BOY AND MAN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 24, 14 June 1890, Page 19

BOY AND MAN.

T attooed Maoris make pilgrimages to Lichfield Cathedral that they max kneel before tne tomb of the first bishop or New Zealand”. George Augustas Selwyn. <»ne day an old New Zealand chief, with grotesquely marked race. knelt beade the beautiful alabaster effigy ot the bishop, and while tears fell from his eyes as he recalled the different features of the o«Kid missionary, said. • That was his very eiun. taat was bis forehead, and those were the very nails that I _saw him bite in his nervousness, when he eould not get tne right Maori word in his first sermon. ’ Tne Maori chief was drawn to that tomb by trie same feeling which impelled hard-handed workmen an*i poor, -.filing women to lift tearful eyes as the bishop s remains were borne to the grave. and_say. • He was a good man. ■ Under every human skin God has planted a numan heart : go and find it.’ He often used these words, and they rale,! his life. They sent him among the tribes ot New Zealand ani the Melanesian. Isles. _ When he was cadei -ark to England to become Bishop of Lichfield, these words We him seek rhe pauper in the work-house, the prisoner in the jail, the collier in the pit. and the bargeman on the •ranaL He was mastered by the conviction that, as the servant of One Who had given him work to do. it was his doxv to seek oal the human heart which «.k»i had piaaxe-i under everv human skin. _ A.t Eton'he was the best boy on the nver. amt nearly the first boy in learning. He was the greatest diver of the ~ch*>iL its best swimmer and oar-man. and its most generous pupil, one who always took the labouring oar. L In those davs athletics were not scientific. The Eton Kars were elumsv. and the car- clumsier. To the boat in which Selwyn rowed there were seven oars not very good, and one superlatively bad. The boys use*l to run up to the boat-keeper's. where"the oars were, and seize upon tire seven moderately bad oars. leaving the • punt-pole to the last romer. Of coarse he was sulky : the seven boys abused him for not palling, and every one was out of temper. George Selwyn determine! always to come last at tne ■-at-keeper’s. "He always pulled the ' pant-pole. and the ■other boys chaffed him. . ■ It’s worth mv while taking that tad oar.’ he said, with a laugh. ‘ I used to have to pull the weight of the sulky fellow who had it: now you are all in good humour. At Cambridge University he was the leader in athletics, and an enthusiastic advocate of rowing. When he beame a bishop, his adviee to young men was, • be temperate in all things. Bend to your ears.' ■ The law cares nothing for trifles, says a legal maxim : but the Master cared when on e**rth. for. having restore*! to life Jairus’s little daughter. He ' commanded that something should be given her to eat.' , . , Ueorge Selwyn showed a similar thougntftnness about trifles. While lie was eurate of Windsor. l->ng before the days of e»»king schools, he established a parish kitchen for the relief of the siek poor, and for the education of the children in the art of cooking. • I contend.’ he said. ■ that every poor person when sick ought to be ministered to in the same way as the highest in the Land. ’ ' *nce when on a tour of inspection as bishop of New Zealand. he found a lad of eighteen years, who had eome.out with him from England, siek unto death. He sh*>we*i his regar*! for trifles by nursing the boy. pounding chicken into powder that it might pass in a liquid form into his ulcerated mouth, making jellies, watching all night, and. doing everything that a trained female nurse would have *ione. When he rested from hi- lal»>urs. a poet -truck the keynote of the noble life in these lines a»ldresse»i to the bishop - widow : • Oh. widowed partner of bis toil. Take comfort that his every hour.— With men. in books, on wave or seiL— Budded its hundred-fruitful flower. A Yankee globe trotter, met by a compatriot in Italy, was asked if he had come there by way of the Alps. ' Wai.’ he replied me*iitarively. * now you "come to talk of it I walclate I *iid pass some ri-in’ ground.’