After exhausting all other known means, it was as a physical wreck that I found that the Christ-Truth of the Scriptures, as revealed through the Christian Science textbook, sufficed to save.
I had practised dental surgery so much of twenty years as my tyrannical body would allow, and with a fixed belief in the power of material medication, my religion was but superficial, and my subjugation to matter laws complete.
A few weeks' treatment, together with the study of Science and Health, gave me a new outlook upon existence. Struggles and sacrifices I found indispensable in this warfare with the flesh, whereby "old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
I am constantly discharging some part of my obligation in imparting to others this new-old and only true sense of Life, healing both sick and sinful.
Memory furnishes the following classes of disease, both chronic and acute, hereditary and acquired, which, together with a proportionate number of traumatic lesions, in my own ten years of exclusively Christian Science practice, I have seen yield to the power of Truth as taught in that marvelous book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:" Asthma, appendicitis, Bright's disease, catarrh, cataract, constipation, cancer, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, diabetes, erysipelas, eczema, epulis, fear, fever (typhoid and malarial), gravel, hemmorrhoids, heart disease, inguinal hernia, insanity, liquor, opium, and tobacco habit, the grip, neuralgia, nervous prostration, obstetrics, polypus, nasi, prolapsus uteri, pneumonia, pulmonary consumption, rupture of perineum, rheumatism, sciatica, shortened and withered limb, tumors, (cystic and fibroid), tonsilitis, and venereal diseases.
In many instances, the patients were considered by both the previous medical attendant and friends as past remedy; but not only was the proportionate success with all far greater than is usual in material practice, but a large number experienced decided moral benefit, while several were redeemed from pitiful atheism, agnosticism, and infidelity.
Fitchburg, Mass.
