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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 37, 19 June 1891, Page 3

Myers and Co., Dentists, Octagon, corner of George street. The guarantee highest class work at moderate fees. Their artificial teeth gives general satisfaction, and the fact of them supplying a temporary denture while the gume are healing does away with he inconvenience of being months without teeth. They manufacture a single artificial tooth fcr Ten Shillings, and sets tqually moderate The administration of nitrous oxide gas is also a great boon to those needing the extraction of a tooth. Read. — [advt " The pagan Sinhalese are nominally Buddhists, but really Demonwnrshipperp, saya the Ceylon Catholic Messenger. It is true that they off-r fl >wers io Buddhist temples, a id perhaps make a pilgrimage n^w and then to Adam's Peak. But they also visit M. Anthony Church in Colombo, and other Catholic holy places, for the purpose of performing acts of worship, and they sometimes join in Catholic pilgrimage?. They are no more Buddmsts in the former case than they are Catholics in the latter. The fact is, Buddha v if such a person ever existed) admitted into the sucie'y foundel by him no one who did not adopt the monastic rulo of life. Hence there are are no true Buddhists except the boczes and the Buddhist female mendicants. What we want to know therefore from our English ani Anwicm Buddhists i«, why they d > not shave their heads, put off their shoes and sock,*, put on a yellow robe, take a begging bowl in one bnnd and a talipot fan in the other, and "walk alone like a rhino -eros," as their master did ? It is Buddha's teaching that there is no other way of attHinins Nirvana. Why then was'e time in proving that Nirvana is not annihilation, but omy what Christians c «11 sal nation 1 Be it so ; but how is it that our theosophis-s so hugely hunger for the blessed Nirvana, and yet refuse to take one step on the only road which leads to it ? That ia the question.