Article April 8, 1905 Issue

Christian Science and the Jews

Toledo (O.) Times

In the current [February] Christian Science Journal there is an interesting article by Anna Friendlich on "Israel's Return to Zion." The lady who wrote this article is a Jewess, and she gives some excellent reasons for the acceptance of Christian Science by so many Jewish people. Besides being a scholarly effort on the part of the writer, it gives enough of divine metaphysics to throw light on the subject; explains Monotheism, and shows the connection between Judaism and Christianity as taught in Science and Health.

The cause of the misunderstanding between the Christian and Hebrew is explained, and the beliefs that have long been offensive both to Christian and Jew are removed. It also proves that when the works of Jesus are understood, he can be accepted by the Jew as the greatest Israelite that ever lived. Says the writer, "In identifying himself with Christian Science he [the Jew] does not desert his people Israel, he returns to them; he does not go out of his religion, he comes into it; he is not absorbed, he is reconciled; Christian is no less Jew than Jew is Christian. Christianity returns to Israel, and Israel to Christ. Christianity comes forward halfway with gracious acknowledgement; shall Israel, having filled, sowed, and planted, remain self-debarred from its own harvest?

"The revelation, through Mrs. Eddy, of Christ Jesus to his own people is an achievement unrivalled in history. The glories of a Christian civilization for twenty centuries have not shown the Jews that Christianity is a good thing. Persecution and insult, the Ghetto and the Pale have not brought it to pass. The labors of men of learning, statesmen, generals, poets, sages, have not convinced the Jewish people that Truth is to be found in the New Testament. The simple humility of a consistent Christian life in Concord has corrected the failures of twenty centuries." Toledo (O.) Times.

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