Biography and About
Ann Beals is a life-long Christian Scientist. Her family came into Christian Science through a healing she had before she was a year old. Doctors could not diagnose the illness or cure it. She seemed about to pass on when her mother called in a Christian Science practitioner who prayed for her until she regained consciousness. Within a short time she was completely healed. Her parents then took up the study of Christian Science and the family attended First Church of Christ, Scientist in Louisville, Kentucky. During her early years she had several healings of extremely serious illnesses through reliance on Christian Science. In time her father, Harry Smith, became a Christian Science teacher and lecturer.
After serving in the branch church in Decatur, Georgia, in different functions, she became a Christian Science practitioner, listed in The Christian Science Journal. She also contributed articles to the Christian Science periodicals.
Early in her practice work, she realized the need for writings that explained more fully how to demonstrate Christian Science. As she watched the steady decline of the Christian Science Church, her concern for the future of the movement led her, in 1974, to publish independently of the Church organization her booklet Animal Magnetism.
She moved to California in 1977 and resigned from the Church. In 1980, she started The Bookmark with the conviction that the time had come when deeper writings on Christian Science had to be published and made available to everyone. For over twenty-five years she has published and promoted many profound works on Christian Science. She wrote papers on Christian Science, and served as publisher and editor of The Bookmark until she passed on in 2018.
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| 1 | Christian Science and the Threat of Mind Control | There was a time when subliminal suggestion, mind control, brainwashing, and black science were terms unknown to my world. We did not need to lock our doors, or stay in after dark. The mental atmosphere of our country was warm and kind, open and trusting. | 117 | |||
| 2 | Publisher’s Foreword | Volumes have been written on Christian Science since its discovery in lS66. Time has sifted these works, and -preserved the best of them. Notes from the Normal Class of 1937 is one of the classics. It was taught by Bicknell Young, then known as the Dean of Christian Science Teachers. | 5 | |||
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