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THE CLAIMS OF CHRISTIAN | SCIENCE

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONG KONG

|_ DAILY PRESÂ"] :..

Six-Will you kindly grant me space for the enclosed article by Mr. J. V. Dittemore, which was published in the Washington (D.C.) Star, in answer to & correspondent who connected Mrs. Eddy's teach- ings with those of Dr. Quimby.

In view of the recent correspond- ence in the Daily Press on the sub- ject, our renders will undoubtedly welcome this enlightening explana- tion.-Youre, eta,

FANNIE CULVER BUXTON. Hong Kong, January 24th, 1099.

Mrs. Eddy Great Religions Reformer.

PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 28th, 1929.

SMALL-POX EPIDEMIC.

ST. JOHN'S VACCINATION

LIST.

MR. J. L. MCPHERSON RETURNING.

HIS WORK FOR THE Y.M.C.A.

St John Ambulance Brigade, re

Mr. I. L MaPherson, Advisory ports that the number of Chinese vaccinated--tree of charge-by mem-General Secretary of the Chinese returning to the bers of the Ambulance Brigade be. YM.C.A. is twean December 2nd and Thursday, Colony on the Macedonia on Fri- January 24th inclusive, is u fol day. During his absence since March of last year, M, McPher

lows:-

Chinese Y.M.0.A. Divi-

sion...

King's College Division Railway Division Indian Division ..... Kowloon Division Mongkok Division Shaukiwan Division Un Long

St. Joseph's College Divi-

Victoria Nursing Division. YW.C.A. Nursing Divi-

sion

non has spent three months with 97,754 the Y.M.C.A. in Canada and the 97,108 United States and x months with

4,109

his family at Birchington in Kent. 3.809 96,357 He has also done some work with British National Council .112,105 the

6.466 of the Y.M.C.A.

1,434

Upon his return to the Colony 6,448 to restime a connection which he

549.

began almost twenty-five years ago, Mr. McPherson will find a very 389

of hearty welcome from hosts 988,324friends and fallow workers. When

Mevan 'More Cases. Eleven more cases were reported on Friday, 3 from Victoria, 7 from Kowloon and 1 from Shaukiwan, all were Chinese.

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WILL LAST TILL MARCH.

SLAVES AND SWEATED LABOUR.

he first came the Chinese Y.M.C.A. was in its beginnings. He has been present to help the organization in very important advance step. It was then in rented quartera Street: Wyndham

He super vised plans for the first build- the Student Hostel beening,

Street, Bridges

completed EYE-WITNESS'S DESCRIPTION, in.1912. Then followed the main Five Manila:-Inspections outside building completed in 1915. Manila harbour from April 20th. years later plans were devised for Third class passengers and new crew Kowloon Branch, but they couldThe world's most curious elec has just been considered by the Soviet Union. Throughout the Genova. The question of slavery must comply with the vaccination not be carried out at once, and tions are now under way in the International Labour Bureau át

now he will return to attend the requirements.

Mrs. Eddy" studied medicine, both silopathy and homeopathy. spiritualism, and the menta! methods of Dr. P. P. Quimby of Portland, Me, who was not an. ignorant clockmaker, as your con

At Other Ports. tributor infers, but perhaps the best known practitioner of what is pow The following steps have called suggestion in his day-taken by foreign ports- Mrs. Eddy was searching to discover the law of cause and effect and their exact operation in the mental resim, and each individual whose methods the tested by experiment was in a degree her benefactor. 'However, no well-informed person would presume to say that the system of spiritual healing evolved by Mrs. Eddy is the crude combina tion of suggestion and bead rubbing which was

the method of Dr. Quimby.

ор

now

Moscow, December 25th (U.P.):

GENEVA DEALING WITH A BIG EVIL.

Genova, January 14th (U.P.) :— The world-wide abolition of semi- slavery, or forced and contract labour among native populations,

All ports in the United States of laying of the foundation stone of country delegates are being chosen itself was settled as far as possible. amounts to a national Parliament, International Convention for the America, including the Hawaiian the third building undertaken by to the local Soviets and to what by the launching of the League't the Central Executive Committee gradual world-wide suppression of rival in 1904.

of the Union.

slavery. falands:-Fuspections outside the the Chinese Y.M.C.A. since his ar-

Steerage ports from April 1st

In addition to the Chinese.

There is no election day every The League follows the applica- passengers must comply with the

Y.M.C.A. Mr. McPherson was one vaccination

Cabin requirements. passengers must produce a vaccina. of the early promoters of the iden city, every village takes its own tion of this Convention very close- "Mrs. Eddy restored herself to tion certificate or be vaccinated by of a building for the European time about it, and the process willly and a report is made to every physical health on various occasions ships doctor or quarantine author-Y.M.CA. this being realized in not be completed until the begin-September Assembly on all progress 1925, by his help. He assisted also Ding of March. There are no made and on any violations a8M7- by the practical application of theities.

in developing plans for the Naval parties and no platforms except tained.

In the meantime, however, both Military Y.M.C.A. which now car- the leadership of the Communist

Party and its official programme. the League and the International ries on in two centres.

It must not be supposed, bow- Labour Bureau have discovered ever, that the elections are for that that slavery is only one half of the reason routine, cut-and-dried. On problem and that the other half the contrary, the nation is a fever consists of a form of semi-slavery of politics. The press campaign that is rendered possible either by about the elections is loud and the forced labour or contract labour lusty, In the peasant districts of great numbers of natives in especially feelings run so high that various African and Indian states they find an outlet too often in and provinces as well as Pacific acts of terrorism. And when it islands

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river mouth and passengers and crew vaccinated unless they can pro- duce evidence of successful recent vaccination,

Singapore:-Hong Kong declared ARE THERE ANY LETTERS

"FOR YOU? an infected port on account of small-pox.

H

mental method which she evolved Bangkok:Vessels detained and practiced, but Christian Scienco is vastly more than a cure for dis case.

Progressive students of its teaching are not content to rest on the basis of terely making the re- peated preliminary tests of it for physical benefit to their bodies. is the present-day presentation of universal design of evolving and visible development by which both the individual and collective humanity may attain prevention of Weihaiwei:-Hong Kong declar the ills to which humanity has beened an infected port Ships will be the unfortunate heir in the realm of subject to medical inspection under civil law, ethics, and religion, se quarantine regulations. well as in individual and collective

health. It presents a scientific, practical method by which the

Amoy:-Hong Kong declared an infected port on account of small- pox.

UNCLAIMED CORRESPON DENCE, ETC., AT THE G.P.O.

THE OFFICIAL LIST FOR..

SATURDAY.

mental element in the world, the TRANS ATLANTIC FLIGHT.lowing particulars with regard in

common consent of the majority, may be harnessed to the highest con- ception and expression of progress, and in a practical way uplift the mass instead of vainly attempting to maintain government upon a basis of merely the average intellig- cace of the majority.

"Mrs. Eddy was one of the links

-formers dating back to the dawn

of human history.

AMERICANS TO REPEAT ATTEMPT.

A General Post Office notification, issued on Saturday, gives the fai unclaimed correspondence, etc.. waiting at the Post Office, and also unclaimed radio telegrams at the Radio Telegraph Office:

all over the government will have As a rule, the forced labour is an expression of popular sentiment the result of action by the local

which in many ways as forceful sa other government

engages the governmenta receive from ordinary natives, either for nothing or almost democratic elections..

nothing, to undertake great public

The State.

contract labour is

significance Of The "Selections." works being carried on by the

There is no question, of course,

of the government here lolargely, the exploitation of natives

or "winning" the elections. The by private industrial concerns, which the natives fare, little better control of the one legal party is such as the rubber industry, in deeply rooted. But there is a pos than slaves although receiving e sibility that the trend of the voting Posts Bextants Correspondence,

may lead to changes in official nominal wage, Asiatic Motor Company, Dr. C. policies. At the very least it will The rapid development of Afrig resources by European and 1 American concessionaries with the Barreda, W. N. Brewster, Mrs. R. reveal the weak points in the can Bunting, L. Barret, Mra, K. Bux-Soviet armour. ton, Chau Sum Chuk, F. R. Corson,

Copenhagen, Jan. 15th (U.P.).-- Mr. Bert Hassell and Mr. Parker Cramer will attempt a fight from

To understand these elections one aid of native labour has rendered. in the chain of great religious re- Rockford, U.S.A., to Stockholm, H H. Coote, Madame Cerget, W. must begin by recognizing that the the problem an unusually impor

"Selection "tant and timely one. Each built and from Copenhagen back to the Durrant, Mrs. Dorling, ERword is a misnomer.

Derevitakoy, would be a more appropriate word. The problem will appear on the Davis, Miss Ida- upon already accumulated truth, United States this spring. The George Gray (Australian Billiar In every factory, office, village, the agenda of the next international aa must ever continue to be the venture may now be regarded as dist), Mrs Grifiths, J. active elements, among them the labour conference that will meet at practical method of the evolution of Mind's ideas and their manifee-sured, Professor W. H. Hobbs Graham, A. Hashim, E. or L. Han few Compuimists, present a list of Geneva in June, 1929.

stated in a letter to the Danish gan, Mrs. N. Hoyune, W. E. John Soviet delegates. The list is got- eon (Pussy Foot), Mrs. Ed. James ten up with a view to meeting the tation in human experience.

(Methodist Mission), Apcanste wishes of the roters, at the saine Natalia Rosenalle, plays one of the "The term Christian Science explorer, Mr. Holge Bangsted.

Fifty thousand dollars has al-Jean, Miss W. V. Leung, Geo. Lynett, time making sure of men who are leading roles. The Alm, "Bala- beleriga to no one group, br to no

K. G. Manu (Mark, Moody, Fed, loyal and hard-working. There mander, considering its eminent single generation, as Mrs. Eddy ready been collected toward the inc.), B. L. Morris (H.K. Exposi-follows a series of meetings, repatron, is rather a disappointment herself understood. The Congrés-

The gloomis sional Library, and many other expenses of the new flight. It is tion Grounds), J. Macdonald, Miss ports, discussions in the press, dar to the Russians. The reviews have libraries contain copies of a large expected that the flyers will leave J. Marriott, LO. Vander Meulen, ing which the Soviet programme is been sadly tepid.

H. A. Mohler, R. R. Marsh, Mrs. analyzed and argued. Often names deepened by the further facts that volume under the title of The Rockford late in May or early in March, Mr. and Mrs. P. McCor- are stricken from the list and considerable money was invested in Elements of Christian Science," by

mick, Ngo Nam Trint, Dr. D. Rothers substituted. But substan- the production and considerable William Adams, published in nume June.

The Rockford aviators will use a Nelson, Rene Onstry, E. H. Oesch, tially these lists are approved by advance praise lavished upon it. A rous editions many years before

A. Philip. Art Phil. Furniture acclaim Mrs. Eddy proclaimed the founding larger machine this year. They in Co., R. S. Pratt, Tom. Russell, of her unfolding operative system of true mental self-development and tend to fly a tri-motored hydro Capt. J. V. Reed (as, Sunpath), A. individual and collective healing." plane, instead of the single-engined type used in the unsuccessful at tempt of last summer.

Professor Hobbs, head of the University of Michigan Greenland Expedition, rescued Hassell and Cramer after their unsuccessful at- tempt to By from Rockford to Stockholm, vid Greenland, last

ATTEMPT TO RESCUE A PRISONER.

FIGHT ON THE LONDON UNDERGROUND.

year.

A scene on the Underground Rail- way was described at Hendon Police Court when Oliver Smith, An Attempt By Russian, te

Finishing touches are now being aged thirty-eight, an engineer, of Ashenden-road; Clapton Park, was put on the airplane Polonis, which accused of inflicting grievous bodily is being constructed at the Caproni harm on a railway porter and of having twenty-three wine glasses in factory near Milan for the fight his possession surpected to have which Captain Kowalski plans to been stolen.

make from Ireland to the United It was stated that Smith, who States at about the same time as had been spoken to by the porter, the American fight. Joseph Thomas Pulham, about hit Equipped with four motors total

behaviour

Discontented Villages,

German actor, Bernhard. Getzke, was hired for the leading role and In outlying villages, and where most of the picture was filmed in

Berlin, H. Bennie L Savitzky. W. D.

The story concerns a professor of Smith, Miss A. Smedley, D. Ste- discontent is rife, the people un- wart, H.Saley, A Trillat, Mrs. friendly to the government policies

religious Withnell, W. B. Whishaw, J. C. are likely to affect the list, some- zoology and his ordeal at the..

He is elements in the university. Walters, R. Wallace, L. Willeborts, times even to determine its person-hands of reactionary HE Watson, H. &. Wambe, Mrs. nel,

The important part of the process not only expelled from the univer Wells (Missionary Field), W. G.

is not the actual choosing of the sity, but "framed" to appear as M. Wilson, E. A. Yates,

a sexual pervert; his wife is seduc- delegates, but the discussions. Unpaid Correspondence.

ed by one of his persecutors and Often there are dozens of mass Freidmann's (Diamond Trading meetings.

Officiala occasionally eventually, poisoned; and altogether be is harried to the point of extinc- Co.), Miss Shura Ganis, A. G. prominent Communist Hewitt, A Hamby, Mra E. make reports. Questions are asked tion. At the crucial last moment Humphrey, A de Hazanas, R. and answered; complaints are Kunold, Robert P. Merchant, Mrs voiced. E. D. D. Merchant, LL. Nikels (H.K. Hotel), Miss A. Todd.

visitor

he is invited by Lunacharaky to come to Moscow to continue his The Soviet leaders frankly re-scientific work unhampered.

One could swallow the melodrama educa gard the elections as an

and the cheap childish exaggera Registered Articles.

tional" matter. They count upon

charaky had provided & sufficient Bedikton Publicity Co., J. 8. them to draw the masses into the tions of the piece, if only Lane

the same time the

fringe Baunett Bank, Commercial Press of the 72

ed

and counterplots are largely the re- elements generally, use the cult of the whims of the religious Guilds, W. Did (H.K. Hotel), 3. M. in the villages, and the discontent to such motive emerges The plots Ellis, J. M. Guttierrez. Bedikton Lasion to voice their opposition villain. Publicity Co.), Mdme. Carousse, In thousands of villages groups best friends could find any reason Not even Lunacharsky's P. Gout S. In Honton & Co

Commercial Guarantee work of socialist upbuilding" Attive for the man's ordeal. But

dre. E. Jennex, Miss Ledink, M. hostile to the Communists are mak

at Edgware Station, liug 1,200 horsepower, the Polonia J. E. Mitchell, Harry Ross (H.King a serious effort to capture the for all the excitement.

struck Palbam, knocking him down will carry a pilot, navigator, and Botel), GB. Smith, Wang Yip twice. He then chased him aloge possibly one passenger. It is esti. Co., F. Wooster (H.K. Hotel). the platform and struck him again (mated that its top speed will be int

A guard and a motor-man came the neighbourhood of 140 miles an up, and Bmith jumped into a moy-bour.

ing train followed by the railway.

Starting from Baldonnel aero

men, who endeavoured to overpower drome, Ireland, Captain Kowalski him, Pulham had his hand bitten plads to follow the northern route during the struggle. The railway men were met at Burr Oak Station to Halifax and then as far south as possible along the American by a hostile crowd, estimated by a policeman to number more than a cost in an attempt to break the handred, and attempts were made world's long-distance non-stop flight to rescue. Smith, who was taken, record. Fond

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local governmental machinery,

Herr. Geltzke, however, gave

Lune creditable performance. As one Russian explained the charsky in his one brief scene was elections to this writer:

"The working and peasantvidently self-conscions His wife, masses are like a great board of as all the Russian critics point out directors. They are agreed onwell.

cryptically, wears clothes quite what they want and get together

to pick the men to carry it ou They are not, as in so-called mocratie

The Social Evil, Servant girls. who have lost their

From

countries, rivals for jobs constitute the bulk of prosti- Miss Adelle Mason,

H.K. Hotel

Keene, N.H.

enemies each trying to get their tutes in the Soviet capital, accord- own representatives into office. lng to figures published here. An Oskaloosa Iowa.

That's why we consider our elec analysis of the social origins of the Hing Kwok, Al Sam Yir ARANCE

Company

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tions more real, more serious, women in this most ancient of pro- than yours, which are just fessions showed that nearly half of still struggling to the police Before the start is made, the Commerce

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them are from the villages Nearly scramble for offices."! airplane will be examined by a Ng Thi Noon. Sandakan.

80 per cent of the peasant girls commission of Polish and American Kick Shaw Empress of France.

A Commissar As Playwright Smith was fed £18 in all."

who find their way to the streets Batavia. John Charles Kent, aged twenty-aviation experts to report on its Neverorgan

The Commisar of Education, begin their careers in Moscow as five, a labourer, of Cumming-street, suitability for the fight. The fight. Yep Teng Eng, Hot Hong

Amoy. Anatol Lunacharaky, appears servants Upon losing their posi- King's Cross, was fined 30s for is being financed by a committee in Chai Lung, 109, Wing k briefly himself in a film for which tions they are either afraid to re- interfering with the police in the of Polish emigrants in the United

Lot Btreet

Torontsont. he wrote the scenario, and his wife, turn home, or unwilling to give up" (Oontinued on next Voluma). city life, and remain as prostitutes. execution of their duty in connec States headed by Alderman Adam

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