A History of the English Church in New ZealandPurchas, Henry Thomas
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A History of the English Church in New Zealand
Purchas, Henry Thomas
Church of the Province of New Zealand -- History; New Zealand -- Church history
NOTE.--With regard to the rest of those whom Mr. Collier calls the
"peccant missionaries" there is not much to be said. One of them,
Clarke, was certainly treated with strange injustice. The governor
brought an action against him in the Supreme Court, as already
related. He did not defend himself, but was dismissed by the C.M.S. on
a charge of having gone to law with the governor! A full list of the
landgrants may be seen in Thompson's "Story of New Zealand," Vol. II.,
p. 155. It is not pleasant reading; one could have wished that the
missionaries had not been driven to acquire land as they did. Perhaps
some of them were led on further than was wise or right. Taylor's
claim for 50,000 acres was startling, but he bought the land at Henry
Williams' request to save a war between two tribes who both claimed
it. When the grants came to be legally made by Governor Fitzroy,
Taylor received only 1,704 acres. Maunsell, Chapman, Hadfield, Morgan,
Stack, and some others, never bought any land at all; and the amounts
claimed by some of the others were very small. The total number of
missionaries on the schedule is 36: the total number of acres granted
is 66,713. It must be remembered that the families of the grantees
were generally large, and that the quality of the land was usually
very poor.
CHAPTER XI.
SACRIFICE AND HEALING.
(1850-1856).
We must suffer for the sin of others as for our own; and in this
suffering we find a healing and purifying power and element.
--_Shorthouse._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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