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Gathering and Sowing
In the opening lines of the most familiar of all of Mrs. Eddy's precious hymns she asks the holy Shepherd for divine guidance, "How to gather, how to sow, how to feed Thy sheep" (Poems, p. 14). Our Leader well knew that gathering precedes sowing: that the harvest must be garnered if one is to possess the golden grain which is to be sowed again to insure another and larger gathering-in. In the very order of the words is an important lesson. How often do mortals undertake to sow before they are sufficiently supplied with true seed, and in consequence neither the sowing nor the reaping is blessed!
What is the gathering that must precede righteous sowing? The answer to this is also found in the words of our Leader, who draws a sharp distinction between the good seed and the bad. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 535) she writes, "The seed of Truth and the seed of error, of belief and of understanding,—yea, the seed of Spirit and the seed of matter,—are the wheat and tares which time will separate, the one to be burned, the other to be garnered into heavenly places." There can be no doubt as to the significance of these words. The seed of Truth, of Spirit, can be naught else than the spiritual idea, the Christ, the truth about God, man, and creation. Then the ingathering in which we are bound to engage is the laying hold of spiritual Truth, divine ideas, the seed which, sown in good soil, will bring forth much fruit, some even an hundredfold.

May 14, 1927 issue
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Lights in the World
NELLIE B. MACE
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Coexistence with God
ROZIER E. BRUNDEGE
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Seeing Man Aright
RUTH INGRAHAM
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The Traveler and the Road
JOHN L. RENDALL
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The True Home
JOHN MAC DONALD
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Expectation
ALICE A. C. CORTRIGHT
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My Prayer
SOURIE GLOVER CHARLES
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I trust you will allow me space to comment briefly on an...
Arthur P. De Camp, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri
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In reply to "Watcher," writing in your recent issue, let...
Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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It was with sincere appreciation that I read the high...
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
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Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California
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I observe an interesting article in your recent issue, under...
Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,
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Designating as a weapon of the devil a religion which...
Lew C. Church, Committee on Publication for the State of Minnesota,
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"Peace, be still"
WARREN CHARLES KLEIN
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Gathering and Sowing
Albert F. Gilmore
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The Holy Bible
Ella W. Hoag
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The Kingdom of Heaven
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Samuel W. Greene, Agnes Holmes, David Peter Hawkins
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In Isaiah we read: "How beautiful upon the mountains...
Elma L. Davis
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There is nothing that could delight me more than the...
Albert Sidney Mack
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When I stop to think of the many blessings which our...
Ethel E. Fowlie
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More than twenty years ago I heard of Christian Science
Frank C. Ayres
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Having often been helped by the testimonies given in the...
Linda W. Roberts
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Some years ago I suffered from constipation and chronic...
Unita Schaffner
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Clarence True Wilson, Frederick W. Neve