Testimony of Healing September 16, 1950 Issue

When I was a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School...

Phyllis Patricia Dawson

When I was a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School I had a very wonderful experience. It concerned education. The only day school I had ever attended was located in the back room of a small private house and was presided over by an elderly woman, my education never reaching more than the most elementary standards. At the age of thirteen and a half I left school and started work as a junior assistant in one of the Lambeth public libraries.

Although my schooling was very inadequate, my spiritual education was far in advance of my years, for a year or two after this time I became tremendously keen on Christian Science, attending the Sunday School and really studying the textbook, Science and Health, and Mrs. Eddy's other writings.

Sometime later, whilst I was still a young girl in my teens, a rule was made by the then Libraries Committee that only those who had passed the matriculation examination would be eligible for posts on the permanent staff, and that others then on Libraries staff who had not matriculated would be given the opportunity of passing a special examination, set, as far as I remember, by the Library Association. If they failed to pass, they would always be regarded as temporary staff, with all its disadvantages, which included never being able to make the senior grades.

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