He began marketing The Bible Echo and Signs of the Times (Australia/New Zealand version), two religious papers of the church.
His truth was soon accepted by Edward Hare and his wife, who ran the boarding house in which he stayed.
His success caused the Seventh-day Adventist church in America to send Arthur G. Daniells, an evangelist and former teacher, to further the work.
Daniells' preaching soon paved way for the first Seventh-day Adventist church in New Zealand was opened in Ponsonby (a suburb of Auckland), on 15 October 1887.
The union operates six educational facilities in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands between elementary and secondary school level.