Article August 30, 1900 Issue

Among the Churches

with contributions from F. A. H. Hamilton, William Hirschlieb, Emelyn M. Tobey

I find that the English-speaking natives, chiefly Madrasi servants, clerks, etc., like the lectures. At first I distributed them free, but now they willingly pay a small sum for them, and a great many more have been distributed since they began to pay for them.

My ayah, a Madrasi woman, formerly a Roman Catholic, is doing much in the way of telling her friends of Christian Science and giving out the lectures, and new enquirers are always coming — one tells another. My ayah has been a year and a half in Christian Science. She has done some good healing very quietly and goes steadily and happily on, although she has met with much opposition at times. Christian Science is known now among the Europeans, but society is always changing here. Some hear of it gladly at first and then seem not to care to go on.

Two or three Buddhists are interested and have had small demonstrations which pleased them greatly, and it is known in one or two Buddhist schools where the children who are able to read English study the lectures, Journals, etc. One lady who is a Buddhist and looks after Buddhist schools in Ceylon, is studying Science and Health there, and already sees something of the Truth. Many people of all kinds have heard of it here, but as yet there is not much to be told about it.

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