STRANGE VISIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 241, 12 May 1933, Page 6

STRANGE VISIONS

INDIAN HOLY MAN Press Association. —Copyright. Calcutta, May 4. Behind the bald announcement to-day that the English courts had given leave to presume the death of Sardar Sundar Singh lies a strange story. The home of Sundar Singh was in the Simla hills, but he .de frequent journeys into Tibet, where, he related, he met saintly men who had conquered death and had been living for hundreds of years. In 1929 he set off towards Tibet, and has not been heard of sl.ce, though in 1931 there was a false report that he had emerged. Sundar Singh originally was a Sikh who was converted to Christianity as suddenly as St. Paul. He had all the fervour of the first Christians, and the rapture in his face left none in doubt that to him, at least, the visions and miraculous appearances he described were real. The writings of Sundar Singh have been translated into numerous European languages. Gorman scholars have written books about him, and in England, where Canon Streeter was his editor and sponsor, he was known and revered by many. Whatever may be the explanation >f his visions, his was a rare spirit. Needless to say, many in India will continue to believe that he is still alive.