The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-02-08
GOING TO M0l0KAl.
\ Young English Girls Mission. {.
she Has studied Under Pasteur
and Hopes TO Relieve utfering.

New York, January 30.--Among
the passengers on the Cunard steam
ship Bothnia, which arrived to-day,
was Sister Rose Gertrude. She is
ON her way to the island of Molokai,
the Hawaiian lcper settlement, to
which natives afflicted with the dread
disease, are sent for life. Sister
Rose Gertrude was at one time Amy
Fowler. She was born about 80 years
ago in Bath, England. where she
was reared and educated. Her
parents are wealthy.
Miss Fowler decided tn take the
veil and joined the Order of st.
Dominic. After several years Of
usefulness to her fellow beings, news
came from across the ocean that
Father Damien was dead. His de-
votlon to the lepers of Molokai was
the sole topic of conversation among
the women who labored daily under
Sister Gertrude's leadership. She
finally decided to master all of
rasteur's ideas concerning lcprosy
and then go to the island of Molo-
kai and devote the rest OF her life
to the lepers.
There are few persons who have
ever left their homes and gone to
the island. Everybody to whom
Miss Fowler spoke tried to persuade
her not to go. With remarkable
courage she looks .forward 10 her
work on the disease-stricken island
with pleasure. She knows that she
cannot live more than ten years.
Miss Fowler was seen in her state
room on the Bothnia. She is neat
little woman, about five feet two in
chcs tall, and is very slender. Her
face is kindly, if not pretty. The
features are regular and small, but
we'll formed, and denote great deter.
mination. She was dressed entirely
in black, but not IN nuns clothing.
There were a Number of promi-
nent Catholic laymen at the dock to
meet her, and one young gentleman
went down the bay to look after her
luggage and personal comfort.
~ expect to get to MOlokai about
the middle of February" the sister
.ad. ~ shall try bichloridc of
mercury and other antiseptics in
treating the lepers, To see if this
course Of treatment will do them
any good, Then, good friends OF
mine have loaded me down with llt-
lie gifts for The lepers.
AFTER l am there Il short time l
propose 10 buy piano out of the
money allowed me by the Hawaiian
Government, and shall try to bright
EN- the lepers' lives by singing and
music. think that this will be a
godsend TO those afflicted people. ]
am in Gods charge. l propose to
do everything that human hands can
90 for the alleviatlon of the lcpers'
sufierings, and l lock forward with
interest to the beginning of my new
labors in Gods vineyard.
"With parental solcitude, my
father and mother at first tried tC
persuade me TO abandon my mission,
hut when they saw that considered
it q voice from God they no longer
opposed my wishes. left with the
bcnediction of Cardinal Manning
who said, Il would not, could not,
prevent You from following tho voice
which calls to you.
MY going has interested n great
many people in the lcpcr colony
and Just as ] got on the steamer nj
Liverpool / received u message OF
godspccd and good wishes from the
Prince of Wales, who is taking
great interest in my mission. | have
said good-by to the world, my par
ents, sisters and brothers and friends.
Perhaps, however, we may meet