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CANTON, October 4th. EX-PRESIDEST TIRED OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS,

The ex-President Li Vuan-hung has wired to the Provisional Government stating that he is tired of political life.

THE SESENT CHESTAN. The Chairman

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE „nuthematies. But did you ever consider

LECTURE AT HONGKONG.

Yesterday evening lecture on Chris tian Science was delivered by : Mr. W. R. Rathyon, C.S.B., at the Theatre Royal, Hongkong.

that so many of us fail to solve the probe tems of everyday life reuse of our in complete or defective, knowledge of the infinite Principle of existence, God!

Christian Science is giving, to, man an understanding of finding the limite Principle of all that really exists, the Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, in introduc Principle which, in the words of our dext He will neither support the South noring the lecturer, seid Attention is benk, underlying, everlying, d the North, but will go abroad when he usually drawn to Christian Science by encompassing all true being" (Science has recovered from his present illness. -reason of is power to heal disease. Inand Health, p. 496); the Principle which fact, the growth of the Christian Science operates through unchanging lays which healing sit or disente in their various hensible and demonstrable, i movement is largely due to its efficacy in are always bennfecut and always compre

forms, whether termed curable or not, Many of us have been taught in our This result follows an understanding of earlier day that is not ential to Christian Seituce which raises thought understand God, if we will bur believe.

· from a material is a spiritual basis, in Him. Now think of trying to solv bringing with it improved "health and an intricate problem mathematicsTM by happiness. There are to-day unumis red merely believing in its principles, with thousands in every walk of life in aliout understanding them. And are not

the problems of life vastly more li por English.speaking countries and many

tant said momentous than anything that others who can testify to the benefits thenthematics en present? Problems hava devived: frun' w knowledge of which when wrongly worked leave us heavy laden with sickness, fear want, Christian Science. The lecture this after misery and sin Christian Science, foires noon is for the purpose of presenting the lowing the teaching of Jesus the Christ, subject of Christian Science zorrectly God is as essential to every student in the shows us that a right understanding of and to tur testimony to the Facts, re-choul of life as an understanding of nuin-

for the conversion of a further 280 acres to mining least (making a total aren under lease of approximately 2,027 acres) Assembly. The ki-yuen, who suddenly dis Provincial whilst the prospecting licence was reappeared from Canton, has wired to the howed over tile balance of the Concession. Assembly saying that he has reached Coal sales totalled 38,663 tona as against Honolulu and that he does not intend to 60,012 tons for the last financial year, an participate in the present affairs. increase of 80,621 teins, or 173 per cent,

Prospecting was continued throughout NT-SEN'S ARREST VIDERED. the year with satisfactory results. From The mandate for the arrest of Sun Yat- experiments made to date it scenas certnin en and over fifty others has been received at the coal will under certain condity the Authorities at Canton to-day. It tions, make good briquetics suitable for is reported by a high official that the ocean bunkering, Due to the dis- Premier has arranged with certain similarity of Rawang with other coals of Foreign Ministers in Peking to offer the same etes, it has, however, taken over $2,000,000, reward for the arrests. The n year of patient research work and prac Ministers are said to have instructed the tical expérimentation to discover suitable police in their Concessions to arrest any agglomérants, and a satisfactory com of those nanied if they appear there, mercial method of briquetting. Trials at

NORTHERN GUNBOATS APPROACH. Leeds on a practical scale are still bring carried out.

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A report having been received that three gunboats-the Hai Chow, Hoi Xụng and Sui o from the North arrived at Swatow yesterday, the Canton authori-garding the life and work of its disers is fo the student of mathematics. ties have wired to General Luk Wing-coverer and founder. Mary Baker Eddy.

"The final instalment of arrears of in- teres amounting to 886,720.6%, équivalent ta dividend of 51 per cent. upon the total issued capital of the company, was paid on February 5th, and there is how ting asking for instructions. Luk is said The jetturer is a member of the Board of Every right concept of God as infinita

no difference between render and ordi-to e greatly concerned, and hus replied nary shares, both of which are 810 fully at once that a sharp took-ont should be paid and rank equally for all future kept. distributions of profits.."

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OMNIPOTENCE

man cannot comprehend these divine qualities in their fullness, but it is a noteworthy fact that in the proportion that you do realize them, in that propor tion do you find good coming into your life and evil leaving it. You do not need to know all of God that is to be known, before you get any of the good, that comes from using even a little of such knows

edge.

good must include His omnipotence, His Lectureship of. The First Church of Lunnipresence. His omniience. Finite Christ Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts This Board is composed of seventeen mien Admiral Ching Pik-kwong, who went of wide experienes who hold themselves to Kwangsi with the Tuenun, Chan Ping- kwan, to consult with General Luk Wing-in readiness to lecture in any part of ting, is on his way back to Canton from the world at the call of a Christian Naming It is said that the Generic has

Science Church. The lecturer is here granted him what he desires.

to-day at the request of First Church of Christ Scientist, Hongkong.

SUPPLIES TO THE EXPEDITIONARY TROOPS.

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A great deal of guns and ammonition were delivered to Shui Kwan yesterday

Mr. Rathon, in the course of his re- for the use of the expeditionary troops. Stations have been established en marks, said ---Because Christian Science and orders have been issue that military is not a religion of wailing but 86,720.62upplies are to be sent forward frequently,

General Lak Wing ting has sent letter by a representative to Tong Shui-i .8158,974.56 | urging the latter to go to Nanning as

soon as possible. **** TIENTS IN FLOOD RELIEF FIND.

$132,500.00 To a reserve for bad debts... 10,000.00 Balance to be carried forward

to the next year's accounts 66,474,56

$188,974,56

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General Luk has sent $5,000 to Tientsin for the relief of sufferers by the floods Further funds will be remitted as econ as the authorities have collected them from the "subscribers.

COCAINE IN INDIA.

of immediate action 12211 prompt results; because it is the religion of the present as well as the future; because

it pats joy into life and helps us to overcome denth, and because in all its ministrations it pushes aside the transitory forces of the human will and The homan mind and grasps instead: the ever available and unlimited powers of the divine Mind, God himself, for these pensong its universal appeal is being kind Ofic of the benefits which India hasly heard by every class and type of derived from the war is the cessation of the illicit traffic in cocaine-from Germany and Austria, which was the source - Di untold misery especially among the student class in Bengal. This drug was As the result of an, audacións attempt constantly being smuggled into India on board the foreign steamers, and so profit. made to bribe Mr. Justice Farrer-Manby, alle was the traffic that it was very Every science should be rightly learned two Malays named Haji Abdul Rahan difficult to secure evidence against the from its textbook and Christian Science offenders. The subject is prominently, and Haji Makatif found themselves mentioned in the report on the Excise is no exception to this rule. Besides the the Police Court, Ipoh, next murning, on Administration of the United Provinces Bible, there is but one textbook of Chris. a charge of bribery.

for the past official year. It appears that during that period, the number of cocains cases filed was 50, as compared with 110 in the previous year, this result being due to the disappearance of supplies from of the rules relating to imports from the United Kingdom. In four cases in the

ATTEMPT TO BRIBE A JUDGE| IN THE F.M.S.

The motive of the accused was explain ed in the following letter which the ae cused handed to the Judge:-

As you thus learn to know God-nright, you will discover that any evil thing which may come upon you has not the it hati. You will no longer dread what power to harn you that you once believed men say or do to you. You will no longer fear things present or things to come You will learn to succeed in spite of failure, to be strong in spite of weak- 0.08%, to be steadfast in spite of the storme Sickness, sin, went, failure, and the like lose their hold upon you, and even if they should come upon you, they expect disable, disturb, or depress you, or master you, or deprive you of your God-given rights, nor end they separate you from the love of God, omnipotent good.

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In the proportion you realize that God is omniscience, that He knows the eternal truth about all that, really exists, even to far better than you knoYE knowing you you, knowing you and seeing you as Heade you in His own image and like humankind. Naturally it may be asked: reflecting every quality of good

when you discover this about yourself, How is the investigator to acquire & prac and see that evil is not a part of you, submit to it, then tical knowledge of this Science for which does not belong to you, and chunot con- trol you unless to gen rid of it by

bestir inuch is claimed ?

reducing it to its native nothingness. As you learn to know more about God, your thought dwells less upon yourself and your affairs, and you lose much of that injurious habit of self-thinking that shows itself in such things as sensitiveness, self- pity, self-righteousness, self-justification, tian Seience, the book of "Scienes and and self-condemnation, which is quite as bad For, my friends, man does not need Health with Key to the Scriptures," by to be condemned, not even by himself; Mary Baker Eddy, the book that has won he needs to be saved.

THE TEXTBOOK AND ITS AUTHOR.

I have the pleasure in writing to you Germany and Austrin, and the tightening its way into the hearts and lives of un-

umbered men and women and children, who have found in it a quiet friend whose silent influence is a mighty power for

It is perhaps unnecessary to inform this

you

DOMISION AND OPPORTUNITY.

henr inuch about man being the creature In the old way of thinking we used to of circumstance. Christion Science is reversing this belief of limitation and is proving that man, if he will, may be the master of circumstance, not its ictim There is a short sentence in our textbook bearing on

this subject containing only were words, but so carefully chosen and

that, 1, Haji Makatif bin Eman Muda, of Temoh, beg yuar honour, to be kind enough as to grant me a permission as to tap my rubber trees in Temoh, Moradabad and Gorakhpur districts, the cause I am very poor, and besides 1 drug was believed to have been of have to support my two childs who is Japanese origin. Owing to the great rise. gond. still very small, one boy about four in the price of cocaine adulteration is

rife. 1.280 samples of supposed cocaine | years old and one about six years old.

The rubber trees never say for about received by the Chemical Examiner, 151 audience the Discoverer and Founder

were pure, while 40 contained no cocaine of Christian Science and the author of so skillfully grouped as to form a whatever, and the rest were mixtures of its textbook was a woman-a gentle standard for thought and action which cocaine and other substances, chiefly woman, Mary Baker Eddy.

inspires with courage, imparts endurance, You may and leads to victory. You will find it on antipyrine

know too that for years she stood alone page 410 of Science and Health, and it

three month.·

Thanking your honour in anticipation and soliciting the favour of an early reply (Sd) HAJI MARATIF

| Hāji. Makatif` was a party in a litiga- tion over a piece of rubber land in Temab. Oò January 2ath, he was the recipient of an order from the Judicial Commission- er's Court restraining him from tapping on the land in question. On September 10th this injunction was discharged by the Court, but later the order was re

to bribe the Judge when they were the riesha on their way from Temoh,

Abdulrahınan was cautioned, and dis charged.

Matif was sentenced to month's simple imprisonment and a fine

FIGHTING THE U-BOATS, SIGNOR MARCONI ON NEW INVENTIONS IN U.S.

On his return from America Signor

able to help us.

one lone woman against the whole rends,

Moet every adverse eirennistance as its. world-opposed and assailed by the worldmaster."

theology, of medicine. of established Not only are we here told to do this, but we are also stiown how it is to h nake, of tradition, of conservatism; op done. Throughout the whole book we are

dontinion, not subjection. You remen- stored, so that the man could not agan Marconi, the great inventor, was inter-ignorance, of- common sense and uncoor ber that in the first chapter of Genesis posed by the world of intellect and of reminded that man's divine birthright is inp his raber.

The first accused said that he had been viewed by the Journal on his way to mon sense, of bigotry and cruelty, of where the spiritual creation of man and

There is no doubt asked by the second accused, Makatif, to Rome. He said:

ridicule and falsity; and ever pursued by the universo is described, we are told not the human and inhuman hatred of truth that man is made from a rib,

bone, but accompany him. from Temoh to: Ipoh, to that the United States of America are the Judge's house. At the house Makatif going to do things on a big scafe. They All these forces were for years arrayed that he is created in God's image and bine handed him $140 in $10 notes. After have decided to send to Europe an in-against this one woman and the message likeness and is given dominion over all,

That divine birthright can never be some time Inspector Neave came and both mense number of men and a huge quan-God had placed in her hands to deliver of them were handed over to him. tity of supplies. To do this they must to humanity. But she was never daunted taken from man. It is ours to-day and The second accused, Makatif, siid that have ships, and their first object is to or dismayed by anything the world, the ever will be. Is it not pitiful, then, that infidelity he wanted permission to tap his cubber build a large number of them. But they flesh, or evil might try to do to her, for through fear or indifference or

or lethargy,

mankind has allowed this tres, he handed the money to the are not forgetting to train their forces, he never let go of the hand of God, Judge. Abdalrahman had so interest in and during my trip to the States 1 hawly-minded woman heen so relentlessly We need to be awaked and aroused, Never in modern times has a spiritual deibe bestowal to lapse into desuetude? the land, but he simply accompanied hit camps where 30,000 officers are in train (Makatif) on his invitation. He only ing. This course will no doubt take a abused without cause, and her message so and to exercise our God-given authority. fold the first accused that he was going ing time, but right now the U.S.A. re maligned and misrepresented from pulpit." How are we to do this!" you may ask. press, and platform. Yet, in all the Years Again our text book answers your qnes- of persecution which Mre. Eddy suffered,tion on page 393 Hear these ringing In submarine warfare, for instancs,

dropped from her tongue or pen. Sheter of light upon the banner of every their admirable inventive genius should one word of retaliation or resentment words that should be emblazoned in let- I 4:5 militant Christian who daily goes forth be a precious auxiliary. I have taken never returned evil for evil. And part in several meetings of the Navalet this not as a matter of hearsay or to victory over the forces of sickness, Rise in the strength Coneutling Board, and can say from per- opinion, but from personal knowledge, want, and wee soual knowledge that the members of the gained from several years of daily associa of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good this and Board have not been working in vain. tion with Mrs. Eddy, while I was û mein God has made man capable of

While bo could not divulge any secrets, her of her own household.

nothing can vitiate the ability and power M. Marconi added:~! If an infallible, Need it be wondered then that there divinely bestowed on many remedy against submarines has not yet are multitudes of people who are to-day But let us ever remember, my friend been found, means of defence are becom- profoundly grateful to her who has been that we are to rise not through the exer ing ever more efficacious, and the danger the zeeans of restoring

ving And hypnotism, ecultism, or the like, but in disainishing daily. It is certain that that make life wring them the things ciss of the human will, not through Our God-given. the losses which have decreased sensibly as one among that multitude I am glad the strength of Spirit. lately will continue to decrease, and our bere and always to declare my gratitude dommon does not operate through the friends from America will not have been for what Christian Science has brought channels that the human mind provides strangers to that success. During my into my life through the right under but only through the ever-present and

ever-available forces of Spirit. mission I have seen numerous other novel-standing of God which it imparts.

Christian Science imparts the under- ties in the scientific domain, and the in

of being which shows that on The total amount of rice exported from ventions will help us to the perfection the 1st of January to the 18th of Septem of the means we have at our disposal to ber is 885,884 tons, against 923,150 tons in terush the enemy,” 1916 MAR

The Americans realise the great import We quote to-day-White Saigon Rice, ance of aviation, concluded the distin No. 2 Sifted, Japan quality, Hongkong: guished inventor, and are thinking about $3.37 per picul fo.b. Saigon, for October constructing from 50,000 to 100,000 sero shipment.

planes as quickly as possible.

of 8250, or in default other four months" simple imprisonment. The 8140 was forfeited.

SAIGON RICE MARKET. The Compagnie de Commerce et de Navigation d'Extreme-Orient, in their report dated Saigon, September 25th, Our market is lifeless, except for some purchases made by the Government. The price of paddy. bas declined, but the enormóns rise in exchange prevents the conclusion of any business.

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JH GOD AS PRINCIPLE.

tandings ever present and ever avail-

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It has been aptly said that life is like an arithmeti, made up of problems which able to the man who relies upon God more very few find easy to solve, and which than upon himself or any other man er the others never learn to work out. Now thing or circumstance or belief. we all know that the student's failures to Eddy says (Christian Healing, D., 19), solve the problems of arithmetic are due Tireless Being, patient of man's Bro to his incomplete or defective knowledge, crastination, affords him fresh opportuni and application of the principles of ties every hour."