CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
Lecture At The Y.M.C.A.
Mr. Frank Bell, C.S.B., member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass, delivered a leccture on "Christian Science " at the YMCA.. yesterday when a large gathering attended. Below we give the first instal- ment of Mr. Bell's talk:-
Christian Science is applied to
Spiritual mindedness is the op- human problems through what St. postle of material mindedness. Paul calls transformation by the "The things of the Spirit" are dis- renewing of the mind. Sin, dis- verned to be real and tangible as ease, poverty, and the like, are material sense is put off through healed by means purely mental or the transforming processes of cor- "spiritual The means thus employ-reet Christian thinking, in which cd to help mankind are not super- there is diligent and systemntle natural, not occult, but Christian effort to love God, Infinite Spirit. and scientific. They express the "with all the mind." To spiritual simple, natural, accurate rightness mindedness it is increasingly clear of reality.
that whatever is unlike the good- of God is in its dinal analysis false, and "Be not afraid!" thus becomes scientific.
Reaffirming and emphasizingness the essential goodness of God. Christian Science defines evil. the opposite of good, as the unilkeness of God The degree of the unlike-
The hold of materialism is 100-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1937.
To The Memory Of Captain Oates
years
RIVER BOAT AGROUND
"Daring" To The Rescue
London, Mar. 31.
Admiral Sir Edward Evans, one Throughout these 25 of the survivors, of the expedition, nothing had impressed him or in- gave the address at Colchester spired, him so much as the exam- when the 6th Royal Inniskilling they comemorated that day. Chris- ple set by the man whose name Dragoon Guards attended a church tianity taught that "greater love in response to repeated wireless A Hong Kong message says that parade to commemorate the death hath no man than this, that he lay calls for help from the ss. Kong of Captain Oates. who died with down his life for his friend." That
Ning, stating that she WAS the Scott Expedition in the An-
was the highest symbol of the tarctic in 1912, states the "Times."
Christian faith, and the example ground off White Rock and liable On parade were Second-Lieuten-
came from one of their regiment to sink, the British destroyer, Dar- Twenty-five years aat Edward Oates.
ago, on Marching. went out this evening to re- a nephew of 17, which was his birthday. Cap- der assistance.-- Captain Oates, and present intain Oates nobly walked to his
British Wireless, church were Mr. Bryan Oates, a death, his last thoughts being of The Kong Ning, which went younger brother of Captain Oates. his mother and of his regiment, ashore of White Rock. near Saw and Miss Oates, his sister. Other which, he was proud to think, Chau Island, shortly after eight survivors of the expedition present would be pleased with the bold o'clock on Wednesday night, ze- were Commander J. H. Mather
way in which he met his death. turned to Hong Kong about û a.m. Chief Stoker W. Lashly. Chief They knew the rest of the story, yesterday, according to informa- Pelty Officer R. Forde, Petty Of Admiral Sir Edward Evans sald i tion" obtained from her local acer E. A. McKenale. Petty Officer, was left to him to keep alive for | agents, the West River Trans- Dickenson. and W. W. Archer, cher. I the nation the story of that portation and Trading Co.
Admiral Sir Edward Evans said achievement. This heroism in- The ship suffered Little damage, for she made the voyage on her own steam:
ness is the measure of the evil: sening. Philosophers speak with that this great adventure "happen-spired many a man to face un-
Stimulating and enlarging the stu- dent's understanding of the nature of God, Christian Selener enables him to distinguish evil from good and thus equips him to deal with evil Intelligently and effectively.
Her passengers, numbering 187, arrived in Hong Kong about 5 a.m. yesterday by the launch Man Ying, which was specially sent out by the agents for the purpose.
MOTHERWELL BEATS ARBROATH
assurance of matter 33 a mere
ed a quarter of a century agu. flinchingly the issue that led to mental Impression: the human
Since then he had frquently stood his making the supreme sacrifice voice encircles the earth in a mo-
on the threshold of the hereafter in the Great War, which followed ment; an ocean of space is but a
and he had seen this country at close on Scott's last expedition. day's Journey by air. Those who
the crossroads the Great see natural progress in these things the general strike of 1926,
War. Captain Oates's example certainly
the helped many a woman The great spiritual thinkers who are not far from recognition of the events in Abyssinia, outraged hu- that tell-tale telegram from the to open speak to us through the Scriptures fact that Jesus could be at "the manity in Spain, the advance of War Office which told that her "are of one accord In urging aë-
other side of the sea. Instantly by Communism and Fascism, and ter- husband or son was no more. A quaintance with the divine nature reason of the perfection of his state
ror all over Europe; and here at Ane example of high endeavour as essential to mastery over evil.
of mind," the spiritual purity of
home the outcry of the despairing gave that inspiration which was Jesus taught that to know God his thought. Englightened think-millions, in the distressed areas.
largely lacking in these days. aright is the remedy for all ills, evening in our day has reduced a con-
London, Mar. 31. to the realization of life eternal," tinent to a few hours of travel and
Motherwell and Arbroath Agur- the perfection of being. Pure Chris will continue to reduce matter un-
Jesus frequently said that his good is true, that many earnested in a Scottish Football League tianity must be superior to every-fl-It no longer obstructa Obstruc-
sense of things was different from persons caught something of the match to-day on the former's thing that would tend to deplete tion is the opposite of freedom, and
that of materially minded persons. "mind that was in Christ Jesus" ground. or to destroy man, or even to hold true freedom is good. The general
This is especially noticeable in con- and were lifted out of a sense of him in a limited sense of life and trend of human progress, despite nection with his healing work. Be- pain, deformity, sin, or lack.
Motherwell won comfortably by occasional gross deviations, being spiritually minded, he saw the a fact was changed.
Not three goals to one. destiny.
"speaks the ultimate triumph of the
Reuter. ten lepers as clean, ready to show Jesus verified the prophecy of Church of Christ. Scientist, and
In her good.
book, "The First
themselves to the priest. He saw Isalah that he should not judge Miscellany" (p. 345), Mrs. Eddy
the paralytle by Bethesda pool as according to "the sight of his eyes" able to arise and walk." No ques- or "the hearing of his ears", ac- anys of "modern material Inven-
him as to whether the two blind dict. Since the time of Jesus the tion appears to have occurred to cording to the material sense ver-
men could see: they were question-truth of being in contradistinction In their barn-storming tour of ed only as to their belief; To him to the human belief in evil, has the United States, Fred Perry to- Lazarus and the daughter of Jairus not been uttered with anything i night defeated the renowned Bl were
like the courageous clearness with Tilden, in straight sets, avenging which Mrs. Eddy has set it. forth himself for last night's defeat in in her many writings. The purity a four set struggle with the of her realization of the basic veteran American acc. rightness of reality increasingly appears to the earnest student. Christian Scientists therefore re- joice to acknowledge her spiritual leadership.
of
Christian contemplation God's nature as spiritual, therefore not material, as infinite and per- fect, therefore neither limited nor
incomplete, helps one to recognize that materiality, limitation, and imperfection are unlikeriesses of God, therefore not good but evil. Gross material mindedness may not take kindly to such realization, but to spiritual mindedness it" 18 natural and inevitable. Spiritual mindedness may be cultivated by any earnest individual through the study of the textbook of Christian Selence, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." by Mary Baker Eddy,
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tions." "They are preparing the
way for us."
What is needed is not to disre gard or to alter reality but so to correct the sense of things that the fact rather than the error shall be revealed. Christian Science ac- complishes this correction through prayer, through spiritualization of thought, through the cultivation of a state of mind that rejects false physical sense testimony and ac- cepts the spiritual truth.
not dead but asleep. His statements on these and other like occasions show that he was con- "scious of the fact that through his "Immaculate spiritual understanding the physical sense evidence of evil was reversed and cast" out. Such was the purity and strength of his realization that nothing but the
PERRY WINS AGAIN
Detroit, Mar. 31.
Perry won 6-4, 6-4, 8-4. He has thus three, victories over Tilden to his credit, but of the 35 matches he has played with Vines, Perry has won only 16-Reter!
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