The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-11-04
AMERICAN NUNS ON
ISLAND OF MOLOKAI
Continued from Page /.

After the lunch, which was served at the resi-
dence of the superintendent, came an inspection of
the Bishop Home for girls and the Baldwin Home
for boys and men. These two institutions are
monument to the generosity of two prominent citi-
zens of Hawaii, whose names they bear-the Hon.
G. r. Bishop and Senator II. l. Baldwin. They
are supported by the territorial government, and
IN charge the former of the Franciscan Sisters,
and the latter of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart.
All honor to these brave and noby unselfsh
men and women-American women--for they are
truly heroes and herones all, who are giving their
lives and always facing peril worse than death
itself for the sake of host of miserable unfortu-
mates who are not even of their
Bishop Home.
The visitors were received at the door of the
main building by the Mother Superior, who con-
Quoted them through the sixteen or seventeen build
ings included Ill the institution which she pre-
sided. With bare heads and without exception with
eyes full OF tears, passed from building to build
ing, from to room, deeply moved by the scenes
Witnessed, proud OF the American womanhood that
can give the world such heroines ashamed that such
a visit was needed to make us acquainted with tl;er
work, their abnegation, their heroism. Well bred
and well educated ladies of refinement, and, per-
haps, wealth. they are here for life, from choice.
voluntarily the service of the spiritual and tenn
poral betterment of the most unfortunate of the hui
man family The world ought to know their names:
these ought to be enshrined in the hearts of all
fellow citizens. But they never viii be- for
when the good Sisters abandoned the world and
exiled themselves OH Moloka far from home and
loved ones, they left their names behind
The Bishop Home having been thoroughly ex-
plored meeting was held in the hall which serves
as theatre and meeting room to the inmates of the
institution. The meeting was presided over by Sen
ator Dowsett, chairman of the senate health COM
nlftee, who paid glowing and eloquent tribute to
the devotion and heroism of the Brothers and Sis
tiers in Molokai. The inmates sung English and
Hawaiian selections with a perfection hardly
credible.
Death Seems Happy Release.
During one of the few moments the writer was
able to pass in company with the Mother Superior
he foolishly remarked that III of the bad cases
it would be mercy to put end to such a hope
less and miserable life The eper who called forth
this remark was Chinese whom no stretch of
imagination could dignity with the name of man.
His right eye affected by the disease his nose
cut in two his mouth and RICH jaw entirely
gone Both hands had been eaten up by the dis
ease. In order to keep HIM alive a Sister is com
PEELED to place with her hands the food in an
aperture which is supposed to be his mouth be-
leve then that death would be a mercy for any
man in position like his; that person who should
help to bring about his death would perform meri-
torius act Here IS what the Sister said in answer
TO the suggestion:
God gveth life; He will take it away in His
own good time. Ii the meantime it is our duty to
make life as pleasant and as comfortable as pos
sible for those of our fellow creatures whom God
has chosen to affct with this terrible disease"
An American Brother.
The Baldwin Home is in charge of the Brothers
of the Sacred Heart. They are from France and
Belgium, but Christian heroes they belong to
the world. The moving spirit of this institution,
however, is Observation-Disclosures Dutton He was
a co-worker with Father Damien, and has been at
the settlement twenty-five years. Here also
they have a brass band entirely composed of lepers
l listened to the music of this and of the
Catholic Mission band. Every member thereof. in
cludiBg Brother Serapion their teacher is leper;
some haze lost a number of their fingers; some