...is likely to find any voice in this-House at all. Here, I think, we all agree that our attitude towards this measure, on whichever side it comes, is one which is guided by a sincere feeling. The Christian Church in this country is older than the House of Commons, and that is perhaps fortunate. If there had existed in the sixth century a House of Commons such as that which exists to-day it...
...principle which both will accept. Under present conditions, I am afraid that you can no more cure the breach in Russia by arbitration and well-intentioned talk than you could mend a broken neck by Christian science. The Paris atmosphere certainly encouraged people when they were up against difficulties to look to formulae which would affect even if they could not solve; but I do beg the...
Mr T.P. O'Connor: ...leg of this poor little child the marks of the wound which had been inflicted upon him bythe bullets of the Turks. Now I appeal to the not far distant eloquence of the Prime Minister that no more Christian populations shall be left under the control of Turkey in the peace that is about to be made. I see an hon. Member opposite, and I am bound to say that I understand his principle, namely,...
Mr Neil Maclean: ...for any of the honours. Names are submitted to the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister considers the qualifications in the light of what these men may have done for the nation in the War, or in science, art, literature or charity. The only one who knows is the Patronage Secretary, and I join with the hon. Member for Canterbury in suggesting that it is not the Prime Minister who ought to...
Mrs Margaret Wintringham: ...very largely from a temperance point of view. I should like to add a few words from the welfare point of view. There are three sections of the community who are supporting the Bill—medical science, the teaching profession, and the Temperance Council of the Churches. Medical science supports it from the physical point of view, the teaching profession from the mental point of view, and the...
Oral Answers to Questions — Imperial Institute (Christian Science Lecture).
...the facts about Palestine. Everyone knows that the population of Palestine is predominantly Mahommedan. The population is about 750,000. Of these 650,000 are Mahommedans. About 50,000 or 60,000 are Christians, and the balance are Jews. There is no doubt that the Mahommedans and Christians are intensely hostile to the whole Zionist policy in Palestine. A considerable number of orthodox Jews...
...tendency he is protected by the size of his house and the locality. If he is infected, he is able to go to the country or to be isolated and receive treatment in his house and all that skill and science can provide for him. The poor begin handicapped. They begin from early days in an atmosphere which reduces their vitality and power to resist disease. When they have the disease they are so...
Commander Hon. Joseph Kenworthy: ...,000. My figures for Great Britain are taken from a statement made by a leading member of the trade, who read a paper at a recent conference in Glasgow, and my American figures are taken from the "Christian Science Monitor." These figures show that in this country the number of people attending cinemas are 40 per cent. of the number attending in the United States. I am not sure that if we...
Dr Thomas Shiels: ...you take or what system of quackery you take, you can get a list of wonderful cures in any one of them. Some of the most remarkable cases I know of wonderful cures have been in connection with Christian Science which I have seen myself and know. There is no use in giving a list of cures and saying that it proves that the system is a good one. As a matter of fact, I can bring a list of...
Sir Harry Brittain: ...to say so at the first opportunity. I still maintain that a great deal of money has been wasted in Iraq. But that is a question of the past. What we have got to do to the best of our ability and conscience is to decide the right line to take in the year 1926. I was in Iraq just after this decision of the League of Nations, and I can assure hon. Members, particularly my hon. Friends on this...
Mr George Hardie: ...tons a year. The strata is broken up, and they have to get through all the intersections of stone. That means a terrific increase in cost and yet Belgium can make her mines pay. They have applied science to their coal. Even the dust is swept up and made into briquettes, but they do not use it simply as we do and waste 25 per cent. by burning it up direct. They put it into a chamber under...
Mr Arthur Shepherd: ...evil." I do not agree. It will not be right, it will not be justifiable to say that war is a necessary evil until we have tried the method which was first propounded 2,000 years ago. When the Christian method of settling differences has been tried and found wanting, perhaps I may go with other people who will say that war is a necessary evil. Why has it not been tried? As I see it, just...
Sir Martin Conway: ...the purification of the soul by mystic communion with the Deity. This form of worship was extremely popular, especially in the second century, and indeed throughout the whole of the time when the Christian Church was being constituted. One of these mysteries was described by Aristotle, who said: The initiated do not so much learn anything but they feel a certain emotion, and are put into a...
New Clause. — (Power of Minister to exempt Christian Science nursing homes.)
Mr Neville Chamberlain: ...considered to be subject to my subsequent assent. The Clause to which this Amendment relates was inserted in the Bill on the Report stage, and is a Clause under which certain institutions known as Christian Science houses were excluded from the operation of the Bill. I ask the House to disagree with the Amendment because it places upon the Ministry of Health the responsibility for the...
Sir Rhys Morris: ...Book without the closest scrutiny. Looking at the conditions of our time, remembering the great intellectual inquiry of our time, remembering that people are really concerned with the appeal of the Christian religion—it would be a great mistake to say that the majority of the people, even if they are not church-going or chapel-going, are not religious people and not concerned with this...
Mr John Jones: ...: "It does not matter how you vote. It does not matter what you say or do, I am going to keep control, even though I have not the power." This is going from bad to worse; it is reaction made into a science, and as one of the representatives of West Ham, I must most emphatically protest against the discrimination made against our particular area. If you have crimes to allege against us, put...
Mr Thomas Shaw: .... All is not well; and there is no excuse for any civilised nation allowing people to live under the conditions which some of our people are living under now. How can anybody who calls himself a Christian see these people short of boots and clothing, and even short of food? It is a monstrous thing in this 20th century. With the march of science and our capacity for production, we can...
Mr Walter Elliot: ...offence can take offence at the provision of that accommodation just as they can at the provision of a school in the old building. They might say, "Here is a community, Protestant, or Jewish, or Christian Science, which has had a glorious new school built for it, whereas our community is only fit for a few ramshackle shanties with open boarding and corrugated iron roofs." I am sure that...