Article January 23, 1915 Issue

A recent copy of Emanu-El contains an article entitled...

Thomas F. Watson—San Francisco, Cal.

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A recent copy of Emanu-El contains an article entitled "Jews and Christian Science," by Dr.—,in which he deplores the fact that many Jewish people have taken up the study of Christian Science, a religion which, he claims, was "mothered by a woman of little education." Now, even if Mrs. Eddy had been uneducated, which is not the case, that alone need not have interfered with the fact that her keen spiritual perception enabled her to hear the "still small voice," and give to a hungry world what she had learned of the law of God through communion with Him.

We have no record that Enoch was a college man, yet he "walked with God" to such an extent that he was translated, and did not pass through death. Samuel, as a young child, heard the voice of God plainly; and David was a shepherd boy. Spirituality is not dependent upon the education of the schools, for "the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." Moses was "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians," but this did not enable him to free the Hebrews from bondage to Pharaoh. Only after years of hardship and experience as a humble shepherd did he arrive at the spiritual altitude of thought where he could see the burning bush and hear the voice of God commanding him to lead the children of Israel out of bondage.

Mrs. Eddy was an educated woman of broad culture and great literary ability. She wrote for the leading magazines of the day and lectured and preached from a number of New England pulpits. But it was not until she discovered the law of God, or Christ-principle, which she named Christian Science, that she was enabled to lead us out of bondage, as she says in Science and Health (p. 226), to the "educational systems of the Pharaohs" of today, which would hold us in subjection to sin, disease, and death. There is no "confusion" in this teaching, unless it be in the mind of the critic. Christian Science is in no way allied to mesmerism and hypnotism, as this critic avers, but is diametrically opposed to it. There is one whole chapter in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, which emphatically denounces mesmerism, hypnotism, and all other forms of esoteric magic.

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