How I Found Christian Science March 11, 2013 Issue

My steppingstone

Laurel Smith

There are so many tales of how people have found Christian Science. I’ve enjoyed each one I have read and heard. This one is different. It’s not deep, nor is it dramatic. Perhaps it’s amusing. I learned about being a Christian Scientist by reading a novel.

I was a small child at the beginning of the Great Depression. My family’s modest rental home was far on the outskirts of Indianapolis, and although my parents worked, times were difficult—even to the point that our car was repossessed. 

Because I loved to read, my grandmother, who lived with us, gave me a book that had been my mother’s when she was a child. It was Jewel’s Story Book, a sequel to the book Jewel by Clara Louise Burnham, a popular author of the early 20th century. In both books Jewel is a little girl who brings health and joy to her family and friends by bringing Christian Science into their lives.

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