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New Zealand presents a still more urgent case of need. In the year 1838, Mr. Wm. Williams visited a Station, on the eastern coast of that beautiful island, called Poverty Bay. In that neighbourhood there are now 8000 Natives under Christian Instruction, scattered over a district 150 miles in length: single classes in the schools number hundreds of scholars, and yet there is but one solitary Missionary among them. If at any moment New Zealand has demanded the paternal regard of this Society, such a moment is the present: this is the time in which, if we would not have the people of New Zealand debased by vice in conjunction with power, this Society ought to act, by strengthening the Missionaries established there, and giving them competent instructors--competent both in numbers and education.
