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Title: Christian herald and signs of our times
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald)
Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

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ikelythat he will beable to keep hispromise. Thecolonists mCape Colony areearnestly press-ing the ImperialGovernment toprepare forwar. If, theysay, * Englandwill not protectthe country itis time for thecol o n y to de-clare itself in-dependen t.This declara-tion has hadthe effect ofarousing theGovernment toaction. It thusseems probablethat the pro-posed trekwill not be madewithout blood-shed. The word trek, whichappears so fre-quently in thedespatches,comes from the Dutch,trekfcen, and means to draw, to travel by awagon or to journey in search of a new settle-ment. The present Republic of the Transvaalis the result of a trek. The Boers, or Dutchfarmers and cattle raisers, who settled in CapeColony .in the sixteenth century, trekked north-ward and established the Republic of theTransvaal when the English took possession ofthe Cape. They believe that another trek fur-ther northward has now become necessary, andwill be equally successful. Our illustrationrepresents a Boer trekking wagon.
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THE TEMFI.K OK THE TOOTH, (See Illustration.) One of the most famous temples of Budd-hism in the world is the Delado Maligawa, orTemple of Buddhas Tooth, a picture of whichappears on this page. It is situated in Kandy,Ceylon, and was built many centuries ago bythe Singhalese Kings, as a shrine for the dentalrelic of Buddha. The reverence thus displayedfor the relic was not wholly and purely re-ligious in its nature. A current popular tradi-tion had it that whosoever was the possessorof the tooth was the divinely appointed sover-eign of the whole island of Ceylon, with its twomillion inhabitants. The beauty of the temple,and the extreme sanctity of the relic, attractedgreat crowds of worshippers. Under Portu-gese supremacy the Roman Catholics endeav-ored to break up the senseless worship. Thetooth was seized and carried to the Archbishopof Goa, who, with his own hands, ground it topowder. The usual effect of persecution fol-lowed. In a short time the Buddhist priestswere again exhibiti

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