But there is one factor that causes me to come to my senses and be thankful that I live in the time and place in which Providence has placed me:
THE STATE OF THE ART OF DENTISTRY, then & now.
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. (Hebrews 11:9) These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. (Hebrews 11:13)