A NATIVE SCHOOL. 
CHAPTER XX. 
CHURCH. 
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The Church in New Zealand ! This must be a subject of 
the deepest interest to the Church at home, by whose instru¬ 
mentality it has been planted. What is its present state ? 
What are its hopes and prospects for the future ? Its position 
is both encouraging and discouraging; much has been done, 
but much also remains to be done, to secure the New Zealand 
race as a permanent part of the Church Universal, and to blend 
it with our own in one harmonious whole. 
The Gospel has been proclaimed in the length and breadth 
of the land—the religion of ancient days has given way; the 
deeply-rooted institutions of remote times, which once held 
absolute sway over the native mind, have been torn up and 
cast aside. 
