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Show DUTY TO GOD AND MAN. I An AlhUtlo rrelste Wlio Df dlntd to HL1-Ur HL1-Ur Itolilud lh Cloth. Tho Into RisUop Sol wyn, of Now Zealand Zea-land and Melanesia, was well known during his univerblty days fit Oxford ns a devoteo of the noblo art of self-I self-I defense, says tho Washington JCrws. i He incurred a great deal of anlmoBlty I from a certain section In New Zealand, owinff to his sympathy with tho Maoris during tho w or. One day ho wns nsked I by n rough In ono of tho bnck street I of Auckland If he was the "Utkhopwho I backed up tho Maoris." Receiving n reply In the afllrmatlvo, the rough, with I a "taku thnt, thenl" klruck his lordship I In the face. I vMy friend," said tho bishop, "roy I Piute' teaches mo thnt If a roan smite I thee on ono cheek turn him the other," nnd ho turned his head tho other wtty. Tit. ..filln.it Bllrtlltlir ItAwllrlftrAil. till HD9UIIUUI, H,,..aj iv ---. struck him again. "Now," said his lordship, "having dono my duty to God, I will do my duty to man,'" nnd. taking off his coat and unt, ho pavo the anti-Maori champion u most sclontlfia thrashing. On another occasion hp was going down the river Walkato with a Maori, when tho latter, who was very lazy, left off pnddlinff tho canoe, atthosamo time muttterlng that If Selwyn were not a bishop ho would well, "go for him " In n moment the bishop told i tho man to turn tho canoe abhoro, where, stripping himself of everything episcopal, ho said, pointing to the robes, etc.; "The bishop lies there; the man is hero. I am quite ready, come on," Tho Maori did not "como on," however, how-ever, but quietly resumed his, work without nnother murmur. V3. ' |