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Wasn't All Bishop

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
May
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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The la P S Lwyn ol New la was well fcnown during hte universlty days m ■votee of the noble art o; eel? deicii.-c. He incurred a great deal of antmoalty from a certain section of New Zcland, owiug to his Bympathy witb the MaorJea during tlic war. One day he was asked by a rough in oiie of the back bréete of Auckland if he was the "btehop who backed up i'ne Maoriea." Eeceivln a reply u the afiirmative the rough, with a "Tak that, then !" i-truck his lordBhdp m the face." "My friend," sald the bishop, "my Blble teache toe tha4 ia manemite the' on ooe ehook, turn him the other," anü he turned head Bllghtly the other way. His aeeailant sllgh.tly bewlldered, struck him again. "Now," said lus Lordshlp, -'Iiavintv done niy duty to Gud, I will do my duty to man," and, taking oH hla .-, ml bat, be gava the anÜ-Maori champkra a mosi Bciemtillc trashün aiiüther occasion he w:is going down the Elver Waikato wlth a Mao:-!. W-hem The lal Ier, whO was very l.-izy, left off paddling the eanoe, a1 thfl Bame time muttcring that ii 8elwyn were not a bishop lio -woiild - wèll, "go 'for him." In a moment the bishop told the man to turn the canoe ashore, where, Btrlpplng hiinBelf of eveiyihiii'j; eptecopel, he said, pointini; to bis robes, !(■.: "The bishop lies there ; the man is hiere. I am ciuite ready ; come on." Iht' Maori did not "come on,"' however, but quietly reaamed his work

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier