Article December 29, 1898 Issue

PETTY PERSECUTION

In Bellefonte, Pa., the shire town of the country in which the writer was born, there was, a short time since, one of the pettiest exhibitions of prejudice and malice, in connection with Christian Science, that has yet come under our observation.

A woman, in whose family was the mortal law of hereditary insanity, committed suicide by throwing herself on a railroad track where she was run over by a train. About a year and a half previous to this event, this woman had been treated in Christian Science for a short time, and because of this the coroner's jury gravely found that her mental malady was due to the influence exerted upon her by a Christian Scientist.

After a long time the Christian Scientist, thus falsely and foolishly accused, succeeded in getting a local newspaper to publish a sworn statement of the actual facts. Such narrow and unjust measures will only re-act ultimately upon their perpetrators, and Christian Scientists can afford to look on with composure.

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