Editorial April 16, 1904 Issue

Seedtime

At this season the earth is being prepared for seed-sowing, and there is something very touching in the familiar process which ever recalls our entire dependence upon the divine presence and activity, since it is "God that giveth the increase."

We are told in the Bible that long before the human eye rested upon the fair face of nature, the divine law and order were established, the creative Mind had decreed that the earth should bring forth grass, herb, and fruit tree, each yielding fruit "after his kind, . . . and it was so." We know that this is true to-day as at the dawn of creation, and in the light of Christian Science we trace the working of this law in the mental and moral realm, as surely as in the so-called physical. Christ said, "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit," and he employed this figure to show the difference between his teaching, and that of the "false prophets." He said, "By their fruits ye shall know them."

The world has long since recognized the wisdom of applying the law of cause and effect in agriculture, but in ethics it has blindly disregarded it,—it has sown thistles, and looked for figs. When Christ Jesus looked out upon the vast field,—the world, with its appalling misery, its sin, disease, and death,—he likened it to a field sown with tares, and said, "An enemy hath done this," but he also said, "Behold, I have given you power, . . . over all the power of the enemy." Again he said, "He that sowed the good seed is the Son of man," and the gospels tell us of the healing seed which was sown in his ministry, and which brought forth fruit unto eternal Life.

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