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Hongkong Daily Press.

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Post Office in the United Kingdom,

ESTABLISHED 1857 刺孖

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY, 26. 1939.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

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15-19 Marina House, Queen's Road Central. G.P.O. Box No. 1.

CHALLENGE

TO THE WRONG THINKING OF

INTERESTING LECTURE BY MR. PETER V. ROSS

The challenge which Christian Science offers to the wrong thinking of the ages formed the theme of a most interesting lecture which was delivered by Mr. Peter V. Ross, C.S.B.. before a large, and attentive audience yesterday in the Church Building in Macdon- nell Road at 6 p.m.

SECOND LECTURE CANCELLED

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second lecture which Mr. Peter V. Ross was to have delivered in Kowloon on Satur day has been cancelled, owing to an alteration in the sailing time of his boat for Shanghai.

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It is even reverent prayer, re- verent in this that it absolves God from responsibility for sickness and suffering. It is the sort of prayer which works, a change in the individual. For the effect of prayer, after all,.is not on God but on the man who prays. SPIRITUAL AND IMMORTAL:

Such prayer unites the individu- al with that, Life' to which disease and age and dissolution are un- known. It unites him with that Mind which imparts to man all the intelligence he needs for success and usefulness.

The lecture was open to the public and those

Yet Life does not come. It who were present yesterday must assuredly have left does not age, it does not sicken, the hall with a clearer and wider knowledge of the it does not depart. Life is! It principles which form the basis of Christian Science.

was! It will be:

All down the ceptories the belief There can be no escape from has been entertained that man is Introducing the lecturer, place it in the same category with this logic when it is remembered material and mortal, whereas the. Mrs. Annette M. Rowell, a the bellef in the fatness of the that Life is God. All of which has fact is, as both reason and revela- member of the Church, said: earth, For certainly the earth ap- tremendous significance when it is tion inform us, man, truly, 1 "Friends,--On behalf of First pears flat. Occasionally to this recognized that man is an expres-spiritual and immortal. Church of Christ. Scientist, day may be found a person who sion of Life.

belleves it flat. Hongkong, I have pleasure in

MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE: welcoming you all this even-

In his farewell address to his ing to hear a lecture by Mr.

people Moses said: "I call heaven Peter V. Ross, of San Fran

and earth to record this day cisco. Mr. Ross is a mem-

against you that I have set before ber of the Board of Lec-

you life and death, blessing and .tureship of The Mother

cursing. Some day the undeniable fact that both thou and thy seed may Church. The First Church will dawn upon the supposedly live."

Therefore choose life

of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, sick man that Life is God. Then Massachusetts."

THE LECTURE Mr. Ross said: A normal, satis "factory life is impossible without good health, Naturally, therefore,

"Obviously the flatness is in his thought, In his ignorance, "Some day the simple fact will dawn upon him that the earth is round. Then the flatness will be cured.

The individual who insists that man is mortal will be a mortal to all intents and pur- poses. He will come under in- tolerable limitations,

He will be borne town ultimately by infirmities.

But when an individual stands ly admits that man in the likeness up and intelligently and thankful-

To appearances there have al- of God is an immortal, an exhibit his sickness will be healed, because ways been before mankind both of Life to which restrictions and disease and mortality cannot be life and death, health and disease, that reverent mood which is pray- distresses are unknown, he enters ascribed to Deity. If God is Life, success and failure, plenty and? then Life must be diseaseless, poverty. ageless, endless.

we wonder how disease ever got DISEASELESSNESS OF LIFE: into the world. In casting about

But human beings,, he makes that rational argu- in their ignorance of God, have overlooked the Scriptural injunc- tion.

ment which undermines the belief t disease, he administers that Selence treatment which dissipates

for a reason people have pretty What basis is there "for the They might have chosen Life the mesmerism of mortality.

In a word he begins to find his generally reached the conclusion statement that Life is God? Time with all that that implies, but, that disease comes as a punish-after time" In Scripture Deity is giving credence the while to the true status as to use the words of ment for wrongdoing. The sick referred to 1.S Life. When the devastating suggestions of mortal Mary Baker Eddy, "the expression God's, being." (Science and man has been disobedient. He has Israelites were struggling so. des- mind, usually they have chosen to

Health, page 470). been pursuing some evil practice.perately in the desert on their make a reality of disease, mor- His suffering, is the penalty. journey to the Promised Land. tallty, and misfortune.

The weakness in this logic is Moses, by way of encouragement. They have done more. They

people as well as bad are subject Fifteen hundred

to sickness. Therefore we shall Jesus, in talking with the Samari- they argued that the belief or mes have to look farther than mere tan woman at Jacob's well, refer- merism of disease has become part wrongdoing for a satisfactory an-red to God as Spirit. Spirit and of unconscious thought. swer to our question. „

Life are synonymous terms. They CAN BE OVERCOME: Here Job's experience is en-have essentially the same, signi- lightening. He was a good man.ficance.

fortune.

Indeed, one of them asked, "Who

Life.

sary, not true...

of

PUTTING ASIDE. SCEPTICISM:

Not a person should walk out of

Each

seen when we observe that good declared to them, "God is thy life," have argued for these impositions.this.auditorium, the same person".

years later So long, and so industriously have he was when he came in.

one of you should depart with. more hope, strength, courage, and endurance than you had an hour. ago. Many of you could well spare Thus it is that people are some-ten years of age or ten pounds of Yet he was seized by a painful The woman supposed - to be times beset by diseases they never weight. malady.

Why not allow these undesirables: Friends who gatheredja sort of judge..or kind.

And O held have thought or heard of. about to sympathize argued that court in the nearby mountain, this liability to sickness will con- to dissipate and depart along with he must have strayed from the Jesus made it clear to her that tinue- until men and women rise your aches and failures and lone- straight and narrow way else he God is not manlike or kinglike but up and intelligently challenge dis-liness? They are not actualities. would not have encountered mis that He is incorporeal Spirit or ease as a thing that is not neces-They are deceptions. You can lose them all if you will suspend your New Testament writers. following|

Buch existence as it may seem unbeller long enough to permit the are hearing to take ever perished, being innocent? or Jesus spoke of God not only as to have is in appearance or belief truths you Where were the righteous cut off?" Spirit but as Life, Mind, Love, or mesmerism rather than in aclodgment in mentality.

It is not an easy thing for a But Job, unconvinced, insist- "What a word. Mind is for Deity! tuality. This is why disease and ed upon his integrity, though

For Mind can know all things and mortality can be overcome. Were person to revise his opinions, to be everywhere present. But Mind they actual there would be no al-subdue his prejudices, to waive his

scepticism. It is so much does not diner essentially from ternative but submission. Life. It would be rather didcult

Human experience consists to alto say: These pronouncements to differentiate between intelli- considerable degree in making are wonderful. They may be true choices and decisions. Christian of spiritual man but what have gence and animation.

Selence acquaints, the individual they to do with me?" They have with the spiritual facts which en- everything to do with you, for are able him to judge and choose wise-you not in your genuine make-up

a spiritual man? He makes a right choice, he

Accept these precious gifts of gives himself a Science treat-

the Almighty which hitherto you ment, when he embraces Life

may have been putting aside.. and renounces everything op-

Yours is the life that does not posed to Life,

come or age or fail or despair or is sicken or fade out yours is the

he confessed, “The thing which

I greatly feared is come upon me."

LOOKING FOR DISEASE: "

When he recognizes that Life

invincible.

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easier

Job typifies ordinary numan INDISPUTABLE FACT: beings. All down the ages they have accepted the suggestion... „öf - Life is the one indisputable fact. [ly, rightly: ' disease. thrust upon them by You may doubt most things. - Youį mortal mind. Generation after may doubt everything except that generation have they talked dis- you live, You may sometimes won- ease, pictured it, built it up intoder about other people. You may a" universal "bellet or mesmerism. suspect that they are creatures of To-day this mesmerism settles your own fancy. But you are ab- - down upon mankind generacy-solutely sure that you exist-exist irrepressible, unconquerable, to-life which by the grace of God is

good, bad, indifferent as the rain as an exhibit of Life. God's wit-¡corrüptible. When he realizes as falls upon the fust and the unjust. ness, to use Scriptural language. best he can that this'resistless Life Hence it is that the best of inen Where is that Life? Nearer than is his, that it is in full and un- and women, uninstructed by Chris-hand or breath or thought if could restricted: operation" right where tian Science,

occasionally be. Paul gives the classical answer his infirmity may seem to be. victimized by this mesmerism. It when, in his letter to the Ephe- Which means that the infirmity is cannot be said that they are being slans, he writes of one God who not there, is not his, is not in punished. They have not done is above all, and through all and existence. anything to be punished for. ** in you all."

They', have, however, falled, to - What sort of Life must this be? challenge the general belief in dis-Diseaseless, ageless, endless. It is You do not have to listen to ease. Thereby have they left their yours, genuinely, to the remotest disease when it pretends to argue defenses down. That is enough. recesses of being. This is the truth to you. Really it has no voice, no That is all anyone need do in orde which will make you Tree so far intelligence, no symptoms, no pre- does the individual make a choice, to become vulnerable to the at-as you recognize and utilize It sence, no existence. The presence a decision. Normally he chooses tacks of mortality. -NOʻT GENUINE.

are

REVOLT AGAINST DISEASE:

As you silently, talk these · truths over with yourself; while at rest or at work, you will become aware of a better. body, a better intellect, a bet- ter career, a better world. You will come more certainly into the possession "of that Life whose joys eternal flow, RIGIDITY OF THOUGHT:

Every instant of his experience

People have been healed, by the of God as boundless Life and Love success, works for it, achieves it. very arguments you are now listen- makes its presence and existence But if not on his guard he may ing to, of such difficulties as worry, impossible. Realize these unalter- choose fallures and work for it. Disease then is not genuine. Of Health, page 470); per able truths, G

He will have to do this if he ever course. It is not: This is why grief, resentment, unemployment, God has given you the power. encounters failure; because, failure suxerers are constantly in revolt pneumonia, sinus trouble, eczema, Assert, in definite thought and cannot find him. Like disease fai- against it. This is why every personal injuries, impaired sight word, your absolute freedom and lure has no intelligence, no power system of healing looks for the and hearing.

y harmony, as His representative. to move around, no ability, to and time when sickness, will cease to There is no reason why you The world abounds with well anyone. It is quite helpless, quite. appear,

should not be relieved of your dis- meaning people who say almost harmless, of Itself. If disease were a reality people tress immediately. Expect it. You nothing because they fear they No man is likely to get into" a would, accept it; without." protest.) have a right to liberty and useful-will say something unscientific, pit, without deciding to walk to- They would have, no alternative, ness

1. Any statement, any attitude, any ward it and fool around on the because realities cannot be evaded We have thought that life comes mood which denounces disease as edge after arriving. The pit can or overconde...

and goes. We have supposed that a. lying imposition, and which hardly come to him. With the When we say that disease is in life is given to one at the time exalls Life and health as everpré- same effort he can take at least a better or in appearance or in ignor called, birth, and taken away at the sent realities, is scientine, is legi- few steps in the opposite direction ance, rather than in reality; we time called death.

timate treatment.

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