My Dear Miss H.:—Your letter of the 7th inst. enclosing one from Mr. B., reached me this morning at Canon City, Col., where I am at present located in the interest of Christian Science, which has done so much for me, not only physically, but spiritually, inasmuch as it has revealed to me the Messiah, for whom all Jews are hoping and longing.
I have never believed the Messiah would bear a physical form, and when it was made plain to me that the impersonal Truth, or Christ-Principle, was the Saviour of humanity, it was not difficult to accept Jesus as the sole Messianic representative, the demonstrator of the Love which is God, in its fulness.
Many Jews of advanced thought to-day acknowledge Jesus to have been the best man who ever appeared on earth. Why, then, should it be difficult to regard his life as an example worthy to be followed? Can we have a leader or a teacher better than the best? To my awakened consciousness, the cause of Judaism, pure and simple, was the one Jesus strove to establish on an unassailable position, but the very ones who should have rejoiced in this, turned upon and repudiated him. When he said, "My kingdom is not of this world," he meant that Israel as a nation could never be fixed until worldly controversy and strife should give place to universal forbearance, and that Love for each other and all humanity, being a spiritual bond, would usher in the millennium, or reign of universal harmony, peace, and good-will.
