The question is often asked, Why do so many of the Jewish people embrace Christianity through Christian Science? For the greater part they are those who are not satisfied with wordy prayers to be repeated on special occasions in connection with certain ceremonies. Having outgrown the doing of things from a sense of fear, superstition, or tradition, they begin to reason for themselves. They long to believe in God, and have an intense desire to prove their faith in Him. Christian Science answers that desire, for they are soon made better acquainted with God. They find Christian Science to be pure monotheism, just as it was taught by the ancient prophets, Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and later by Jesus of Nazareth.
Can a Jew be a Christian Scientist and yet remain a Jew? We answer, Yes,—if the meaning of the word is understood. Whether a Jew adopts the religion of a Christian denomination, Mohammedanism, or Christian Science, or even if he calls himself an atheist, he will always remain a Jew by race; as much so as an Indian will always remain an Indian regardless of the religion he embraces. Whether or not the Hebrew follows the customs and observes the ceremonies and rites of his people, he is still racially a Jew, and so the distinction must be made between the Hebrew people as a religious body and as a race. Paul himself, "an Hebrew of the Hebrews," has this to say: "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of man, but of God."
While the Jewish religion closes the Bible with the book of Malachi, yet the Jews as a thinking people have not far to turn to see the long awaited light in the New Testament. It may give one food for thought to learn that thousands of the Jewish people never read the New Testament until Christian Science opened the book for them. When this book is opened and studied in the light of Christian Science a new day begins to dawn, an indescribable sense of joy is experienced. For them the Christ is found, the Messiah is come! With this awakened consciousness there comes a change in the manner of worshiping God. In the one hundred and forty-fifth psalm we read, "The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth." Now, to call upon God in truth is not to beseech the creator of all things to complete or to alter His work, but to be conscious of the fact that His blessings are infinitely more than we can readily appreciate, and to realize that it is the good pleasure of our Father-Mother God to give us all good now.
