Editing Mary Baker Eddy (section)

=== Tilton, New Hampshire ===
[[File:EddyChildhoodChurch.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Congregational]] Church in [[Tilton, New Hampshire]], which Eddy attended]]
In 1836, when Eddy was about 14 to 15 years old, she moved with her family to the town of [[Sanbornton Bridge, New Hampshire]], approximately {{Convert | 20 | mi | spell = in}} north of Bow. Sanbornton Bridge was renamed in 1869 as Tilton, New Hampshire.{{sfn|Cather|Milmine|1909|p=6}}

Ernest Bates and John Dittemore write that Eddy was not able to attend Sanbornton Academy when the family first moved there but was required instead to start at the district school (in the same building) with the youngest girls. She withdrew after a month because of poor health, then received private tuition from the Reverend Enoch Corser. She entered Sanbornton Academy in 1842.{{sfn|Bates|Dittemore|1932|pp=16–17, 25}}

She was received into the Congregational church in Tilton on July 26, 1838, when she was 17, according to church records published by Cather and Milmine. Eddy had written in her autobiography in 1891 that she was 12 when this happened, and that she had discussed the idea of [[predestination]] with the pastor during the examination for her membership; this may have been an attempt to mirror the story of a 12-year-old [[Finding in the Temple|Jesus in the Temple]].{{sfn|Cather|Milmine|1909|pp=19-20}}