BUILDING OF CHURCHES. 
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to be done in the road to heaven, for the New 
Zealanders ever to think of going there.” 
Being on a visit to tlie people at Mawe, to 
converse with them concerning Baptism, and to 
examine some of the candidates, I could not but 
remark that they were extremely ignorant ; and 
yet some of them think themselves wise. There 
is much among the natives that is good; but very 
mucli that requires to be pruned, and lopped off. 
They have latterly taken to a method of speaking 
in parables ; and so, of speaking nonsense. Satan, 
we fear, will soon be busy with them in another 
way than he lias been wont to be ; and our dif- 
ficulties will increase, as a professing Church is 
raised in tliis land. 
Reference lias been made to the building of 
churches ; and as this is a point which evinces 
the progress of the Gospel, notice may be taken 
of one of tliese simple structures ; for simple they 
must needs be, at the present very early state of 
civilization. 
In tlie year 1834, they had erected, at Mawe, 
a large chapel, capable of holding from two to 
three hundred people. It is, as yet, in an un- 
finished state, but, for a native building, will be 
very neat. The roof-beam is painted red and 
white ; the principal rafters are of the same 
colour, and are carved at the ends ; the roof is 
covered in with rushes ; and the inner roof, or 
what may be called ceiling, is neatly platted with 
branches of the palm-tree : the sides are finished 
