Article March 9, 1899 Issue

The Fruits of Obedience

Herbert S. Fuller

Obedience is one of the sweetest words in the vocabulary of the Christian Scientist. In the old thought it often implied a giving up of something that one wanted to do, but which, for reasons of policy, had best not be done. In Christian Science it means a willing yielding to a new call of Love.

In Isaiah, 1 : 19, we read: "If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the land." In its construction this sentence always seems to be lovingly mandatory, and not susceptible of interpretation as permissive. It is not ye may eat of the good of the land, but ye shall.

That this encouraging promise is as operative to-day as ever, and that its fulfilment follows close in the wake of loving, cheerful, and unselfish obedience, has been strikingly exemplified in the experience of Brockton First Church of Christ, Scientist.

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