd baptized the twenty three the day was a fine one and everything passed off in a quiet and orderly manner maner I 1 then appointed meeting at 1 when two rich sheep owners visited us to see our way of serving tile the lord after aate r opening id fit the usual manner I 1 preached to them arst first havin having iv 0 obtained a young on man to interpret to the Ma orles the first principles ples pies of the gospel the mode ot principles baptizing apt izing and ohp tb noly holy ghast ghost I 1 then confirmed those who had bad been baptized members of the church and addressed thera on the ordinance of partaking of the sacrament of the lords supper and as to what manner of men anu ana women they ought to be the sacrament was then administered and the saints bore their testimonies after which they were dismissed 1 had quite a friendly chat with the gentlemen before alluded to who said they would see me again and then rode off in the evening we held another meeting at which I 1 ordained oida ined three priests and two teachers the saints kett keit this meeting up all night oil on monday the mabries held heid another meeting for the purpose of raising some means mean 3 to help heip me saints in the Ki kokino district to build a meeting house and they subscribed ea 7 to that purpose the mabries kept their meeting up three days and three nights so you sou can judge what at kind of pe people 0 I 1 they hey bo be on n tuesday evening w we returned to Ta onoke haying having been re repay p ay ed for our visit the tiie lort Lord blessed us with ills holy spirit and we have enjoyed ourselves very much brothers otene and moterene rahl rahi are good men and avd did a great deal to help on the work |