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Elizabeth
Earl Jones, C.S.B.
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Oil
on canvas portrait by Camille DuMond
Gift of Elizabeth Earl Jones Association
Longyear Museum Collection, AW0236
ELIZABETH EARL JONES, C.S.B.
Elizabeth Earl Jones, a semi-invalid until the age of seventeen,
heard of the work of Sue Harper Mims, a Christian Science practitioner
in Atlanta, Georgia, and appealed to her for help. Quickly healed,
she began an earnest study of Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. In the fall of 1899
Miss Jones took Christian Science Primary class instruction
from Mrs. Mims, and by 1903 was listed in The Christian Science
Journal as a practitioner in Asheville, North Carolina. Also
in 1903, with specific support from Miss Jones, the Christian
Science Committee on Publication for North Carolina succeeded
in having a bill that had been originally designed to prevent
the practice of Christian Science healing in North Carolina
amended in the Legislature. Miss Jones was one of the first
to receive a license permitting her to practice. In 1914, she
traveled to London, England, where she devoted herself to healing
work, especially among members of the armed services during
the latter half of World War I and after. Miss Jones took Normal
class under the Christian Science Board of Education in 1940,
and became a teacher of Christian Science. Miss Jones was interested
in Mrs. Eddy's brief stay in the Carolinas in the mid-1840s,
and did valuable research regarding that history.
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