Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-07

years, Brother Tietz, for four years, Brother Fritsch, for three years, Brother Lehman, and their respective wives, devoted them selves to their self denying and repulsive las bors, caring both for the bodily and spiritual needs of the lepers. In 1s46 the govern ment removed the establishment to Robben
 Island, near the entrance to Table Bay, sev-
 en miles from Cape Town, and at the earneat
 request of the lepers our missionaries were
 finally permitted to accompany them. From
 this time until 1867, when the colonial gov
 ernment appointed chaplain of the Eng
 fish church, our brethren minlstered unto
 them in spiritual things, Brother Lehman
 being succeeded by Brother Stolze for four
 years, and the Brethren Wedeman and Kus-
 ter, each for eight years, while from 1881 to
 his being called homo to eternal rest, on May 27th, 1866, Brother John Taylor devoted
 himself to the schools. But when this door
 of usefulness was closed another was opened,
 and that at Jerusalem, in Palestine; and
 Brother and Sister Tappe, who had been missionaries to the Esquimau1 in Labrador for thirteen years, arrived at Jerusalem on May 21st, 1887, and took charge of the work. Long and faithfully they worked, as- sisted by deaconesses from our church tnsti- tutions at Gnadenfeld and Niesky, until ad- vancing years and physical inhrmity oom- pelled them to retire in May, 1884. Since that time Brother E. Muller, who had been
  has had full charge of the work. A note- worthy fact in connection with this mission l is that which occurred in 1887. An entire break down in the health of the nurses and other seemingly adverse circumstances, led the directing board of ths church to call for volunteers iR this arduous and self denying service, and the appeal was at once answered by offers from ten German and two English sisters Three of these volunteers were gratefully selected, and at once started on their errand of mercy, reaching Jerusalem in time to be present at the dedioatory ser vices of the new Leper Home, built in vineyard on an eminence which commands the highway from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, at a short distance from the oity gates. As far as we are informed, none of our mission- aries ever contracted the dread disease, but none the less heroic is 1t to bear tue heavy cross, which the daily care of lepers in every stage of loathsome and incurable disease must impose"
 In 1874 Mir. w. 0. Bailey, missionary of the Church of Scotland, in conjunction with several Dublin friends, began work in behalf of the one hundred and thirty-hve thousand lepers of India. The society which he es- ! tablished seeks to operate as an auxiliary to existing missionary agencies. It makes grants for the building of leper asylums, and in many instances provides for the support of lepers, but it's principal work is that of furnishing missionaries of the various eocie- ! ties with the means for such special work as they may feel disposed to undertake among ! the afflicted class Suoh work is now car | ried on at eighteen different points through out India in connection with the Church | Missionary society, the London Missionary | society, the Church of Scotland Foreign Missionary committee, the Wesleyan Mission, ! the Baptist Missionary society, Gossners | Evangelical Mission, the American Presbyte- ! rian Mission and the American Baptist Mis- 1 sionary union. In letter to the Christian | Leader of Glasgow, dated July 18th, 1889, MT. Bailey makes an appeal for 8 new dss psrtment of his work, that of resening the untainted children of lepsrs. He says:
 "We are hoping to open many homes for these little ones if the Lord will. It takes
 about fifty pounds to build small home and four pounds supports child" He quotes the following from letter from the Rev. J. J. LUCAS, of Allahabad: "Tbere is no cure,
 and very little can be done even to relieve
 suffering. One of the saddest sights is to l see the little children of the lepers playing
 about all unconscious of the dreadful years
 coming on them. The parents come to the
 asylum with the children as 8 rule, and it is
 hard question to decide what to do with
 these children"
 Father Damien has passed to his reward.
 He has received crown whose lustre cannot
 fade away. All honor to his memory. Not
 ! to him alone, however, must our thoughts . | turn when we seek to instance cases of hero 3 ism and marvellous self-sacrifee, as evi denced by life devoted to the welfare, so- l 0ial and spiritual, of those terrible unfort1 ] ! mates who bear the losthsome name of lepers