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Signs of the Times
[Dr. A. Pulford in Toledo (Ohio) Blade]
I note with some surprise that the board of education indorses a campaign in the public schools, educating the pupils to the benefits of vaccination as a preventive of smallpox. If the newspapers will allow me I will present a few points which I am afraid the board of education has overlooked, or perhaps forgotten.
First, we are of the opinion that there is a permanent injunction on file restraining the board of health from interfering with the public schools. Can the board of health or the board of education afford to face contempt proceedings? Again, anyone who is vaccinated against his will, or whose child is vaccinated against the wishes of its parents, can proceed to collect heavy damages from the vaccinator and his aides and abettors. Can the board of education or the board of health afford to run these risks? If vaccination could prevent smallpox, they could. But it does not, all assertions that it does, to the contrary notwithstanding. Again, there is no state law compelling vaccination, and city ordinances do not take precedence over state law. Again, the board of education and the board of health will be obliged to show cause why a healthy, normal child is a menace in a public school, as well as why it is necessary to disease a child before he is capable of absorbing an education.
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March 27, 1920 issue
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"Good and evil elements"
NELLIE B. MACE
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"Abide in me"
REGINALD H. SCHENCK
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Holiness
CLITHEROE C. HENDY
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"Earth's hieroglyphics of Love"
FLORENCE DAVIS KELLER
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An Awakening
CLARA DOROTHY TERRY
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Giving
EDITH L. PERKINS
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"The garment of praise"
BERTHA A. COOPER
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A critic objects to the reply to the Dean of Durham's...
T. E. Davidson
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You report a sermon by a clergyman, which he called...
Louis A. Gregory
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Christian Science and Christian Scientists, especially...
Aaron E. Brandt
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Alone with God
COURTLAND HOLDOM
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Wars and Rumors of Wars
Frederick Dixon
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Simple Living
Gustavus S. Paine
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Special Announcement
Board of Trustees
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Admission to Membership in The Mother Church
Charles E. Jarvis
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The Lectures
with contributions from William H. Greenleaf, Henry Germain, George F. Harper, Walter Lockwood Stevens, R. J. Chandler, Mae L. Hodgins, A. E. Higgins
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I have been so blessed by the study of Christian Science...
Edith Hill Carnes
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In loving gratitude for many blessings, also for healings...
Frances Ott Bovee with contributions from Margaret S. Bovee
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Eight years ago Christian Science found me a constant...
Clarence S. Ellen
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I am so glad we have been given these legitimate outlets...
Pearl M. Johns
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I should like to express my gratitude for the many benefits...
Elizabeth Paget
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When Christian Science found me I thought nothing of...
Lila Northrup with contributions from Howard A. Northrup
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I have been healed of severe headaches, after trying all...
Louise Van Tine
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As an expression of gratitude and in witness of the healing...
Frank A. Updegraff with contributions from Edna B. Updegraff
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"Now I see"
MARIA VALDE
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from A. Pulford, Albert Hurlstone