TE HOA MAORI



                                                         AND

    ' I haere mai hoki te Tama a te tangata ki te rapu ki te whakaora i te mea i ngaro. " Ruka 1910



         "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. " Luke 19 10

 NAMA   AKARANA. HANUARE, 1894 Registered as



 No. AUCKLAND, JANUARY, a Magazine.

   "Rapua a Ihowa i tona kitenga ai; karangatia atu kei tata ana ia. " Ihaia 55. 6







    " Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, Call ye upon Him while He is

      near. " Isaiah 55. 6.

                       TE HOA MAORI.

 

 te mate. Kua  puta mai te  kaha o  te

 whakaaro o te hinengaro, a kua hoki mai

  ki a ia te maharatanga o ona ra me ona

  mahi i mahue aia nei. Ka pouri rawa ia.

 Kihai ia i kite marama te peheatanga o te

  murunga hara, a ka wehe ia ki te tu akuenei

  ki te aroaro o Ia, ina kua karangatia. Kahai

  ia i huna i tona raruraru i te tangata.

    Ahakoa ka korero ahau te rongo pai ki a

  ia penei me taku i korero atu ki te tangata

  ke, kihai ia i mau. E kore e taea e ia i te

  korero pukapuka, hei konei ka mau tonu

  te pouri ki a ia. I ahau e kawe una i tana

  take ki te aroaro o te Ariki, a, i ahau hoki

  e whakaaro ana ki nga korero i korerotia

  mai e ia ki ahau i ki atu ahau ki a ia

 E Hami!



 E MOHIO ANA KOE TE TIKANGA

         O TE NAMA.



   Ka mea mai ia ki ahau "Ae. "

   Ka mea atu ahau ki » ia, " E mohio ana

 pea koe te tikanga o te rihiti ? "

   Ka mea mai ia ki ahau, "Ae, he nui noa

 o aua mea ki ahau i te tuatahi. "

   Ka mea atu ahau ki a ia, "Tena koa,

 mehemea he nama tau, a e kore e taea e

 koe to whakarite nei, a ka  tai mai tetahi

 hoa mo, a ka whakaritea e ia o nana katoa,

 a ka homai e ia te rihiti ki a koe, hei konei

 ka mataku  koe ki to kai whakatarewa

 moni?"

   Ka mea mai ia ki ahau, "Kahore kau,

 ka taea te rihiti te whakamutu i taua mea

 i nga wa katoa. "

   Ka mea atu ahau ki a ia, "Me whenei

 kua rite o hara kite nama. He mea tika kia

 riria koe e te Atua, a e rapu hoki Ia he utu

 tika, kia rite ai tera, kai kore, e  kore e

 taea e koe ki te ora atu i te roto ahi.

   Ka mea mai ia ki ahau, "Aue! ka taea

 koia te kimi he rihiti mo taua nama?"

   Ka mea atu ahau, "Ae. " Katahi ahau

 ka korero atu ki a ia te kupu whakaritenga

 ki a Ruka vii. 41, 42. E whenei hoki taku

 ki a ia, "Engari ra me whakaaetia ekoe

 tou nama, me whaki atu hoki tou kaha-kore

 ki te hoatu i tetahi mea iti noa iho hei

 ritenga mo tera. Whakarerea  rawatia to

 mahi ki te whakarite tou nama. Koia ko

 to nama ko te tekau mano tareta, ko tou

  rawa e kore rawa atu; hei konei ra ka puta

  mai ai te murunga hara utu kore mo

    Ka  ui mai ia ki ahu, "Ko te rihiti koa,

  e aha tena?"

    Ka mea atu ahau ki a ia, " Tena, i tae

  mai a Ihu Karaiti ki te ao ki te whakaora

  i nga tangata hara, H whakamanawanui Ia

  ki te riri, ka mate Iu. ka tau te whakataunga

  e tika mo ki runga i a Ia Na tona mate

  na tona toto i whakariti ai to nama. Engari

  ra na te Atua ia i whakaara i te mato, hei

  tohu tika nana mo te katoa kua ata mana-

  wareka ia ki te mahi o toua tamaiti. Nana

 hoki i tiki mai i tono tama, a kawe atu ki

 te rangi, ka homai ki a ia he wahi ki tona

 ringaringa katau. KO TE RIHITI KOIA

 TENEI.

  KO IHU, KUA ARANGA 1 TE MATE.



 Kua kake ki te rangi, kua ata noho ki te

 ringaringa katau o te Atua. A, kua heke

 iho te Wairua  Tapu  ki te whakaatu  te

 manowareka  o te Atua i te mahi a  te

 Karaiti, kua whakahaua hoki kia tuhia iho

 ki tenei pukapuka (te Kawenata  Hou. )

 hei konei tenei mea, hei mea rihiti tuhituhia

 mo te tangata hara, ko ia nei e whakaae

 ana ki te Atua i tona ahua he me tona kaha-

 kore; engari tenei ka taea e ia te mau i

 tenei mea  ki tona ringaringa, kia tino

 mohiotia ai e ia te pai me te kaha o te

 tiakitanga o tenei mea tika ka puta mai i

 reira, e kore e tena i tena mea te tito te

 kotiti ranei. "

   Ano te kokiritanga o te tangata ki te mau 

 i aua mea, koia me te ahua o te tangata i

 roto i te wai e tata aua hoki ia ki te mate,

 ka kapo atu ki te poe whakaura kua whuia

atu e te tangata ki a ia. A, kua mau, a

kua tau hoki te rangimarie ki runga i a ia.

  I muri mai ka awangawanga  ahau e

whenei ana toku awangawanga; ka weakaae

kau ana ia ki aua mea, ka uru noa iho ia ki

roto i te rangimarie, kahore ranei.. Katahi

ka whenei taku whakaaro, me whakamatau

ahau i taua mea i taku haeretanga atu ano

ki a ia. A ka tae atu ahau ki tona whare,

ka korero ahau ki a ia, e whenei ana taku

korero ka whakamaharatia ia e ahau i ona

hara me  te ahua ano o tonu haeretanga i

nga ra i mahue atu nei, a, tae noa ki te

                      TE HOA MAORI.

   Ka   tatari te rangatira ki te taha o te

 moenga o te tamaiti, a. ka korero atu ia 

 a ia ki te tamaiti rawakore, kakahu kino

 hu kore.

   Ka  ui atu te rangatira ki to tamaiti

 "Ko wai to ingoa?"

   Ka ki atu te tamaiti, " E Kara, ko Timi

 toku ingoa. "

   Ka ui atu te rangatira ki a in, " Ko Timi

 aha?"

   Ka ki atu te tamaiti. "E Kara, ko Timi

 anake, kohore kau atu. "

   Ka ui atu te rangatira ki a ia, " Kahore

 to inatua tane matua wahine ranei?"

  Ka  ki atu te tamaiti. "E, ko te

rima tau tenei aku kahoro ho papa kahore

he whaia moku. "

   Katahi ka korero atu to tamaiti ki taua

rangatira te ahua ona i nga tau i mahue

atu nei; he pani ia, kua mate ona  matua i

tona itinga, i muri mai ka kimi ia he oranga

mona i nga huarahi o te taone o Ranana,

engari ra he oranga pehea tera oranga.

  Ko  taua rangatira he ateha ia no te ope o

Engarangi. ko ia hoki Ietahi o te hunga o

te whare o te Kuini. I muri tata mai o to

ra o te aitua kua ata panuitia te korero i

roto i tetahi nupepa, ka rongo  hoki te

Kuini te korero. Ka atawhai to Kuini ki

taua pani he nui hoki tona manawanui ki

a ia ka kimi ia i tetahi oranga mona mo

a muri ake.

  Na to Kuini i whakahau i tanu ateha kia

whakanoha  a  Timi ki roto i tetahi kura

mohi mo nga tau e toru. I muri mai i tora

ka kitea te kaha a te tamaiti ki te whaka-

tangitangi i nga mea waiata hei reira kua

whakanoho ia ki roto i to hunga whaka-

tangitangi mea pera ki roto i tetahi ope e

noho nei ki Ranana.

  I te ra tuatahi ona e mau  nei i ona

kakahu o te ope kia kakahuria i whiwhi ai

ia i tetahi na tona kai-whakaora he mea

riro mai na te Kuini tonu. Ko tana mea

he Paepera. Tapu. Ko enei nga kupu kua

tuhia ki roto i taua Paepera Tapu, •' Ki te

whakarerea  ahau e  toku papa, e  toku

whaea, ko Ihowa hei tukunga atu 

Me tenei kei runga, "Ki a Hemi, na tona

hoa, na Wikitoria R. "

  Na, I ahau e korero ana i taua korero o

te aroha noa o taua' toa raua ko to tatou

  Kuini pai, Kuini atawhai, ka muharu ahau

  i tetahi atu aroha noa nui rawa atu. Koia

  ko tenei, '• Otira i te mea ka puta mai nei

  te tikanga nga wari me te aroha o te Atua o

  to tatou Kai whakaora ki nga tangata. "

  Tera, he ata noa iho e aroha noa i korero

  atu i te tuatahi i tenei.

    

                    TE HOA MAORI

koia to 1 atou ano Matua aroha.

  Ano  te nui o te whakaaro pai me te

aroha a Timi ki te Paepera i homai na te

Kuini ki a ia. E ki ana a Ihu, kua hoatu

e ahau ki a ratou nga kupu i homai e koe

 ki ahau. E aroha ana ranei koe ki te kupu

 a te Atua ? Ko te tohu nui tera o te tama-

 tti tuturu a te Atua. Kia pai te Atua ki te

 waiho tana kupu he rama mo o waewae, he

 maramatanga ki o ara.

                            [Translation of preceding articles. ]

      THE RECEIPT.





 SAM B——lived on a "scrub" farm

     on the banks of the Mary, in

 Queensland.

  He had led a wild life, as so many,

 in the early days  of the colony, had;

 working hard and drinking hard; clearing,

 farming, butchering, and doing other things

 by turns. Hud  made money, and  spent

 it as easily as he had made  it. Drink,

 that moral  and social blight, had been

 his curse, and the publican's hut had seen

 many a cheque " knocked down " by Sam

 B——-     He  had had hairbreadth escapes

 rifling home through the bush; even good

 horses  cannot guarantee drunken  riders

 from  injury from falls, collision with trees,

 etc. His boy  had  feared  the  reckless

 riding of the one whom ho should have

 been led to respect in everything, and had

 hidden  himself anywhere rather than be

 mounted  before his father iu these bouts.

 Again  and  again had  that father been

 thrown and dragged by the stirrup by his

  frightened beast, at the imminent risk of

  his life. On one occasion he awoke iu the

 morning lying head downwards on the side

  of a waterhole, within a foot of the water,

 where he had  been thrown  the night

 before.



    But all this had told upon  his health,

 and in later years he had been more steady;

 had bought a farm, and worked upon the

 kindly soil, which had repaid  his efforts,

 and he was tolerably comfortable; but, in

! this world as well as in the next, " What a

 man  soweth, that shall he  also reap. "

i His health failed him, and he lay upon his

 bed, from which he never got up.

   Whilst preaching in the neighbourhood,

 I had been told of him by some neighbours

 interested in  his  spiritual welfare, and

 pulled up  the river to his landing-place,

 and found him slowly dying. Conscience

 had begun  to make  itself heard, and his

 past life, with its iniquities, was all before

 him, but darkness covered him as to how

 all was to be blotted out, and dread as to how-

 he  should stand in the presence of Him

 before whom   he expected  shortly to be

 summoned. All this he did not attempt to

 conceal.

    Presentations of the Gospel in ways that

 reached some failed in this case, he being

i quite unable to read; and  his darkness

remained unbroken. Thinking over his

 case before the Lord, and what he had

 himself told me, I said one day, " Sam,



   YOU KNOW WHAT DEBT IS ?"

    "Yes, " said he.

    "And what a receipt is ?"

    "Yes; I've had plenty of them in my

 time. "

    '' Well now, if you  were  in  debt,

  and could not possibly pay, and a friend

 came forward and paid the debt, handing

 you   a  receipt, would   you  fear  the

  creditor?"

    "No, of course not, the receipt would

  settle it anywhere. "

    "Your sins, then, may be compared to a

  debt. You  have by them  incurred the

  displeasure of God, who  demands satis-

  faction, and it must be rendered to Him,

  or you cannot escape hell. "

    "Ah!  but can a receipt be had for that

  debt?"-

    "Yes, "I said, referring to the parable

                       GOOD NEWS.

of the two debtors (Luke vii. 41, 42, ) " but

the debt must be owned, and  the fact

acknowledged  that you  have nothing to

pay; give up all attempts at compounding

with  your  Creditor. Your   debt is ten

thousand  talents, and your assets nothing,

then there is free forgiveness. "

   " But the receipt, what's that ?"



   "Well, 'Christ Jesus came into the

 world to save sinners. ' He undertook to

 pay the penalty; He endured the wrath;

 He died the death, and He sustained the

 judgment you deserved. His blood, His

 death, was what paid the debt, but God

 raised Him from  the dead, declaring to all

 that He, the Creditor, was satisfied with

 the work of His Son, and He took Him up

 to heaven, and gave him  a place at His

 right hand. This is really

   THE RECEIPT-JESUS RISEN,



 Jesus  risen and ascended, and  seated at

 God's right hand. But  the Holy  Spirit

 has come down, and declared God's satis-

 faction in the work of Christ, and caused

  it to be written in this Book (the New

  Testament, ) so that this may answer to

  a written receipt, which any poor sinner, who

  owns to God his condition and helplessness,

  may hold in his hand, and have the blessed

  sense of security which it alone can give:

  and it cannot lie, nor can it change. "

    This he seized upon with the avidity of

  a soul who needed it, as a drowning man

  clutches the life-buoy thrown to him, and

  he was at peace.

    Thinking  over  it afterwards, my fears

  were  aroused lest he had too easily entered

   into peace, so on the next visit 1 thought I

  would test him. He was reminded  of his

   sins and past life, of the inflexible holiness

   of God, whose purity could not be sullied

   by sin, of the impossibility of a sinner in

   his sins  ever finding  a  standing-place

   before this holy God, and of the hell that

   awaits all such.

     Quiet  attention and  recognition of the

   truth of the statements made   gradually

   gave way  to a nervous excitement as he

   saw his reality was questioned, and raising

himself up on his left elbow, with his right

forefinger he touched several times the

New  Testament which lay unopened upon

my knee, and said, "Well, I can't read,

but if you read in that book, you'll find that



'JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR SINNERS, '

and fell back again upon his bed.



  Happy  Sam, he had got the receipt, and

 he clutched it steadily to the end, which

 was not long now.



   His farm and prosperity were left. He

 had worked  hard for it of late years, but

 now  he had become entitled to blessings of

 another character, that he had not wrought

 for, and shortly he was  divested of that

  which made care for the oue necessary, and

  entered more fully into the other, though

  he awaits yet the full enjoyment of those

  spiritual blessings that were  made  his,

  feeble believer as he was, in common with

  all who rest on Christ for salvation.



    His funeral in the bush cemetery was

  romantic. The  horses of the cavalcade

  that followed the body, composed of the

  farmers and settlers for miles up and down

  the river, were "hung"on the post-and-rail

  fence of the cemetery, or to the gum trees

  hat grew within and without, and the men

  stood around as we committed his body to

  the grave; stalwart and strong they were,

   though with traces of hardship and endu-

   rance that mark ordinarily the conquerors

   of the  soil in new  countries, and with

   marks also of that sympathy that knits

   men's hearts together who  have shared

   common  dangers and won common victories.

   Some  that stood around that grave had

   found the peace S. B. had so recently found;

   others knew it not. Some have passed off

   the scene, while others still remain. The

   day will declare how many  really trusted

   Christ for salvation.



     And you, my reader, have you made the

   receipt your own ? This is faith's work.

     The  value is in the blood.

                                     G. J. S.

                      GOOD NEWS.

     (TO THE CHILDREN. )



 QUEEN VICTORIA'S GIFT,

ONE  fine afternoon, in the height of

 the London season, a few years

ago when  Regent  Street was

 crowded with carriages and foot

passengers, a sharp, piercing cry from  a

child's voice rose suddenly above the noise

of rolling wheels and prancing horses, and

arrested everybody's attention.

  Immediately  a gentleman, fashionably

dressed, was seen to dart from the side walk

into the centre of the roadway, where the

current of traffic was at its thickest. Right

in front of oue of the carriages, apparently

under  the very hoofs  of the horses, he

stooped down, snatched up  the prostrate

body  of a ragged little lad, and, with his

burden, regained once more the side-walk.

   The crowd, which had held its breath for

 a second of suspense, burst into an expression

 of admiration. It was then seen that the

 gallant rescuer was uninjured. But it was

 otherwise with the boy, who lay limp and

 helpless in the firm but tender grasp of his

 deliverer. The latter—a man of distinguished

 bearing—hailed  a hansom   cab, and, still

 retaining hold of his insensible burden, got

 inside, and directed the cabman to drive

 with all speed to St. Thomas's Hospital.

   The  child regained  consciousness soon

 after his arrival at the  hospital, and  his

 rescuer had the pleasure of hearing that he

 had  not sustained any very serious injury.

 Lingering for a few moments at the bedside,

 the gentleman began to talk with the boy,

  who was clad in rags, barefooted, and looked

  as if he had suffered from privation.

    " what  is your name?    asked the

  gentleman.

    "Jim, sir. "

   "Jim what?"

    "Jim  Nothing, sir: "

   " You must have a name?"

    "Never  heard ou it, sir. "

    " Have you a father and mother?"

     " Please, sir, I ain't had no father nor

  mother these five years. "

     Then, little by  little, the boy told  a

  touching story of early orphanhood, and of

                      GOOD NEWS.

God  our Father  in predestinating to the

adoption of children by  Jesus  Christ to

Himself each  of those who  have  been

saved by Christ, and who henceforth receive

"the Spirit of adoption, " whereby they cry

"Abba Father. "  Not only does He do this

but  he  cares for each  child of His  all

through his life here on earth, providing for

his daily needs, and never letting him want

 "any good thing. "

   How  gloriously does the blessed God

 "provide for the future " of His children,

 telling in His word of a beautiful home,

 prepared by Jesus, for them that love Him;

 a home where there shall be no more death,

 neither sorrow nor  crying; neither shall

 there be any more pain.

   Dear young reader, do you yet know Jesus

 as your Saviour, who loved you and gave

 Himself for you? The apostle John says,

 "Unto them which received Him, to them

 gave He power to become  the sons [or

 children], of God. " Oh, the joy, the rest of

 knowing God as our own loving Father !

   How Jim must have loved and prized his

 Bible, Queen Victoria's gift to him ! Jesus

 says. " I have given them Thy word. " Do

 you love the word of God ? for that is the

 groat mark of a true child of God-love

 for the Bible. God grant that it may prove

 a lamp to your feet and a light to your

 path.

                              M. S. S.

  OBEYING THE  GOSPEL.



HAVE   you  obeyed the gospel yet,

my reader ? Have you submitted

to the truth of God about you 1

 God says, "Sinner "is your name

Do  you own that this is true ?

   He declares you are without strength, and

ungodly. —(Rom.. 5-6. ) Do you acknowledge

this?                     '             '  

   Obeying the gospel is just simply taking

 the place which God gives me, and accepting

 His salvation; as that which I could never

 gain by works of my own.

   The  story is told of a deserter who was

 making  application for pardon during the

 jubilee year. He  was about  to relate the

 circumstances under which  he had  with-

 drawn, when he was stopped by the question,

 " Are you a deserter ?" Again he sought to

 tell the details of his escape, but again was

 asked, "Are  you; a deserter?" when he at

 last answered, "Yes. "  "Fill up this paper

 then" was now the command. This being

 done, and  thus a  confession of his crime

 being made, a full, free pardon in the Queen's

 name was handed to him. No longer need

  ho seek to escape from the eyes of his old

  comrades, or from the authorities. All was

  settled now. All was clear. His guilt was

  known: nothing remained to come out: and

  the highest authority in the realm had pro-

• nounced him free.

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