"SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928.
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III—A FORWARD STEP IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTICE
[Annie C. BIH)
(Concluded From Last Week.)
HEALING THE BREACH
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Drugs, Past and Present Mrs. Eddy's prophecy that all
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matter would become "ngue" has-MR. J. N. SMITH AND H.K. already been fufilled nines It is no longer regarded by the physicists as solid substance,, but classified as energy.
In the early days of Mrs. Eddy's demonstration, a distinct and hard line was drawn between so-called matter and mind. This Hino has now become so softened and vague hide from the field the doctor's in the field of physics that all on the visita, although well known to the "material" side scema preparing to tried to vanish Bike shadows, in the light of community. Some even prevent the use of the morphine by Mind thrown upon it.
Christian Science, “abreast of the their suffering Leader. Her con- tinuous lonely struggles finally cul-times," does not repudiate the faith reposed in "temporary" means but All that she left unsaid and un-separates it from the drug like explained. In relation to the practi-wheat from tares and reinstates it tioner's "duty to patients," and on its original basis of Mind-power.
use of temporary and The lesser demonstrations "the right eternal means" was exemplified be the individual healing of disease All the conceivable bodily precau- yond contradiction in her own ex- through faith afford more than tions against contagion from speci perience. It remains for all her enough evidence the absolute now to understand and supremacy of the one Mind. The fe forms of disease are unavailing followers to prevent the multiplication of dis-profit by that individual experience. healing of all diseases will be ac- esses se long as wrong thoughts, in The unreadiness of students to quit complished when collective mentality which alt disease originates are old positions and take the advanced is harnused and atilised systema
steps and accept the commanding tically on a larger scale of opera- and countermanding necessary intions.
Doctors, with the best intentions and the greatest human skill, can never eradicate disease nor extabminated in death. lish the health that is the eternal. right of man until they recognise the universal effect of mind-power and avail themselves of true meta- physical co-operation.
allowed to go unchecked.
The Lesson From Mre. Eddy's Experience
In the early days of Mrs. Eddy's demonstration of metaphysical heal
ment:
348: 18).
of
(To the Editor of the "Chins Mall."1"
SirThe press have published a statement which purports to have been made by Dr. Wang Chung-hui to a representative of the "Central News" (Chinese) about Mr. John Nind Smith. Dr Wang is reported to have said
of Christian Scientists all over the world. Each week in the Christian Science Sentinel and every month In The Christian Science Jour nal" (the official publications of the Christian Science movement) tie testimonies of the healing of there are published many authen- both sin and disease and the goin ing of freedom from worry, sor- row,lack, hafred, and fear.
When the assertion is made that Christian Science does not meet every human need, it really "I had no knowledge of Mr. amounts to saying that God, Nind Smith further than that Divine Love, is not equal to the he is a Professior in Hong task of preserving His creation. Kong University, and that at But Christian Science demon the time of the strike in Hongatrates that God is All in all and Kong he was reported to have successfully relies solely on His said that the Nationalist Gov-power for healing. ernment would not be allowed to interfere in Hong Kong. On account of this. he found it ne- cessary to leave China, etc." Mr. J. N. Smith came to Hong Kong in September, 1924, as the University's Professor of Educa tion. He resigned on February
Mr. E. P. H. Lang, who recent 18, 1926. The University County returned to the Colony under cil at a special meeting held on appointment as Deputy Registrar the same day accepted his resign of the Supreme Court, has been ation and shortly afterwards he appointed by the Chief Justice as
Whether Mr. all human progress, may have "The Talent of Spiritual Healing" left the Colony
a Commissioner of Oaths. The gift of spiritual healing has Smith ever said that the Nation- caused Mrs. Eddy, to withhold the verbal explanation of the higher been entrusted to Christian Scientalist Government would not be
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H.M. the King has not been ad-
ing she made the following state method of Mind to be applied byists-a numerical minority of man- allowed to interfere in matters re-vised to exercise his power of dis-
in "the future," which is to-day each one's ability to receive it. But I use no drugs whatever" (Mis. She plainly said, "all the methods of each recipient must invest his por- Mind are not understood." That tion of the gift, great or small, for Toward the end of her practical Mrs. Eddy's teaching authorises the benefit of the whole circle of leadership she was driven to utilise and requires this higher co-opera- mankind. Injections of morphine as a "tem-tion inaugurated by The Parent porary means" of relief from pain Church under its new By-Laws, is in order to enable her to continae inproved by her own prophetic words the fulfilment of her mission. Mrs. thereby fulfilled:
A genuine Christian Scientist Eddy had not changed her basic premise since the earlier days of loves Proteriant and Catholic, D.D. the world
revolution she had and M.D.-loves all who love God, Initlated to include all mankind in the field of mental and moral heal- good; and he loves his enemies. It ing, and thus to establish universal will be found that, instead of opscious and therefore immediate
all Christian Science practitioners kind in the differing degrees of lating to Hong Kong, I cannot wollance with respect to Ordin
Bay. But this statement, if itance No. 11 of 1928-For the were ever made, had no bearing appropriation of a supplemen- whatsoever either on Mr. Smith's resignation of his post in this tary sum of $887,599.35 to defray
the charges of the year 1927. University or on his subsequent departure from Hong Kong.
health. To whoever understands her final explanation on page 164 of "Science and Health," this is ob- vious. There she explains that the bodily derense. of an individual is aused by the "majority of human
posing, such an individual subserves the Interests of both medical faculty and Christianity, and they thrive together, learning that Mind power is good will towards (My. 4:14.)
men
If Christian Scientists ever fail to receive aid from other Scientists God will still guide them into the right use of temporary and
eternal means,
(S. & H. 444: 7.)
Only the smallest minority of Mrs. Eddy's followers grasped the scientific relation between the inter- esis of individual and collective mankind. This relation is vividly illustrated in Jesus" parable of the talents. Its vital point, understood, explains the necessity for the con-
knew thee that thou art an hard
thine." The methods and order in
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Vice-Chancellor, University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, Oct. 20.
"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” linking of successive periods of pro- gress as the precedent to the over- (To the Editor of the "China Mail."]|| coming of death. The unfaithful and fearful recipient complains, "imagine a more erroneous state- Sir-It would be difficult to man, reaping where thou hast not ment than one made under the sown, and gathering where thou heading of "Christian Science," in belief that man must die." She
hast not strawed: And I was afraid, your correspondence column last
night. had emphasised before "the simple
and went and hid thy talent in the rule that the greater controls the
earth: o, there thou hast that is the following statement occurs; An article was quoted in which lesser." The logical ultimate of those two rules is that if a majority
There is no shadow of doubt that God's design are "hard," that is, "to-day in thousands of cases of human beliefs in the necessity of the highest scientific co-operation la accurate, undeviating, and unalter-earnest Christian Scientists, often the words of Christ Jesus would be human faith and hope on the side of vest of good sewn in the one Pre behind them, are unable to meet disease and death were to continue, that which utilisea every grain of able. Each period gathers the har. with years of church membership and experience as practitioners fullled, and no flesh could be saved. recovery, and allies it to the delfic coding. So quick are the methods this most elementary "human The minority would have no way of power of the one Mind. Every of Mind, when unobstructed by the need" for bodily healing and re escape except to rise to the height patient thus healed is another products of human Ignorance, that main incapacitated or are con of Jesus' triumphant exit from human being instructed in the the sower of a new. peflod may re- the flesh." The work of the advance foundational laws of health and joice with the reapers of the predisesse." If this statement were stantly struggling against ing minority of mankind to-day is peace on earth-namely the law of vious one... clearly to strive to change the loving his neighbours and of hating false belief of the majority from the suicidal course of wrong think fear to hope, from faith to under- ing, the cause of all his suffering standing of
the present practical Thousands of invalids can thus possibility of overcoming disease learn by their healing that the golden rule of doing unto others as But until the scientific Church we would have them do to us, le should demonstrate the higher basic rule of health and immorality moral and spiritual unity needed to This higher educational process is change the opposition of a majority one of the radical differences be of mankind into a receptivity to tween legitimate Christian Science wards Selence, even Christian treatment and what is called psycho Scientists must feel, though in analysis. Another vital difference Parent Church, has been favested In lessening degress, the effects of the is that only the true Christian the practical measures taken in hellefs of a majority of mankind in Scientist accepts the facts of immaking known the universal design the supposed necessity of disease mortality and the practical, scienti- of Life and the unfolding rules of
fic overcoming of death.
and death.
and denth.
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The Manual rules of Mrs. Eddy's day bad been outgrown, and they contained no legal provisions for the harvest gathering that must ensue. Learning the opposition to be encountered the minority was not so afraid of the undertaking as to permit the talent of spiritual healing to be buried in its letter and left to decay. Every item of good gained by that minority, now known as The Christian Science
in the least true, the Christian Science movement would have ceased to exist long before now. The truth is that since its incep tion a little over 60 years ago, Christian Science has steadily grown until there are now over 2,500 churches throughout the world And why? Because Chris- tian Science is healing all manner of sin and disease in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ. The membership of these churches is largely made up of those who have been healed through Christian Science and re- stored to happy, healthy and use- health for all mankind.
ful existence; often after having It was a calamity that Mrs. Eddy
Progress of this Church has pass been given up by the doctors, fell under the control of the greater In drawing a circle with a paired far beyond the limits fixed for
These facts are so well known embodiment of these beliefe before of compasses, a stage is reached students of the past period in the to-day that it is not necessary to her students had learned how to win before the circle is completed when days of their early educational foot- enlarge on-them. However, in over the leaders of public thought to the advancing line appears to be steps. Mra. Eddy well said, "Judge order to prevent any misunder- belleve in the power of Mind and coming from a direction opposite to not the future advancement of standing amongst your readers, it to recognise the unreality of so- its beginning. So might it momen- Christian Solence by the steps al-
seems desirable: to state. that the called matter. Before scientific co- tarily appear in the final stage of ready taken "That future nublication called the "Christian operation could be instituted to a general revolution of public opin-is "to-day." Hence the utility of the Science Watchinan," has absolute- prove that genuine Christian Scien- on in relation to Christian Science
new covenant.
ly no connection with the Chris-. tists, the medical faculty, and healing.
A New Order
tian Science organisation as Christianity can "thrive together" There was no contradiction be- The Parent Church voices a new founded by Mary Baker Eddy. and lift the mental element of faith tween the early steps in the Chris-order of the ages. Its workers are In the Christian Science text- above the temporal means employed tian Science movement and those equipped to go out and apply the hook, "Science and Health with and so harness it to life and health, taken inter by Mrs. Eddy in her in-Truth-eure in the highways, the Key to the Scriptures Mrs. she had to resort to medical aid in dividual struggle. Any seeming well-beaten, orthodox paths marked Eddy writes: "Divine Love al- direct opposition to her former contradictions 'can. appear only to out by the faith of ages. They ways has met and always will practice of using "no drugs what those who fail to trace the unbroken know how to gatller the faith in meet every human need" (p. 494). over." This action was totally mis- line of advance as consistently en- good, there wasted, and bind it to The truth of this sentence is understood by her students who had circling both hemispheres In the the facts of Life. As faithful and being proved daily by thousanda. not assimilated the scientific im- scientific evolution of The Christian wise stewards, they are, ready to port of "the simple rule that the Science Church in its past and pre-dispense the pure mental element greater controls the leaser." The sent periods.
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needed for complete mastery over abstract statement-truth is great- The right is dark to a majority every form of sin and disease, and -er than error" remains a pure ab- of mankind asleep on the side of our thus to bring permanent health to -straction until supported by demon-rotating planet from which the sun mankind not by opposing but by stration. It seemed to Mrs. Eddy la temporarily hidden, while to aiding the receptive doctor, Bur - then too late to explain the scientific minority who keep watch during geon, and nurse.
method of balancing the mutual the interval, starlight makes even
This stage, in practical Christian
- interests of a majority on the night beautiful. In like manner Science, Mastrates the fourth and wrong side and a minority on the the earth in its yearly revolution final cal to the amrringe feast In right. But there is a method of round the sun. advances from Jesus”, parable: “Go ye therefore Mind by which this can be done and springtime to summer, reaches dull into the highways, and as many as one that never failethe method of autumn and then drops into cold, we shall find, bid to the marriage. scientific co-operation that confere hard winter when the essential So those servants went out Into the mutual benefits. This is the method progress must be continued even highways, and gathered together all discerned and applied by The Farent when faced by winds, rain, and as many as they found, both had Church in this period. S tempest, How contrary all then and good and the wedding was The Christian Scientists were seems to the peaceful early days of farnished with guests (Malt. 22.9, ; not found able to help Mrs. Eddy to beauteous June, until, presently 10). This parable brings out the explain the demand of the occasion the March winds die down, days scientific import of the covenants, and adjust the situation to the lengthen, the sun gains he ascend new and old, in all successive actual requirement of the "basic ancy, and bads everywhere herald periods; the wedding garment that proposition" of the Science she had bursting bloom and perfume. must distinguish each guest at the taught them, mainly, mortal Mrs. Eddy's winter time onis great deant, and Mrs. Eddy's de thoughts in bellef rule the materiall-marked out the next step for all scription: of practical Christian ty miscalled life In the body or in who should succeed her in carrying Selence as "the World, and the matter (8. & H. 164:22) If on the world-encircling movement wedding (the Hinking by practical only one had understood the right Experiment Completed application) of this word to all use of temporary and eternal The experimental stage of Chris human thought and actione, means the experience of the Lead-tian Science healing le past. The "From Extremen to Inte er would have brought a blessing to time has come When
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