A Troubled Heart, How It Was Comforted at Last t by Charles Warren Stoddard 1885

A Troubled Heart, How It Was Comforted at Last  by Charles Warren Stoddard 1885A beautiful spiritual autobiography by Charles Warren Stoddard. It is "lovingly inscribed" to the Reverand Daniel E. Hudson, C. S. C.Charles Warren Stoddard (August 7, 1843 – April 23, 1909) was an American author and editor best known for his travel books about Polynesian life.

In 1864, Stoddard visited the South Sea Islands and there wrote South-Sea Idyls, a series of letters he sent to a friend. This friend had them published in book form in 1873. "They are," wrote William Dean Howells, "the lightest, sweetest, wildest, freshest things that were ever written about the life of that summer ocean,"[ but are also exceedingly homoerotic. Stoddard made four other trips to the South Sea Islands and wrote his impressions in Lazy Letters from Low Latitudes and The Island of Tranquil Delights.

Stoddard visited Molokai several times and became well acquainted with Father Damien–a Catholic saint since 2009–who ministered to the lepers there. Stoddard's The Lepers of Molokai, according to Robert Louis Stevenson, did much to establish Father Damien's position in public esteem. In 1867, soon after his first visit to the South Sea Islands, Stoddard was received into the Catholic Church. He told the story of his conversion in a small book, A Troubled Heart and How it was Comforted, of which he said: "Here you have my inner life all laid bare."

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