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IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE A CRIME?

From the April 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal

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Nothing is truer than that in judging others we measure ourselves. By indicting Christian Science Practice, and recommending the Legislature to prohibit, the Oneida County (N. Y.) Grand Jury demonstrated its official incompetency and medical partisanship. Its official indictment bears the unmistakable ear-marks of inexcusable ignorance of Christian Science principles, practice and success, or a wilful determination to misrepresent the same. In either case, they are unfit jurors.

The motive, animus and folly of this Grand Jury's action is clearly expressed in its own language, thus—

"We believe that the remedy for an evil of this kind can only be found by the enactment of such legislation as will afford a better and stronger security to the theory and practice of medicine."

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