Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — DUTY TO GOD AND MAN. [ARTICLE]

DUTY TO GOD AND MAN.

An Athletic Prelate Who Declined to Shelter Behind the Cloth. The late Bishop Belwyn, of New Zealand and Melanesia, was well known during his university days at Oxford as a devotee of the noble art of self-de-fense, says thS Washington News. He Incurred a great deal of animosity from a certain section in New Zealand, owing to his sympathy with the Maoris during the war. One day he was asked by a rough in one of the back streets of Auckland if he was tho “bishop who backed up the Maoris.” Reoelving a reply tn the affirmative, the rough, with a "Take that, then!” struck his lordship In the face. “My iriend,” said the Bishop, “my Bible teaches me that if a man smite thee on one cheek, turn him the other,” and he turned his head the other way. His assailant, slightly bewildered, struck him again. “Now.” said his lordship, “having done my duty to God, I will do my duty toman,” and, taking off his coat and hat, he gave tho anti-Maori champion a most soientlfio thrashing. « On another occasion he was going down the river Waikato with a Maori, when the latter, who was very lazy, left off paddling the canoe, at the same time muttering that if Selwyn were not a bishop he would —well, "go for him.” In a moment the Bishop told the man to turn the canoo ashore, whero. stripping himself of everything episcopal, he said, pointing to his robos, eto.: “Tho Bishop lies thero; the man is here. lam quite ready, come on.” The Maori did not “come on,” however, but quietly resumed his work without another murmur.