Article June 22, 1946 Issue

Letters to the Press from Christian Science Committees on Publication

William D. Kilpatrick

The Boston Herald

William D. Kilpatrick
Manager of Committees on Publication The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts
The Boston Herald, Massachusetts

A colloquy between a judge and an attorney, as reported in an article in a recent issue of The Boston Herald, presents questions which might tend to confusion and misunderstanding in the minds of your readers not sufficiently advised as to the status of Christian Science. May I supply some corrective information?

The question seems to be raised in the discourse between the two gentlemen as to whether a mother who supplies Christian Science treatment for an afflicted child could be held in the same light as the mother who simply refuses any type of treatment and apparently leaves the child in a state of sheer neglect. The implication is made that the mother who supplies Christian Science treatment for her child is as neglectful and liable as the mother who is criminally neglectful. The teachings of Christian Science so separate and differentiate the two diametrically opposed cases brought out in the argument that no analogy between the two and no ground for confusion, misunderstanding, or misrepresentation could possibly exist.

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