. Te Karere. able numbersduring the same year. The covenantsays further: This covenant is to beremembered by the generations whichfollow after US. And the fruits of thatwhich is set forth above (in the cove-nant) are—we are the lost sheep ofthe House of Israel. (We will learnof) the scepter of Judah; of Shilo;of the king of peace; of the day ofjudgment: of the kingdom of heaven:of the sacred church with a large wallsurrounding; of the increase of therace; of faith, love, peace, patience,judgment, unity. All of this plan (con-tained in the covenant) will be fulfilledby the people of Xgatikahung
. Te Karere. able numbersduring the same year. The covenantsays further: This covenant is to beremembered by the generations whichfollow after US. And the fruits of thatwhich is set forth above (in the cove-nant) are—we are the lost sheep ofthe House of Israel. (We will learnof) the scepter of Judah; of Shilo;of the king of peace; of the day ofjudgment: of the kingdom of heaven:of the sacred church with a large wallsurrounding; of the increase of therace; of faith, love, peace, patience,judgment, unity. All of this plan (con-tained in the covenant) will be fulfilledby the people of Xgatikahungunu Tribeduring the next forty years. Then fol-lows the date March 16, 1881. onwhich the covenant was written: andthe name of the scribe, RanginuiKingi. At the top of the covenant isdrawn in ink an all-seeing eye. alsoa drawing of the sun rising beyondthe ocean, indicating the east, fromwhich direction Potangaroa said themissionaries of the true Church wouldcome. The words in the covenant, the 366 TE KARERE. sacred Church with a large wall sur-rounding of which they would learn,are descriptive of Temple Square inSalt Lake City. The drawing of theall-seeing eye is also significant inthis respect. Missionaries had been doing workamong the people in New Zealandprior to 1881, but only, with one ortwo exceptions, among the was in 1881, the year Potangaroasaid the fullness would come, thatElder W. M. Bromley of Springville,Utah, arrived in New Zealand to pre-side over the mission, and he was toldbefore leaving home that the time hadcome to take the gospel to the Maoripeople. At the conclusion of the covenantit was set forth that all that was writ-ten would be fulfilled by the Ngatika-hungunu Tribe within the next fortyyears. Forty years from 1881 would be1921. During that period of years theonly Maori people who received all thecovenants of the fullness of the gospelcame from that one tribe. Thousandsbelonging to all native tribes of theMaori race had joined the Church
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