The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-18

| anime eHC0 from the point OF Wow Oh ltb
ite appositeness. and its charity
Damien was coarse.
the Iepe eH Who had only coarse Old S peasaEt
for their friend and father, But you. who were
70 W yS% nGs h9F r 10
mind you that we have some reason to doubt
II John the Baptist were genteel; and in the
dwell approvingiy in tho pulpit no doubt at all
that no was "coaIso headstrong, fisherman !
called Saint.
Damien was dirty
with this dirty comrade But the clean Dr.
Hyde was at his food in a flne house.
bSeve N you are rig6t again and thank
God Tor his strong head and heart
am not fond Of bigots myself because they
are not fond OF me-, But what is meant by big
otry, that we should regard It as beniish In q
priestp Damien believed his own religion with
could suppose that You do; For this wonder
only OF h'H character should have avoided him In
lie. But the point OF interest in Damien which
and made him at last the subject OF your pen
and mine, was that IN him. his bigotry, his
good and strengthened him TO 10 one Of the
worlds heroes and eXemplars.
Damien was not sent 10 MOtokdi, but uent there
Is this a misreadinG, or do you really mean
the words for blRmet have heard Christ. in
tom ON the sroTnd that Ills e sacrce ,o was VOL
untarv Does DIR. Hyde think otherwise
it is true lie was allowed many induieences.
Am TO understand that you blame the tnther
Tor proiting by these or the officers Tor grant
Spartan standard to issue from the house on
| Beretana street; and am convinced you will
find yourself with few supporters
Damien hodno hand ~ the reforms. DC.
Think even you will admit that have al
| ready been frank In my description Of the man
| am defending but before take you un upon
this head will be franker still, and tell you
fltt Inr n ~ n N Atsll
taste II more pleasurable sense ot contrast
than when lie, passes from Damicn's china
Home at kalampapa. At this point, in my de-
sire to make all lar for you, will break my
n passage from my, diary about my visit TO the
| Chinatown, from which you will see how 1t s
went roand al t by @ S Faas
| tories. @c.. dark and dingy enough. with
defend. 1t is almost decent said he. tho
Sisters will make that all right when we get
ready better since Damien was dead, and far
better thmn when he was there alone aud had
his own mot always excellent way. l have now
come lar, enough &c, meet YOU on common
ground OF tnct: and tell you that to II mind
the iazaretto, and even those which he most
vigorously opposed, are properly the work of
they are what his herosm provoked from the
reluctant and the CARELESS. Many were before
1hoss work We Ssr S S5 re-
have been many since; and some had more
worldly wisdom, though none had more devo-
! will couiess they had elected little. 1t was his
Part. by, one striking act OF martyrdom. to
try. At u blow. and with the price OF his lite.
he made the place iusriuus aud public. And
reform needtul; pregnant Of ali that should
sufreed bTGHgh ~ t sEro9ght best
public interest landed with the man at kala-
WAC. II ever any man brought reforms. and
died to bring them, it was he. There l. not a
clean cup or towel in the Bishop Home but
dirty Damien washed it.
Damien uaS not u pare man in his relations
How do you know that9 Is this the nature
OF the conversation In that house on Beretania
street. which the cabman envied. driving past
-racy details of the misconduct OF tho poor
peasant priest toiling under the cliffs OF Molo-
Many have visited the station before, me;
they seem not to have heard the rumor. When
l WAS there heard many shocking tales. for
Piainhsss d the IaIsy; and / GeaTd plenty sl Of
mentioned, and how came it TO you in the re-
tiremept of your clerical parlor?
not new e me. l had heard it once before; and |
NAM ss he IN eu6o hoSes
2! N he beach; Volunteered, tho statement
the female lepers;" ard l find a Joy in |
telling you, how the report was welcomed
III u pllpllC uOuSS. Ilhu bpTdnk 10 his Ieet,
what heard doubt Il you Would care to have ave-
MIN tS srqS s in %ord
not print t you'd SO shock your eaTs You
@ times es vo the
are u million tmes a lower = .for.daring to
repeat IT, lwish It could be told OF you that
perhaps after family worship, you had found in
your soul enough holy anger to receive 1t with
which | dare not print: IL would not need to
have been blotted away, Ike Uncle Toby oath;
righteousness- But You have de.lberatefy
you have played it With improVements Of your our
own. The man from HOnolulu-miserable.
ieering creature mnnlcated the tale to a
lie house. where / will so far agree with your
temperance opinions man Is not always at his
self been MISUNDERSTANDING, We may charita-
ply i"nSy otb to HHeefs 1t was your
that you chose to, communicate the sickening
story; o1 and It, the blue ribbon which adorns
extenuatinG plea that you we're drunk
when it was done. Your dear brother'-a
papers; where, after many months, l
found and read ana wondered at It; and whence
others. And YOU al d your dear brother have.
by this cycle OF operations. built up q contrast
very ediiyinE {, examine in detail. The man
whom you would not care to have 10 dinner, on
the, one side; on the other, the Rov. DR.. hyde
aud the Key. II. i. Gage: the Apia barroom
the Honolulu manse.
But fear YOU scarce appreciate how you ap-
pear to your fellow mon and to bring 1t homo
10 you. will suppose yonr story 10 be true.
Will suppose-and God forgive mo for suppos-
ing it-that Damien faltered and stumbled In
his narrow path Of duty: will suppose that.
IN the ,hOrrOr Of his isolation. perhaps in tho |
fever Of incipient disease, he who was doing !
20 much more than he hud sworn, Jailed in tho
letter OF his prestly oath-hc, whowaS 30 much
a better man than other you me- VINO did !
What We have never dreamed Of darlng-he
top tasted OF our common frailty. go. lago,
Inc pity OF IT," The least tender should be
moved To oars the most incredulOus to prayer.
ana al that YOU could do was 10 pen your let
ter 10 the Kew II. Il. Gage,
is IL growing at all clear to YOU. what a pic :
lure you nave d avn OF your own heart? will
Try vel once again to make II clearer You had
. lhther SUPPOSE this tale were about him.
hand; | nm not making too high an estimate
81 your emotional nature. whom suppose you
would regret the circumstance? that you
would i"ei tho tale OF frallty the more keenly
I'nce i shamed the author OF your days and