Christian Scientists believed in the restoration of the physical nation of Israel

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Christian Scientists promoted the physical restoration of the nation of Israel. 

RESTORATION AND RENAMING OF ISRAEL

SAMUEL GREENWOOD

From the September 1918 issue of The Christian Science Journal
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/m4533czgak?s=e

 The Historical Sketch, on page 17 of the Manual of The Mother Church, states that "Christian Science, as taught and demonstrated by our Master, casts out error, heals the sick, and restores the lost Israel." This of course means primarily in the spiritual sense, but no more so than in respect to the healing of sickness. The restoration of Israel spiritually could no more be separated, in its effect, from a restored nationality, than could the spiritual healing of the sick be separated from its outward expression in a restored health of body...

...But why, it might be asked, is it necessary for Israel to be brought out of its age-long obscurity and to be reunited nationally with the house of Judah? Why could not things continue indefinitely as they have been, with Israel but a memory, or as an example and warning to wrongdoers? Because this would mean the triumph of the error which led them captive. This question must be understood metaphysically. Nations, like individuals, express types of thought, and it is undoubtedly from this standpoint they are frequently treated by Biblical writers. Israel, as we have seen, stood highest among the nations because it expressed the highest sense of good. Continued adherence to the spiritual truths given to this nation would naturally have resulted in the destruction of error, hence the persistent effort of the carnal mind to seduce Israel by the appeal to sensuality; but though error apparently succeeded, and though it should run the full circle of its false claims, it is only to meet the doom which was pronounced upon it from the very beginning...

...Now Israel, brought back from its long captivity and banishment, and spiritually transformed in the fiery process of error's destruction, is destined to emerge upon a higher plane, not only as a nation, but with a higher consciousness and understanding of Deity. Names meant much to the early Hebrews, and particularly when these names were changed. Writing of Israel restored, Isaiah says, "Thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name." And in Revelation we read, "I will write upon him my new name." Thus we have a new name for both Israel and Israel's God, which brings to mind the prophecy that there shall be "new heavens and a new earth," and the apostle's injunction to "put on the new man." All this definitely indicates that the old order of things is to pass away, and with this passing, which is referred to in Scripture as the end of the times of the Gentiles, the end of matter's domination, there is to come a new sense of all things, and that, it is needless to say, will be the spiritual or divine sense...

...The bringing to light of Israel's identity as a nation would of itself be of little real importance unless Israel had something beyond other nations wherewith to bless the world. The long promised restoration is plainly not for the purpose of exalting one nation above another, but of redeeming humanity. As the prophets evidently foresaw it, the restoration of Israel meant nothing less than the final establishment of Christ's kingdom; not the return of a personal Messiah, but the human perception and demonstration of Truth. Nothing less than this could bring to pass the Scripture, "And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory;" and that other prophecy of Isaiah, "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." As this is accomplished all mankind will become Israelites, under the new name of Christian Scientists. It will be remembered that the new name spoken of in Revelation would be known, or acknowledged, only by those receiving it...

...The captivity of Israel did not occur suddenly, but resulted from their gradual departure from the spiritual ideals of the founders of their nation, while the outward captivity, namely, their deportation to a foreign country, extended over a period of many years. So the return of Israel need not be looked for as the event of a day, but as the gradual awakening in human consciousness to know and obey the "God of our fathers," known of old. There is every reason to feel assured that this returning process is already taking place, and to a greater extent than is generally recognized.