The Denver Jewish news., 1922-01-18

to whom 1t does minister. What does
this mean. save that, the number of
churches of the privileged is to have
another accession? Is it not true that
the Science churches stand out today
more conspicuously than all others as
almost professedly the churches Of the
privileged. the rich and the well-to-do,
the comfortable and the leisured?
1t was fine word Of Professor Fos-
ter some years ago on Jesus-thnt
he did not come to save people from
pain but to make people strong enough
70 do high and fine things in spite of
pain. This is the aim of religion-not
to save people from pain or to spare
them burdens but to make them bear
every burden and endure suffering
with courage and dignity and noble
ness.
We are to fight disease in the world
not by attempting to deny its exist
ence. but by denying to men and peo-
which necessitate disease and make
evil inevitable.
If you think that all is well with
men. If you believe that your own
well-being is most important, then the
great movements in the direction of
social righteousness will not interest
you and you will have no part in them.
This is the truth, and nothing but the
truth concerning Christian Science; !;
for their churches cnn have no more
part in the ethical and spiritual re-
organization of human society than
have the churches OF Zululand or the
South Sea Islands
Instead of denying the facts of dis
case, prevent women from working Mt
night, children from working Mt all.
and take from the shoulders Of the
wage-earners of the nations the bur
dens and strain OF overwork. Would
you end disease. then lessen congestion
in tenement houses; give adequate and
just wages: for these things mean the
lifting up of standards and these nre
the ways in which to end disease. Tho
way to end them is to do relentless
battle against them.
What Is needed in our line Is an
aggressive religious movement In the
direction Of social reorganization. Pro
fcssor Zueblin was risht In saying
that Christian Science by its inertia
and pleasant personal satisfaction in
health interferes with this most i'm
portant need of the world today.
The question is often assed-what
can we. do to turn Jews from Chris.
tian Science, or rather to avert their
turning toward it, 1t really is; must
VIC do or Ssha5fc they do? Proposals
nre seriously made that we attempt
spiritual healing in the synagog. For
one thing, this were an inexcusable
compromise. and again It would not
rvail. Such Jews as interpret re-
ligion in the terms of physical healing
alone will go whcrcsOever they believe
they can find genuine and complete
healing irrespective of and disburden-
eu lTom everything else.
There is danger not little that the
synagog in attempting to practice heal
ing would stoop to conquer, would
stoop without conquering. Even il we
found it possible to provide some man.
ner of healing. still the service of the
synagog herein would not satisfy those
who lpn yp IsronI and tbo svpo rnv ho.
cause of its commissions as truly ns
because of its omissions. Even If we
couhd convert the synasog into an
unfailingly effective sanitorium, as
cstly makes demands rather than
vouchsafes bounties, Jews who have
found rest within the Christian
Science meeting-housc will reject and
Science and Judaism, these would
choose the former ns little children
at times prefer tlabby and unexacting
relatives to firmly exncting parents.
What is needed in our day and gen
Grafton is not that the synagog become
sanitarium or an annex thereto but
that it be spiritualized anew and that
CAPITALIZATION must be independent
and quite irrespective of Christian
Science. What is terribly needed with
in the syangog is renaissance of
faith in the place of the organized ra-
tionalism and unorsnnized material
ism of Jews. not n few. The urgent
spiritual revival and moral rebirth.
Given n synagog sanitarium-and at
best you have Jews who are Jews
within the synagog in return for favor
rcbirth. and Won have Jews who will