From early childhood I attended a Protestant Sunday School, becoming...

From early childhood I attended a Protestant Sunday School, becoming a very good student of the Bible. At the age of ten I was asking serious questions about what I had been taught of God, but I received no satisfactory answers.

I had a great sense of being guilty of hypocrisy when I was accepted into the church at the age of twelve, as I could not truthfully accept the doctrines it taught. In a few years I turned away from my church, feeling I had become an atheist.

I had never been strong, and several years after my marriage I became an invalid, suffering for over four years from a painful kidney problem combined with prolapsed intestines. A very strict diet depleted my strength and pleurisy set in, forcing me to spend most of the day in bed. Doctors seemed to have little hope for my recovery, but I was not told anything definite.

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April 23, 1966
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