International: Weird Cult

"When our friends pass from our sight and we lament, that lamentation is needless and causeless.

"The corpse, deserted by thought, is cold and decays, but it never suffers."—Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy in Science & Health.

At Lake Hopatcong, N. J. one day last week, one Charles Emerson Berton, 20, dived into shallow water, fractured his neck. For the next two days the Bertons, Christian Scientists, kept their son in their summer bungalow. Then they took him to Ten Acres Sanitarium near Princeton, only authorized Christian Science institution in New Jersey. There, next...

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