Awake to a Perfect Day: My Experience with Christian Science

Clemens, Clara. Awake to a Perfect Day: My Experience with Christian Science. New York: Citadel, 1956.

Clara Clemens (1874–1962) is best known as the only surviving daughter of Mark Twain, Mary Baker Eddy’s famous antagonist and author of a book “against Mary Baker Eddy” (15). Clara’s book, subtitled, “My Experience with Christian Science,” begins by asserting that “little attention has been drawn to [Twain’s] extravagant praise of [Eddy]” (15). In Clara’s endeavor to “remodel … character” she “spent much time in meditation” according to “the Yoga religion” (25). Her introduction to Christian Science was accompanied by a “spectacular healing” (30) of “an amoebic infection which affected … joints and rendered [her] a partial cripple” (29). However, she continued with her Yoga for years, before becoming a practicing Christian Scientist, initially with assistance from Christian Science practitioners, and then on her own. “The only purpose I have in recording my experience with Christian Science is to share as far as possible the help I have received both physically and metaphysically” (23). The book details her life journey with numerous quotes from the Bible and Science and Health, and how she applied Christian Science to her challenges. “One of the grandest revelations in [Christian Science] is [one’s] ability to doff … habits of discord in human relations and practice a kind of selfless love” (129).

ISBN-10: 1015079334
ISBN-13 (Softcover): 9781015079335
ISBN-13 (Hardcover): 9781014259653

See also annotation:

Christian Science by Mark Twain