Article April 25, 1903 Issue

The Proofs of Demonstration

Alfred Farlow

Boston Ideas

Mr. Editor.

The writer of the "Letter on Christian Science" contends that demonstration does not prove the efficacy of Christian Science nor of anything else. If demonstration does not prove the truth, what does? Mere assertions? How do we know when we have arrived at the truth?

To the physical senses darkness appears to be real. The light is admitted and the darkness vanishes. Thus it is demonstrated that the light is the real, and darkness is a nonentity. So the understanding of the Divine power and presence is ushered into human consciousness and disease disappears, the power of sin is broken, and the sinner is enabled to depart from it. In this demonstration nothing has been added to the material condition of the patient, but in proportion to his increased spirituality his materiality has disappeared. It has vanished sufficiently so that the patient is in a better condition and so appears. To the material senses new material conditions seem to have been produced, but in reality this is not so. The patient is less material than previously and therefore looks and is better.

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