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Show Takes Lonely Position church to nnolher on my motor bike," he sl (I. In relating his nil ventures, "and they colled me 'the Plying Fur-son.' Fur-son.' "One 1;iy native woman cnme running to me. her face streaming Souihainpioti, Kngluiid. An adven turous clergyman, Itev. Augustus I 'art tldge, has sailed from here for his new station In "the world's loneliest Island." Tristan da Cunhu. The dauntless padre bachelor already has suffered the perils and hardships of frontier posts In distant South African and Smith American llel ils. With his I'.lhle and "vest pocket' organ, as Inspiration and aids to tils labors. Mr. Partridge Is taking with him to Tristan a huue supply of rat poison. For rain nre the fiercest rrea hires In this lonely ocean oasis. The traveling preacher still on the sunny slile of middle age has h vigorous frame and trim figure. It was Just recently that he returned home to Loudon from his ministry In lirazll. I'.ut when he heard thai the chaplain t Tristan da Cunha was sick and must be relieved he volunteered volun-teered at once for the uninviting task After serving during the war In the British Ited Cross, Mr. Purt ridge en tered the Anglican ministry and soon responded to the call for foreign service In the Society for the Propa gallon of the Gospel. He went out to South Africa and In the Johannesburg mining districts rough and unruly as mining countries are he took charge of three churches, one of these for natives. "I bad to rush about from one with blood. She. had been attacked by some superstitious persons, bwb Christian snd non-t'hrlstlnn, woo charged that she had burled a charm In' front of the church and caused the death of a native deacon. "I put on all my canonical vestments vest-ments to overawe the crowd. Then I went out and dug up the ground myself to show them there was no charm there. I had to excommunicate excommuni-cate the church members who had attneked the poor woman." After other like trials. Mr. Partridge Part-ridge whs transferred across the Atlantic At-lantic In Santos, the great Brazilian coffee port The young clergyman found this city a strenuous Held. CaroiiHirrg sudors, reckless beachcombers, beach-combers, and down-nnd-outers of many nationalities destroyed the peace of the place and made his life one fight after another. Hut In this new Island station the preacher no longer will have to strug gle with violent men and worse women. wom-en. Tristan's population Is not much more than 100. Its farmers and fish ermen are described as moral and religious. re-ligious. Industrious and hospitable; they have no alcoholic lienors, and they have no crime among them. The new chaplain will have charge of the education of the children of the Island, who are contented prisoners prison-ers on the little area of 10 square miles. |