Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-29
JEWESS TELLS WHY
HER RACE EMBRACES
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
RICH HARVEST IN OLD TESTAMENT
Young Woman Writes Profound Article ON Be-
lief-Gives Interpretation Which Frees
Her People from Conceptions Which
Have Been Offensive to Them

| CONSCIOUSNESS
brant, Life, expressed. She. is the
mother in Israel" heaven-inspired
with mighty revelation. The Christian
Science premise of all phenomena as
mental, renders clear, consistent, ana
scientific the explanation of the b1rth
of Jesus, heretofore regarded by the
Jew as vaguely mythical.
Fourth: Vicarious atonement. MRS.
Eddy makes it clear that nothing other
than the individuals own repentance
and reformation can atone for his sin
and enable him to realize at-one-ment
with God, and at the same time she
shows the infinite value to mankind OF
Jesus life especially his demonstra-
tion over death and the grave.
Long Separation Unreal
1 have referred to those passages
only which are corrective of the con-
ceptions heretofore very generally as
sociated with the Christ narrative, and
which invite a study of the full dis
cussion of these subjects.
In Science and Health, p. 361, Mrs.
Eddy affirms the reconciliatory posi-
tion of Christian Science between the
Jew and the Christian, in that Chris
tian Science uncompromisingly holds
to the oneness of Deity. This teach
ing unlocks Zion to Jew and Christian
and the Shemah, Hear, o Israel: the
Lord Our God Is One!" is vindicated
Every demonstration proves it an in
dispensable element of Christianity;
every disease healed, every sin over
come. establishes faith in this dis
tinctive truth of monotheism, defended
under inexpressible agonies throughout
the centuries. The Christian Scientist
recognizes that he must return to
Israel (monotheism) to find the Christ,
and no less must the Jew return to
Christ to find Israel. Must return! To
find the long separation unreal, that 1t
has arisen from mistaken conceptions;
to find Israel safe in the protecting
arms of God; to find Judaism not in
enmity with it's own fruit, Christian
ity. Christian Science rejects exactly
the same elements of the Jewish re-
ligion that 1t rejects of all other re-
ligions-all that is material, all that is
ritual all that is personal. 1t retains
likewise the same elements in jewish
as in other religionS-all that is purely
spiritual. And this rejection and re-
tention it bases in large part upon the
Old Testament itself. The Jewish in
vestigator, indeed. finds in Christian
Science an elucidation of his own re-
ligion explaining and Illuminating the
Old Testament, irradiating his own
beliefs. 1t comes, not to set aside the
dear loved and familiar religion of Is
rael, but to demonstrate its correct
ness. Said Jesus, Il am not come to
destroy. but to fulfil"
Fulfills the Prophecy
The early Israelites were Christian
Scientists so far as their prophets and
leaders had caught glimpses of the
Messiah-the Christ, or Truth. To a
polytheistic age they brought the stu
pendous revelation of monotheism.
Abraham, Moses, the psalmists and
the prophets point the way increasingly
to God. He brings the rain in due
season. He spreads table in the will
derness, provides their treasure, heals
their diseases. lifts up the downcast
soul. The Israelite acquaints himself
now with God God is Immediately
near The light is His garment, the
heavens His curtain, the clouds His
chariot. He plants His cedars, pro-
vides His sap, appoints the moon for
seasons His going down for the sun.
The Israelites gather that He gives
if He hide His face, they are in trou-
BILE. No evil befalls if they make Him
their habitation. This doctrine found
it's Towering in the illumined spiritual
sense of The Hebrew maiden, who
brought to her people the proof of God
Jew, Jesus, who presented to his own
the Christ, the perceptibe manifesto
tion of the absolute Truth of being
the spiritual idea-the Son of the liv-
ing God.
Each individual must tarry until the
Christ shall come to his own con-
sciousness, until Israel's Messianic
millennium come individually as reve-
lation and demonstration Is not this
lan f4tl Of Of
Isaiah? The chain of inspiration is
revealed as complete from Genesis to
Revelation. The patriarchs with their
sure faith in the one God; Moses with
the Decalogue; the psalmists and
prophets crying out against ritualism;
Mary conceiving of God as the author
of man-the dominant seventh chord
in the gamut of revelation; Jesus prov
ing, fulfilling, completing, and the
apostles repeating-all stand a kindred
band of brother artists working from
one model; the Old Testament pre-
senting this true model the New Tes-
lament carving the true image.
Testament Now a Treasure
The Jewish investigator finds with
joy that Christian Science CLEANS a
rich harvest from the Old Testament.
It's deep-sea soundings of the Deca-
logue disclose therein to his gaze rare
riches, Moses, long loved is elevated
to more sublime heights, Thou shalt
have no other gods before me" is
proved to mean, Thou shalt attribute
power to no source other than God.
fuller grasp of its meaning heals
the sick and destroys evil conditions.
Christian Science reaffirms the Deca-
logue and teaches that the DecalOgue
expresses the very essence of exis-
tence, provides the clew of mans as
cension, whereby he possesses himself
of his relation to the absolute; that
the Bible from Genesis to Revelation
is an amplifcation OF the first COM
mandment, reiterated and corroborated
by the prophets, repeated i'm the Sermon
on the Mount, eXemplified and demon
strated in Jesus works of healing, his
TRANSPORTATION and resurrection.
Thus clarified, thus lght-flooded,
even into its hidden bays and recesses,
the Old Testament is irradiated. Cere-
monial, materialistic. personal, racial
and un-uniVersal concepts rise as lift
ing wells of alpine mist, revealing un-
dreamed-of peaks and far-stretching
valleys. The Jew now loves the Old
Testament, not merely as poetry his
tory, philosophy; not as imagery and
literature, but rs so much lOng-neg-
lected treasure of spiritual fact tried
and proved-treasure which yields him
practical results i'm sickness healed
poverty destroyed, bitterness dispelled:
i'm actual eXperience of tears Uined