TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1930.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE of thought from the material to
ADVANCING.
the spiritual basis of being, as evidenced by healings of serious physical disorders, mental pre- judices, lack of employment, and
Annual Report Read in unhappy states of mind.
Mother Church.
The first lecture for a university organization in Great Britain was delivered In the hall of Balliol College, the college of John Wycliffe at Oxford University. The ball was filled. At a lecture given in Hollywood Bowl, an open- air theatre in Los Angeles, Call Assurances of richer fruition infornia, the audience numbered the understanding and application 20,000.
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CONAN DOYLE.
GREAT NOVELIST PASSES AWAY.
ILL SINCE NOVEMBER,
London, Yesterday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died at his home, at Crowborough, at 9.15 this morning.
He had been ill since November, due to work in Scandinavia during the Autumn, lecturing on spiritual re-ism.
He found.aultable accommodation. at 2, Devonshire Place, which is close to the classical Harley Streat.. Here he got the use of a front room with part use of a waiting room. "I
was soon to And," he says.
SHADOWS BEFORE UMOROUS RECORD
that they were both waiting rooms, | COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
and now I know that it was better
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"Every morning .... reached my consulting room at ten and sat there until three or four, with never B ring to disturb my serenity. Could better conditions for reflection and work be found? | It was ideal, and ... there WAS of practical, operative Christian The Christian Science Publishing
every chance of improvement in my Science, resulting in more wide-
Soci ty.
| literary prospects. Therefore; Spread healing, 1 continuing The circulation of all the
when I returned to the lodgings at growth of branch churches
andligious periodicals shows a sub-
Lady Conan Doyle, two sons and tea time I bore my little sheaves societies, and the establishing of stantial growth over the previous move eflencians facilities for bene- year.... The circulation of the side-Reuter.
daughter were present at his bed-with me, the first fruits of a con-
siderable harvest." fiting humanity, were gratefully Christian Science Quarterly in-
Life of Variety and Romance, It was thus that Sir Conan voiced at the annual meeting of
creases in all parts of the world the Mother Church, the First and at a rate indicating the aleady variety and romance could, I think, literary carcer
"I have had a life which for Doyle turned from a medical to a in which he has Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos spread of Christian Science. The hardly be exceeded.. I have known since become famous.
Scandinavian Herald, which made what it is to be a poor man, and Progressive steps in activities its appearance last January, and is I have known what it is to be fair- already under way, and provision printed quarterly, received 11 ly affluent. of new equipment enabling the hearty welcome from Christian kind of human experience. I have
1 have sampled every CHINA-NEW STYLE. departments of the Mother Church Scientists acquainted with the known many of the most remark- to give broader scope to their Danish. Norwegian and Swedish able men of my time. work, were recounted in the re-languages in which it is printed. a long literary career after a medi-
I have had HOW BUSINESS METHODS ARE
CHANGING. ports of officers. Messages from And now the announcement is cal training, which gave me the branch churches told of renewed made that still another Herald of
M.D. of Edinburgh.
In an address on China's consecration to the teachings of Christian Science is to be estab
This is a quotation from Sir with the United States to the Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer lished. This one will be in the Arthur Conan Doyle's "Memories National Foreign Trade Convention and founder of Christian Science. Dutch language and is to bo
and Adventures," in which he at Los Angeles, California, the Hon. Overflowing the main auditorium published within a year.
briefly sketched the main outlines Henry K. Chang. Chinese Consul- | Into the original church. where The demand for literature in of a very interesting life. ampillers had been provided to other languages has been con- bring the speakers' voices to those xistent with the growth of Chrisas a doctor in Portsmouth.
With £10 he started his practice
who did not obtain seats in the tian Science throughout the world, extension, approximately 6,000 and in 1920 in addition to Christian Scientists from all over many pamplilets now published in the world attended the meeting languages other than English, Some interesting features from the there were issued three new pam various report follow:--
phlets-in Finnish, Portuguese and Tiddish.
Report of Trustees... A substantial sum was spent for emples of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and other writings by Mary Baker Eddy, us well as books and periodicals published by the Christian Science Pablishing Society, which have keen plared in prisans and in public libraries located where there were no recognized branches of the Mother Church and to assist in providing literature in Braille Further substantial
sums were paid to 56 churches and societies, to assist them in dedieating, free of debt, buildings erected, purchas. ed, or remodelled for Christian Science church ритровен, average of more than one per week. { In fact, since this trust
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"When I arrived at Portsmouth (in 1882) I went into lodgings for a week," he writes. I spent a week
house, and finally settled at £40 a in marking down an unoccupied turned out each year.
year."
"Until only very recently (he said) a great many of our college "Having secured the empty graduates have chosen to enter The average daily net paid cir- house and its key I went down to politics as a career, but in late years culation of the Christian Science a sale in Port Sea and for about an increasing number of them have Monitor for the six months ending 24 secured quite a lot of second-gone into business, and this influx March 28, 1930, was over 135,000, nnd-possibly. tenth-hand-furni- of new blood has already wrought a a new high record: that for the ture. It met my needs and enabled radical change in our business month of May was 164,072. Ad me to make one room possible for methods. Before the European war vertisements were received from patients, with three chairs, a table, the employment of compradores or twenty-six countries outside the tnited
and a central patch of carpet. I factors by foreign busi- Aus-
firms had a bed of sorts and a mattress ness
in tralia, Belgium.
China
and Canada, Chan- net
upstairs.
the policy of the foreign exchange Island's, Chinn. Cuba,
banks Caucho-Slovakia, Denmark, Egypt,
accept commercial "I fixed up the plate which I had papers for collection only from es- Britain. France, Germany, Hul- brought from Plymouth, bought a tablished foreign commission houses
and, India, Ireland, Isle of Man.
red lamp on tick, and fairly settled in China had acted as a sort of tariff Italy, New Zealand,
between down in receipt of custom. When wall
Chinese business Norway, Japah, Scotland, Southall was done I had a couple of houses and concerns abroad. But Africa. Sweiten, Switzerland and
hand. Servants, pounds in
of of late years a good many Chinese Wales. ELI
course, were out of the Importing and exporting firms have question, so I polished my own outgrown this stage of isolation and have established direct connections abroad and are doing business with them without the intervention of foreign firms...
WAB
Incidents of Christian Science' Healing.
dizziness.
Red Lamp "On Tick."
sonably clean. I found that I could than a shilling a day, so I could live quite easily and well on less hold out for a long period.
"The back
to
established in 1914, more than two The following incident of Chris-plate every morning, brushed down and one half million dollars have tian Science healing from Holland, my front and kept the house rea been given to the branches of the is one of several which were read Mother Church to aid them into the meeting: More than seven completely paying for their build years ago, when in the East Indies,
"Those Chinese banks which have ings, and the average for the last I was very ill, suffering from an
introduced modern banking systems fifteen years is a grant to a church extraordinary sort of
room was furnished into their organisations now have with my trunk and a stool. Inside correspondents abroad to handle Four physicians, of whom two the trunk was my larder, and the their own papers and have been the Committee on Publication.
were specialists, declared they had During recent months, much has
top of it was my dining-room table. means of enabling the Chinese busi- never come across such a form in There was gas laid on, and I riggedness houses to do a direct business. been said in newspapers and all their practice. Christian periodicals throughout the world Science came my
la projection from the wall by which on account of their lower overhead. way, and by a to the effect that the righteous op single present treatment a
I could sling a pan over the gas these Chinese import and export skull position which Christian Scientists operation was made unnecessary with great ease and became expert petitors
jet. In this way I cooked baconhouses are fast becoming keen com- have expressed toward unfair was healed of insomnia at the in getting a wonderful lot of alices houses in China, which until re of foreign commission statements about Mrs. Eddy has same time. The practitioner exfrom a pound. amounted to suppression and boy:plained to me the glorious truth
Bread, bacon, and cently had monopolised the handling cott. Informed and unprejudiced about God, the indissoluble bond! tea, with an occasional saveloy of China's foreign trade."
It the between God and His creation. In what could man ask for more?
observers have realized that
"It was a busy thoroughfare
criticisme directed against the at- connection with "Eclence and is (ar was) perfectly, easy to live titude and actions of Christian Health with key to the Scriptures" well upon a shilling a day. Scientists, regarding misrepre- by Mary Baker Eddy, the Bible has "Three Bob This Week." sentation of their religion and become my daily guide. their leader, have been based on a grateful for having found Chris with a church at one side of my few instances where zea) exceeded than Sclence not only in Java..but house and a hotel on the other.”
A vivid glimpse of this life at
wisdom.
I am
also in Holland; for I have rea
Jurisdictions in English-apeak- here the last seven years notwith- Portsmouth was given by Conan ing countries, in which the prac-standing the doctor's verdict that Doyle's young brother Innes, in a. tice of Christian Science is not I could not do so. I was healed letter home in 1882.
definitely recognized, are now so few that a substantial advance to- ward à completion of our work along this line is made with each additional enactment and, there- fore, we are particularly glad to record that, in March, 1980, there was enacted in British Columbia an amendment to the Medical Act of that province protecting those who practise the religious tenets
of their church.
and
trembling hands which Incapaci practically instantaneously from to stay, and wrote: tated me from using apoon fork, from rheumatism, from in- flammation in ane ear, and from chronic constipation.
A Word From The Directora.
It is our firm belief that within
He had come
"The patients are crowding in. We have made three bob this week. We have vaxonated. .3 baby and got hold of a man with consumption."
Conan Doyle adds to this:— "Month followed month, and I
the teachings of Christian Science picked up a patient here and a may be found the answer to every patient there until the nucleus of a question which the human mind little practice had been formed. was an accident. One of the most significant de- life work of Mrs. Eddy, it is sometimes an can present. To one studying the Sometimes it
emergency case, velopments of the past year is the evident that everything had to give sometimes a new comer to the town, Selence by religionists of other way to her persistent effort to be or one who had quarrelled with. hin
true to the purpose to which she doctor.
Increased interest in Christian
denominations, expressed princi-was called, namely, to re-establish pally through requests for ad- dresses on the fundamentals of Christian Science. At this time, when thought is greatly concern ed with irreligion and lawlessness seeking expression everywhere, and particularly among young people, it is encouraging to note that these requests came in the main from those in charge of groups of young people allied to various religious, charitable, and educational institutions. ... These meetings have been held in Britain and in widely separated parts of the United States.
Epileptic Grocer."
Sonie
She never allowed that purpose to I could, for. I learned that a brass in this age the Christ-healing. "I mixed with people so far as be interfered with by trivialities plate alone will never attract, and which the human mind might sug-people must see gest. As Christian Scientists we who lies in wait behind it.
the human being have a great opportunity for bene-of my trades-people gave me their fiting the world, but in order to custom In return for mine, and serve most we must see to that mine was so small that I was likely we keep our eyó singic, reaching to have the best of the bargain.. out prayerfully from hour to hour There was a grocer who developed for the wigdem and inspiration epileptic fita which means butter which is born of an honest en- and tea to us. Poor fellow he deavour..
could never have realized the mixed, The problems confronting the feelings with which I receive the Directors to-day, are more zumer-news of a fresh attack.”, t ous than ever before, and will so When Koch announced that he continue as our movement grows had discovered a cure for con- but we have at our command the sumption, Conan Doyle was anxious means of solving them all, and in to be present at a demonstration in furn to divine Mind for guidance, Morris wed the proportion that we continually Berlin, and there met Sir Malcolm as we guard well humility and "I came back a changed man," strive to temper authority with he writes, "Malcolm Morris as- kindliness, are we able to carry sured me that I was wasting my life on successfully,
In the provinces asi had too small a field for my activities." MARA
To London And Fame.
When he found that Conan Doyle was interested in eye work he urged him to specialise, to go to Vienna for six months, work."""Thus you will have aules clean life with liner plenty of Helaure for your term
10 ture. This was done, and Doyle
came to
Board of Lectureship. John the Baptist and the Master, Christ Jesua, both began. their preaching ministries with the imperative command to repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand, the Greek word "repent" meaning to change one's thought, to think differently. With ilke purpose the Board of Lectureship says to its hearers, Change "the basis of your thinking from mat.. ter: to Spirit, for the Kingdom of Love and Life is at hand, to be understood and enjoyed, VAR!!
More than 3,000,000 persons have: attended Christian Science lecisa Amy tures during the past year. Fored here on thi many of them the year has indeed. Naldera,
Reute
been
season for the change, Kilg
AMY GOES HOME.
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PLEADS FOR SON WITH OFFICIALS.
Carrying a bundle of books, nicely wrapped up in a big handkerchief. Esperidiona Bonifacio, sister and only surviving, relative of Andres Bonifacio, herd of Balintawak, ap- peared at hte City Hall, Manila, seeking help so that her boy, Mauro, might be admitted in a city school.
Mauro is in the Afth grade, hav-f ing finished his primary school in Ternate where Bonifacio's sigter now makes her abode. There being no intermediate school there, the mother decided to educate the hero's nephow in Manila under the care of a distant relative. But the city
him because of the ruling barring school authorities refused to admit
provincial students from the city schools. The mother claimed that she was too poor to send her child to Cavite and that some distant relatives have willingly volunteered to educate the hero's nephew.
Esperidiona Bonifacio was in the limelight recently when the legisla ture started a move to award her a life pension in recognition of the
brother. The woman was discover- services done to the country by her
they wanted to show the gratitude ed living in poverty at Ternate and
of the nation for the sacrifices of
her brother by giving hor a govern- ment pension..
The pension was not realised and the woman again sought help, this time for her child. Philippines
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