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Sir Henry Pollock, K.C. (instructed by Mr. T. S. .Whyte-Smith) prosecuted for the Crown, and Mr. Somerset Fitzroy (instructed by Mr G. R. Haywood) de- fended.

THE MURDER TRIAL,

Under the auspices of the First Church

The trial of Cheung H, the young Caristian Science' gives assurance of of Christ Scientist, Hongkong, a lecture salvation from any and all erroneous con- Chinese painter, who is charged with the on Christian Scienco was given in the cepts of God, man, and the universe. In murder of an old man, named Ha We, Old Chamber of Commerce Room, City ouer words, Christian Science has given at Tai Kok Tsui on September 20th, was Hall, yesterday, by Mr. A. Hervey us again the true idea of God, has re- continued before Sir Henry Gollan, the Bathurst, C.S.B., a member of the Board | vealed God agdin, the same God of whom Chief Justice, at the Criminal Sessions of Lectureship of The Mother Church, Jesus spake whon he said: "But the hour yesterday. The First Church of Christ Scientist in coweth, and now is, when the true wor Boston, Mass. The accting was well shippers shall worship the Father in spirit attended.

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Truth." We allow 10% discount for cash.ally healed. Anyone who would care to attend the meetings of the Christian Science Churches in any part of the world, would hear the testimony of per. song who had been healed by a belief in Christian Science. Anyone who would read the periodicals printed in connection with the Church would also find testimony to that effect. The discoverer of Chris tinn Science, Mary Baker Eddy, had proved that healing of the sick could be effected as it was in the time of Jesus. Continuing, the Chairman said, that he himself had experienced the efficacy of such a power of healing, during the past 21 years. He was grateful that he had been enabled to get away from the realm of ignorance and thoughtlessness, Chris in guoduess, health,, harmony, we witness the healing of any and all erroneous con-

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I was once talking to a good woman who had been an earnest student of the Scriptures for a great many years--she had a pile of five Bibles on her table--and we would insist upon the fact that God, or good, knew and consequently included evil, permitting it when He considered it necessary and this in spite of the Scrip tuul statement: "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter Impossible!

Christian Science teaches that "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Miad. Spirit, Soul, Principle. Life, Truth, Love" (Science and Health, p. 465), AS we recognize that God is only expressed

again looked at prisoner, and said that ho was the man who struck him. Pris- oner made no remark.

THE PRISONER'S STORY."

Frisoner, elected to go into the witness- box. Ho related how the scraper had been missed, and how the blind man told him he had given it to deceased." Ho described the meeting with Ha Wo, and the quarrel which ensued, when deceased said that be had no scraper because he- had sold it for two cents. He then alleged that a number of persons came on the scene, knocked the old man down and stabbed him. He (prisoner) then to East Point. Under CTORS- went examination he contradicted himself. He said he saw no taife, and again that he saw a man with a knife in his. hand stabbing the old man.

ADDRESSES BY COUNSEL.

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Counsel for the gelence continued his cross-examination of Man Wo, who was with the prisoner when the alleged stab. Witness said that he bing took place.

Mr. Fitzroy, addressing the jury, said was in the shop when the wounded man came there later. He heard him saying that it was a peculiar case. The ques. Hetion of motive always took an important that he was going to the police.

But could they (witness) then became frightened, and part in murder cASCS went to East Point, where another foki believe that anybody would go to the of the shop was living at the time. He extent of committing murder for was later joined by prisoner. He heard scraper which was practically worth no prisoner tell the other fok, I have thing. Prisoner had stated that Ha We admitted having the scraper and had stabbed an old man; that's why I am

Could they imagine here.". On being asked whether he had sold it for two cents. ever quarrelled with prisoner, witness re- anybody committing a deliberate murder for that? It must have been done for plied in the negative.

Chan Kau, who stated that because he some other reason altogether. Counsel sub- was shortsighted, people called him the mitted that Man Po's evidence was very unreliable. It was impossible for a man blind man," described how he was ac

at that time of night and that distance costed by prisoner and Man Wo, on

pened. All along his statements were stolen a scraper. Asked if he recognised denied by other witnesses, and he would prisoner, witness after peering for some-ank the jury to discredit his evidence time through the dock rails said he did. altogether. To convict prisoner they Pun Sai Bing. the joki who on Sep: must be sure beyond any reasonable doubt tober 20th was in East Point, stated that he killed He Wo. They would have in evidence, that Man We came to the to be satisfied that he struck the blow. house that night. Prisoner arrived soon. He further submitted that the evidence of after, and told him that he had stabbed Man Cheuk was unreliable. He had been an old man. Replying to Mr. Fitzroy,

inn Science was a practical and uphils?ditions or beliefs, A man or woman is September 20th who alleged that he had way. to have seen what actually hap-

"religion, with an appeal to all men, no matter of what race, creed or colour. In conclusion, he said that they were having the opportunity of hearing the trash about Christian Science from an authorised source, and he considered it a great privilege and pleasure to present to the audience, such a qualified lecturer as Mr. Hervey-Eathurst.

In the course of his lecture Mr. Hervey

sinner.

the expression of what he or she believes or perhaps knows. A man or woman whe understands and accepts the reality of love..honesty, true sympathy, and huma affection, expresses these qualities. The reverse is equally true, and he or she who, through Christian Science, has a scientine understanding of the nature of God, can heal the sick and reform the Bathurst quoted the words of Mrs. Eddy. Thinking, it will be admitted, is of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian primary importance. We cannot under Science, in the opening sentence

take to do a thing without first thinking Chapter IX. of Science and Healthy it, whether it is a trivial action or an with Key to the Scriptures, the Chris important undertaking. Since all action tian Science textbook-" Eternal Truth

or anything we undertake, do, or say is is changing the universe.".

the outcome of thought, it can readily be There are few things, he said, more seen how important it is to watch Care interesting than to look out over the fully what we think what thoughts we work-to take that world-wide view which | accept as real or true. Christian Science gives us and notico What thinks Docs matter or any part the general reaching out for something of the physical body thinkt Emphatically new, for improved conditions. In some po! Can intelligence he in matter? If instances the pendulum has certainly intelligence is in the physical body, where swung too far in the wrong direction, and is it exactly For some time it has been one might well ask, as do so many; What believed that what is termed the brain or does it all mean, and where will it all gray matter is intelligent or that part of ead? Christian Science, or the science the body where thinking commences. "It or knowledge of the Christ, Truth, alone is said that there are people to-day who gives a complete and satisfactory answer, are begining to believe that the brain is for it reveals and explains that "eternal not to be regarded as the seat of intel Truth, through the recognition and deligence, but that this seat is in quite monstration of which, the universe is another part of the body. indeed being changed.

Let me state at the outset that, as its name indicates, Christian Science is pre- erminently Christian and scientific, and it is most interesting to note that the best informed thinkers and students of to day are admitting that, after all, Christianity must be scientific, and that science and Christianity are not words quite incom patible, as so many have been in the habit of affirming.

That which is scientific must be cap able of proof or demonstration, and I feel

confident that, in the hour at our disposal,

witness said that Maa Po could not possibly have heard what prisoner said, as he was out at the time.

shop, Shamshuipo, said that prisoner The master of the Ching Ki painter's had been in his employ for over two years.

picked out by the deceased as the man who had stabbed him. Concluding, Counsel submitted that on the evidence before them, they must discharge the prisoner.

all the statements made by the prisoner Counsel for the prosecution said that

showed that he had this scraper definitely the box must go against him. Counsel axed in his mind. His whole story in submitted that prisoner was guilty of the charge of murder.

Hospital, said that the deceased was ad- Dr. Craig, of the Government Civil mitted to the hospital on September 20th He had & wound in the right lower part of the abdomen. The tract of the wound was upwards and inwards. The cause of the old man's death was acute peritonitis, caused by the perforating of the abdo-His Lordship that the jury also desired men; as a result of its being pierced by a sharp instrument.

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and returned a verdict of guilty

The jury were absent for half an hour

The foreman, Mr. J. P. Lee, informed that a rider should be added, to the evidence very unsatisfactory, and that effect, that they considered Man Po's they considered that a signed statement

should have been taken from the wound- this would be added to the verdict. ed man. His Lordship remarked that

His Lordship donned the black cap and passed sentence of death. Prisoner neem

moved.

Replying to defending counsel, witness said that it was possible for this wound to be caused by a man falling on a

The Jury were: Mesars. J. P. Lee thing sharp., (foreman), J. B. Gutierres, H. Hyud Intelligent matter is unthinkable. In an, G. F. Haslam J. Gibson, J. telligence cannot be considered apart from Hooper, and Ng Yuk Bing. Mind. No part of the material body goth an identification parade was held

Inspector T Murphy said on Septembered to be listening intently, but was un. thinks, because Mind or intelligence can- not be in matter. Christian Science at Es Wo's bedside in the hospital. Deceased teaches that Mind is God, and, as the Bible declares, that man is the image and pointed out a man named Man Cheuk likeness or expression of God; good, as the man who had struck him. On the Therefore man is the reflection or expres following day prisoner sion of God, or divine Mind. Consequent parade, and Man Chenk was absent. De ly the real man cannot have or express parade was held and both prisoner and launch and a Sanitary Department

ceased picked out

Another Early yesterday morning, a ferry thoughts which are unlike God.

Deceased launch passed too closely to each other

Prisoner

was not prescat.

was in the

prisoner.

HARBOUR HAPPENINGS.

MONGKOK FERRY LAUNCH SLIGHTLY DAMAGED."

At this point one might ask: What,Man Cheuk were included. then, is man, if his body does not think picked out Man Cheak again. He then near the typhoon shelter at, Mongkok, we shall see how we can each commence, does not represent man! As a matter prisoner, locked back at Man Chouk and ceived slight damage.

and has therefore no intelligence, and so looked along the line, and seeing the with the result that the ferry launch re- without further delay, to avail ourselves of the peace, the health, the freedom, of fact, the material body in a large mea.. (Continued, on next column.)

sure manifests what a man thinks or believes..

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From the report made by the master joy, and satisfaction which await every

of the ferry launch, the Man Euen, it Honest student of this great subject; how

appears that the ferry was on the 'way' To illustrate what I mean: It is well

from Hongkong to Mongkek at 6.30 yes- we can demonstrate the truth regarding known that if a man or woman continu. Thus we recognize God's government, and terday morning when the mishap secur- man, and, therefore, regarding ourselves ally gives way to a bad temper, to anger,

fear or believes fess in the reality or red. The ferry launch was about 400 feet While referring to the Freedom and it produces a bad physical effect. Now, Power of evil, until we arrive at that from the eastern entrance inside the satisfaction which Christian Science gives, it is generally agreed that anger, fear, point of understanding where evil ceases typhoon shelter, when the master obser- I do not mean to imply that these bless and so forth, are mental, or conditions to operate or to be able to produce any ved the Sanitary Department steam ings are conûned sulely to the individual of mind. Christian Science goes further effect, even in belief or as a false belief. launch, S.D.1, under way about 200 It is true that the demonstration or proof than that and proves that all discordast There is no place outside of infinity. feet away on his starboard side. af the truth revealed by Christian Seienen conditions, all disease, are purely mental. THE DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER blasts were blown by the 8.D.1" and begins with the individual; but, what In other words, Christian Science teaches

the Man Kuên replied with two blasts ever blesses one blesses all" (Science and that a man expresses just what he be Christian Science discovered by

Why," it. is. somethimes asked, was and went across the bows of the B.D.1.”. Health, p. 200), so that, while within the lieves in, just what he accepts as true. reach of all Christian Science is world- By true, I mean, as emanating from ov

woman? The answer is surely obvious The S.D. starboarded her helm and

passed by the ferry launch on the star wide, universal, in its scope and influence created by the one and only cause or because Mrs, Eddy was more spiritually board side. An anchor which was bang-

Every individual, every nation to-day increator, God.

minded than any one else on earth. It ing out from the starboard side of the looking for the solution of some problem How important, then, that we should might be asked, "Why did, not some one S.D.1" caught the side planking of the or other; is looking for "salvation" from watch our thinking most carefully! elne, some man, discover. Christianfan Kuen above the gunwale when the Science One might as well ask: Why craft were passing each other and ripped or power of evil Salvation comes refer to is not merely intellectual. It is did not some one other than Newton a piece of wood casing, doing damage to the thinking or knowing which is the learn the lesson from the falling apple the ferry launch to the extent of about result of letting that mind be in you,nize electricity ? Many apples and fallen

Why did not some other discoverer recog$0. which was also in Christ Jesus. That Mind does not know or include evil. It before Newton was ready to learn the is wholly good. As a matter of fact, you lesson be reaped from observing that can "never um error or evil :: you can specific apple rush to the earth. Elec- only believe in it, and then it is only a tricity, or, to be more accurate, the force false helief without any truth in it, there called electricity, had always been there. fore untrue, useless, powerless..... Electricity could not be utilized, and the van,only find salvation from the thraldom learned until some one was in a position Office yesterday were kept very busy pre

Mankind, individually and collectively, lesson from the falling apple could not be of erfor, or evil, as they learn the truth to recognize the one, and perceive the about God and the truth about God's ex pression, man; that is, as they are able to awake to righteousness, and ein not

awake to right thinking; and conso be lieving in evil.

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The very car liest records of the history of man show that protection or miety from" evil, er "salvation," as been sought by appeal ing to some invisible deity, some invisible power about which little bas generally been known. Sacrifices, human and others, were offered with a view to in suring the protection of that power or deity. Idols also were made to represent some god, and they were worshipped with the result that is well known to all stud enta of the Bible. An idol is a false god an attempt to create a material image or likeness of Spiri, which is impossible, "No man hath seen God at any time." God, Spirit, Good,

cannot be defined by: physical armaterial senses There fore, all who resort to material methods may be called idolaters or worstappers of

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The truth which Mr. Eddy discovered in 1800 had always existed, and had been here always. Any man or woman could have made the same discovery, had he or she been sufficiently miritually miniled.

The Xmas mail for

Is not the highest peak in a mountain Marseilles on December 20th and should range the first to catch the glorious rays arrive in London ou December 22nd. A of the rising sun Mary Baker Eddy very large consignment of letters and

false gods A material image is but the lties with which mankind is struggling made the discovery because she was Horecards had been recorved up to late yes... mental concept externalized. An image

it

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movement,

or idol must be conceived mentally before to-day? The remedy is to put into prac

can be made of wood, stone, or metal. tice the teaching of Christ Jesus; to make ready than any one else to listen for and terday afternoon and there is sure to br You can do nothing without first think Christianity practical, or, rather, to re had learnt to know and to love through G.PO at the last minute this morning.

hear the voice of God, the God whom she another large batch poured into the ing it. You will agree that the stone, cognize and demonstrate its practical

The Xmas letter and parcel mail for wooden,, or metal idols of our ancestors nature, which Christian Science has re the Bible from her childhood, indicated a most erroneous concept of vealed. In other words, to understand she is also the Founder of Christian G.P.O. as under: Parcel mail, Batur Not only is Mrs. Eddy the Discoverer Canada and U.8.A will be closed at the and worship God." in spirit and in truth, USE COLGATE'S SOAP AND RIBBON DENTAL Today none of us would agree with a

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Eddy established ed mail, the same day at 4.15 p.m. and proposal that we should worship or offer the world would be like if the two great The Mother Church, and," through ordinary mail also the same day at prayers to that which could be repre commandments referred to by Jesus were CREAM

sented by any material image or idol; but being really obeyed:Hear Oleracl spiritual discernment; instituted the form p.m. These mails are due in Victoria, Aince an Idol is the expression of thought, salt love the Lord thy God with all thy obedience to which the movement has

The Lord our God is one Lord; and theu of government a wonderful illustration B.C., and Seattle on December 19th.

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