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."
