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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT. useful measures discussed were in the end except to someone

Scientist's disease has lost its subjective " initiated." It was a discarded owing to this general feeling of friendly interview, so we did not like to sav

reality for the believing patien', inasmuch incertitude. Whatever had been the general what we though, that in such a casa to bi

as he his persuaded himself it has left him, feelings of the Cabinet at the beginning, the "initiated non-success of the proposel peace measures

must be fantain unt to bein that it no longer exists, but it objectively convinced not only the more capabletion of the "Christian Science" post'on

"hambonzle." The most luil presenta persists, it is really there, but hurts less or bot at all becue the patient won't believe members of the Cabinet, but the country n

in it. Is that fair? If we have not mis- urge, that, however charming these proposed Science") watching her chill (he un. given to us was this: a mother (“Christian

represented it, it is nonsense, intellectu lly reductions looked on paper, Europe was by initiated) in its cot, see; it manifesting

foolish. It is difficult, however, to pin no means ripe for putting them in practice, the symptoms of nightmare terror

them down, for they jump from one position and that in the meanwhile it would not do the dreaming chill, the place is people to another, both mutually antig (nistic, and for England to permit her influence to be

unan lysable phrases just as with horrid creatures. The motherjuggle with set at naught owing to want of prepar tion. Lently awakes it shows it that those they ignore premises. This, from the It was therefore with considerable feelings horrid creatures do not exist save in its official organ of the society, is plain enough:

· Christian Science shos us the unreality as revealed by of sin and seve Christian Science, the unreality of matter i als gen, that it cams from nothing. Oh, logical scence!! is nothing, an will re'ura to

original nothing.

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perverted imagination; that the grinnin

merely a crumple? blinket, its real com- dragon is merely a wardrobe, the incubus panion a loving mother. On the strength of this pretty analogy, the exponent claimed.

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of sati-faction that Sir EDWARD GREY was heard to announce that while he saw no reason for interference or remonstrance at the growing desire in Germany to increase hr navy, it vet would he necessary for England to maitain her present numerical superiority. Following on the same lines, Mr. HALDANE has announced his view that { him. We did not argue, as there waa tina that `mud's real af is eernal, inmortal."

so far as we could unde s'and him, to be showing logical reason for the faith within

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sho va the unreality of death.

Could anything he plainer? Yet, in that eise, why so much literature to prove that the ma 14

of real organic ds a¥2, alittal physical wrecks, given un by doctors? Is that consisten: ?

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for the future it will be advisable that the only to learn, an we really duxired to gat home army shall not be permitted to drop correctly the point of view that they hell. below three hundred thousand trained men.

Otherwise, we might have taken up their Now all these are directly at variance with point of the objetive unredi'y of dis nas? the declaration made by the Government and evil in this way: obrve the same on entering on office. That the extriordin- | mother and the sun chill in an athu | We must siez up in this point, anl ngk at ary majority by which the Government

situation. The objectively reu mothe

once why, if dise iso ‘g unreal, and man's real

acceeded to office was, at best, but a chance | beholds from a real window her real child | self immoral, Ciris im-Science healers vote where the majority filed to compre.in a real yard. Approaching the admitty hend the grave subjects at issue, could not be more plainly shown than by the alacrity

reil child is a mad dog, which we, not b ing "Christim Scientists” claim is just as

should hot or abit curing uural dise 8, and taking rul money for so ding? T. startling reply was mule (t) a similar

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el patas do received is self evident. The country his

give the child real hydrophobia

initter; that a physical ach · has a det rior- almost by the skin of its teeth escaped a

“Christian Scientist "whit does the matherating effe up in the immortal substancı, grave danger, and the thanks of the country do? Tell the child that the peril is im that he anhoritative, it is plain thit are due to those men who in the hour of \ ginary, like its previous nightmare, or cila I Christian Selitist believa in duility as

with which these announcements have her objectiveir actual and real, and likely to / quest ou) this theso

need came to the front; but will they he strong enough to hold their own against the combinations now turned against them? The question is a serious one, and after the result of the last election in showing how the state may be cajoled in the future by a false catchword, it is one that all serious must for the future bear in min 1. England cannot afford to permit itself to be turned into a more party bear garden to the neglect of all useful work.

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real father with a real gun to shoot the rul dog and really save the child? Should thes lines be a en by the gentleman who

instructed us,

we sust that this is a

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question they might publ ele answer without any of the disadvantages we warned them against, always providing, of course, that there is an answer expressible in logied terms to dispose of the difficulty in favour of "Christian Science.” On the pint raise by us of the menace to publi: Safety, both gentlem 'n claime that Chris ian Scien- tists were not inimical to doctors, but they did not believe in their materia mo'jea'; that Christian Sientists" who did e ductors to their children did sɔ agtins their conscience "t satisfy the law," bu they claimed thu they would “as a rule loyally obey the doctor's orders, Th hy cull not, however, deny the possibility that some might ig sore the do tor's pr seriptions,

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It shows that mind Viofla mera

matter, aal matter iuflu sacs

Įmil, an 1 taat tie Chridit, Scie itists are I merely gudty of ozer-am ih saising half the comes in the truth. Her appropratly propis21 analogy. Matter and mind to-

Inurriel couple. gether or present a husbil is (let us siv) mutter, and the wit is mint.

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The married pur is an objective reality, an entity of extension. Christian sei ntists seam tí be in lined tɔ take a sulfragette view of the pur- min (the wife) is the “rel slf" of the } pair, and matter (the husband) is aɔt r al ough to mutter much, though hi, reality Hin

is oc-isionally adnat d, as on pay day for instan # [ey The dise1301 are very ral to par- the eitres; but only "seming and unei tɔ effect the cura] Christian Suence disorosk the min aal wife, 80 to

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(Daily Press, January 14th.) There is now scarcely one European in Hongkong who cannot claim a " Cristian Scientist as a friend or acquaintance, and we bave sufficient evilence that the public is now really interested in the move nent. This warrants a reluro to the subject,

į spik, and they denies the existence of the

which, moreover, bas been prompted by an

we could not withdraw our serima couple, the pair. There never wis, they thin one "real self," the argie, in Spa interview with two local leading exponents

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woman (0° 8pıri ). The man was ilusion. "Christia 1 Science "is a medice ti sariety, of the cult. They came, not to complain, Logically, of cours, if the doctors are

We funny we hiv hereu fairly define the but to rea on with us, and we regret to say that we met the same difficulty mentioned | Science

working on wrong lines, an 1ự “Christian Christian Svene position, and we claim al ne his the whole truth, as they again that it is ons inse, intellectually or by our original correspondent.

e alle in 1-feasible, and in so far as it They maintain, it is no in u ice, but a prom «• oʻ claimed logical grounds for what we had salvation; but then we like it the wjrity

hum' uzle Vicot-minded just described

as their intellectual folly, and the law believe still in real lisgate and

Clk inte folish conduct in the matter of but had to admit that their position was

1Yd denounc it as difficult to express in terms of logic, with brings us back to the apparent inc msist y

to some extent in material meling This disse and heilta,

Edangero 18. At the sum tha⋅ we propose the crystalline clarity colloquially de-of Christia Sien " views of mind and ito bat u perseitin: our readers sball siderated by our correspondent, when he matter. We find the lit ratare sipulis asked for definitions in plain English. We us as inconsistent as the twa exponent, wan withdraw nothing of what we sail before. ¦ callest on us; aul we think we c23, in 4 The interview, and the Interature that was few words, and with a smule analogy as left with us, so far only confirms our

god as theirs of the mother and sloping repugnance to the growing cult. One of child, expose them sun lergtanding. Thaj the two gentlemen stated that Christian officini bterature is full of “Mesopotam-4 Science"

positively cures actual organic phrases Iko human sensi (wat oth r diseases; the other s.atel that it proves the unreality of such ills, and quoted Mrs. Siestist

sense is pr vel; what else can a Christian claim?) "sin and disease le EDDY's saying that "if you admit the their reality in presence and possibility of disease, you (what other conscious res cannot cure it." These apparently con- being boask?) aud 80

on. Honestly tradictory statemeats were made each in endeavouring to grasp their point of view, the presence of the other, and they al

we pondered the last quo'el saying, nul mitted they could not reconcile them decided that it meant that a Christian

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human Consciousness

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have the benefit of herring both sides, if both si les care to argu“, We are assured that to promisel lec urar will endeavour a

to be lund, although he will not invite Testió 13 or debate, and his atte slio i iz gag ty by called to o ir presentment of the they occur to diffic tities of the subject a the general public. It will be noted, we 1e, that we have avoila! pure'y religious issues, and kept only to the inster al issue taat van oras us ad, the qustio i of health and diseas".

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l'he total assets of the Colony on October

31st sinuated to $1,02313.06; the liabilities

of asante uter

wara $303,56257. liabilities is consequently $1,318,780,49,

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