Article June 3, 1905 Issue

It has been well said that "The common sense that teaches...

Frank W. Gale

Fresno (Cal.) Republican

It has been well said that "The common sense that teaches us that the earth is flat, that the sun moves around the earth, and other obvious, visible facts is mistaken." But "the overwhelming majority of sober-minded, intelligent human beings" believed these so-called facts and disputed the correctness of the Copernican system when it was first presented, with as much earnestness as they now deny the spiritual teachings of Christian Science. Yet the Copernican system is now regarded as the scientific one, and the demonstrable truths of Christian Science are being accepted wherever they are fairly examined and tested.

Those who believe only in material methods may deny that a child who is "choking from a physical obstruction of the air passages" can be relieved except by physical means, but the Christian Scientist who has seen a diphtheritic membrane removed through Christian Science, after physicians had declared that the patient could not live, knows that such obstructions do yield to the power of divine Mind. And if after such an experience a child should again become sick, the parent could not justly be charged with "criminal neglect" if he continued to depend upon Christian Science alone for help; nor could he plead that if he tried only physical means and failed, that he had met his "full responsibility," for he knew of a power that had healed the child before when physical means had failed.

Frank W. Gale.
Fresno (Cal.) Republican.

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