Editorial August 30, 1941 Issue

Harvest Time

George Shaw Cook

It is evident from the context that when Jesus said to his disciples, "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," he meant to turn their attention to the fact that the opportunity to reap the fruits of right thinking or knowing is ever present. He employed this simple illustration of the harvest time to awaken them to the expectation of instant ability to save and to heal those who are ready for healing and salvation.

The truth that today, rather than tomorrow, next week, or next year is the time to reap the reward of righteousness was emphasized by the Apostle Paul in his second epistle to the Corinthians. Commenting on this (on page 39 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures") Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says: " 'Now,' cried the apostle, 'is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation,'—meaning, not that now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now is the time in which to experience that salvation in spirit and in life."

The above-quoted sayings of Jesus and Paul, as well as the designated passage from the Christian Science textbook, indicate unmistakably that the time to experience salvation is now. And Christian Science teaches that salvation comes to pass through understanding that man, the spiritual image and likeness of God, is already safe. Man has always existed at the standpoint of perfection. He is, therefore, already and always complete, expressing forever the wholeness, the infinity, the allness of Mind, Spirit, God—his divine Principle.

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