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either in themselves or others, they are over- coming death, and with the disappearance of sickness and sin, death will disappar, and be as though it had not been, as indeed it never
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CORRESPONDENCE.
"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS,*]
S-I hope that you will allow me to correct two points in the first letter upon the subj'at of Christian Scienca in last Saturday's issue, ao they do a cnsid-rable, though doubtless un-
· intentional, ujistic to a loc | Christiva Sei no practitioner. The fist is an allusion to her 2.9 "Wanton inter- action in a certain case ference." I am able to state on unimpeachable authority that the patient herself appaled in her extremity for Christian Science treatm ot baring beard of the practitioner's arrival in Hongkong from a mutual friend in England. Secondly your correspondent attribats deplor- able results to the advion of the practitioner thit the patient should visit England. The practi- tioner did not give this advice, nor was she at any time consulted about the matter, which was settled after the patient had been so much bene- fitted as to have dispensed with further trat maut. I shall always regret that her friends in England did not trust her to the same divine power as, it is well knowo, had so miraculo sly raised her in Hongkong from a dying stata to one of health and happiness.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
"Christian Science to ches-"There is no mat- went on to argue that it was not mesmerism. Mesmerism meant that each person had a mind¦ter." But does anyone for a moment suppose of his own Christian Scince showed that that to Christian Scientis's there is no matter? mortal 820se
If they had demons rated up to that point, Was a non-reality and the testimony of the senses unreliable. God only they woull not be visible to mortal sense any was true, and every mortal
The more than Jesus was in what has been term-d a liar.
the ascension, hr stian Scientists still ea' one Mind had power over the carnal mind God was the only Mind, and the so-called and drink, and wear clothing, and live in houses individual mind only the carnal mind that must and are visible to mortal s-nsa like other people. be corrected by the Divine mind. Instead of They s, theoretically, that thers is no matter, being mesmerism, Christian Sei-ucs was just but they have by no meaus demonstrated it
entirely. They do not take material the opposite.
"For instead of teaching minds many indiciues or physical treatment of any kind time of sickness and suffer. teaches one Miad, and that "Mind, the Mind of (as a rule) in
matter cannot beal God in whom is no evil, is no sickness, sin or ing; they know that death, which Mind must overcome and annihilate disease, that nothing but Truth, Divine
Mind can overcome error of any
kind. the mortal mind, as darkness is swall wed up if
Christ The Exemple, Jesus of N ziret: did light. And Christian S-i-ntists, instead of
It being mesmerists, are finding their way out of ¦ not use material means in heal.ng disease. mesmerism (in which all the world is engulfed) was the power of the spirit with which He destroyd sickness as well as sin, although it is out of the belief of minds many into the one Miod, the Mind that is God, where all so-called stated, and some are using it as an argument individual minds are swall wed up and lost in against Christian Scirutists, that lo put clay on the blind man's eyes when He halet hir, the one Divine Mind, wherein dwilleth right.
Bat the wonderful lesson He was teaching His eousness. Christian Science teaches no sact; : thing as sickness or disease, that sickness and disciples in that demonstration was, that all men disease are
is (mortal) are born blind, and cannot see until the illusion;
that it hypochondria or imagination in the common clay of material sense is washed away by the acceptance of those terms, but that out in the cleansing waters of the spirit of Christ, and then they will see, aud see clearly. Christian Scien- great scientific fact of being, no such thing, is or
tists are finding more and more that food does not ean be found; that sickness or disesse canoat
nstain life; that while they are eating so called properly be said to be a part of being. That
material food it has un real life sustaining pro- being, in its scientific purry, is ns tree from
perties or qualities. Take for instance a piece sickness and disease now as it was posibl- for it
of beefsteak that is carefully conkel ustil no to be, when being first began, or as ilver will
life is left in it, b fore we eat it to site our be, when all seeming evil is swept aw 5 and ilis
life. If fond could actually save life the n no kingdom is come on earth. Bu, although
one could die with food in their stomach. Yet, Christian Science teachl-s su h thin
Christian Scientists will never stop eating aud as sickness and disease, get, Christian Scientists there stiil is sickness and disease, they drinking until they have demonstrated over it, have not yet overcome; they are overcoming and that will not be until they have demonstrat
ધર્મ over the flesh and all mortality. But these claims, but for a Chri-tian Scientist i
how long that will take, or when that will to say that to himself there is no siektes2, or to
bo accomplished. "No man knoweth, not Bay of himself that he knows no sickness, no
the
bul the Father. It would b¦ disease, is to say what he has not yet proved,
the height of folly for anyone 10 sttip all its forms, and for a Christian Scientist to
until by actual
knowledge aud say such a thing, is not only an error in its-If eating. but ia a detr ment to our cause. And no genuine student of Christian Science would ever say such a thing, especially af er he has got over the period of entusiasm and excitement, and gotten to look at Truth in a reasonable and scientific way, and to use more wisdom in
ch. his thought and s A Christian Scientist often says ther. is no disease, the same as a mathematician may say that there is no error or mistake in the science of numbers, but he does not mean that ben ver makes an error or a mistake, or that he himself las gotten beyond the possibility of such a thing, no more does the Christian Scientist mean that be has getten beyond rickue s
And St. l'aul writes in his first and disease in his Own cas.. If he is
The last enemy to earnest and honest he is demonstrating
and the revelator saw over these claims, da ly and hourly, and will,
death and bell cast into the lake of fire, In his if faithful, at last overcome and b giren
most wondrous vision he s the "Tabernacle "To eat of the hidden mauna thall inherit all things." Chritian Science of God among men and (od should wipe seaches health and rightec u-n- ss as th» r« a', aud. *** sickness and evil as the unreal. Aulest quently, its teachings dwell more upon health than upon sickless, more up on the light than it can write volumes upon upon the wrong; health and holiness, but has very hi to xây about sickness and evil, except to cousign it to oblivion."
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As God did not create sin, there was no such Gi.d thing as sin, and the same with dis ase. could not be good and evil too; as He made no evil, evil was never made, spiritual sense is a sin ess and perfect and unchangeable as God.
Man in his trus
sorry.
But that was Gol to say Christian Scientists had risen abote sin and iniquity. They still sinned and were The more they realized its netbin ss, the lee they would wield to it. At the same time, that did not offer a licence to sin, for the Silber made a reality of sin, and it be sioned, must bear the consequences.
In conclusion the lecturer said G d the God could not create eril, therefore there was ko ie, He did not make the sky, for there is no sky He did not create matter, for there is to ter: mortal man and the material werblind a' no time any real existence; Christian Seine- Christ taught by
binetu Lutdiel years ago; it was absolute and flual truth.
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practical demonstration he had prove that be could re without eating. Christian Science, like the scriptures, teaches "Wisdom is the principal thing; and it certainly would not be wise to jump from the pinnacle of the temple or do any other uncalled for or unnecessary thing. I hey do not stop the use of drug remedies until they have found by experience and actual know lege that they have no real curative qualities, or bealth-producing properties, And Christian Scientists are learning more and more to l-t people alone maid they have found this cut, before they talk to them very much of the
Curist cure.
Christian Science sounds the toesia There is no death."
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do not propose on this occasion to reply tɔ "Cleek" by detailing the nam rout instano 18 in which I have myself been helped by Cristian Science, but say of your readers who wish for information can attend the Wedneslay evening services of the Society (5 3 p.m. York Building, Coater Road) which are held for the express purpose of hearing acc ants of local work,
I am, tir, your ob dient servant,
S. T. DUNN, President of the Christian Science
Society of Hongkong. Hongkong January 19th, 198
TO THE EDITOR OF THE
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818, -In regard to the fact that the patient, or the husband, was asked to make a contriba. tion to the C. Society, I would point ont that the gratitude of a person 'apparently " healed of cancer would desire to find expression, hengi it is unlikely that the suggestion preveded the desire. Secondly, it is a recognised thing in Christian Science that help shnu d be appr·oia". ed in some way, o't from a filosocial piat of view but as a sign of gratitude, and b osase help is sometimes belter appreciated if it is paid for. I know that Scientists vary often help pitisats without any reward, when they consider on sh to be the more loring cours, or when there is the possibility of a money payment interfering with the recognition of indebt du 84 to the A l-Lva ; further, that in the majority of cases the payment is more nominal than anything else, it was my necessity, so after arrival in Hongkong, to need help from a practitioner in the Colony, and when that help hɩd bin most readily given, the offer of payment was refused, bich most strongly obj wted to upon the grounds that it was neither scientific aor right to prevent me showing my gratita le, esp-aisliy as the trust gratitud, in Science is impersonal. of one instapos where a
S. KINGSBURY.
present, accomplisted fact, What will ever be found to be not ue is not true to-day. If ever there is to be a time when thers will be so death, then there is no death to-day, and if there is a placs anywhere in His pres ac where there is 10 destt then there is Do death anywhere. ¦ I am also aware because He is everywhere, and there is no place! practitioner made a gift of £1) to ■ Christian where He is not. Death, therefore, is another Science Charob, or Society, while receiving rrr that Christ the Truth casts out. Jesus of payment of one do`lar for help girao. – Yours Nazareth did not raise Lazarus from the dead | truly, simply to restore him to family and friends and a temporal life again, to suffer and die, and be murded and lamented, but to show th› power of truth to overcome error, to show that life was the master of death, that Gol euld triumph over i every
evil, sickness, sin and death, sud since, as the Bible d'c'ares that sin brought desth into the world, therefore the o.ercoming of sin is the overcoming of death. And since sickness mod sin are overcome by the same Christ power, therefore to the extol that sickness, or sin, is efercome by truth, to that extent is death Loverc ›me. Therefore, whenever
Scientists demonstrate over sickness or sin,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS," |
Kowloon, 20th January. SIR,-Having realia your psper of the 18th ins'. a letter re Christian Scienc-,” I wish tɔ add a little from personal ka wledg».
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I have a dear friend is Baton U.8. who soo, at the time 18 years of age, was kicked in It was a the knee while playing football. pretty bad acciden', but after an examination Christian | by two Doctors they reported it as not very serious“ if well atlooded to" and they recom.