Testimony of Healing December 12, 1908 Issue

For fifteen years I was unable to have any dental work...

W. P. Haynes

For fifteen years I was unable to have any dental work done, not being able to hold my mouth open long enough, owing to extreme nervousness. Every attempt met with failure, and my teeth were in a dreadful condition. Finally a front tooth was broken off, and I wrote a Christian Science practitioner, telling her of my distress. She wrote me to come to New Orleans, and that she would go with me to a dentist. I did not explain to her that I could not hold my mouth open longer than a second or two. so the first visit was a failure, but the practitioner told him that we would come again the next day. She went with me to a hotel, and gave me treatment, and the next day we went back to the dentist. Not only was I able to have the trouble with the front tooth remedied, but I also had two more teeth fixed the same way, besides having one crowned, and bridge work on upper and lower jaw teeth.

That I was able to have all of this work done after fifteen years of invalidism was an astonishment to my husband and relatives, for faithful efforts had been made before, one physician going with me to the dentist and beside giving me tonics, had tried to infuse me with courage through his will-power, but it all resulted in failure. There are some who think that this work was accomplished through will-power, but I know that it was none other than the power of God which sustained me. I had tried will-power sufficiently to know that in my own strength I could do nothing. I am very grateful for this demonstration, but more so for the change that has taken place in my disposition. Whereas before I was selfish and exacting, requiring my husband and others to do so much for me,—almost to think for me,—now I am quite independent of others, knowing that God is the source of my strength. I am deeply grateful to Mrs. Eddy for Science and Health.

Mrs. W. P. Haynes, Lumberton, Miss.

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