232 PORTIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE, 
to August 1833. On my return, being favoured 
with a prosperous voyage of eight days, I arrived 
in the Bay of Islands, bringing with me, as the 
most valuable cargo that ever reached the shores 
of New Zealand, the above-mentioned books, of 
which 1800 copies were printed. I was much 
assisted, in correcting the press, by Edward Parry 
Hongi, a native youth of pleasing manners ; whose 
conduct was such, as to gain the esteem and love 
of those who knew him. 
Tlie Liturgy of the Church of England, as trans- 
lated into the langunge of New Zealand, has been, 
next to the preaching of the Gospel and the use 
of the Holy Scriptures, one of the most efficacious 
means of Christian instruction. It is so simple, 
expresses so well the wants, both temporal and 
spiritual, of the people — and, like the Bible, from 
whence a large part of it is derived, it so exactly 
meets every case — that it comes home to the 
experience, the heart, and the conscience ; tends 
to awaken the unconverted ; and is a source 
of comfort and consolation to the distressed 
sinner under his convictions, while the more 
advanced are edified by the spirituality of its 
petitions. My mind is more than ever con- 
vinced, from my Ministerial experience in New 
Zealand, of the essential value of a Liturgical 
Service, to a people so uneducated, so unused to 
prayer, as the New Zealanders. The introduction 
of this incomparable form of sound words 
among them might be noticed by a great variety 
