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.

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THE SWORN STATEMENT
December 29, 1898
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