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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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AN INDIAN CARVING OF THE ANNUNCIATION. The other image, however, is distinguished by a rare artistic beauty. Itrepresents the Virgin Mary at the moment of the Annunciation. A DIVINE CHILD OF INDIA. From distant India there comes to us a strange communication sent byC. S. Royal, Esq., 54 L. T. House, Chittoor, Madras Presidency, Br. India,(North Arcot Dist.), which tells the story of a Hindu saint, a divine girl 702 THE OPEN COURT. who receives the worship of a certain circle of the native population. Theaccount has been sent for publication in order to spread the gospel of thisremarkable phenomenon in the religious world, and we publish it mainly forthe sake of offering to our readers a genuine description of the conditionsthat favor the belief in divine incarnation is some form or other. Within thelast century history has witnessed the origin of a new religion in Persia an-
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(NDIA S DIVINE CHILD. nounced by the Bab, the Gate of God, and then fully proclaimed by BehaUllah, the Glory of God. Here we have a similar occurrence on a small scale which has not yetreached a large field of influence; but the psychology of the case is as plainlyseen here as in great historical movements. We have before us a circle ofexpectant devotees, inspired by the confidence that a certain babe has been MISCELLANEOUS. 703 born to be or to become a divine incarnation, and it is touching how thesesimple people construe every detail in a wzy to confirm their hopes. Thename of this new prophet is Sri Gyanamamba, and it is strange that this newsaint is a girl not yet sixteen years of age. We publish the manuscript communicated to us by Mr. Royal as it stands,only correcting obvious mistakes in English and making no attempt otherwiseto polish or change it. He announces it as the Biography of Indias DivineBabe, and it reads as follows: There is a city in Kistna District (in Madras Pre

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