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OPINIONS OF GREAT INTEREST
\ Jewesa' Interpretation of Christian
Science.


Science.
line current number Of the Christian
Science Journal COL tains notable ar
ticle by Anna FrlendIIch on 'IsraeIs
Return to Zion" Miss Friendlich is a
Jewess and sets forth feature of the
Christian Science movement which has
not heretofore been treated upon in the
public press. She not only deals with
the attitude of the Jews towards this
movement, but says that the antagonism
between Jew ana Gentle, which has ex-
listed for centuries, IS coming to an end
and all that is fundamental and true in
both Judaism and Christianity is full
filled in and through Christian Science
In word, she SECS that through Chris
tIan Science, the modern Christian is
returning to Israel (pure monotheIsm)
TO find Christ, and that the Jew ia COM
ing to Cheist to fad Israel. Miss
Friendlich also contends that Christian
Science not only explains and illuml-
mates the Old Testament as well as the
New; but that cit satisfies every test
of reason, whether dednctivp, lnductive
or experimental"
Speaking of the fact that the Jews
find in Christian Science an interpreta-
ton of Christ which they can accept,
Miss Friendlich say: Christian Sci
ence is based np9n Jesus declaration, :"
God is Skiri': and they that worship
Him, must worship Him in spirit and
in truth.
Mre. Eddy not only teaches that God
is in every respect the opposite of NOR
tai man, but also that His irfinittude
and perfection must of necessity be ex
pressed by the true nan-ais image
and likeness. It is made clear in Sol
ence and Health that the Christ, Gods
spiritual idea or expression. can no
more be discerned by the physical
senses than can God, hence, Christian
Science does not teach that Jesus is
God, but the highest manifestation of
"
Science and Health, page 1874
Speaking of the relationship of Chris
tian Science to Judaism and other re-
ligions, she says:
christian Science rel sets xactly the
same elements of the Jewish religion
that it re i9o,s in all other religions, all
that is material all that is ritual, all that
is personal Itretains likewise the same
elements in Jewish as in other religions
all that ia purely spiritual. And this
rejection and retention is in large part
upon the Old Testament itself. The
Jewish Investigator, ind eed, finds in
Christian Science an eIucidation of his
own religion, explaining aud illumina-
ting the Old Testam emf, irradiating his
own belief,
It comes not to set aside the dear
loved and familiar religion of Israel,
but to demonstrate it's correctness. Said
Jesus. 81 am not come to destroy, but
to fulfill"
Referring to the revelation of Chris
tian Science and the debt of gratitude
that the Jews owe 10 Mrs. Eddy, the
discoverer aud founder of this Science,
Miss Friendlich says: The reveIa-
ton through Mrs Eddy, of Christ Je-
sus to his own people is an achieve
NETT unrivalled in history. The glo-
RES of a Christian civilization for
twenty centuries have not shown the
Jews that Christianity is a good thing.
Persecution and insult, the Ghetto aud
the Pale, have not brought it to pass.
The lsbors of men of learning, states
men, generals, poets, sages, have not
convinced the Jewish people that
Truth is to be found in the New Tes-
lament. The simple humility of a
consistent Cristian life in Concord has
corrected the failure of twenty centu
ries."