Editorial February 22, 1913 Issue

THE SOWER

John B. Willis

"I know that the healing work is the one thing I ought to do. I have my time, am independent, and long to be useful; but I don't feel that I am worthy, it doesn't seem to be for me." The speaker was an earnest Christian Scientist, a long way above the average in her apprehension of the life-problem and in her sincerity of devotion to its solution, and yet through this door of humble reserve she had given entrance to an enemy which was seeking to interdict an activity and usefulness for which she seemed to be splendidly equipped.

This disposition to blackball one's own usefulness by continuous self-depreciation is never fully healed till he has come to realize that divine Truth is the redemptive fact, and that the imperfections of the channel through which it is conveyed in no degree lessens its life-giving, sickness-healing power. It is fitting that we feel impelled to remove our shoes ere we essay to follow the footprints of the Nazarene, but it is not fitting for us to forget that though the enunciation be imperfect, the truth spoken is able to accomplish that whereunto it is sent. The Master defined our ministry in that brief sentence, "A sower went forth to sow." The husbandman has entire confidence in the growing power of the grain, and having entered the awaiting field, so sings the poet,

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