Article January 8, 1903 Issue

A Plain Statement

R. L. Ziller

The Austin (Tex.) Tribune

To the Editor.

Dear Sir: —In your editorial in Friday's paper, entitled "Mrs. Eddy's Edict," you place a construction on her advice to Christian Scientists which is altogether different from that placed on it by those concerned. I ask you therefore kindly to give space to the following statements:—

Mrs. Eddy does not state that Christian Science is unable to cope successfully with contagious disease, nor was her advice so construed by those to whom it was offered. There is no reason why the promises of Christ relative to the healing of disease through the divine agency should not apply to contagious disease as well as to any other, but the popular opinion regarding the transmission of contagion, and the general and justifiable ruling of health officers that persons shall not go in and out of places where there is contagious disease, makes it incumbent upon Christian Scientists to respect these conditions of thought. Mrs. Eddy's advice is very plain to those to whom it was given, and must appeal to all as eminently sensible, so that all this talk about Mrs. Eddy's confessing that Christian Science is unable to handle contagious disease is "much ado about nothing."

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