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...missionaries in India as well as elsewhere is that the heathen cannot understand the competition between Christian denominations. In India there are now a South India United Church (formed by Congregational, Presbyterian and Reformed converts), a Wesleyan Methodist Church of South India, an Anglican (Episcopalian) Church of India, Burma & Ceylon. The hope of these three Christian churches in India merging soon is good, because their vested interests are neither old nor extensive, because they are forced to a friendliness by their isolation in the vast prairies of Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism...
Venerable Thera P. Vajiranana of Ceylon, robed in gorgeous Buddhist vestments of yellow and gold, addressed the New York Junior League. Said he: "I urge that the negligibility of material things be universally recognized...
...recommends: Tahiti, where a month's visit is too long, a year's too short; French steamships (either the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique or the Messageries Maritimes) the native dances in Martinique; Siam, Ceylon, the lesser-known West Indies (Haiti, Dominica, Trinidad); the New Hebrides. The book is illustrated by Woodcutter Lynd Ward, author of the novel in woodcuts Gods' Man (TIME...
...Island pigmies, was uniquely their own. Others of these minuscule peoples, whom bigger intruders have driven from their original homes along the Congo, have learned the speech of their neighbors wherever they have secreted themselves successfully enough to persist-in Africa's interior, along the upper Congo, in Ceylon, the Bay of Bengal, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines...
Pinoleum Million. So long ago that the trade name has become a common proprietary, a Dr. Bryan D. Sheedy, nose & throat man, mixed menthol, camphor, oil of eucalyptus, oil of Ceylon cinnamon and pine-needle oil in liquid petroleum and called his preparation pinoleum. He formed a corporation, the Pinoleum Co., which in recent years despite sharp competition by Standard Oil and others, has averaged $60,902 annual profits. Dr. Sheedy died three years ago. Last week his estate appraised...