Editorial February 28, 1901 Issue

Contagious Disease

Editor

The card of the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy published in the last number of the Sentinel, and which will appear, also, in the next number of the Journal, will forever set at rest the question of the attitude of Christian Science practitioners in reporting to the proper authorities contagious and infectious diseases.

Inasmuch, also, as it is absolutely authoritative this instruction should remove all apprehension from the minds of those outside the ranks of Christian Science. There should no longer be any doubt on the part of the non-Scientist public, including the medical profession.

The opponents of Christian Science have made a special point of this matter of contagious diseases, and have persistently charged that Scientists have refused to report this class of cases. There is no reason for this position. If there has heretofore been any cause for misunderstanding on the part of Scientists, it is removed. A communication from Mrs. Eddy published in the Boston Herald in February, 1900, and republished in the Sentinel March 1, was clear enough on this point and should have left no room for doubt.

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