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THE
CHINA
AMERICAN RIVAL OF stories began to appear.
on
LOURDES
the
men
SATURDAY, DECEMBER
the subject, using the terms that kiss the marble and toss an offer A MYSTIC ASTRAY IN
TIBET
* Light Bought on "Cares". come to the minds of serious | Ing into a box placed for the reten astion of-gifta. Sometimes they leave But all New England has been Protestant observers, such
reac- canès, jewellery or flowers on the reading lately about the remarkable "hysteria," "psychological
Itself. Occasionally a scenes in this small cemetery:tions," "imagination," on the one marble Everybody has been wondering, the hand, and on the other alluding woman, overcome by the intensity INDIAN CHRISTIAN PREACHER
directness to the of her emotions, shrieks and faints. Catholics and the Protestants alike, with simple
WHO FEARED VENGEANCE
A
LAMAS ANGRY
Misgivings are felt among bis followers in India regarding the safety of Sadhu Sardar Singh, the Christian mystic and preacher. Not a word has been heard of him
Ings, has made his name known throughout the world.
CLAIM FOR "CURES" EFFECTED AT PRIEST'S TOMB
if within a few years there may possibility of a new revelation of Fathers carry paralyzed children to not be erected there a shrine whose the supernatural. These also mare-kiss the chillce. Familles come EXTRAORDINARY RUSH
fame will carry far as a place I hold that, time and complete In-with jers and vases in the rain to carry away some of the water that Extraordinary scones have taken where miracles are wrought, where vestigation will tell the tale.
falls on the alab and fills the Many Stories of Cures place recently in the Holy Cross faith is rewarded by visible signs. Cemetery In Malden, near Boston,It was in a manner somewhat Children are sid to have hobbled chalice. It is told that on the rainy America. To that old and quiet equivalent that such shrines as Our to the tomb on erutches and depart Sunday the stone always was dry, resting place of the dead there Lady of Lourdes and St. Anne de ed therefrom with the crutches for nobody passed without saturat
the under their arms: A young woman ing a handkerchief. This young travelled on the first Sunday of Beaupre became known to
in a plaster cast, pronounced in-girl leads a white-haired old man; November 10,000 persons, the next world. Sunday ten times that number, dur- The first "cures" publicly report curable in a hospital, for eighteen he is blind. This weeping mother sluce he entered Tibet in April en ing the week days from 15,000 to ed to have been obtained at the months unable to walk, is said to is unable to reach the grave with one of his preaching tours. Born The of wealthy Sikh parents in Patiala 40,000, and on Armistice Day some tomb of Father Power were report have left the cast on the steps to her. little girl, born dumb. 50,000. These are estimates based ed only recently, but so fast did the the sanctuary in the chapel in the scenes are caluated to rebuke in 1889, Sardar Singh, by his writ-
the opinions of first-hand news travel and so intense has been cemetery, and to have amazed her reverence even of the most unbe-- observers and of policemen who the desire to visit the apot that physicians by the change that has lleving.
Little. Known of Priest have spent strenuous hours striv-motor cars from several States, 48 been wrought in her body.
Little is now definitely known of On leaving the missionary station Ing to prevent injury and disorder. well as from Canada, have crowded woman with defective eyesight left
The people come,
and the roads to Malden. Cars have her glasses on the stone. A dumb Father Power. He was born in at Bhot, East Kumaon, the Sadhu
womon,
old, been parked for miles along the ad-boy is reported to have become able Ireland and died in Brookline, at remarked that if he had not return- and young
Jacent roadways. Bus parties have to speak. A real estate dealer an the home of a brother, on Decembered by September his friends must the poor and the well-to-
He studied in Canada. presume that he had “suffered do, the halt, the lame, the come from cities in Massachusetts nounces that his son whose legs had 8, 1869.
The city been paralyzed is now able to His ordination took place at the "earthly death." September cams, blind, and the strong most of and New Hampshire. them devout, only relatively a few transportation system has recogniz walk. Perhaps two score of such Cathedral of the Holy Cross in and there was no news. One of the of the curions and indifferent, toed the situation by a liberal supply and similar cases have been report-Boston. He went to Louvain, in missionaries at Bhot, his wife, and of extra care. Thousands of per-ed, and perhaps there are mans Belgium for further study. He is another missionary accordingly set sons have walked to the cemetery others of which the public has no believed to have had a parish or out in the direction be was known
information.
two In this region, but his incum to have gone. They traced him from distant suburbs.
The scenes at the cemetery have bency must have been brief, and through Nepal, and even penetrated been poignant and impressive to facts are not yet definitely avail the forbidden land of Tibet, but as all the thoughtful, a marvel to the able. He may have been connected the
Tibetan population were On B cold, for a time with an East Boston reticent about his movements, and ordinary onlooker.
He is described as a. the authorities hostile, the search church. scholarly young man, writing re- party was forced to return.
His Ecstatic" Trances views and making some original re- search in scientific subjects. · Mild The Sadhu was in feeble health, of manner and sincerely devout, he and may have fallen a victim to the may have been a favourite with cholera or small-por epidemics of Or his old enemies, the children, for it is stated that the Tibet. monument above his grave was lamas, it is thought, may have taken built with the money contributed in their revenge on him. To preach small sums, and. often in gifts of Christianity is strictly prohibited in pennies, from the children of the Tibet, and the Sadhu had previous
ly told of his skirmishes with the neighbourhood.
priests.
place their hands upon a grave, to touch their lips to a marble slab, to wipe their faces with water from the chalice that is chiselled in the flat surface of that slab, which is upheld by stone supports like a table. This monument covers the grave of a young Catholic priest, the Rev. Patrick J. Power, who was buried almost sixty years ago.
rainy day: the people knelt in hundreds in the wet grass and mud. When the enormous crowd most dense there was was a period when the semblance of reverence vanished. There was danger of degeneration into a mob. Thousands were, wedged about the grave quite unable to move away from it, and other thousands were the spot. The polica were utterly control the crowds. unable to Parents lost their choldren for hours at a stretch. Crippled por nons
GreatTM Bellef Cardinal O'Connell spent an hour He refrained from at the scene. any oficial statement, Intimating only that he desired to see with his own eyes what others had seen. Are cures actually wrought at Young Girl Healed
the graveside of this prleat of the Just how the idea that miraculous long ago? Multitudes believe so. cures are wrought at this grave Numbers of thoughtful and educat had its origin is not known. For ed persons, not at all disposed to years there had been occasional re-scoff, are earnestly pondering the parts of such healings; the stories reports of what there has been done were passed from mouth to mouth and asking for verified facts. This without publication. More recently no doubt will be the course of the unable to obtain even a glimpse of the suburban press from time to Catholic Church itself. If, in good time has printed accounts of re- timo, it seems desirable it will markable happenings in the make a careful Inquiry. That will cemetery, but these attracted only mean a thorough examination of all limited attention. The spark which alleged cures that can be traced. produced the present excitement It will mean an investigation of the was probably the report in a Boston history of each subject from child paper of the healing of a young hood to the time of the visit to the girl, narrated in detail with accom- grave, and a review of all that may panying pictures. When first scores have happened in each instance fol and then hundreds of persons began lowing that visit. On the basis of to travel to the grave all the city a report of the results of such an editors In Boston placed the Investigation any official action that cemetery on their news schedules. might be taken would presumably The general public, however, was be based. startled when the "big" дета
Eminent Catholica freely discuss
were for a while in peril, Measures now have been taken to prevent the recurrence of such a scene no matter how great future throngs may be,
Fainting Fits
The visitors file past the tomb in two lines; they make the sign of the cross, kneel beside the slab, dip
To guard the tomb and to keep vast crowds in order, the police removed the monument to a build Ing in the grounds. A concrete base will be prepared and an iron fence erected so that lines may be formed for rapid passage to and from the grave.
An uninscribed marble slab has been in place over the grave, but the visitors have covered It with flowers, rosaries and sacred pictures, and sought it with
a handkerchief in the chalice, scoop the same reverence as was bestow a handful of earth from the grounded upon the monument now tem at the head or foot of the grave, porarily sequestered.
For his first.
In sermons and talks the Sadhu has described his psychic transla tions” to Heaven, ecstatic tranco he withdrew into the jungle for a forty days' fast, and. in order to keep account of time, placed near him a heap of forty stones, one ́af, which he throw away every day, maktabla
When he visited - England In 1920, Sardar Singh adhered strictly to his principle of travelling with out money or provision for the morrow.
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