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** CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" INTERESTING LECTURE AT THE CITY HALL
(CONTEMPLATING TRUTH, A CORRECTIVE.
Christian healing has nothing in common with the will of the flesh. On the other hand, it is in complete agree meat with, the will of God. For that reason it can never be divorced fram
An interesting lecture on Christian Science was delivered, yesterday morn- ing, at the Theatre Royal by Mr. Bliss Christian theology. To meditate on the Knapp, a member of the Board of Lecture nature of God, in the full expectation of ship of the Mother Charch, the First gaining a better understanding of Him, Church of Christ Scientist in Bostoti, is generally considered a distinct mark Massachusetts. Mr. C. W. Aucott, who of devotion. presided, made a brief reditace to recent stirring events, which, he said, had "al bearing on the subject of the lecture.
Mr. Knapp, before manencing his lecture, spoke of the war activities of Christian Science in America, where over
sincerity must feed and satisfy one with To meditate thus in full
His health and holiness.
flowers. As he stops to contemplate their One may behold a beautiful field of
rare beauty, his thought is fed and satie
THE GERMAN » PLOTS IN INDIA
UNDER THE GENERAL SUPERVISION OF THE CONSUL-GENERAL
IN SHANGHAI.
BANOKOK AND BATAVIA CENTRES
OP CONSPIRACY,
The report of the Committee appointed to investi conspiracies connected with the revola, by the Government of India gate the nature and extent of criminal
tionary movement in India has now been certain German schemes which relied made public. From this it appears that upon co-operation with the Ghadr party of San Francisco and the Bengali revolutionaries, centred in Bangkok and Batavia. The Bangkok scheme depended chiefly on returned Sikhs of the "had" Bengalis. Both the schemes were under party, the Batavian scheme upon the
General for Germany in Shanghai acting the great efforts of Christian Science goodness, on the strength of His 'meck under orders from the German Embassy among men at the Front and in the ness, and on the nourishing, thought of at Washington. Training Camps by
appointing His purity and health, and they haveing the conspiracies, the
Summarising their conclusions regard chaplains of their denomination to both the Army, and the Navy. Mr. been healed of dire afflictions. Knapp, continuing, said:-An epidemic satisfying thoughts have corrected the seldom attacks more than twents per cent proclivities of the flesh, and the truth of a population. When confrented by such an epidemic, it is
customary
of the
which set out for fadis pursuance of the German-Indian pla are told at.
reached its destination. When the length in the report, Neither vessel
Maverick scheme failed the German Consul-General at Shanghai arranged to send two other ships with arms to the Bay of Bengal. The first was to carry 20,000 rife, 8,000,000 cartridges, 2,000 pistols, and hand grenades and explo sives, and two lakhs of rupees; the other 1,000 rifles 1,000,000 cartridges and grenades and explosives. This plan the Committee, suggests that the re- also came to grief.. Our examina- tion of the German schemes, remark volutionaries concerned were far too sanguine, and that the Germans with whom they got in touch were very ignor- ant of the taovement of which they at-
tempted to take advantage
a million and a half dollars had been fed. He has taken nothing from them, collected for, their Camp Welfare Work, but he has gained much that is enduring. in America and in France. The United Thus thousands of people, devout in States Government had wice afforded their thought of God. have turned to them monetary relief, and had recognised Him to meditate on the beauty of. Hi, the general direction of the Consultormed Mohammedan was isolated, weak.
• to study the cause
immune."
for
has made them free.
Those
FOOTSTEPS TO MES. KODY'S DISCOVERY. from a
physical former
Mrs. Eddy was long a member of the analysing the while the
Lungregational entrum, thi physical condition of every afflicted in- tional culture she received there and at dividual
It does not occur to them to
nome fitted her to understand and action question what made the eighty por cent..
The physician painstakingly when a child she was taken with a lever. strate the Frinciple of "divine nesting, diagnoses the disease because he is er mother talked to asr of God and governed by the belief that health is a
it asured her that God would surely an condition of the flesh. He supposes to be a personal possession, humanly cir.swer her prayers, if she would only turn cumscribed, and the body to be a kind to Him. As the little girl' prayed zer: of storage battery generating the vital vently, the fever let her and cer notaer current. The Christian Scientist, in auch rejoiced over the speedy recovery, Later a case studies just as thoroughly the waile she was attending a neighbouring origin of health, for it is evident to him school a man, escaped from an insane that health and not disease is the object asylum, approached the culsaren at play, of his search. He knows that Jesus pre-holding a club threateningly in his hand, seated the only perfect system of head-alary Baker walked up to aim fearlessly ing known to men, and be taught his and naturally, imbued with a religious disciples how to restore health by start sense of God's presence and power. The ing with the proposition that. God is the man became subdued, and gentle, and departed at her request. The following Sunday be appeared at ber side during the morning service in the church. There he permitted himself to be taken in charge by an officer and led away. Some years later, when grown to womanbood, abe healed a child of severe eye trouble by her fervent prayers to God.
creator of it.
HEALTH A DIVINE EIGHT:
The direct cause which led to the dis
state:
AN ARMY OF GOD. It is noted that very few Moham. medans were in any degree concerned in subversion of British wale which can be any of the conspiracies, and that the only recent movement towards the forcible
supported, and mainly due to the re markable circumstances of the present time. This was the "Silk Letters plot Committee
-discovered in August, 1916-in which German agents were also concerned," In Bombay they have been
It was a project hatched in India Bengal the conspiratore have been young Brahmin and mostly Chitpavan. In purely
against British rule. which
wha to be destroyed by
means of ar men belonging to the educated middle ed by a rising in India.
attack 01 the frontier. supplement: classes. Their propaganda has been cla
For the borate, persistent, and ingenious. In purse of executing this plan д sertain Maulvi Obeidulla crossed the their own province it has produced a long series of murders and robberies. In frontier early in August, 1915, with three Bibar and Orissa, the United Provinces, companies. At Kabul he met the mem the Central Provinces, and Madras, itbers of a Turco-German mission, with took no root, but occasionally led to whom he fraternised, and after come time crime or disorder. In the Punjab the he was joined by his Deoband friend, retura of emigrants from America, bent Maulvi Huhammad Mian Ansari, Thi on revolution and bloodshed produced man had accompanied Maulana Hahmud Hassan to Arabia. and returned in 1918 numerous outrages and the "Ghade” còn
In Barma, too, the with a declaration of jihad received by spiracy of 1915.
Ghadr rovement was active, but was
the Maulana from the hand of Ghalib arrested. Finally came a Mohammedan Pasha, then Turkish Military Governor conspiracy confined to a small clique of of the Hedjaz Muhammad Mian dis fanatics and designed to overthrow tributed copies of this document known British rule with foreign aid. All these
as the Ghalibnama." both in India and plots have been directed towards one and among the frontier tribos. the same objective, the overthrow by force of British rule in India. Some times they have been isolated, sometimes they have been inter-connected: sometimes they have been encouraged and supported All have been by German influence. successfully encountered, with the sup port of Indian loyalty. But it is not sur prising that, in dealing with conspiracies so slusive and carefully contrived, Gov. ernment has been compelled to resort to extraordinary legislation."
Britain.
Obeidalla and his fellow-gonspirators had devised a scheme for the provisional government of India after the overthrow of British power. A certain Mahendra Praton was to be President. This man is a Hindu of good family and eccentrie When the framers of the American Con
character, who, at the end of 1914, wha stitution admitted. that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happines are creations
granted a passport to travel in Italy. of God, and not of man, their task was
Switzerland, and France. He had gone wonderfully simplified. They recognized
straight to Geneva, had there met the the fact that they were not required to
notorious Hardayal, and had been by create any rights but simply to interpret
Hardayil introduced to the German those that were already created. The
covery of Christian Science was Mrs. the members of the Indian party at first Berlin, and had thence been despatched The Germans appear to have employed Consul. He had then proceeded to sarvess of that instrument, the Constitu- Eddy's own healing in 1868. She had chiefly in the production of anti-British on a special mission, having apparently tion of the United States of America, received a very serious injury by falling literature, which was as far as possible impressed the Germans with an exagge depended upon the correctness of an on the ice. The physician who sitended diseminated in all regions where it rated idea of his importance. Obciculla interpretation of that which Wie fan- damentally right. The result has been a her at the time believed that her injury might be expected to do injury to Great himself was to be Minister of India, and model of democratic government
would prove fatal. When she knew that. When men are willing to concede that nothing material could save her, Mrs. engaged in other duties.
At a later stage they were Barkatulia. a friend of Krishenvarma's
Barkatulla and a member of the American "Ghad health, as well as life, or liberty, is Eddy turned to her Bible for console was detailed to direct a campaign to vinparty, who had also travelled to Cabul divine right, divinely bestowed upon man tions. Reading its eacred truths with by his creator: they will cease to believe singleness of purpose and the faith that Indian prisoners of war. captured by the 174 Berlin, was to be Prime Minister.
The Germans of the mission, failing Germans from the British ranks from which originate in mortal opinion, and she witneased the immediate operation of
earl 11 1916: but the Indians remained, the so-called laws of health spiritual understanding could save ber, their allegiance. Pillai was at one time to achieve their object, left Afghanistan will become interpreter of that inherent the truth. Her healing was complete right.
They will cease to be autocrats She arose, dressed herself and startled the
which he made over in Amsterdam in and the Provisional Government in the government of their own bodies, family by her sudden appearance. No.
1913 to an agent who was leaving for despatched letters to both the Governor and their health will increase in propor- thing but the power of God could pro plans and publish war news to be snug her alliance with Great Britain and Bangkok rid America to start a printing of Russian Turkestan and the then Taar tion to their understanding that in God duce such a sudden transformation, and glad over the Siamese-Burmese frontier.
of Russia inviting Russin to throw over we all live, and move, and have our with joy and gratitude Mrs. Eddy gave Herumba Lal Gupta was for a time nssist in the overthrow of British rule in Indian agent of Germany in America and India. These were signed by Mahendra arranged with Boehm that be should go Pratan, and subsequently fell into British hands. The letter to the Tsar to Siam, and train, men for an attack or Burma. Gupta was succeeded as Ger-was on a gold plate. The Provisional also proposed to form an man agent in America, by Chakrabarti Government under the following letter of the Berlin alliance with the Turkish Government, and in order to accomplish this object Foreign Office:
Obeidulis addressed, a letter to his old· friend Maulana Mahmud Hassan. This and other letters which came into British hands are neatly and clearly written on yellow silk.
or
being."
Therefore," Acquaint row thyself with bim (that is, with God, and be at peace. One who is sick is not at peace. One who is distressed in mind or body with
disease of fear, is not
all the glory to Him. »
SCRIPTURAL INTERPRETATION,
It is by no means an uncommon occur rence for devout people to be healed by heir study of the Bible. But Mrs. Eddy Nevertheless acquaintance with the divine could not be satisfied with the physical
Bin
T
nature endows one with the power of peace, which necessarily rules out all dis healing alone She must know, the turbance whether mental or physical. Science or Principle of that healing. Therein is presented in a brief statement Indeed she believed she had a right to the precise method of Christian healing that knowledge, inasmuch as Jesus had acquaintance with the truth about the promised another Comforter, which he nature
of God Mrs. Eddy has reiterated defined as "the Spirit of truth." If that in her book, Science and Health, "the Spirit of truth was not to be with Key to the Scriptures (p. 72), as understood and obeyed then one might, follows, Not personal intercommunion perhaps unwittingly, obey error. But bat divine law is the communicator of the truth had made her free and it was truth, health, and harmony to earth and her right to know the explanation of that humanity."
experience Scriptural, study took on a TRUTH HEALING SCENTIFIC... new meaning in her search for an ex-, That which is unchanging, and which planation of Christian healing. Stop by also operates through law, is Truth So step spiritual law was interpreted in a wo find Moses declaring, "Thou art a new light. Her conclusions were systems God of truth, and without iniquity,tically recorded and fairly tested in the When therefore Jerus declared," Ye shall healing of disease and sin. That eluci know the truth, and the truth shall make dation of the scriptures formed the basis you be explained the operation of of her more complete work known as "Science and Health, with Key to the" Scriptures," Brst published in 1876--nine years after her discovery,
Bicice treatment. To' know
and
the Truth is to understand the unchang ing nature of God as a power of health and purity operating through
law.
Ever since the publication of Science Whatever one really understands, he can and Health, dissase and sin have been express. When one understands that, wo healed through the study of it. As one two make four, he can express that ponders the explanation of scriptural fact. Then to understand the healing texts with which it is filled, mind and and purifying nature of God, enables one body are refreshed and painful miscon- express that nature. Such is the power ceptions are corrected. It has in cther of freedom in mind and body. This words brought a return of primitive planation of Christian healing. U
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The German Embassy, Washington. In future al Indian affairs are to be exclusively handled by the committee to be formed by Dr. Chakravarty, Birendra Sar
Among other topics the lettera dealt kar and Heramba Lal Gupta, which latter
with the projected formation of an Fern has meantime been expelled from Japan, and who then ernas to be independ."Army of God, which was to draw. ent representatives of the Indian Independ- ence Committee existing here.
(Signed) ZnMAN.”
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recruits from India and to bring about an alliance among Islamic rulers. Ita headquarters were to be at Medina, and Hamnud Hassan himself was to be general- in-chief. Secondary headquarters under The German General Staff had definite local generals were to be established at schemes aimed directly against India. Constantinople, Teheran, and Kabul. The scheme, which depended on Moslem The general at Kabul would be Obeidulla disaffection, was directed against the himself. There were to be three patrons, North-Western Frontier, but the other twelve feld-marshals, and many other Of the Labore. schemes, which relied upon co-operation high military officers. with the "Ghadr party of San Fran. students one was to be a major general, cisco and the Bengali revolutionaries, one a colonel, and six Lieutenant-colonels
In December, 1916, Maulana Mahmud" centred in Bangkok and Batavia. The
Hassan and four of his companies tell Bangkok scheme depended chiefly on "re- turned Bikhs of the "Chadr party, the into British hands. They are now pris- Batavian scheme upon the Bengalis. oners-of-war, Ghalib Pasha, the signor Both the schemes were under the general of the Ghalibnama," is also a prisoner. direction of the Consul General for Ger many in Shanghai acting under orders from the German Embassy at Waabing,
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Christian healing. In recognition of ber Early in 1915, certain of the Bengal opens ron INFANTET BATTALION BY MAJOR think, leave no impression that we ignore distinguished service as interpreter of revolutionaries met and decided to difficulties, although some aver that the Bible, the French Government has organise and put the whole scheme of Christian Scientist endeavours to beal
never can
1 EL. A MORGAN.
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by trying to imagine that the conditon honored Mrs. Eddy by making her,an raising a rebellion in India with the 1. Reference Orders for Infantry Batta
help of Germans upon a proper footing, officer of the French Academy.
lion No. 6, dated 11th Oct., 1918, the is not there. It is evident that this is
For nearly twenty-five years I enjoyed establishing co-operation between revolu Annual Camp of Exercise is modi- a misapprehension; for imagination is a
fied as follows state of ignorance; healed anything and ignorance never personal acquaintance with Mrs. Eddy, tionaries in Siam and other places with
Twice she was a guest in our home, and Bengal, and getting into touch with the There will be no sleeping in Camp., The Camp will take the form of days of Disease is unquestionably
It was arranged to.
exercise as follows:- therefore, it cannot be the truth evil and, have been honored with invitations to Gerumas, and that funds should be rais
of being.
her home. I have been familiar with her ed by daccities. Inasmuch as Christian Science is a home life and with the membere of her import arma from California, and in November 24th Science, its method of dealing with error household; have had considerable car April, 1815, the steamship Maverick left is precisely as it is done in mathematics, respondence with her; so that I have an San Pedro with a cargo said to consist If a mathematician is confronted with the actual knowledge of the purity and con of 30,000 rides, with 400 rounds of am- misstatement that two and two make hive, recration of her life. But the testimony munition each, and two lakhs of rupees he does not study that mistake; for akel men is barren as compared with the (E12,332) Arrangements were made for mistake could not be understood. Only
That she the reception of the Maverick's cargo, that which is true can be understood record of her achievements.
has written a book, the mere reading of and the revolutionaries' plans included That is why David in the paalm asks which will heal morally and physically, the overpowering of the troops in the question, Who can understand his errors!" No one can; not one Conte other thing the nature of her true railways into that province by blowing proves more accurately than can any Bengal, the holding up of the three main quently an intelligent individual will character,
up the bridges, the seizure of all arms never try to do it. He will study more Only an exact science can solve every and arsenals around Calcutta, and the thoroughly the rule of truth that governs problem. Experimental knowledge would sacking of that city. German officers the problem, nad act in obedience thereto. Then the error disappear, just as ignor-ncasarily omit some problems because of arriving in the Maverick were to remain ance disappears befate intelligence Christian Science Las been tested with armies,
the limitations of buman thought. But in Eastern Bengal and raise and train Meantime, news was received And where has it gone! Into its native unreality. The only reality the error ever every human problem and found sufficient that the German Consul in Siam was has is in the indivdual's igorance of the for them all, because ita interprets the sending by boat a consignment of 5,000 truth. It censes to exist to his intelligent fundamental rights of man to life, health, rigs and ammunition and a lakh of understanding. is real or unrent Conséquently an error and the pursuit of happiness. Mra, rupees (26.666).
Timely discovery by the authorities only to the degree of Eddy did not create those rights. She the individual's ignorance or intelligence simply interpreted that which is already frustrated these projects, and several of All concerning the truth. It is the Truth that created. The success of Christian Science the revolutionaries were laid by the makes freo..
has been entirely dependent upon the beels. The adventures of the Maverick correctness of the interpretation.
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Hongkong, 18th Nov, 1918.