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CHRISTIAN SUIERCE
pelled to later rely on drugs. October 24, 1928.
That Mrs. Bady used drags is. not a fact, but fiction.-October
To the Editor of the Ching Mall."; 126, 1928, Sir-With regard to Mr.
"...
The members of The Mother is considerable opposition to the Adler's remark in his letter rint Church in Boston do not solicit scheme in Shanghai, An Ameri-ed in your paper to-day, referring what is known as medical science, my letter of yesterday as ut find that Christian Science can concern-the American. For-to eign Power
affords them complete salvation Company, Incor-hiding behind a non-de-plume," porated, is reported to have it should be noted that the pur from sickness as well as sin offered Tis: 81,000,000 for the de-pose of this corespondence which November 7, 1923. partment while the British your paper has kindly consented Trusts Association, Limited, has to print, is to be found in the con-
Very tents of the letters and not the Any attempt to suggest that offered Tls. 61,000,000.
--.-"must fail, probably there will he other signatures over which they ap-Mrs. Eddy had to resort to offers; but to one and albof them, pear. To those who are interest medical science we trust, a cold reception will he ed in bringing facts to light and because these suggestions are
to the attention of the general false.-November 15, 1928. given. Judging by the correspon- dence columns of nur Shanghai public, sufficient interest is to be
Genuine Christian Scientists contemporaries there is consider found in the guide posts to know-
ledge which these letters present, everywhere members of the able opposition among the
and such persons are certainly Church of Christ, Scientist. ratepayers. to the concern
worried over "nom-de- do not approve, nor have they at passing out of the hands of the not
any time approved, a policy of co- Municipality. Why should it, plumes."
I should appreciate hearing operation with medical science for when it is paying so well and is
lucid comments on the body of my the purpose of healing the sick.-- being efficiently conducted?
letter rather than assertions January 26, 1929. which cannot be substantiated, or which are mere quibblings.
grow
Good leaders are always
"
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The deduction that drugs may "The truth is the truth and be used for healing in conjunction anxious that their followers shall Parent Church people have pub with Christian Science and in co- out of that helpless and liely expressed their despair of operation with the medical, pro- thoughtless "sheep" state of mind ever obtaining from an official fession clearly indicates abandon- into a hefter atate. Good leaders representative of the Boston body ment of Christian Science-Jan- want us to think and act for cur- any definite statement pointing uary 28, 1929. selves, and to follow them, not be out "a single published statement
The leaders of the Bostor cause "everybody's doing it," but in Mrs. Bill's writings or in the
of the "Christian Church hold that medical assist- because we know it to be the right contents thing to do. see, a good Science Watchman' that departs ance, and the use of drugs to allay Mr. Charles leader doesn't play on our weak from the teaching of Mrs. Eddy." pain are forbidden..
This does not refer to Mr. W. J. Tennant, who is the official nesses, but desires that we shall grow strong. "Methodist Re: Adler or to other committees but spokesman in Great Britain of officials of the Boston Church. the Boston Church, is reported to corder" (London).
Yours, etc.,
have stated that the assertion OUTSIDER. that Mrs. Eddy used drugs is a Hong Kong, March 20.
lie. January 29, 1929.
- You
Six cases of small-pox were no- tified yesterday-two from the Victoria district and four from Kowloon. All were Chinese.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Gittins, who were married on Tuesday, were among the pasengers on the "Empress of Asia" when she sailed yesterday. -
FALSE PROPAGANDA
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31,
Mrs. Eddy, after her discovery of Christian Science, never em- ITe the Editor of the "China Mail)ployed any material means for
healing or cure.--January Sir-Sir.One must regret 1929. that Mr. Adler adopts such a tone and the writer feels that he is to
Nanking as a blackguard of the deepest dye, can seriously, if not vitally, undermine the position of the Kwangsi faction in Hupeh
Permit me to inform readers and. Hunan. Several Generals
be pitied after reading his letter that no co-operation exists be who commanded army corps
in your issue of yesterday. tween members of the Christian under him joined the Kwangsi This morning's temperature at
His latter is in harmony with Science Church, founded by Mary. issued by Baker Eddy, and medical practice. leaders at Hankow. Two of these, 11 o'clock was 60 degrees and the other propaganda
humility 79 degrees, as compare spokesmen of the Boston organ-Januarq 31, 1929. Generals Ho Chien and Yeh Chi,ed with 69 and 67 degrees, res-isation as will be seen from the were mainly responsible for Han-pectively, yesterday at 2 p.m.
kow giving offence to the Na-
Mr. and Mrs. D.-L. King were tional Government at Nanking in That they ousted the provincial Asia yesterday. Mr. King is passengers on the "Empress of governor against the wishes of secretary and manager of the Nanking. It is interesting to re China Provident, Loan and Mort call that when Tang Seng-chi fled gage Co.
in.
following article from the "Chris- tian Science Watchman" for
paganda.".
February entitled, "False Pro-THE DOVER ROÁD”
NEXT PRODUCTION BY THE A.D.C.
Mr. Adler might do well to read a pamphlet entitled "A. Ghastly Record" which gives a list of persons who passed away at the "Christian Science Watchman" at
Most of the characters in the to Japan these two Generals
Brookline during the first five plays of A.' A. Milne are nice A general meeting of the share-years of its existence.
people who say witty: things on fought on ainst the Kwangsi-holders in the Hong Kong Finance
This list gives over one hun-all possible occasions. They do ites for so time before giving and Investment Co., Limited (indred and fifty names and shows the quaintest things in a tactful
Liquidation), will be held
on that during those five years more way and should they be so unfor April 25, according to an official persons died in that institution timate as to meet with adversity Whether Generals Ho Chien intimation in our advertising than in their famous hospitals you may be sure they will display and Yeh Chi rally around Tang columns.
situated in the same city of good temper and impeccable taste.. Brookline, Seng-chi or not, sufficient damage
They are happy folks. **Mr. Yau-tsun is to be enter has been done to the Kwangsi tained at dinner in the Kam Ling cause already at least in restaurant to-morrow night by Hupeh and Hunari, if not as far the directors of the Túng Wah south as Canton-by the deser-Hospital in honour of the bestow-
al of the C.B.E, on him. tion of two divisions (formerly army corps) along the Peking-
Fassengers on the 5.8. "Taiyo Mukden Railway. These two divi-Maru," which sailed yesterday, sions were once under Tang Seng included Mrs. E. de Figueiredo, Mr. and Mrs. A: R.. Osborne and chi. They were "incorporated" Master Alfred Osborne,
Hr.
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A copy of this pamphlet is en- closed for your information. I also enclose my card.
Yours, etc..
INSIDER. Hong Kong, March 20.
"Christian Science Watchman"-
February, 1929. False Propaganda (Official denials of Mrs. Eddy's by the Kwangai faction. And, Osborne is on the staff of the use of drugs and doctors, in the with the disappearance of the Taikoo Dockyard. Kwangsi element in the North,
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In Milne's carly plays there is traceable the undoubted influence of Barrie. Serious themes have rarely gained his attention. On the two chief occasions when he strayed on to the high road of controversy in "Ariadne" and "Success"the author was not at his happiest. It is in the leafy by-ways that Milne is at home. There is always a place in our drama for light hearted wayfar- ing, and while he is content to face of a full knowledge of the remain a gay juggler with the un- facts by the Boston Mother expected side issue and the pre- Amongst the passengers on the Church officials, continue even posterous unforeseen, there are in Nanking, and General Tangany form of threat to the rear ofEmpress of Asia," which sailed after an admission of a part of few contemporary comedy writ- Seng-chi, until his expulsion the Nanking or General Feng Yu- yesterday, were Sir Elly Kadoorie the truth was forced from them ters who can excel him.
hsiang (who is presumed to be an and Mr. L. Kadoorie: Captain and and published in the Christian "The Dover Road" is surely supreme authority in Hankow and
ally of Nanking) has vanished. Mrs. Miche, Lieut. and Mrs. D. P. Science Sentinel of January 26, one of the lightest and best of Norman, Captain and Mrs. G. A. 1929. Systematic propaganda is Milne's comedies, and will lose
IS CHIANG TO FIGHT?
Perhaps the most portentous development in the present China crisis is the reconciliation be tween Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, head of the National Government
the greatest danger to Nanking. In the event of war, the oppon-Robinson, Lieut.-Commander Dr.being employed by the Boston nothing in its interpretation by a
row and the South. Realising the
جمية
IT
Tang Seng-chi fell when at the
ents of the Kwangsi faction then R. Southern, and Lieut--Comman organisation to mislead the pub- strong and carefully selected cast. zenith of his career. His entry need only concentrate on Han-der F. C. Woodhouse.
lie and create among Christian Booking will open at the into current polities is ominous
Scientists antagonism toward and Anderson Music Company on
•It was his expulsion from Hunan
Notice has been given at the fear and distrust of the medical Saturday. by the Northeraers in 1926 which position to be such and having tocal Registry of the forthcoming profession. This propaganda is already accepted the inevitable by marriage of Mr. Alfred Tage carried on principally by the save the final impetus to Mary submitting to the decision of Starmose Jensen, of the Great Committees Our Philip Mr. H Birkett, principal of shal Chiang Kai-shek to set, out Nanking--the Kwangsi faction 455, Rue Lafayette, Shanghai, tosented in almost every city, The Messrs. Moxon and Taylor, stock
Northern Telegraph Co. of No. directed from Boston and repres from Canton on the campaign which has resulted in National may obviate being attacked in the Miss Ingeborg Bergishagen method employed it illustrated in brokers, sailed on the "Empress of
field by the more simple, if un-Jessen, No. 2, Aigburth Hall, the following quotations taken Asia" yesterday. ism reaching Peking. But Tang
from among many similar exam-
Capt. A. W. Davison, R.N.R., ples from recent newspaper state- Seng-chi was never a Nationalist,
palatable, expedient of evacuat May-road, Hong Kong. ing Hankow, Hupeh, and Hunan
ments signed by official press re- marine superintendent of the Mrs. Featherstone and Master although he profited extensively and returning to Kwangtung and H. WFeaherstone, wife and believable that such untruths, as accompanied by Mrs. Davison,
presentatives. It is almost un- Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd.," by calling himself suck. When
Kwangsi. In which case Chiang son, of the Rev. W. T. Feather may be found below, could have were passengers on the "Empress his ambition got the better of his Kai-sheh ought to be satisfied and stone, MA, head master of the been circulated and official author of Asia which sailed yesterday. judgment he turned on Chiang not want to fight.
Diocesan Boys School, sailed on ised on any plane of religious War clouds the Empress of Asia" yesterday
Mr. R. A. Ponsonby Fane left Kai-shek and nearly upset, the anti-North Expedition by intern al strife. The fact remains, however, that the greatest civil war in China since the Revolu- tion began with Tang Seng-chi, directly or indirectly. Does his reappearance at this critical stage indicate that Chiang Kai-shek is once again to fight for him?
It is obvious that Chiang Kai- shek, to strengthen his hands
are thickening, but it is possible Mr. Featherstone is taking only thought) Christian Science Com the Colony yesterday on the s.s. that the Kuomintang Congress three months leave in the sum-mittee on Publication entirely dis."Taiyo Maru." Other passengers may find a formule for peace to that he is signing a new agree had recourse to drugs and Glencross the Misses; Ps and. D. mer It is interesting to know credited the statement that Mrs. included Captain and Mrs. J. B. the advantage of Nanking and ment with the School for six saldaste Christian Scientist Glencross, Master J. Glencross, the disadvantage of the Kwangsi years from November next. faction at Hankow,
would never call in a doctor and Captain R. G. Fetherston August 19, 1928.
raugh,
How utterly
impossible
At the Kowloon Magistracy, yesterday, Mr. ES Whyte Smith For a Christian Scientist to co Mrs. H. Davenport Browne, heard several cases of smuggling operate with a doctor is a sin wife of Mr. Davenport Browne of Shanghal's Electricity Supply of illicit opium by Chinese pas-"a denial of the Christ, Truth the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd.,,
and Hon Secretary and Trea Anyone who knows anything sengers from Canton by the Row- August 25, 1928,
surer of the Hong Kong AD.C about Shanghai's Electricity loon-Canton Railway A woman
was among the passengers who Department will very seriously was fined $2,000 or two months against the Kwangsi faction, is, hope that it will not pass into the for the possession of 72 taels of it would be for Christian Scient sailed yesterday on the Canadian hands of a private enterprise.raw opium, which she carried in a lats to co-operate with what he Pacific R.MS. Empress of Asia.” rallying around him everybody Since its inception it has been special pocket inside a waistcoat known as medical science dince
Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith.com- who might prove of use whether controlled by the Municipal Coun- A boy of 18 who had 76 faels of Christian Scientists are faithful- war is declared or not. Which cil of Shanghai's International raw opium hidden in nine baskets ly endeavouring to emulate the raittee member of the Philar- Bowes-Smith, local businessman, fact can be construed as indicate Settlement, and it has gone on of dried vegetables, was remand works of the Master October monic Society, and wife of Mr.
from strength to strength" in aed for his relatives to be com- 12, 1928.
called or the "Empress of Asia” ing that Chiang Kai-shek is pre manner that reflects the utmost municated with A fine of $1,000 pared to resort to hostilities as credit upon all concerned It is or four months was imposed on a It will be admitted by all fair yesterday Other local residents to-day one of the most up-to-date man for the possession of 84 taels minded individuals, that one who on the same ship are Mr. and Mrs. the only possible means of settle electric plants in the world tits of raw opium, whilst a woman was healed by the power of God EL. Sim. Mr. Sim is an official ment. Therein lies the omen working capacity being greater who had 30 taels tied round her. (Mra. Eddy) and who later heal of the Hong Kong Hockey Club Tang Seng chi, hitherto accused than in even commercially great waist was fined $900 ozorje en many others by the dame end of the Hong Kong Horticul
divine power, would never be comfural Society, by the National Government at er cities of Britain and America month.