A Demonstration in Dentistry

Mattie Wood

My daughter, a girl of fifteen years, has from childhood shown great fear of a dentist's chair. I have seen her get up and hurriedly leave the room if the subject was mentioned. She declared she was more afraid of one than of a rattlesnake.

She had been healed of many physical troubles through Christian Science treatment, but I had not seen the importance of overcoming this fear until it was manifested in the teeth decaying, and they appeared very discordant.

I then said to her, "Mary, we have had too many proofs of God's love to let this thing continue. You are going to have this work done, and done harmoniously."

About this time she was attending the Home School for Scientists, at Washington, Ga. Although she had been there only a few months, she had grown much in obedience and gentleness, and so answered me, "Mamma, give me a little time and I will apply my Science to the best of my knowledge." From then I felt perfectly satisfied that the demonstration would be made.

I treated her for two weeks, declaring God's protecting love was sufficient to destroy the claim of fear, and at the end of that time she wrote that she and one of the Christian Science teachers had been to the dentist and made an appointment.

When the dentist made an examination of the teeth he expressed himself as much shocked at their condition. The overcoming of pain, etc., was so pronounced that he began asking questions (the patient carried Science and Health with her, reading every chance she got). He used his instruments in any way he chose, and remarked, "She is beyond all feeling; just look at this pink nerve and how I can draw my instrument across it."

When the difficult work was ended, he declared it to be one of the most excellent jobs he had ever done, and best of all proclaimed to many the power of Christian Science to relieve the pain of dentistry.

Many of the children of The Home School have had beautiful demonstrations with this same dentist, and he says they are his most agreeable patients.

Mrs. Mattie Wood, Jacksonville, Fla.

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