e Church Missionary Association--
Conclusion.

MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. Portrait of Samuel Marsden Frontispiece

2. Map of North Island, showing Missionary Routes Facing page 16

3. View of Paihia " " 32

4. Henry Williams at the Treaty of Waitangi " " 48

5. Portrait of Bishop Selwyn " " 64

6. Ruins of St. Thomas', Tamaki " " 80

7. Old Church at Russell " " 88

8. Nelson Cathedral " " 96

9. A Village Church, Stoke, near Nelson " " 112

10. St. Matthew's Church, Auckland " " 128

11. St. Matthew's Church, Dunedin " " 144

12. Canterbury Churches " " 160

13. Map of the Bay of Islands " " 168

14. St. John's Cathedral, Napier " " 176

15. All Saints' Church, Palmerston North " " 192

16. St. John's, Invercargill " " 200

17. St. Luke's, Oamaru " " 208

18. Wanganui School Chapel " " 224

19. Baptistery of St. Matthew's, Auckland " " 232

20. New Zealand Bishops " " 240

INTRODUCTION.

Beginning from Jerusalem.
--_Acts._

A commercial message of trifling import may now be flashed in a few
minutes from Jerusalem to the Antipodes: the message of Christ's love
took nearly eighteen centuries to make the journey. For a time, indeed,
the advance was direct and swift, for before the third century after
Christ a Church had established itself in South India. But there the
missionary impulse failed. Had the first rate of progress been
maintained, the message would have reached our shores a whole millennium
before it actually arrived.

But what would have been then its form and content? Had it made its way
from island to island, passing through the minds of Malay, Papuan, or
Melanesian on its passage, how much of its original purity would have
been preserved? And who would have been here to receive it? Possibly,
only the moa and the apteryx. Who knows?

These considerations enable us t