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Christian Science: A Practical Religion
Rev, Irving C. Tomlinson's Lecture
The following is the continuation applause, by all the stirring events, of the Rev. Irving C. Tomlinson's lecture on "Christian Science: A Practical Religion" which he de- Ivered on Thursday evening. The first portion was published in yes- terday's issue.
was Mrs. Eddy herself. There was no sign of exaltation, but rather at selfless joy. She listen- ed attendyely to each one of the many speakers, and дот infre- quently: when words of sincerity Fallacies Exposed
and gratitude were voleed, tears Truth does not include the
glistened in her eyes. Mrs. Eddy Occult. The false sense of Mindspoke in a volca so clear and uses a supposititious method of strong that all in the vast assem thought transference. Only the bly could hear her distinctly. (The unenlightened have confidence. In memorable address which she this. Sometimes we any of
gave on this occasion is recorded or all of us—find ourselves where in her book, "Miscellaneous Writ- Paul was:
we yearn to abide by ings," pp. 251-283). I knew then our standards but go straightway that Mrs, Eddy Is God's messenger and do the opposite thing: "For to this age.
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the good that I would I do not:) During the twelve years that fol- but the evil which I would not, ❘ lowed, it was my privilege to see Mrs. that I do." Just at this point Eddy almost daily; for nine years We put our Anger on animal mag- I lived in her home city and netism. How so? Martai mind has served rer, in various ways, part a modus called suggestion, hypof the time as secretary-and dur- notism, or thought transference. Ing the last three years that she Because mortal mind is a finity it was with us I was a member of has limits. The only way to get her household at Chestnut H. its thoughts out is to project them Massachusetts. into another brain, or false bellef of mind. That is its chly way of transmitting itself, This method would be impossible to am- nipresent divine Mind. Its activi tles proceed by Principle, divine jaw, not by human will, It is already omnipresent, because it 13 Infinite. Then it has no need to project, suggest, or. transfer. Because an intelligence is already
everywhere there is no occasion for suggestion.
the carnal mind, come from а nonsensical fallacy about infint tude: a belief that there is an in-
Mrs. Eddy was tireless in her industry; her capacity for work was prodigious. For example, at the time Mrs. Eddy was living at the college on Columbus Avenue, Boston, and
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1934.
CORRESPONDENCE FIGHTING IGNORANCE
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WAS IT LOUSYT
(To Editor, "Hong Kong Daily Press," B-The following is an extract from a contemporary, of yester- day's date:~~
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**CATHERINE THE GREAT is the British (Korda) production starring the German actress
AND DISEASE
Revelations In Annual Report Of S. P. C.
The Afth Annual Report of the Society for the Protection of Children, Just published, revesti once agabi what a stupendoria task the officials of that institution has to contend with in Hong Kong in order to carry out their work,
The number of extremely poor people in the Colony and the conditions under which they Hve a startling. The report which
Catherine Bergner, as the Em-runs into many pages gives a vivid insight into these matters as well as the number of cases in which the Society had been able to be of assistance.
press Douglas Fairbanks June. is the young Duke Peter, around whom the plot hinges.
"It is not to be compared with the Hollywood film, The SCAR- LET EMPRESS but certainly shows the marked advance made in the Home films"
Whoever may be responsible for the above tripe is certainly correct In one respect and this when he states that the two pictures do not bear comparison.
infer, however, that "THE SCAR- They mast assuredly do not." To
LET EMPRESS" could even be compared favourably with "QA THERINE THE GREAT" (a truly excellent film in all respects) is surely asking too much of even the somewhat rustic intelligence of the Hong Kong picture going public. engaged in all the labored details of purchasing and more badly boring burlesque mas- For myself I can only say that a equipping her home on Common-querading ander the review of a wealth Avenue, she was founding "star", historical picture, The
than changing editors frequently, and yet to have the misfortune of hav- Christian Sclerice Journal. "THE SCARLET EMPRESS," I have teaching crowded classes. Yet. ing to sit through. I have also yet
A very urgent appeal for funds is embodied in the report. The Annual meeting takes place on Tuesday at 5.15 p.m. at the Helena May Institute, when H.K. the Governor will preside.
SOCIETY HANDLES 960 CASES
Seed of New Ideas
The Report state in part:-Dur- ing the year under review, there The Society is slowly uprooting were reported to the Society - 960 in Homes here and there the old cases affecting the welfare of 2-
being larger than that for the pre-place a new attitude towards dirt 182 children, the number of cases
Atalistle complaisance with things as they are, and implanting in its vlous year by forty-two. Once and again, the Western District, where clearance begins, will be of, um- disease, which, when sum the tenements are oldest and least mense value to those who are en- hygienic, and the density of popu-deavouring to bring about the im- lation is greatest, produced the provements. highest number of cases-359, while Kowloon provided 321 and Eastern Hong Kong. 280. In only a few cases was it found, upon enquiry into the means of the parents seeking relief, that the help of the
given." Society could not reasonably be
Two years ago, the Committee
with all these labors, she was able, to meet anyone who has not hear-reported that the average monthly All occult systems, processes of in the mornings before teaching tily and a great deal more en-income per head in the Society's
her class, to dictate that marvel- į phatically, endorsed lous work, "Unlly of Good"
my entire views on what must assuredly be When she was in her eighty-termed one of the "lousiest *· pic- seventh year she established an tures of the year. I am Yours,
dally newspaper, etc.
Science Monitor,
finite Mind and then other minds are added, This false bellef may declare that God is All, but there
international The Christian
13 something more: God has all which is now recognized as one of power, but there is a diferent the leading dailies of the world, power, antial magnétism or hyp-and notism. People in ignorante of thoroughly. Up to the time of her every day she read it the one Mind, which is the origi- passing she had over sight of all nating Principle of thought may the affairs of her vast movement. be tripped up by occult fallacies, Every important step awaited her Just as ignorance in any direction decision. will trip a man up. Take an ex- ample of electric lights: if know nothing about electricity. We cannot utilize it; if we step on, a live wire, it will destroy us. But if we put in a connecting switch,
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"HEADACHE."
Hong Kong, December 14.
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OBITUARY
cases was $2.93. Last year, the gure was $2.49. For the cases the past year your Committee has dealt with by the Society during
to report an even lower average of $2.05. In this connection a comparison by districts may be of Interest:--
It is a matter for satisfaction that the number of cases in which wanton ill-treatment features 1s very small, His Excellency the Governor, in addressing the Society at the Annual Meeting last year called attention to this fact, and this year's experience endorses his remarks. In only one case during the year was it found that the circumstances warranted prosecu- fion, although efforts to ensure the future welfare of the children con- their removal to a safe environ cerned, either by arranging for tment of for supervision, were necessary on several occasions. In this branch of the Society's work your Committee cannot speak too highly of the unfailing sympathy and co-operation of the officers of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs. Only those who are in close com- Families Without Income tact with the work of the senior Unless the circumstances of a officers. of Sub-Inspector Fraser case are exceptional; when the In- and of the women. Inspectors-of
will probably ask her the Secretariat can sufidently ap Branch Secretary fora decision,preciate the value of their efforts assistance in the way of providing on behalf of the more unfortunate milk or other food will not be children of the Colony. given when the family income ex- ceeds $4.00 per head per month.
Funds Wanted
year the Society's Inspectors re- ported that the familles assisted were without any income: in a monthly income per head was $100 further 850 cases the average
1933-34 1931-32
·Eastern Hong Kong $2.43 $3.25 Western Hong Kong 207. 3.12 Kowloon
:1.68 2.28
She was interested in all that Passing of Mr. Sidney spector
concerned the public welfare: Her gererous gifts for modern high- way Improvements inaugurated the good roads movement in New Hampshire. She was keenly in-|
it will serve us, provide us light, terested in exploration and
Hancock
The Committee has unfortunate-
heat, transportation. You have to vention in everything that meant Colony by mail of the passing, in In 183 cases dealt with during the 3y to report a deficiency of $2,417.73.
be familiar with the wiring.
K
to
t- News has been received in the
you don't get your transmission
victory over, limitation. But in London, on November 13 last of Mr. wire in you get none of the power, all these matters everything was Sidney Hancock. no light, no beat, and your ear
secondary
the spiritual. Mr. Hancock doesn't move. How do we get Bhe radiated light and 103 Hong Kong resident being a prin
was formerly connection with Principle?
By ¡ upon' all about her. Grace and cipal of the Arm of Messrs. A. and fulfiling its laws; by thinking as love and unfailing tenderness dis- S. Hancock. He retired in 1908 and tinguished her no less than in- has been living in England ever Every right idea, every right telligence, strength, and profound since. He was 84 years of age. word, every right act, every ex-
penetration into the hidden causes pression of love, every beautiful that lie back of all outward mani- festations. Always she was the
God would have us think
experience of humility. charity, fearless Leader, obedient to gentleness, purity, peace; every
the
or less.
on the year's working. While ex- penditure for the year, at $29,258.-- 55, showed a decrease of $1,394.58 previous year, income declined by on the corresponding figure for the
$3,617.12 to $20,840.83.
that trade locally has been at a Society has dealt with 3,119 cases Apart altogether from the fact Within the last five years the particularly low ebb during the affecting the welfare of 5938 cade year under review it seed hardly ren is deficit on the past three be emphasised that an important years working amounts to $8,926.11. reason for the acute poverty here Your Committee are confident that support during the conting year will meet with a generous response.
obedient act to the Golden Rule revelation that God had given morning to see crepe on the door. disclosed is the ease with which their appeal for éxtended financial
to the Sermon on the Mount, to
her.
malice, hatred,
her An
the Ten Commandments, unites
Peace On Earth our thought with divine Principle,
In no one thing was Mrs. Eddy God. Why? Because these ideas more remarkable than fa all redect, express, divine law. ability to rise above trials. The scientific source from which instance is her poem, "Signs of We receive true thoughts, the only the Heart." It was written at days later, while she was watching origin or our thinking, of our Pleasant View; ideas, is Principle, whereas mor- Hampshire, in 1899, when persecu- ed again. Mrs Eddy saw the in- Concord. New at the window, the carriage pas tal mind has in bellef a method tlons were cruelly heavy Injus-valid and greeted her with a smile, persons who could not meet the by which it projects or transferstice. its suppositions or fallacies to an-
seem From that moment a new day cost of renting a cubicle and who ed In control, A lawsuit out dawned for her. She was so up-slept either on the space allotted nother. The divine Mind, the rageously unjust was brought only Mind, puta forth ideas in against her by an unscrupulous paid a visit to the Christian to them as a "bed-space" or
lifted that she dressed herself and obedience to law and order. The student who had been richly bene-Science Reading Room. There she cose proximity to it. The cases activity of ideas is God's function-ted by Mrs. Eddy's kindness. She learned something of Mrs. Eddy's drawn from Westem Hong Kong ing, for true ideas are the ex- describes her experience in pression of divine Mind: they re-book, "The First Church of Christ is not a curse sent by God, but a spaces, those of Bastern Hong Kong her teachings. She saw that sickness showed a percentage of 12 bed flect Him by scientific process and Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 131) false belief, which Christ. Truth, a percentage of 4. The percent law in the divine order foldment. For example, by poor to me in a little symbol, seals the her husband came home, he was
of un-he signet of the great heart, given destroys. In the evening, when tage for Kowloon was 74. comparison, figs come from the ng covenant of
Disease Inevitable everlasting love.". tree by the law of its own nature: The symbol referred to was a substantial meal for him.
surprised to find her preparing a
An investigation of 100 consecu- as a fig tree could not transfer its simple rubber band falling from began to study faithfully the Bible District of Hong Kong and of a tive family cases in the Western ngs to an olive tree, no more can her packet of mail in the form of and Science and Health, and to similar number in Kowloon, reveni thoughts be transferred. There a heart. She turned her thought attend the church services. Sheed that the average rent of a bed is only one Mind to put forth all from this symbol to the great continued to gain and was soon in space was 271 in Hong Kong and Ideas. This one Mind is every heart of divine Love, and the good health. Always she have full $192 in Kowloon, while the average where, and there is no other mind poem, "Signs of the Heart as credit to Mrs. Eddy for her re- rent of a cubicle in Hong Kong was to which or from which to trans-born Listen to just one charac- covery, and joyfully expressed her $3.64 as against Kowloon's $3,10. ^ Ter thoughts. The Christian teristic stanza (Poems, p. 24): Scientist knows that good is the
Lack of means to buy sufficient only power, and that the truth he
and suitable food and to rent de- declares cannot be reversed.
cent accommodation inevitably involves disease, which menaces All In leave with you a message sections of the community. Dis which Mra Eddy once wrote to her ease appeared in more than half followers, and which you will and of the new cases dealt with during on page 14 of "The People's Idea the year In 588 new cases the
Propped up in an invalld. chair, unskilled manual workers can ed: -she observed from her window ter the Colony. The excessive sup- fud woman. a carriage in which was a beautiply of unskilled labour quite ob
whose face made avionsly results in irregularem-¡ profound impression on her. She plotient for the individual la- the woman was Mrs. Eddy. A few leared from her neighbors that bouter, and in appallingly low
earnings.
by your Society were drawn from cent. of the new cases dealt with During the past year, 71 per
Discoverer And Founder
Mrs. Eddy exemplified the heat
ing truth which she taught. It is
jay to testify to this fact from
tance with her. My first meeting
"Come to me, peace on earth! From out life's billowy sea, Awave of welcome birth, The Life that lives in Thee! O Love divine,
This heart of Thine
Is all I need to comfort mine
She
gratitude on every fitting occa
̈Conclusion
of God" "O Christian Scientists, Society was able to secur
the church of the new-attention for child
many years of intimate: sequin- During Mr Eddy's long re-all of the o a higher and holler branch of activity, the with tra Eddy occurred the day | aldente in Concord many of her
after I had become a member of fellow citizens were Healed and love for God and man, put on the of the Gat The Mother Church. It was on transformed through their cou-whole armor of Truth: rejoice in Centres Fourth of July, 1897, when mem tacts with her. The following 18 hope be patient in tribolation was inv bers of the daturen who lze just one of many cases that came un that
the bed of.
attend
the Adnuál Meeting in der my close Observation" anguis were guests at ner home, Citizen of Concord, ho
not drear
„in Concord, New Interditë. In Christiary Belénce.
mayor - of Cond WR
present with other | med!
ring Irom: What materia and
WarChal
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SANTA LAND
At Sincere's Roof Garden
that Santa Claus has arrived unce The kiddies will be glad to know more in Hong Koos and is to be found from to-day at "Santa Land" at Sincere's Root Gardens for the young folks who will call What a treat thers is in store at this resors which, as ini bast years, will contain so many things that gladden their hearts
There will be a model Mechanical questions pus to him. Man who can speak and answer any
will create lots of fun and in addi-
Mickey Mouse in Chantland". tion to all the titère will be à com- pany of some 20 boy and gif artists who will give acrobatic exhibitions.
Bants, Claus will present every visitor with a packet of Mickey Mouse Bubble Gum, and extend a hearty welcome to everybody.
today, from 10 am to 10 pm. untit Santa land will open daily from Christi TG
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