HAVING been brought up in the Jewish faith, and having come to know something of Christian Science after being bitterly antagonistic to what I thought it was, I am becoming, day by day, more and more convinced of the great good to humanity daily accomplished through the proper understanding of Christian Science, as set forth in its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy.
For six months I read the book without understanding, but it finally dawned upon me what Science and Health really means, and what great good it is accomplishing for humanity in general, and the individual in particular.
I have met many people of the Jewish faith, who inquired how a Jew could consistently become a believer in Christian Science. Aside from the physical gains and manifold other benefits, resultant from an understanding of what Christian Science really is, I can say to such inquirers that there is nothing in it antagonistic to or inconsistent with pure Jewish ethics. The great difference, however, is that it is upon a more spiritual basis. Furthermore, it teaches how religion can be applied in a practical and commonsense way in our every-day life. Jewish theology was the first to give to civilization the idea of one God, and to promulgate the doctrine that this one God was the only reality, omnipotent, and omnipresent. The basic teaching of Christian Science is the realization and demonstration of the allness of God the universal or divine Principle (divine Mind). "The God-principle is omnipresent and omnipotent. He is everywhere, and nothing apart from Him is present or has power. Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal sickness and sin, through Christian Science, which attributes all power to God. Jesus is the name of the man who has presented, more than all other men, this idea of God. for he came healing the sick and the sinful, and destroying the power of death. Jesus is the human man, and Christ the divine ideal" (Science and Health, p. 473).
