The increasing number of Jews who are students of Christian Science and who have been healed through this means, occasions frequent comment. This comment is usually favorable to Science, and commends the teaching that presents the life and work of the Son of David in such light that Hebrews, once antagonistic, are led to accept his teaching and benefit thereby, as do people of other races. It remained, however, for a central conference of American rabbis, through resolutions and the authoritative address of a prominent member, to cast the first stone. The resolutions, asserting that "it is impossible for a Jew to accept Christian Science without thereby denying Judaism," and the address, misstating essential particulars of Christian Science teaching, are being circulated in pamphlet form and are more than a pebble of mistaken criticism.
The rabbi critic states as a teaching of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, that "all is infinite Being." Then, without regard to logic, he deduces as a necessary conclusion from this statement, that the universe is nonexistent. The rabbi can hardly be unaware that the Old Testament records of Jewish prophets teach the infinity, the allness of God, while the New Testament writers dwell upon the necessity for overcoming worldliness in order that more of spirituality may be attained. Christian Science carries this thought to its logical conclusion, that while the allness of Spirit involves the non-existence of materiality, the fact of the infinity of Spirit inevitably includes the existence of a spiritual universe.
Similarly at variance with fact, is the further assertion that in Christian Science teaching "the heavens, earth, waters, myriad forms of life, have existence only in mortal belief." In Christian Science, as in the first Mosaic account of creation, these things are God-created and perfect, therefore eternal and spiritual; but the false, mortal concept of them is material and unreal. Science and Health (p. 573) plainly states this "fact in Science, that the heavens and earth to one human consciousness, that consciousness which God bestows, are spiritual, while to another, the unillumined human mind, the vision is material."
