Article September 28, 1912 Issue

"LOOK ON THE FIELDS"

CARL HORTON PIERCE.

WHAT Bible-reading child has not expressed the longing, "If Jesus were only here now! If only I could do the works that he did !" Suppose that to such a child in days gone by the Master had appeared, saying, "Come, follow me. The works that I do shall ye do also," what child would not have followed gladly, on having the way pointed out? In this age many who come to Christian Science do not perhaps at first realize that this is indeed "the way," and with timid steps they cautiously investigate first one tenet and then another of its truth, finding it sound, practical, capable of demonstration, "with signs following," until suddenly the thought comes to the inquirer that this is the truth,—the "pearl of great price."

The truth has again appeared, and through the inspired pages of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," we are given insight into that which heals. Thousands of Scientists, many of them practitioners, are acknowledging that they have received through our Leader the same word as that spoken by the Master, and the cases of healing they have effected are unnumbered. But one sometimes meets good people, devoted to the cause, and is led to wonder why they are not also utilizing this healing word. On questioning such people it is sometimes answered, "Oh, I am not good enough to heal;" or, "I have a family, and my first demonstration is to support them;" or, "I have a big business which demands all my time." One such woman had put off healing the sick as a practitioner for years because of timidity born of a natural modesty, which was accentuated into seemingly great fear!

In all these excuses one recognizes that which points to one objective: the carnal mind which is "enmity against God." This mortal consciousness, with its lusts, its false appetites, its beliefs of pleasure in matter, puts up these specious arguments, and so long as the student believes them, mortal thought keeps him from the work that perhaps he would like to do most of anything in the world. Step by step, however, these erroneous arguments are being uncovered for what they are worth, and little by little men are rising above the lusts of the flesh into the dominion of the children of God, and as they do so, as the carnal thought is overcome and conquered, the dominion of the real sons and daughters of God appears, and the words of Christ Jesus come home with conviction: "Look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest."

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