Article April 5, 1930 Issue

Fields Already White to Harvest

MARIAN L. PIERCE

The great Teacher, Christ Jesus, was a master of simple language. He drew his sublime lessons from life as it appeared around him. His examples were taken from nature. His figures of speech were drawn from familiar everyday things that called for little or no explanation.

When his listeners needed a lesson in diligence, knowing the mortal tendency to procrastination he said to his disciples, "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." No one who heard the Saviour needed to be told that delays are costly in harvest time. One of the oldest community practices is the rallying of neighbors to garner the ripened crops.

As recorded by John, the Master cried, "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." This statement may seem somewhat difficult to grasp. For how can the fields be "white already to harvest" when error, injustice, and wrong seem to abound; when they seem to be more garish with material indulgences than stainlessly white with ready-to-garner ripeness?

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