ADVENT EXPECTED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10685, 31 December 1925, Page 5

ADVENT EXPECTED.

NEW WORLD TEACHER. ANNIE BESANTS PROPHECY.

(Per Press Association— Copyright.) i K DELHI, December 29. Mrs Annie Besant, in a speech at the closing of the Jubilee Convention of the Theosophical Society at Madras said she expected the early coming of a world teacher. . . . The world was at the beginning of a new age, and when the world teacher appeared he would found a new form of ancient truths on which « new civdisation would be built, and a new type ; 0 f humankind would then be born There was definite scientific evidence that a new type was appearing and that civilisation as it grew and dc yeloped would be a civilisation oi teacher had slightly hastened the date of his coming;™ account of the troubles and almost hopeless .condition of the modern world. It v, n&> l thf world's great need that ca led him fiom his great retreat in the Himalayas to thelefcue of a world which threatened .to perish for lack of him.

Miss Annie Besant is 78 years of age, a »d her mental and physical vigour u Dmeticaliy undiminished. It was in & that she joined the Thcosophical Society and . since then she has travclkd to' many parts of the globe m iteTnierests. During . recent yeas much of her life has been spent in Tndn where she was instrumental m founding a school andl college Ben. ares oM in recognition ot her sei , vss to'education she was made, a Doctor cf .Literature by Benares DmVe Des?ribiug a meeting in . Queen's ] Hail Londoli, last correspondent .thus wrote of Mrs Besant s speech to.apOO people,—Mrs Besant! plunges straight into her subject, and without a note and without pause easily holds the close attention or her audience for an hour, A born orator, she has a dignified,.rather elevated style and. .a deliberate delivery. Her articulation .is perfect. S£a is clearly heard in every part of the hall, and when she becomes passionate her voice rin<rs out with clarion note.. When she is protesting againtt social justice, or -pleading for some urgent retorm, one realises that the speaker, though she has undergone many changes is yet the same Annie .Besant who «WJ i aso, with Charles Bradlaugh, ftom the f Hall of Science in Old Street, denounced what she regarded *s the of chat time.