Article June 1, 1929 Issue

In your columns of August 10th appears an article reprinted...

Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia Jewish Times

In your columns of August 10th appears an article reprinted from another Jewish periodical on the subject of "Faith-Healing and the Rabbi." References therein to Christian Science have just been called to my attention, one of which reads: "Faith-healing, or mental healing, which is being practiced in a few Jewish congregations in this country, is meant to counteract the hypnotic influence which Christian Science exercises upon some religiously ignorant, racially indifferent, and mentally abnormal Jews and Jewesses."

Kindly let me say that such comments show at once how very far the writer's concept of Christian Science is from the facts. Christian Science is not a "faith cure," nor a cult, as the article designates it, nor does it exert hypnotic or mesmeric influence. The reader should endeavor to grasp its scientific nature, so clearly indicated by Mrs. Eddy in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 226), where she writes, "What are termed in common speech the principle of harmonious vibration, the principle of conservation of number in geometry, the principle of the inclined plane in mechanics, etc., are but an effect of one universal cause,—an emanation of the one divine intelligent Principle that holds the earth in its orbit by evolved spiritual power, . . . namely, God."

If an "ignorant" and "mentally abnormal" Jew takes up a study of the science of numbers, does anyone feel called upon to object and call him ugly names? The Jews and Jewesses who have gained an understanding of Christian Science, even in a small degree, have acquired some conception of religion as a real Science. They have reached an understanding higher than they ever before conceived as possible, regarding spiritual truth. They have seen with Paul that spiritual things are spiritually and, moreover, scientifically discerned. It should not be hard to conclude that spiritual discernment is born neither of ignorance nor of mental abnormality, but "of a sound mind."

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