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Otterbourne,
Nov. 1871.

MS location unknown. This fragment printed in Dulce Domum, 245.

[To Mary Ann Moberly]

I have little hope of a contradiction;1 it is the same island where they martyred the two boys before, and no one ever set his face more as a flint to meet whatever might come than he did. Once before it nearly happened. How one must pray that this blood may be the seed of the Church! The last I had heard was of a grand, crowning success of ninety-seven baptised at once at Mota. . . So he has brought his sheaves with him!2 When I know more you shall hear, but his sisters are abroad; I do not think they ever looked to see his face here . . .

1The news that Bishop Patteson had been murdered in the Santa Cruz Islands on 20 September 1871 was reported in The Times, 28 November 1871, 9e.
2Psalms 126:6.

Cite this letter


The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/2424/to-mary-ann-moberly-6

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