Colonization (Paperback)

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. 1837 Excerpt: ...readiness or anxiety for it?--They are anxious to receive it, and willing to render us every assistance in travelling; they come and carry our luggage, our tents, our canteens, and everything to make extensive journeys, to give them instruction in their villages; and they flock in great crowds to our churches and chapels upon the Sabbath day, and at any time when they know that we are about to hold Divine service. "Do they appear anxious to attend schools?--Yes, and to send their children. They have established schools in their own villages, under the direction of native youths, under the superintendence of the missionaries themselves, visiting them once a month, or according to the distance. "Have you a sufficient number of religious instructors now?--No; we want twenty more at least. I succeeded in my object in coming to England so far. I wanted five more clergymen, and three or four schoolmasters, and a wheelwright. "Is the Church of England Missionary Society the only society that have labourers there?--The Wesleyans have too. "You said that there are two thousand British subjects there, of whom not above one hundred are women; have you known instances of Englishmen marrying New Zealand women?--Yes; I have officiated at the marriage of several myself. "What have been the effects of the exertions of missionaries in a general manner?--Abolishing their superstitious observances, establishing the Sabbath, rendering the natives more industrious, bringing a large proportion of their land into a state of cultivation, preventing war, ameliorating the condition of the slaves, making the language a written one, and numerous other benefits. "From the. experience you have had in missionary exertions, would you begin by attempting to ci...