The Christian Science Journal published an article this month by Christine Jenks Herlinger Driessen titled, The book that has blessed generations of my family:
In celebration of the recent 150th anniversary of the publication of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, a textbook beloved by my family for many generations, I am inspired to share the following story.
It’s the story of a woman from Mrs. Eddy’s era whose discovery of this textbook had a profound impact on our family. This woman ran a boarding house sometime between 1900 and 1910. A sixteen-year-old girl asked to rent one of the rooms and soon got a job to pay for it. The young girl’s name was Pearl, and she was my grandmother. As my grandmother told it, she had lost her father and mother when only twelve years old, and she and her younger siblings were each sent off to live with relatives, separating the family…
To read this article in full, please click here.
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