| Show ROSARY BEADS th tibey ey were in U ato amone tile before the era fra of buddha Unil dha th tho prevailing idea in regard to a rosary is that it belongs solely to alow followers of tho the catholic religion but tako take away the cross croas that is hanging lia nging to the beads and we find that one must turn to the dim mysterious east for the origin of the rosary for it is among the temples of india china and japan that the first sign of the practice is to le found ancient pictures picture alf tho the hindmo gods depict them with charlets chaplets cha of beads in their hands and it is be I 1 ved that this method of keeping counie count their many prayers was in uso use among the before the era of buddha or at least BL a 0 the uso of the rosary seems especially 1 suited to an eastern clime and anti to the reposo of an oriental mind the buddhists aro are fond of using very smooth beads of glass polished jado jade or coral and it has been thought that tho the smooth cool beads gliding gilding through their fingers as they murmur tho the holy namo name for thousands of times help them to arri vent veat that state of holy boly abstraction from i earthly things which is so much prized I 1 among the followers of buddha the favorite japanese rosaries aro are mado of polished wood crystal onyx and chased silver and tho the japanese buddhists repeat in devotion aan damn namn amida butzu save ns buddha whilo their brothers havo have tho blessed bamo llo u mt to tn fril forever on their lips A rosary rory of very great tezo was recently brought from a temple iu in kioto the largest bead lead ia Ls about sis sir inches in diameter and the rosary entire is about 24 feet long the huro huge aro of dark brown polished wood thoy they are hollow and have each a fi fiaro gure of a god inside the little shrine shrive which can be seen wn through a lattice of bruss brass work worl cincinnati enquirer |
