The following is a clipping from the National Israelite, the organ of the liberal Jews of this country, and I send it as being very significant to Christian Scientists.—
"It is maintained in the Talmud (Baba bathra 16), that a gem hung from the neck of Father Abraham, and that any sick person looking upon it was cured instantly. That was more wonderful than the faith cures; more wonderful even than the miraculous cures recorded in the Gospels. In the same section of the Talmud (p. 16), it is reported that there was so much astrology or astronomy in the heart of Abraham, that all kings of the East and the West approached his door. This explains the nature of that wonderful gem, — it was science. Josephus (Antiquities I, vii. 2,) tells the same story about Abraham; he taught the Egyptians arithmetic and the science of astronomy. This solves the mystery, not of faith cure, but of Abraham's miraculous gem."
