THE DEATH OF FATHER DAMIEN.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, 6 July 1889, Page 3

THE DEATH OF FATHER DAMIEN.

Lr fofoionco to tbo dooth of Fathor J nunUo, lb* Hawatiaa Ghetto oa;t: ! -*y tbo —mar MokolUUat arrived fraa Ifolokd *Bu«dv y»r«togj now* jraa. brought of tbo doath of vyyjjr Wf* Bywf* 1 Dftadoa, tbo hSlifo iatrifea* hj« miniotnlinao 00002 tbo ■ml Ho ditd •« M<*4*r ■T^ I *' April U. F.ibor Duo*. I*4 boo. jFytar* io that UWaff KMftb, and thf*. yoortafo oontraoto* tba tottiblo Aoaooo loot boo aadod Mo iaya. Upoo bis dooth ho waa di»a»od »a arlsa'o wotmonto, otod tbo WkHrinf day tbo , body wmIoM fai »w|b> that tbo . Motor, bod Mood witb witto aft. A raooiom nigh bom wm toil oa Taao. ', day by Ftfte Waoiobo, wbOcooohoi oaopaoa oaarra R. ?i >■ * La '■■■'•■ ■'«K

k #*r> as* in •*jl i Sklfk**** °* paihett* ia iu statement *f thewriter's mtlemaa vaHaSda* the artfal*. Mr. gtoddart. wb* wrote ft* hook four or ■lflwjSttMttsaj* ir- .-■' ;.. " Bora-iu LMtvala. Belgium, January*, m*. .When he was batter. amMweate, UaUotW.who had just prWihood. was ordered fouegbamiaa, who was a theologies] •tad*** at the TJnirereiir, harisg re•*rMari*ordc*e,**d Ufeogfag to Um earn* ora>r~l** flrnhly of the Sawed Hearts of Jean* aad Maty teemmanly wallai Society of **£•>-« be might be Mot npoa the mtoilna la bis brotherYstoad. In oaa wash he wae cants way to that far eoarovy. He was efdslaw*. neon his arrival la Bonolale, aad for a few yaert lad ft* life of toil and privation which invariably tails to the tot of ft* Oeftolw miaaieaary •. "Iw l*7» be, la eoamwa wHh others of the deny, was hrritsd to bepeaaant stftedcdftaouof abaaatifil chapel toeeod • *ri*at fee Moiokri. tor the demand wa*fs»w*ko»ss of the supply Father Bsmlen atone* aaW:' Mr lord will aext we 4 take iattle from Kavmihae to. KaUopipar if 70a will peresit me I will co the** to beh/thel*a«t*suike their Easter duties.' -.* ■ ■ " His rtooest waa and. ia company with the' Bidis|haad the Pmuh Ooasal, he UmUd m the est. tlemrat, where he catoay of too Upar», of whom between fouraad five hundred were Qsdupite*. ?4iah» I* Itoettnff was imn.edi*telv raDed at wateh the Bishop aad Coasal presided. His Qraee tros* to addrfjH.tb* aiafnlargatheriof, aad aaMs *BSie* yon hat* written to me sooftea that yon hare no priest. I leave you on* for a time j* and, SmparMn* the bea*dictton, he hnsiedlatel.r to the veieeh was i*« sail thst.very hoar :PaftW r 9*aißa Sdd«d t.' As there ia maoh to be done here/by your leare I will not even aeoompany rou to ths ■bore.' Thue the good work was at one* begun. It was high time; the lepers were dying a* the rate of sight to twelv* per week. The .priest had not tine to build himself a hot—he had not even the material to build it—and for a sMtetm he slept in the open air. under a tree, exposed to the wind and rain. " Soon after he rewired a letter of | ooagTatnlation from the white reaidente of-Honolulu—chirfty protostaats —together with aome Inmber and a Curse of 130 dollars. Then he put up is little houst and began to feel at home. After remaining some wseks at Kalawao, hs was obliged to go to Honolulu, there bring 110 more* convenient priest to whom he wuld make hia oonfemou." The sketch proceeds to relate the 0001 reception Father Damlen reooived from the President of the Board of Health, who is fteeogßmof an intervtow said tb* jwtoM ajtjß ge to MokW avast iemarn f th*re_ - thai ft* Father arged the aesassity of . one prim* aatiat to make oonfesskm at rtatodla% islitoanefttr. "Anamineat pajaiuisn." ewe of the boara, pleaded ft* eaose of the priest, aad, pitted by the French Gonad!, a special aernrit was obtained, on which Father Damiea teterned to Kalawao. Mt. Stoddsrtountinue*:— whs** and that on any fla l>ff tfcft Tlriasstt ufeat tfiswJHlVw JL> samVaVasUUt ttN*M*M**mK BUflasW