Religion: At Madras

Cables carried the news from Madras. The Theosophical Society had opened the celebration of its 50th anniversary. To greet the aged President Annie Besant was a sufficiently grand collection of 5,000 delegates of 37 nationalities. But there were no further details concerning the "reincarnation of Christ in the person of J. Krishnamurti."

Mr. Krishnamurti is an old story. He has titillated sewing circles periodically since 1908, when sweet Mrs. Besant carried him from India off to her English home. He was 12 years old, reminiscent...

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