Article January 25, 1913 Issue

"SEEDTIME AND HARVEST"

EDWARD F. BURNS, D.D.S.

A recent experience confirms the writer in the opinion that as Christian Scientists we should ever be sowing the seed—be diligently about our Father's business. One day I boarded a crowded railway train and was immediately recognized by a lady who had spent several weeks at the same sanitarium at which I was six and a half years previously. She at once inquired about my health, and said she had often wondered how I was and if I had recovered. My reply was that I was well; in fact, better than I had been for twenty years, as she could see if she had known me that long.

Our conversation then became general, during which she told me she had spent from several weeks to several months at a time in the same sanitarium since I was there. Just before we came to her station, she said that her family was contemplating moving to a town only a few miles from my home, which is in a much newer and less settled part of our state; then, as if the thought came to her mind suddenly, she exclaimed, "But what do you do when you want a good doctor?" She read her answer in my confident smile, for before I could say what came to my mind, viz., that my doctor was always with me, she exclaimed, "You are a Christian Scientist!" As the train rolled into the station she hurriedly told me she was sorry we had not talked about Christian Science all the time, as she was discouraged with materia medica. She also asked where she could get treatment, as she knew no Christian Scientist near her home.

It is my custom, when away from home, to carry in a convenient pocket those pages of the Journal which contain the names of practitioners in our state. I slipped these into her hand, also one of the pamphlets recently issued by the Publishing Society, and then helped her off the train. I consider it a blessed privilege to point any one who has exhausted all that material systems have to offer in a vain search for health, as this lady had done, to the great Physician. In doing this I believe we are doing God's work—sowing the good seed. And if we do this faithfully and constantly, who can say that the harvest will not be plentiful, for "God giveth the increase"?

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