The merging of the Church Missionary Intelligencer and the Church Missionary Record
First published in 1849 as the Church Missionary Intelligencer, the journal merged in 1876 with the monthly Church Missionary Record; detailing the proceedings of the Church Missionary Society,1830–1875, which for a brief period also included the Church Missionary Gleaner publication.
Find more Church newspapers and publications at Pūmotomoto.
Issues of The Intelligencer and Record consisted of leading articles, such as the example below, as well as records and reports of the Missions by regions. Occasionally lithographs or maps were used to illustrate the reports, as in these featured examples:
Death of a Veteran New Zealand Missionary
‘Another of the faithful band of self-denying men who laid the foundations of the Maori Christian Church half a century ago has gone to his rest. Mr George Clarke, whose death we have to now record, went out as a missionary schoolmaster in 1822. He laboured zealously for several years in that capacity and in 1839 was appointed by Captain Hobson, the first governor of the then infant British colony to the specially instituted office of Chief Protector of the Aborigines.’ – The Church Missionary Intelligencer and Record, February 1876 p.117 [BV2500CHU].
The beautiful lithograph ‘Wai Aniwaniwa appeared in the Church Missionary Intelligencer in 1850, with the accompanying text:
‘The waterfall in our engraving partly conceals a cave, where once, in the bygone days of New-Zealand savagery, a cannibal feast was perpetrated by the great chief Hongi. Three hundred Wanagaroa (sic) natives were here killed and eaten. The waterfalls like a beautiful veil over the gloomy face of the cave, as if to hide it from view.’ p.257
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