Christian Heroism

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1880

Christian Heroism.

A sad interest attaches to the island of Molokai, one of the Sandwich Islands, midway between Maui and Oahu. It is the leper settlement, and to it all the victims of this terrible, loathsome, and incurable disease, unhappily so prevalent in the Hawaiian Archipelago, are sent to prevent the spread of the contagion. A French priest has nobly devoted himself to the religious and secular instruction of the lepers, and up to the present time has enjoyed complete immunity from the disease; but even if he escapes this danger, he can never return to his country and friends.—Mrs. Brassey’s “Voyage of the Sunbeam.”