Article March 30, 1899 Issue

Sowing and Reaping

Geo. C. Pennington

Our consciousness is a garden. If we read and encourage idle thoughts, sinful thoughts, they will grow and be manifested in our experience even as mustard seed will spring up and manifest itself in a field of grain, and if not uprooted will crowd out the good seed and thus our field instead of being beneficial to a community is an injury, spreading the evil seeds of thought to adjoining fields. We are told that we reap what we sow. This being true, how careful we should be not to hold any thought of malice, envy, or hatred towards another, or hold a thought of dishonesty for them. If we do we cannot demonstrate over the claim of dishonesty any more than a claim of disease of any sort.

We used to think that if we paid one hundred cents on the dollar and gave sixteen ounces to the pound, that we were measuring out honestly, even though unrighteously judging our neighbor at the same time, but what a mistake! What we sow we will reap and not only what we sow but perhaps ten or twenty or hundred fold. St. John writes, "He that hateth his brother is a murderer." This being true, what is our reward for hating a brother but self-destruction? Christian Science teaches that the sinner is a suicide. The old saying, "The world is what we make it" has much meaning to Christian Scientists. We till the soil and sow the grain and then await the results. If we are sure the seed we have sown is absoutely pure, then our outlook is surely bright, but if we are sowing bad seed or mixed seed the prospects are not so bright.

Geo. C. Pennington.
Waverly, Neb.

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