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Investigations eW that human bcinqs nro oL f1? 0 , mortal % rate at tho a « of 12 years At the ago of 20 the mop-ta-hty .rate has doubled. Tho rears to 30 aro ones m which tho proportionate increase ia mortality is least. At 40 mortality is fivo times as prreat as at 12; at 50 it' is times as great, and at 60 it is 16 times aa great. — Describing the bishops at tho Lambeth Conference, a London paper writes:—. "There were some with faces liko a sacrament. To look upon them, was to feol assured of the possibility of an unseen world. Others there were. lean and ascetic, with thin-lipped, tinrht-closed mouths, .uid faoca of fanatics. You might torture them, you 'felt, but never move them by a liair'sbreadth from thoir nurpoKn. Some had the faces of statesmen, clear-cut and determined; some wero merged and oaroworn aa if they had taken life hardly; some eni>. matio or neutral, and a few who did not look the part, who might, in a crowd, have beon taken for nnythinnr but bishops. Two native bishops. Bishop Oluwolo of Lnjros and Bishop Dornakal of Southern India, arrested tho eye. coal-bl?u3c faces showed ud strongly, making pallid tho countenances of thctr companions,"

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18049, 24 September 1920, Page 6

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Untitled Otago Daily Times, Issue 18049, 24 September 1920, Page 6

Untitled Otago Daily Times, Issue 18049, 24 September 1920, Page 6