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...first association for railway men in the Orient was opened a year ago this month at Jamalpur, a city of 75,000 on the East Indian railway: and during the last year work has been started also in behalf of the army, at Madras, for example, cheap suppers being served to an average of about 140 soldiers every night. Many of the associations provide facilities for tennis, etc., and some of the Association cricket and football teams are among the best in India...
...beauty of nature. But there is a brighter side to these eastern cults. The long struggle for monotheism is still continuing. In some Hindu sects today one supreme, all-righteous god is conceived, and their rule of life is to be guided by righteousness, love, and justice. Throughout the Orient there is almost a yearning for Christianity, and its essence is being assimilated. To illustrate this Dr. Hall read several Mohammedan and Brahmanic prayers which are almost the same as some used in the Episcopal Church...
...report also comments upon the gift of Mr. Jacob H. Schiff for Semitic exploration. Mr. Schiff for Semitic exploration. Mr. Schiff has given $5000, and will provide $10,000 a year for five years, for exploration in the Semitic field. A committee on exploration in the Orient has been appointed, and Dr. G. A. Resiner, for six years in charge of the Hearst expedition in Egypt, has been made director of the expedition. Palestine is the field in which its is proposed to excavate, if permission is granted by the Turkish authorities. If this permission can be obtained, the expedition...
...admitted to the lecture to be given in the Living Room of the Union, Thursday evening by the Hon. Ponamalam Ramanathan, K.C., C.M.G., Solicitor-General of Ceylon, on "The Spirit of The East and the Spirit of The West." The lecturer will compare the fundamental ideas of the Orient with those of the Occident...
...Rene Millet gave the fourth of the Cercle Francais lectures yesterday afternoon in Sanders Theatre on "La Question d'Orient depuis l'Apparition des Turcs, et le Role de la France...