The coming of the Jewish people to Christian Science is a phenomenon whose profound significance is perhaps only half guessed by Christian Scientists themselves. His attention being arrested by the indubitable healing, the avowedly rational Hebrew is irresistibly attracted by the logical perfection of the Science. It satisfies every test of reason, whether deductive, inductive, or experimental. Deductively as invincible as mathematical law, Christian Science maintains that an element which is not found in cause cannot appear in effect. Current theories admit the existence of an imperceptible spiritual noumenon behind physical phenomena. They regard the claim of physicality as a quality in the effect nowhere possible in the cause, an inner essence,—thing-in-itself,—which externalizes itself in a foreign element,—a God, All in all,—immanent in something not God!
With lucid simplicity the author of Science and Health illumines her exposition of Christian Science with the concept of reflection. A beardless man standing before a mirror cannot be reflected as bearded, and no more can absolute law be manifested in lawlessness. God is the subject, the real universe, the predicate; can the predicate contradict its subject?
Inductively Christian Science is equally satisfying, and illustrations are numerous. Here sits a woman in prayerful thought, there a change results, as in the cure of cancer, and the inevitable inference, in line with the most virile logic, is that, the cause being wholly mental, the effect must be mental. The next step is verification, and unnumbered autheticated instances of cure substantiate the fundamental propositions of Christian Science so that metaphysical healing has long since passed beyond the stage of experimentation. All phenomena being apprehended as manifestations of thought, the nothingness of false thoughts is laid bare, the allness and substantiality of the Divine ideas established.
