Testimony of a Former Dentist

In a recent Wednesday evening meeting in the Mother Church the following testimony was given by a gentleman who for years had been a practising dentist:—

I suppose there is no class of people to whom the claim of intelligent matter is more potent than the practitioners of dentistry, for the reason that they are so constantly associated in their vocation with the belief of intelligent matter as sensitive tissue. And I can but marvel ofttimes that after practising dental surgery for a score of years I could have become a convert to Christian Science, that I could accept this great basic Truth, that "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation." [Science and Health.] I thank God that I did accept it, and I have for the last nine years practised Christian Science, humbly trying to follow in the footsteps of our Mother and Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.

My associates in the Alumni Association of the Harvard Dental School are scattered all over the world and I have deemed it a duty and a privilege to send them Christian Science literature wherever I could reach them, because I knew how greatly it would help them in their practice if they had even a little understanding of Christian Science, and how much more good they could do in the world if they would but adopt it thoroughly.

I have had some success in introducing Christian Science to my fellow practitioners in the past. Not long ago I had for a patient a classmate in a neighboring state. He had been given up by the doctors, because he could not keep medicine on his stomach, and they thought the medicine would do no good unless the patient could retain it. He applied to me for treatment, and the Truth healed him, physically at least, and he wrote that he would see me and thank me personally.

I had a case not long ago of what is considered an incurable disease without surgical operation, and is called tic douloureux. The patient had been operated upon some two years before I saw her, and some of the nerve had been removed. She was told by her surgeons that she would need to be operated upon again in two years. She was in great agony and applied at last for Christian Science treatment. After quite protracted treatment she was entirely healed, both physically and spiritually. It is the only case I have ever known where resort to the knife the second time was avoided.

There are many, many other cases on record of healing through Christian Science, and I know that if the profession knew how much it would do for them they would gladly adopt it.

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