Article February 2, 1899 Issue

Christian Science in the Practice of Dentistry

BY CHARLES G. PEASE, M.D., D.D.S.

Having been a student in both the Allopathic and Homeopathic medical colleges, having studied in the dental colleges in New York and Philadelphia, having taught in the colleges of both professions, having been an active member of a large number of professional societies, a descendant of the friends, educated in early life at the Friends' Seminary, later a member of the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches and actively interested in the missions and Christian Endeavor Society, and life Auxiliary Member of the Salvation Army, my investigation of Christian Science can be said to have been, though critical, without prejudice.

Accustomed to weighing evidence, and having been a close investigator and a broad and analytical thinker in the direction of my professions, I first approached Christian Science from the side of its spiritual teaching, which I absorbed readily, pursuing my investigation in this direction with interest, pleasure, profit, and uplifting. I then included in my investigation the practical application of the truth individually and in my practice of dentistry, which I now practise exclusively, and I have had beautiful and convincing demonstrations of the Truth,—some of them I shall never forget.

I can probably best express my present position by the statement that I have felt like one emancipated, and it is so. To launch out on the ocean of God's love, to understand in some measure the Science of Being, inaugurates a new era in one's experience, brings one into closer touch with the Master, and awakens a realization that the loving promises unto the children of God are all true, and that we can live in the experience of their fulfilment. When we arrive at this understanding do we not see that all is Infinite Mind—Spirit, and that there is no life, intelligence, or substance in matter, that God, Truth, Love is supreme?

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