Article September 26, 1903 Issue

The Tares and the Wheat

L. B. C. with contributions from Alfred Farlow

Dayton (O.) Herald

God's messages to mankind in all ages of the world, when correctly discerned, were designed to unfold the reality of being, a state of bliss often spoken of as heaven or harmony. As the true idea of God dawns upon human consciousness it enables us to discern between good and evil.

The Science of Christianity, or Christian Science, as given to the world through the writings of Mrs. Eddy, enables mankind the better to comprehend Jesus' teachings which separate the tares from the wheat. All that Jesus destroyed in his earth-mission were tares. Let us consider for one moment what he destroyed. All manner of evil and sin, sickness and disease, blindness, deafness, dumbness, sorrow, poverty, and death. The tares were to be gathered together in bundles and burned. The tares and wheat were to grow together until the harvest, which Jesus declared was ripe in his day.

The question naturally presents itself, how did Jesus destroy the tares and garner the wheat? Knowing that his Father did not send sin, sickness, and death, and conscious of his omnipotence and omnipresence, conscious that man, made in the likeness and image of God, Spirit, was spiritual and not material, realizing that the true senses of man are spiritual, he could bring even to the human sense of things a higher degree of perfection. Knowing that health is the normal state of man in God's likeness, and sickness and disease the unnatural, he destroyed the sense of disease and suffering (the tares), and garnered the wheat, awakening man to his God-given heritage of health and righteousness. The understanding of the true relation that man holds to God destroys any pleasure in sin, thus the desire to indulge in sin in its various forms is destroyed by the omnipresence of good. The Apostle Paul, speaking of the fiery purification, wrote: "If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."

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