A MODERN HERO.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5557, 27 July 1886, Page 3

A MODERN HERO.

We regret to hear that the Apostle of the Lepers of Molonai is beginning to pay the penalty of his heroism. Shut away from all civilized and healthy humanity, Father Damen has for years been a willI ing prisoner in the island, in which are collected and confined the lepers of all the neighbouring Sandwich group. For a long tirhev though cut off from the outward world, Father Damen continued in good health, though alone among the dead. But the stroke has fallen at last. In a letter written recently he says :— "Impossible for me to go any more to Honolulu, on account of the leprosy 1 breaking out on me. The microbes have finally settled themselves in my left ley and my ear, and one eyebrow begins to tall. I expect to have my face soon disfigured. Having no doubt myself of the true character of my disease, I feel calm, resigned, and happier among my people. Almighty God knows what is beßt for my sanctification, and with that conviction I say daily a good Fiat voluntas tua." Where is the heroism which will vie with this?— Tlie Tablet.

The Upper Thames natives have set apart a block of land as a donation for the Wairoa natives, whose worldly possessions suffered so severely by the late earthquake convulsions.

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