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...Louis headquarters, 55 stenographers and clerks send out replies which Dr. Maier signs. Many a letter requests spiritual help. To such people Dr. Maier dictates a personal answer which is inserted in the form letter. Recent letter from the Dominican Republic: "I am Chinese by birth. I am Buddhist by religion. I want you to show me the way to Christ...
...Lincoln had turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe, he tried to help German militarists back into power, eventually sold out to France. In the mid-'20s Chinese Buddhist Abbot Chao Kung was identified as Trebitsch-Lincoln reincarnate, founder of the "League of Truth." In 1926 he was allowed to return to the side of his British soldier son Ignatius (a condemned murderer), lost his race with the hangman, repented of his wicked life. In 1938 he transcendentalized...
...Gumyoji, as in every Japanese prison, there was a Buddhist priest of the Hongwanji sect - in charge of the library, observer of prisoners' behavior and recommender of shortened sentences. These priests also conduct Sunday services in which they sing hymns to tunes taken from the English hymnal, words altered to fit Buddhist doctrine ("Buddha loves me"). The priests exert a powerful influence and beatings never occur until after they have gone for the night...
Bishop Heaslett welcomed this priest's friendship because he had trouble cutting his nails with the prison scissors. He persuaded the priest to bring along his own scissors, and while the two of them compared notes on Buddhist and Christian theology, the Bishop took care of his finger- and toenails...
...jointly, as a prelude to corporate unity in 1950. Meanwhile one vehicle of interfaith cooperation among China's religions was already functioning in the All-China Inter-religious Associa tion. Its board members : Roman Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin (now in the U.S.), Methodist Bishop W. Y. Chen, Buddhist Abbot Tai Hsu, Moslem General Pai Chung...