Father Damien : a journey from Cashmere to his home in Hawaii / by Edward Clifford.

  • Edward Clifford
Date:
1889
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Father Damien : a journey from Cashmere to his home in Hawaii / by Edward Clifford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    get them just on our favourite pattern. None of them are precisely like our grandmothers or our favourite clergymen. Lord Shaftes- bury was a party man, General Gordon was unorthodox about everlasting punishment, and Father Damien was a Roman Catholic. When I was a little boy I thought that all Roman Catholics were wicked, and went steadily to hell. If I saw a nun I thought she wanted to catch me and burn me. The glaring redness of Bloody Mary was un- relieved by any quieter colour. As I grew older I found I had been mis- taken. I read Charles Kingsley’s Hermits, and the lives of St. Francis and St. Catherine of Sienna. I read Zhomas a Kempis, and | found that the Church of Rome had un- doubtedly produced saints. A revulsion of feeling often sets in when
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