Editorial November 22, 1952 Issue

THE HARVEST OF TRUTH

Helen Wood Bauman

We harvest what we spiritually labor for, and no such labor is in vain. We have the Scriptural admonition and assurance of Paul (I Cor. 15:58), "Be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." No right thought can be entertained without its enriching our lives. Goodness bears the fruit of goodness in improved health and wider horizons of healing service to mankind. We can trust the spiritual facts we know and rest without anxiety in the certainty that the power of Truth's effectiveness lies within Truth itself. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 111), "Leaving the seed of Truth to its own vitality, it propagates: the tares cannot hinder it."

The animus of Mind, God, not the will of mortals, is what makes the seed of Truth, the spiritual facts we love and affirm, bear fruit; for all right thought has its origin in God, and it is He who causes the resulting righteous evidence to multiply. One of Christ Jesus' parables teaches this fact with special clarity. He had just said (Mark 4:25), "He that hath, to him shall be given;" and he went on to liken this to the kingdom of God, "as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how." And he concluded, "When the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come."

"He that hath" may be considered the one who loves good. To the Christian Scientist it means one who acknowledges the allness of God in its intelligent implications —the perfection of man and the universe and the nothingness of evil —and who utilizes that knowledge of absolute good by bringing forth a harvest of abundant demonstration. He is able to "sleep, and rise night and day"—to go about his daily life without fretful or restless undercurrents of uncertainty as to the outcome of his spiritual labors. He understands that his task is to know the truth and live its spirit. Truth does the work of destroying the errors that contradict good. Often we hear of those who have brought about remarkable healings by insisting that it is God who does the healing, and that His power is unfailing.

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