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New ZealandA a Glebe for Exeter Hall.—The Church Missionary Body in New Zealand, in early days, brought great scandal on their cause by trafficking with the Natives for Land. Indeed, not only did they obtain large estates from their docile Flocks but they wanted a monopoly, and would fain have had no people get estates save themselves. One unctuous instance of this is recorded by Dr. Thompson in his admirable Work on New Zealand, where he relates that in 1835 they drew up a "Deed of Trust" of Lands belonging to the Northern Natives, and tried, but in vain, to get the Colonial Office to have them appointed Trustees for such Lands—Lands, which as they alleged, their Flocks wished them to preserve from the intrigues of those whom they, the missionary party, termed "designing men!" Indeed, any one who will wade through the mass of evidence relating both to the early irregular and the later regular colonisation of New Zealand, and keep an eye on the "sayings and doings" of the Church Missionary Body, will see that it cherished the hope, of regenerating the New Zealanders by "Tracts and Treacle," and of converting the North Island into a huge Glebe for Exeter Hall.

It must not, however, be supposed from this, that the Colonists are at all insensible to the many merits of the present Missionary Body. Excepting, always, firebrand-bigots of the "Hadfleld" stamp, who might well be deported from our shores to any great Christian College where the cardinal virtues of meekness and charity are taught, the present Missionary Body in New Zealand, especially the Wesleyan portion of it, is one which no Colonist could wisely wish to see enfeebled or suppressed. Missionaries, when they will only confine themselves to their proper sphere and not "meddle and muddle" in the Colony's political and public matters, are most useful Settlers. page 77 I do not imagine that any of them have now the slightest hankering after Land. But, in my view, even if they had there would be nothing blameable in it When an earnest. God-fearing man leads out his family from civilization to the wilderness in the hope of benefiting the Heathen he has aright to acquire some stake in the new Country; and could in no wise employ his leisure better than in adding the Hubandman to the Priest, and in seeking to make some provision for his Olive Branches by creating a little estate by tilling Land. In truth, a good hearty Missionary in each Native Villiage, with half-a-dozen children, who would show our Maori friends that it was not Loud Prayers in the Market Place, but Doing unto others that which they would have others Do unto them, which was the true essence of Christianity, and who would also show them a little "model farm," would be, of all men, the right Man in the right place.