DRAMATIC MOMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11888, 30 November 1935, Page 2

DRAMATIC MOMENTS

I Story of Outstanding I i C w en H m the of thl 1 Humble and the Great h|| | A conjuring trick, I * . They do queer tricks In In.® dla, a land from whlcb* —°^ ‘“If 5 of rope ladders and wn. shtag snakes. Here,ls TraSS : ,H ' IHe* triCk w ¥ ch saved n; «i»f.’|i ma n was none other than that famous Sundar Sthjfh; Christian Sandhu abog h all the world has talked, and at w hom all men have-:wondered." - “® found long agothat being a / .--C Christian was adventurous. *- .Once he travelled into Tibet '■"s where the Lama ot one of the / towns had him arrested for preaching ' the Christian trine. Found gui.iy m the’ "?-K crime, Sundar Singh wus'Urowtr: / into a dry well, the Lama himsell watching. Then the heivy -v cover w-as dragged over-the?/- 4 well, and : the; Lama" locked. It,. putting the key in his own glr-, - ' " .Ul6. ■ ■ ° „ .* Hour after hour Sundar Shfth s“ • lay at the bottom of the weH ’?- : - in a foul, evll-smellittg’darfaie®'.-*.* . with scarcely, alr j eriotifh: to- ' J"" ! breathe. .The day .'passed,- and the night, and the next.fday;'* and the next mghtis’and v no'6hev- -Jr came, no water was; sehl-'down," --!*■' no food ;t In the middle of the” third 1 - night the prisoner .heard some--!' one opening the cover'of Hhe’?,V" well. A rope J rC' and a voice bade him c..mb up if he could. It was'hard work, 1 • ( but Singh - managed; it."; * he reached the.top he-looked round for; his deliverer;' soul was in sight. There was only one thing to do, that'wad. ,V to make good his - esca&,.&ndJ;‘'£Sj£ : away ; went> the missionary;. l ' begin preaching again inVtowa not tar off. " But that is not qulte; ■ .of the story. 'The TJimaffifaddy heard that Sundar preaching, but refused to be*. ~.- lieve it. tie knew it was lm-VUi;. possible lor the ln!S his own girdle! '*