Testimony of Healing May 30, 1964 Issue

When I was about twelve years...

Pearl Crawford Clark

When I was about twelve years of age and living in a small community where there were few children, I was often bored and read avidly anything that came to hand. Some of it, as I recall, was not suitable for a twelve-year-old.

However, I remember finding a copy of the Sentinel somewhere and being very much impressed with its contents. Reference was made frequently to the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and I was curious to see what this book was like. I borrowed it from a library many miles away and scarcely understood a word of it, but I recall I was uplifted in my consciousness for quite some time and resolved that when I had an opportunity I would try to find out more about this Science.

I moved to a large city in my teens and became so absorbed in a career of work and marriage that I forgot about the Christian Science textbook. Years later a series of problems arose which I did not seem able to cope with. Christian Science was presented to me at this period by a woman I scarcely knew, and I remembered the experience of reading the textbook as a child.

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