“I make no haste to baptise or I might have scores to report; I wish them to know what Christianity really is before they embrace it. The administration of the Rite does not confer the thing signified, though  it may be received with it. I urge them to believe that they receive the promise of the Spirit.”

– Wesleyan minister James Watkin on his pioneering work in the South Island

Fom the book “Bible & Treaty” by K. Newman page 163