"Truth can always be proved true." This is the proposition always insisted upon, where religious statements are under discussion by skeptics; and because skeptics claim that all truth can be proven, and that some statements in religion are incapable of proof, therefore skeptics hold that all religion is open to doubt.
Now the proposition quoted above is untrue. Mathematics, the most nearly exact of all the natural sciences, is based on statements impossible of proof. For instance: Geometry is founded upon propositions which never have been and never will be proven, because they are not within the limitations of the human mind; but it would be extremely foolish to deny, on this account, the truth of geometry.
Every mathematician not only accepts what he terms Axiomatic Principles as true, but he considers them the highest form of truth in mathematics, because they are above demonstration. So Christian Science has within its system certain propositions beyond the power of finite man to demonstrate; and when assent to them is asked, this is just what every branch of natural science demands concerning its deeper truths.
