Article February 6, 1909 Issue

Informed that persons representing themselves as Christian Scientists...

New York Herald

[From the New York Herald.]

Informed that persons representing themselves as Christian Scientists had been importuning Mrs. William T. Bull, wife of the surgeon who is ill at the Hotel Plaza, to accept their services, and that some of them had gone so far as to give him absent treatment without his knowledge or consent, J.V. Dittemore, Chairman of the Christian Science committee on publication, yesterday sent a letter to Mrs. Bull, deploring the affair and denying that any such practices are a part of legitimate Christian Science.

"Many years ago," said Mr. Dittemore in his letter, "the Founder of Christian Science wrote on this subject as follows: 'For a student of mine to treat another student without his knowledge, is a breach of good manners and morals; it is nothing less than a mistaken kindness, a culpable ignorance, or a conscious trespass on the rights of mortals' (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 283). Soliciting practice or forcing attentions on any one cannot be justified by a Christian Scientist any more than by any one else.

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