The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-04-09
BOY AND MAN,

Tattooed Maories make pilgrimages
to Litchtield cathedral that they may
kneel before the tomb of the first
bishop Of New Zealand, George Angus
tus Selwyn. One day an old New
Zealand chief, with grotesquely marked
face, knelt beside the alabaster effigy of
the bishop, and while tears fell from
his eyes as he recalled the different
features of the good missionary, said,
That was his very chin, that was his
forehead, and there were the very
nails that l saw him bite in his ner-
vousness, when he could not get the
right Maori word in his fist sermon"
The Maori chief was drawn to that
tomb by the same feeling which i'm
PEELED hard-handed workmen and
poor, toiling women to lift fearful eyes
as the bishops remains were borne to
the grave, and say, He was Il good
man.
Under every human skin God has
planted human heart; 60 and find it.
He often used these words, and they
the tribes of New Zealand and the
Melanesian Isles. When he was called
back to England to become bishop of
the pauper in the Work-house, the pris-
oner in the Jail, the collier in the pit
and the bargeman on the canal. He
was mastered by the conviction that,
as the servant of one who had given
him work to do, it was his duty to
seek out the human heart which God
had planted under every human skin.
At Eton he was the best boy on the
river, and nearly the first boy in learn
ing. He was the greatest diver of the
school, its best swimmer and oarsman.
and its most generous pupil, one who
always took the laboring oar.
In those days athletes were not scien-
titic. The Eton boats were clumsy
and the oars clumsier. To the boat in
which Selwyn rowed there were seven
oars not very good, and one superla-
lively bad. The boys used to run up
to the boat-keeper's where the oars
were, and seize upon the seven moder-
ately bad oars, leaving the ''punt-hole''
to the last conner OF course he was
sulky; the seven boys abused him for
not pulling, and every one was out of
temper.
George Selwyn determined always
to come last at the boat-keeper's. He
always pulled the ''punt-pole, and the
other boys chafed him.
'Its worth my while taking that
bad oar" he said, with Il laugh. Il
used to have to pull the weight of the
sulky fellow who had it; now you are
all in good humor.n
At Cambridge university he was the
leader in athletics, and an enthusiastic
advocate of rowing. When he became
a bishop his advice to young men was,
LBS temperate in all things. Bend to
your oars"
'The law cares nothing for trifes,''
says legal maxim; but the Master
cared when on earth, for, having re-
stored to life Jairus' little daughter
He commanded that something should
be given her to eat.
George Selwyn showed a similar
thoughtfulness about trihes While he
was curate of Windsor, long before
the days of cooking schools, he estab-
lished parish kitchen for the relief of
the sick poor and for the education of
the children in the art of cooking.''
Il CONTEND" he said, that every
poor person when sick ought to be
ministered to in the same Wav as the
highest in the land.''
Once when on a tour of inspection as
bishop of New Zealand, he found lad
OF eighteen years, who had come out
with him from England, sick unto
death. He showed his regard for
triflcs by nursing the boy, pounding
chicken into powder that it might pass
in Il liquid form into his liberated
mouth, making jellies, Watching all
night, and doing everything that a
trained female nurse would have done
When he rested from his lahors, a
poet struck the keynote OF the noble
life in these lines addressed to the
bishops widow: /
''Oh, widowed partner of his toll,
Take comfort that his every hour
With men, in books on wave or soil
Rudded Its hundred-fruitful fiower.''