Article March 7, 1931 Issue

Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1930

The literate population of the Malay Peninsula is scattered mainly in a narrow belt some five hundred miles along the western side. Christian Scientists are chiefly located in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, and Penang, where, except in Penang, regular Christian Science services are held. The Singapore group also maintains a Reading Room.

In all the above towns daily newspapers are published, and these are carefully watched. The editors have maintained a fair and friendly attitude toward our Cause. Copies of The Christian Science Monitor are sent regularly to newspaper offices. This has brought appreciative references and published extracts. Besides these, eighteen newspaper references to Christian Science or to its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, were sent to this office, calling for twelve letters to correct misstatements. The replies, with one exception, were readily published by the newspapers concerned. From the report of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church extracts were published in three towns, making the world-wide progress of our great church better known. In a church monthly occurred five attacks on Mrs. Eddy from one correspondent, the editor inserting friendly letters in reply. As a corrective, books containing the facts of Mrs. Eddy's life are being placed in book clubs.

Noteworthy was the press report of this year's address to the British Medical Association (Malaya Branch) by their new president, the Hon. Dr. A. L. Hoops, Principal Civil Medical Officer, Straits Settlements. When we remember that a large section of the population takes quinine on medical advice for malaria, the following admission is remarkable: "The bacteriologist teaches that germs enter and cause disease. But it is a fallacy to imagine that the doctor can destroy these germs and restore health." Dr. Hoops further said: "The conclusion of the whole matter is that life and healing cannot be explained by physical and chemical formulæ only. There is a spiritual and mental territory which is all-important, and into which the physician cannot enter unless he loves his fellow men."

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