Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-09-03
FAIR NEW ZEALAND.
VISITED BY DR.. TALMAGE IN HIS TRIP
sROUND THE WORLD.

Some ofthe Many Pleasing Surprises-Suc-
cess of Woman Suffrage-A Bishops Ex-
PLANTATION of a Famous 'e8lunder"-Grand
Reception to the Brooklyn Divine.
copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1894.
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, July 20.-
The angels of night were descending
from the evening skies and ascending
from the waves Of the Pacific and rid
ing down in black chariot of shadow
from the mountains of New Zealand as
we approached the harbor of Auckland,
and the lighthouse on the rocks held up
its great torch to keep US off the reefs
and to show us the way to safe wharf
age, seeming to say: "Yonder is path
of waves! Ride into peacel Accept the
welcome of this island''
1t was half past o'clock when the
great screw of our steamer ceased to
swirl the waters, and the gangplank
was lowered, and we descended to the
firm land, our name called as we heard
it spoken by a multitude who were
there to greet us. Strange sensation was
it 10, 900 miles from home to hear our
name pronounced by those whose faces
we had never seen before, and whose
faces could be only dimly seen now by
the lanterns on the docks and the lights
of our ship, just allied after long
voyage. What made the night more
memorable was that was suddenly in
formed at o'clock [ was to lecture in
l~o1 cl,o
time to allow poor sailor like myself
to get physical and mental equipoise aft
er 81 days pitching. But at s o'clock I
was ready and confronted throng of
people cordial and genial as any one
ever saluted from platform or pulpit.
I told how for many days had been
looking off on a great ocean of ipecac,
but that / had not wanted, as many say
under such circumstances, to be thrown
overheard, and that did not think any
one ever did want to be thrown over
board, and reminded them of the seasick
voyager who said he wished to be
thrown into the sea, and the captain had
sailor dash on him a pailful of cold
ocean water,, and when the soaked and
shivering msh protested and asked the
suit the captain replied, "You wanted
to be thrown overheard, and [ thought
I would let you try how you liked
bucket of the water before you took the
whole ocean.
Never SO glad were we to stand on
firm land as the night of our arrival at
Auckland. .Wondrous New Zealand!
Few people realize how it was discover
ed. They tell us of Captain Cook and of
Dutch navigators, but all the islands Of
the South sea as well as this immense
New Zealand were discovered as a result
Of the effort to watch the transit Of
Venus over the suns disk from the
South seas The Royal society sent out
ships for this purpose, and Captain Cook
and the astronomers and botanists who
accompanied him on his voyage were
only the agents Of science. How the in
terests of this world are linked with the
behavior OF other worlds, and how the
fact mentioned suggests that most of the
valuable things known i'll this world
have been found out while looking for
something else, and what sublimity all
this gives to the work of the explorer,
the transit Of Venus an island of light,
resulting in the transit of many islands
from the unknown into the we'll known.
But the prowess of such men can never
be fully appreciated. The sea captain
who puts oat i'll this day of charts and
navigating apparatus with a ship Of 1O,-
900 tons for another hemisphere, daring
typhOOns and cyclones, strange currents
and hidden rocks, must be brave man.
but who can measure the courage of
Cabot or Marco Polo or Captain Cook
sailing out into unknown seas, across
wildernesses of water that have never
been mapped, in ships of 300 tons, dis
covering rocks only by running upon
them and met on shore by savages ready
to scalp or roast theml
These challengers of tempest and cam
nibaIism and oceanic horror must have
had nerve and valor beyond that Of any
other heroes. Such men set New Zea-
land as q gem into the crown Of the
worlds geography. To me and to most
people who come here New Zealand is q
splendid surprise. We have all read SO
much about the superstitions and out
rageous cruelty of this land in other
times that we are startled on arriving
here to find more churches in New Zea-
land than i'll America in proportion to the
Of the population. In one village
that l visited since coming here I find
eight churches to a population Of 3, 900
people. There are too many churches in
many places in New Zealand, and they
jostle each other and contend for right
Of possession, hindering each other and
half starving many Of their ministers,
as is sure to be the case when there are
too many churches, and consequently
not enough support for every one of
them.
Another surprise to me is that feI lale
suffrage is in full blast. I found elegant
ladies telling of their experience at the