[PREFACE]
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PREFACE.
THIS book is not a history. If its scope and connecting-links appear to give it somewhat of that character, it is but very partially, and only incidentally. The book purports simply to be the Life of a godly and useful man. The writer's inducements to publish it were, First, That a large circle of relatives and friends might have preserved to them in permanent form authentic reminiscences of one they honoured and loved; Secondly, That the story of his labours might serve in some degree to encourage and stimulate the succeeding race of toilers in the same service; and, Thirdly, That as the biography would afford glimpses of the formative age of the Christian Church in the Southern World, --its peculiar trials and signal triumphs, --it might awaken or revive the missionary spirit, both in England and Australia, where Christian sympathies and benevolence are unduly restricted by local claims.
Special acknowledgments are thankfully made to the Rev. James Buller, to whose correspondence the biographer is indebted for portions of the material from which the chapters on New Zealand have been prepared. Also to
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the Rev. W. Butters, and Mr. Thomas Hayes, of the Wesleyan Mission House, London, whose friendly offices have secured the revision of printers' proofs in England.
Methodist Preachers have not the leisure for authorship, and this memoir has been prepared amid many disadvantages, during a year of Circuit work. The author is conscious of its manifold imperfections; but in the hope that it will do good, he submits it, not to reviewers and critics, as such, but to all who take an interest in the world's salvation.
WESLEYAN CONFERENCE, HOBART TOWN,
February 1st, 1871.
[CONTENTS]
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CONTENTS.
I. 1793-1822 ... 1
II. Early Methodism in New South Wales....12
III. 1822-1823 .... 31
IV. 1823 ..... 34
V. The New Zealand Mission, 1814-1823 ... 38
VI. 1823-1825 .... 41
VII. 1825-1826 .... 61
VIII. 1827.... 71
IX. 1827 CONTINUED .... 78
X. Early History of the Tonga Mission.... 85
XI. 1827-1830.... 92
XII. 1831-1835 ..... 130
XIII. 1835-1839 ..... 159
XIV. New Zealand, past and present ... 215
XV. 1839-1840 .... 226
xvi. 1840-1843 ...... 237
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XVII. 1844-1846.... 253
XVIII. 1846-1849 ... 259
XIX. 1849-1852..... 274
XX. 1852-1854.... 282
XXI. 1855-1864.... 296
XXII. CONCLUSION .... 329
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ERRATA.
Page 24, line 5, read site of the "second" oldest.
Page 24, line 8, after "property" add "in New South Wales."
Page 31, line 11, for "Shongshei" read "Shunghee."
Page 71, lines 18 and 21, for "Uqa" read "Nga."
Page 74, line 27, read "one" small trunk.
Page 74, line 35, for "Tana" read "Taua."
Page 83, line 25, for "Ahaki" read "Hahake."
Page 80, line 10, "50,000" was incorrect estimate--substitute"23,000."
Page 87, line 34, for "beginning" read "ending."
Page 02, line 8, for "fact" read "facts."
Page 105, line 25, for "Solohea" read "Lolohea."
Page 131, line 31, for "tour" read "term."
Page 135, the extract includes the next paragraph.
Page 143, line 25, read "So also at the noonday service. Several, &c."
Page 174, line 32, for "Robinson" read "Rihimona."
Page 176, line 16, for "moral" read "word."
Page 179, line 30, for "Butler" read "Buller."
Page 193, line 31, for "Basby" read "Busby."
Page 197, lines 19 and 20, for "Watkins" read "Watkin".
Page 207, line 15, for "Uler" read "Uhr."
Page 213, line 29, for "lie" read "live."
Page 232, line 23, read "The Association friends."
Page 242, line 35, for "Glaer" read "Glover."
Page 247, line 29, for "return" read "returns."
Page 251, line 15, for "desired" read "deserved."
Page 252, line 9, for "made" read "much."
Page 257, line 6, for "bruises" read "burns."
Page 259, line 13, for "Warnley" read "Waverley."
Page 269, line 5, for "Lindsay" read "Livesay."
Page 274, line 17, for "of city " read "by city."
Page 286, line 32, for "Millard" read "Miller."
Page 299, line 28, for "vast" read "neat."
Page 299, line 30, for "part" read "past."
Page 303, line 14, for "Abbot" read "Albert."
Page 333, line 4, for "supplied" read "secured."
The author regrets the presence of sundry errors, by printer, besides those above noted, especially in the spelling of native names. They would not have been published if he had had the opportunity for personal revision.
5th July, 1872.
