Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1914 — STIRRED HEARTS OF MILLIONS [ARTICLE]

STIRRED HEARTS OF MILLIONS

Worshipers of Buddha Highly Excited Over the Finding of the Bones of Thslr Saint. Of all the treasures unearthed by archaeologist’s spade from the hidden recesses of the earth, no find has ever thrilled more human hearts than the recovery of the bones of Gautama Slddartha Buddha from a mound near Peshawar, India’s northwest frontier stronghold. The effect of this discovery upon the votaries of Buddhalsm, who are estimated to number more than 500,000,000 and form a large percentage of the population of Japan. Formosa, Korea. China. Tartary, Siam, Annam. Cambodia. Tibet, Burma, Nepal, India and Ceylon, and who look upon Buddha as their emancipator, their god of gods, can be appreciated only when it Is considered what a sensation the finding of the remains of Mohammed would make in the Mohammedan world. The unearthing of the bones of their revered saint it can be easily Imagined, has stirred the Buddhists to the depths of their being in a way that nothing else could have done. What adds Interest to the romantic

find, not only for Buddhists, but for men and women of all creeds and climes, is the fact that the exact location where these particular relics of Buddha bad been interred was shrouded in mystery, hidden in an almost Impenetrable mass of oriental legendary lore. No one knew definitely where the shrine bad been erected, and consequently the bunt for the precious bones was no sinecure, but it had to be based to a large extent on pure guesswork.—Wide World Magazine.