Article March 30, 1912 Issue

"THE FARMER'S OPPORTUNITY"

DENNIS L. ROGERS.

Some time ago there appeared in the Sentinel an article entitled "The Traveling Man's Opportunity," which prompted me to say that, while I agree entirely with the sentiments expressed in that article, I wish to testify also that in Christian Science the farmer finds his stanchest help. The fact that so many of Jesus' parables are taken from rural scenes and employments has raised in some minds the question whether his early training was not agricultural rather than mechanical; and that he was quite familiar with such matters is apparent from his reported discourse.

To the farmer, and especially the farmer's wife, separated as they are by distance from neighbors, Christian Science brings an ever-present sense of companionship, which takes away all sense of that loneliness or isolation which is so oppressive and which is responsible more than anything else for the migration of the young people from the farm to the city. Realizing his own capacity to reflect omnipotent power and intelligence, a consciousness which in itself is constructive and life-producing and sustaining, the Christian Science farmer is able to overcome and destroy the plagues, pests, and diseases which so often seem to infest the animals, poultry, and crops, in a manner that seems indeed miraculous to those who do not understand the Principle of Christian Science.

Its teaching also gives the farmer that patience and kindness which are greatly needed in the care of the young and tender of the flocks and herds; he loves them and they soon learn to love him and to reflect upon each other the love they receive, so that instead of kicking, biting, or otherwise hurting each other, they live in such harmony as makes the prophecy of Isaiah, "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain," a reality in every-day experience. In overcoming the sense of heat and dust as he goes about his labors in the fields, the farmer who accepts Christian Science demonstrates the truth of the "scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468), and thereby rejoices in a freedom from discomfort which only those can realize who know it through experience.

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