Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion was the opening of the first Camp Conference of the Order of the Star. The thousand or more disciples who were present at the faggot burning included persons from every state in the U. S. as well as residents of India, Australia, England, Russia, South America...
...third, they wrangled and ballotted 19 times without avail. At last the two leading candidates withdrew their names, a Korean lady made a potent speech and the Methodists elected the 33rd Bishop of the Church by a sweeping majority. He was the famed Rev. Eli Stanley Jones, missionary in India and author of The Christ of the Indian Road. No sooner had he received this honor, ultimate for any Methodist and seldom given to a man only 44 years old, than Dr. Jones declined to accept it. Said...
...elected on the wave of an emotional appeal and I feel sure that I am not entitled to be so honored. . . . There is also a possibility that the new post might take me away from India, which...
...orientals differs in that they feel the native mysticism in His unruffled character, the contemplative idea of thought rather than His energy, His practical humanism. This theory makes logical the endeavor to Christianize the Orient. Also, it makes it apparent that Dr. Jones loves and understands the natives of India as well as he loves and understands Christ. It explains his refusal of the high post to which he had been elected. The Methodists did not choose another bishop in his place. Instead they elected the Rev. Edwin F. Lee of Singapore, to be missionary bishop to the Malaya provinces...
...inspiration and information about tribal customs and religions. For three years he kept in touch with the home office, his Roerich Museum, in Manhattan. Then for a year all was silence. Last week, while friends feared the expedition would never be heard from again, came a cable from Sikkim, India...