[New Zealand] The Conversion of the Maoris, 1899 Presbyterian Missions

MacDougall, Donald. The Conversion of the Maoris. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work, 1899. First Edition. [11417]

Green cloth, a bit soiled, spine with white call number at base and sometime varnished, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. Small offset of glue from the frontispiece to the title page in bottom margin. ix, [1], 216 clean pp. with many b/w plates, tight. There is a small red ink accession no. on the front paste down, and pencil call numbers on the ffep, and we erased the pencil call numbers from the title page. No other library markings or matter. The black streak on the spine in the photo is a line of varnish, not a crack. Good. Hardcover.

"Proudly convinced, by what I have seen and learned while in New Zealand of the triumph of the gospel of Christ, in the conversion of the Maoris from cannibalism to Christianity, that it is a stronger and more cogent argument for the power of the gospel than any statement I have ever read in apologetic books; and also quickened by the hope that this brief story of the wonderful conversion of these cannibals may convince others of the living power of modern missions, and hasten the coming of our Lord, I now offer this book to all who long for the conversion of the world." - Preface.

Thirteen chapters, beginning with discovery, then customs, the horrors of cannibalism, legends and superstitions, government and war, the apostle of the Maoris - Samuel Marsden, tribal war, missionary leaders, the Methodist Mission, the Maori of today.