Word: rishi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ashram (retreat) in Lucknow, India is the spiritual home, and sometimes the physical home, of the world's greatest Christian missionary-Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, Methodist, author of The Christ of the Indian Road, evangelist to high-caste Hindus, who call him Rishi (a saint). From his Ashram last summer Dr. Jones wrote his friends about the Kingdom of God, declaring: "Never have I been so convinced that this is the one hope of the human race. How my heart tingles with joy that we have such a message for such a time as this." Missionary Jones then left...
Died. His Highness Raj Rishi Shri Sewai Sir Jey Singhji Veerendra Shiromani Dev, Bharat Dharam Prabhakar, 55, Maharaja of Alwar, exiled in 1933 by the British after an agrarian uprising for which he was held responsible; of apoplexy, possibly resulting from hip and shoulder fractures received when he fell down a stairway upon leaving a squash court; in Paris. He traveled with 400 trunks and a retinue of 25, including an orchestra...
...expert was Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, who has labored in India 25 years, whose Christ of the Indian Road is one of the best known evangelical works of modern times. Dr. Jones counts Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore among his friends; Indians call him Rishi (Holy Sage). Christian Modernists and Fundamentalists have both claimed Dr. Jones. The Methodist Episcopal Church thrice offered him bishoprics, but his only allegiance is to its Board of Foreign Missions...