Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

On tonight's episode of the bore you to sleep podcast, we're going to take a look at a book

that's written about a time in New Zealand. If you enjoy the podcast and if it helps you get to

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Tonight's story is called a history of the English church in New Zealand.

The book is quite old.

It's by H.T. Purchase, M.A.

We're going to get into it, and hopefully it's boring enough to make you feel a little sleepy.

We start tonight with the preface.

If I asked why I took in hand a task of such difficulty and delicacy as that of a

writing a history of the church in our dominion, I can really find no more truthful answer than

that of a schoolboy.

Please, sir, I couldn't help it.

From boyhood's days in the old country,

when a copy of the life of Marsden fell into my hands,

I felt drawn to the subject.

The rating of Salwyn's biography strengthened the attraction, the urging of friends in later years, combined with my own insulations, and thus the work was well

on its way when the general synod of 1913 committed it to my hands as a definite duty.

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