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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

less turtles and water-birds have their homes.
A drawbridge leads one over this moat to the portal
of the temple, which houses the great treasure of
Buddhism, the dalada, or left eye-tooth, of Buddha,
or Gautama (born 623 B.C.), the founder of
Buddhism. Strangely enough, although the sacred
tooth is a fake, it is worshiped by Buddhists who
journey there for that purpose.

The original tooth of Buddha was brought from
India to Ceylon, it is said, by the princess of
Kalinga, who hid it in the folds of her hair. That
was nearly seventeen hundred years ago. <A thou-
sand years later it was carried back to India by the
Malabars, but was ultimately returned to Ceylon.
In 1561 A.D. the Portuguese took the tooth to
Goa, where it was burned. The devotees of Buddha,
however, had another tooth manufactured out of a
piece of ivory, two inches long and less than an
inch thick.

This ivory tooth is kept in the innermost part of
the temple. It lies on a table, is held by a lotus
blossom of pure gold, and is “hidden under seven
bell-shaped metal shrines, each shrine set with
jewels and precious stones of great value.”

Annually a seven-day festival is held in Kandy
in honor of that tooth. During that week the sacred
object is shown to the multitudes which have
gathered together from all parts of Ceylon. At
nightfall the portal of the temple is opened, and the
tooth is brought out and carried through the streets
in a shrine under a canopy, on the back of a highly
ornamented elephant, followed by twenty or thirty
other elephants with gilded foreheads and tusks.

The people fill the air with shouts of rejoicing,
swing their torches, and fall down in worship before
the relic. The bald-headed Buddhist priests in their
yellow robes lead the procession, and the nobles of
the island, in white robes and heavily bejeweled,
follow, all joining in the cry, “Hail, Buddha,
hail!” — Concordia Junior Messenger.

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A Goop EXERCISE: Recall all the kind things
you have said about your neighbors.

Contributions Received by the Treasurer.
April 1—30, 1933.

Per Concordia Publishing House, from N. N., for Negro
Missions, $2.00. From Mrs. Louis Henze, Gillette, N.J.,
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BOOK TABLE.

(By the Eprror,)

Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly. Editor-in-
Chief: Prof. W.G. Polack. Associate Editors: Prof.
Th. Graebner, D.D.; Prof. R.W. Ieintze. Vol. VI,
No.1; April, 1933. Price, $2.00 per annum; 50 ets.
a copy. Order from Mr. Theo. Eckhart, 3558 S. Jef-
ferson Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

The leading article is by the editor-in-chief, “The
Founding of the Lutheran Laymen’s League and the First
Years of Its Activity.” Dr. Mueller continues his very in-
teresting story of “Lutheranism in Louisiana.” “The Be-
ginnings of Our Work in China” (also a continuation) are
graphically described in an article by E. H. A. Arndt. Prof.
H. Stoeppelwerth gives another instalment of his “History
of St. John’s English Lutheran College, Winfield, Kansas.”
We enjoyed this second instalment even more than vy
the first. A letter from Dr. H. B. Hemmeter, referring to
the early history of St. John’s College, will prove interest-
ing reading to those whose memories go back to the
early nineties of the last century.

St. Paul’s College, 1883—1933. Price: Cloth, $1.00;
paper binding, 75 ets. Order from St. Paul’s College,
Concordia, Mo., or from Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Mo.

A well-edited, well-illustrated, and well-printed sou-
venir, published to commemorate the golden anniversary
of St. Paul’s College at Concordia, Missouri. One would
find it diflieult to produce a better anniversary souvenir
than the editors and the publishers present to us in this
publication. The alumni of St. Paul’s may well be proud
of this anniversary book put out in honor of their alma
mater.”

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