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One year ago, when the decree went forth...

From the January 1887 issue of The Christian Science Journal


One year ago, when the decree went forth that all children must be vaccinated, I refused to allow my child—a girl of eleven—to submit. Once I should have been among the first; but having learned some of the truth contained in Christian Science, could not submit to such a thing.