DEVOTEE’S JOURNEY ENDS IN DEATH

Southland Times, Issue 23389, 22 December 1937, Page 5

DEVOTEE’S JOURNEY ENDS IN DEATH

300 MILES ON HANDS AND KNEES (Received December 21, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 20. His hands and knees swollen and poisoned, the father who undertook to crawl 300 miles with his sons died on the roadside on his return journey, says the Peshawar correspondent of The Times. A pathetically tragic story of a father’s faith and devotion was related from the sacred city of Hardwar on October 29. To mark the recovery of his two sons from typhoid the father announced that he would crawl on his hands and knees as he accompanied his sons from the village of Manosa, 300 miles from Hardwar. In defiance of relatives’ and doctors’ entreaties he planned 68 stages of five miles a day. , On the seventh day the younger son collapsed and died. The father ascribed this to the will of God and went on. He and the other son were tortured with swollen arms and legs. Only 10 miles from Hardwar the second son, who was emaciated, died. The father attended the funeral rites, reached his goal and carried out his devotions.