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CORRESPONDENCE.
TROUT AT HONGKONG.
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 14th January. SIE-It may interest you to learn that is Excellency the Governor having decided to try the experiment of stocking some of the R-ser- voirs with trout, a consigament of the ora of trout is expected shortly from the hatches of the Canadian overnment.
If any of your readers have bad experience of hatching out ora of troat perhaps they would be good enough to call on the Colonial Serretary.
Yours truly,
F. II. MAY,
"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS. ]
SIE-I see by your paper that the public of Hongkong is to have Christian Science ex- pounded authoritatively at an immineat lecture, I hope it will be expounded lucidly as well, in plain words bearing a plain literal meaning. Hitherto I have found it difficult to get Chris tian Scientists to talk English. For instance, I would like a plain answer to this plain question.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
flager, you can actually see the Hongkong Hotel dance. Also, if a marine engine of :ay 8 h.p. makes a small launch goat 7 knols spoži, reason tells you that an engine of 16 hp. would make the same boat go at 14 knols, which is not so. You cannot prove that Christian Science" is an error. - Yours truly.
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Reason tells that the Hongkong Hotal stands still (or, at least west of it) and reason in a marine engineer saves him from such an norensopable cleulation a this one of horse. power and speed. We would not resson that becan-e a man can jump three feet high in three seconds that he could jump twenty yards high in a minute. As for imagination, what is it? Its highest girls in art have always ben empiric. To illustrata eru l-ly, what is called the faculty of imaginatio has given us augels and dragous. The first are merely a composite picture of a woman, a frock, and a bird; the second are composites of various known animals. The mermaid also is not a product" of imagination, but a patchwork of inadequate reasoning, like "Christian Science - Ev. ;
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SIR, - You said on "One of the two
Tuesday morning that gentlemen stated that Christian Science positively enres actual organic diseases; the other stated that it proves the nareality [query ; non-existence?] of such ills, and quoted Mrs. Eddy's saying that if y a admit the presence and possibility of disease, you cannot oure it."`
You referred to these statements as
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This is ingenions; but it is far older than "Christian Science.“ It is the "cow in the meadow problem of our undergraduste days, To the Chris ian Scientist," free of the hallucination, the obvious canoer was healed, removed, gonz Was it no longer visible to the doctor, still sharing the hallucination"?—Ed.]
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S-I can't my that I take much interest in this question either way, bat as I nota s correspondence is starting in your excellent journd, I have a little story that seems to me suffl-ion:ly apt to offer your readers
On the point of reality versus unreality, it A man. geois to have an amusing bearing.
addicted to alcoholic ex ugg», and by no means
a stranger to "delirium trem-ns," was in the company of soms waggish friend‹. H+ was as sober as he ever was, but when a ral, surrepti- tiously released in the room, rau across the foar, he looked at them canningly, and, poiut. ing to the animal, xaid: “You may think I see a rat, but I don't. It isn't really there."- Yours truly.
AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
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If Christian Science were still in its STR infan y aud its claims to favourable recognition still unproven, the alarm and doubt expressed on the subject in your columns would be most natural.
Christian Science has, however, been before In steadily the public for the last forty years. appar.
increasing proportions it has spread anl is spreading throughout the entire o.vilized world, and today hundreds of thousands of people of all classes and nationalities gladly testify to the fact that the study of its teachings has "I lus de mots inutiles."-En.j | broight to them a health and happiness
A Christian Scientist (mal-) undertakes 10 "treat" a man for cancer in the jaw. The sid Christian Scientist is clean shaven. Whereinently" contradictory. Mr. Kingsbury answers does the difference consist, between two days in to day's issue that "there is no contradiction stubble on one chin, and a cancerous growth on
What have you to say to another, from the Christian Science point of view ? Patting it still more plainly, why is the
AMUSED. Christian Scientist's razor to be recommended, and the surgeon's knife not?
Further, if the coming lecturer insists that physical pain is a delusion, as I understand he will may I, before the audience, stick a hat- pin into his leg? I would willingly do it when he is not looking, so as not to delude him. Finally, may I assure you that I am
not merely "800ffing"
"? The foregoing is not meant to be jocular; I really desire to know. -Yours truly,
AN UNSCIENTIFIC CHRI TIAN. [Perhaps some Christian-Scientist will au- swer our correspondent, in plain En- glish."-ED.]
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ŠIE,-When one man says we cure disease," when another man says there is no such thing as disease," and when a third man tells us that the other two have not contradicted each other, what is the matter with a poor engineer's brains that he cannot savvy ?-Yours respect fully.
[Please do not worry. right.-ED.]
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in the statements." that-Yours truly.
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Ilongkong, January 11th. SIR-It is intimated in your article this morning re Christian Science Lecture that no questioning will be allowed. This seems
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aufortunats, less of a controversial character and if Mr. Fluuo refuses to give a chance of informa tion to enquiries it looks much like evasion on his part. It would no doubt be interesting to his bearers to learn something regarding the credentials and personality of the originator of the movement, Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy. No healthy plant can spring from a diseased root, aud the character of the founder of a sect enters largely into the aspect in which such sect is viewed from outside. Mark Twain calls Mrs. Eddy a shameless old swindler" and Mark Twain is no mean authority. I have in my possession a pamphlet written by Boston lawyer, a Mr. Peabody, in which Mrs. Eddy is remorselessly criticised Mr. Fluno ought to enlighten us on this matter.—Yours etc.,
C. V LLOYD.
not correspondant is Christian Scientist," and hope to hear from the other side. We have omitted a passage from the above letter, giving details of the Peabody pamphlet which to have been of a libellous character.—Bo.j
DAILY PRESS." | [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIR. -Though not an admitted member of the Christian Church Scientif I am studying its propiganda attentively. May I suggest that you bave overlooked the metaphysical point of the C.S. position with regard to things
Disease &c. material and immaterial? objectively unreal, as I understand them, and mind, soul, or spirit is the only reality. But a [TO THE EDITOR OF THE
subjective belief in an objctive unreality gives the latter, so to say, sufficient power to affect SrB,-It seems to me that with your devotion
the reality, and in that sense matter (though to pure reason you are being guilty of the same
Mind treat. really non existent) affects mind. fault as your friends the enemy, that of "over
ment, therefore, on C. 8. lines, abolishes the emphasizing a half truth. things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of shadowy something that you call matter, with:
its material ailment, and so the influence of in your philosophy, or pure reason.
attribute of mind purifies itself, sad heal what was really, imagination as inseparable an "human consciousness as reason? Beason is in C.S. eyes, a material hallucination, which, to not always trustworthy. If you stand in Pedder | a doctor sharing the hallucination, wouyd seem Street facing the Clock Tower and move the a tangible orgazie growth.—Yours traĺe, akin at the corner of your left eye with your
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Sir, I also have a good story for you, which has the additional merit of being new aud vonched for. A local "Christian-Science Healer was giving evidence at one of the Hongkong courts this week, and in taking the oath he was seen to carefully open the Bible, As he and his piek a clean page, and kiss that. fellow members are understood to have no objection to the Scriptures, it must have been microbes he was afraid of. —Yours truly.
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The idea that Christian Sciena) is only ellicacious in the 01s of nervous diseases. lias long ago been shown to be an exploded theory. Every sort of organic disease has been and can be absolutely and entirely cared by the understanding of Christian Science. The fact that some 75 per cent of its adherents only tara. ed to Christian Science for help as a last resort who every human agency had been tried in rain, and from a state of hopeless invalidi,m hava bou rest red to healthy and useful lives, this fact aloue should give ous for thought to those who ignorstly dory its teachings.
In reply to some of the poiuts raised I could reply :-
(1) The object of the Lecture is, not to make converts, but to remove the prevalent mi-conc p- tions that exist as to the teaching‹ of Christian Scienc In Door Flano (formerly a Ductor of Medicine) w shall have a man eminently qua'ifi d to deal with the subject lucidly and "in plain English, '
I would assure your correspondents that during his stay in Hongkong every opportunity will be given to enquirers to interview Dr. Fluno and obtain answers to their questions. At the same time it is obri-asly impossible that with the time at disposal, discussion could bi | allowed either during or at the clos of the lecture. Lictures on Christian Soien :e take place throughout Americs and Europe, sad during over- the past year, hive been d-livered to
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Albert Yet at none of ani Queen's Hall London. these lectures were discussions askel for, and the reason for this will be apparent to anyone who is at all acquainted with the amount of ex- pluation required for the discussion of say metaphysical subject. Meanwhile I would refer any would be a quirers to the Christian Sol»nce Ruding Room, York Building, Chater Road, Hongkong, which is open for the use of sa- quirers every Monday evening from 5.3 to 30 p.m. and after the Ɛunday and Wednesday services.
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(2) As regarda calling in doctors for young children I would state that Christian Scientia's are, bef re all things law-abiding, and where the law requires that a Dostor be silled in for children under a certain age; they loyally obey. (3) The very reasonabia query raised by your corresp¬adeat “Uawientifi› Chrí tian" involves I am sorry to say, too much metaphysical discussion for the columns of a daily newspaper,
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