On page 372 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy says, "The art of Christian Science, with true hue and character of the living God, is akin to its Science." This is but one of several passages in which Mrs. Eddy has closely coupled the words "Science" and "art." Throughout the ages, the world of art has believed that it had a quarrel with the world of religion. The Greek has stood as the lover of beauty, the Hebrew as the lover of morals; and, in general, each has despised the other. The world has been ruled first by the Greek ideal, then by the Hebrew, and each has contemptuously tried to exclude the other. Perhaps this was never more true than to-day, when, after a long period of repression, the Greek ideal claims to have come into its own in studio and study.
Despite this apparent difference, however, the aims of Greek and Hebrew have been more or less identical, in that each has believed he was seeking, first of all, the discovery of what constitutes perfection, and next, the practice of that perfection in life and work. The Greek sought perfection through beauty; the Hebrew, through righteousness.
It has remained for Christian Science to show its followers how obviously and necessarily these two points of view are parts of one great whole, not antagonistic, but supplementary each to the other, and how surely both find their fulfillment in the spiritual ideal of Christianity. Paul said emphatically in his letter to the Colossians, "There is neither Greek nor Jew . . . but Christ is all, and in all." And the Greek himself could ask for no more satisfying vision than this from the fiftieth psalm: "Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined."
