The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-04
WIFE LURED AWAY BY YOGI DOCTRINE University President Heart Broken Over Desertion WOULD WELCOME HER BACK Husband Hopes That Within a Year or Two His Wife Will Return To
 Her Senses and Come Back
 Home.
WOULD WELCOME HER BACK

Lafayette, Ind, May S.-(Speeial.) )-Pres- will, it is said within a few weeks, ten der his resignation to the board of trus- tees and leave for an extended visit in Northern Michigan.
 He is suffering greatly from nervous ness, as a result of the notoriety caused by his wife's leaving him and denied himself to all callers today
 His wife, whom he still loves, has withdrawn" from the world her husband and her family, to pursue the Yogi phil osophy, a mystic teaching said to be inn ported from India.
 Lured by the peculiar practices and odd philosophy of this strange cult, the wife of this noted educator is in Europe, from where she sent her last farewell to her husband in the form of a letter.
 Dr. Stone revealed his sad story before the Presbyterian church, of which he is a member.
 T am utterly crushed" he said. T can scarcely bear up under it.
 q want your sympathy and your pray CTS. l love my wife; l would welcome her back. She is as dear to me as she ever was. but I am so sorry for her. l hope within year or two she will come to her senses and return to me and my boys
 T feel it my duty to tell you of her letter, but I wish to say for her that l still believe she respects me. l do not think she would say an unkind word of me- l do not contemplate any legal pro- ceedings and neither does she"
 Following are some of the bits of phil osophy from the Yogi teachings that touch upon love:
 Who loves the mortal creature ending there, is no more free-he has given him. self away to death."
 If one loves another in such a way that if others love be withdrawn all happiness will fade out of life, then that first person is a slave of circumstances, a slave to the others emotions and pas sions."
 50 long as one is tied or attached to any particular person or thing, so that his happiness seems dependent thereon, he is the slave of that person or thing !"
 Love, glorious though it be, is dis ease as long as it destroys or even im- DalrS the IreeuOn or the soul. LneTelOIe' if thou wouldst love, withdraw myself from love, make it thy slave and all the miracles of nature shall lie in the plam of thy hand.
 Here is the Yogi prayer. It exemplifies the doctrine of the ego:
 q am master of my mind, not it's slave. l can set aside my emotions, sensations, passions, desires, intellectual faculties and all the rest of my mental collection Of tools as not T things and still there re- mains something, and that something is r that cannot be set aside by me, for it is my very self"
 It was no emotional impulsive action that took Mrs. Stone from her family to the faith she now professes. Her course was matured, deliberate one, and she has followed it after long reflection and apparently after counting the cost.
 More than year ago she announced to her husband that she was going to her old home in German Poland to visit her mother. Nothing was thought of the length of her stay at first as- she had made visits of six months duration sev- eral times previously. But letters have come from Mrs. Stone to her husband in which she states that she will never come back, preferring to continue the study of the Indian faith