Page "Parihaka" Paragraph 33

On 1 November Te Whiti prepared his people with a speech in which he warned: " The ark by which we are to be saved today is stout-heartedness, and flight is death ...

There is nothing about fighting today, but the glorification of God and peace on the land ... Let us wait for the end ; there is nothing else for us.

Let us abide calmly upon the land.

" He warned against armed defence: " If any man thinks of his gun or his horse and goes to fetch it, he will die by it.