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Show ANOTHER FATHER DAMIEN. Death of Heroic Priest Who Devoted His Life to the lepers of Dutch Guiana. The faith and self -sacrifice that made aFther Daniicn a martyr did not die with him. The Church which fostered his heroic self-abnegation fosters the same spirit in others, and in edifying contrast to the dread of leprosy which recently drove one poor wretch from one state to another to die in a lonely mountain hut is the record of the life and death of Father Lemmens, who has just ended his career of sacrifice in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. Born at Maestricht, Holland, on July 28, 1S50, Father Lemmens entered the Dutch army as an officer of-ficer at an early period of his life. In that capacity capac-ity he went to Surinam, Dutch Guiana, in 1878. Four years later he abandoned the military life at the age of . thirty-two, exchanging the uniform of a military officer for the habit of a Redemptorist missionary. In 1886 he was ordained a priest and immediately devoted himself to the work of attending attend-ing to the spiritual, as Avell as the physical well being of a community of lepers. There could be only one result of this devotion. - The anticipated took place. . Father Lemmens, like Father Damien, was stricken with leprosy. He thereupon voluntarily voluntar-ily isolated himself and became the chaplain to a hospital for lepers in Paramaribo, the capital of Dutch Guiana. There, cut off from all society except that of lepers, he labored patiently and cheerfully until his death. - Truly, as the Xew York Freeman's Journal comments, this is a story that cannot be duplicated outside of the Catholic Church. The secret of a happy life does not lie in the means and opportunities ol)mdulging our weaknesses, weak-nesses, but in knowing how tVbe content with what is reasonable, that time andjstrength may remain for the cultivation of our luble nature. ' |