Article March 4, 1961 Issue

"Feed my sheep"

[The following Christian Science program of the above title was presented on Sunday, February 12, over the Columbia Broadcasting System "Church of the Air." The speaker was Ralph E. Wagers.]

"Feed my sheep" (John 21:16). This was one of the last commands of the Master, Christ Jesus. The command may be interpreted, "Minister to the spiritual needs of the people." Jesus was constantly doing this—ministering to the spiritual needs of all who turned to him. More than once he likened himself to a shepherd tending his sheep. The sheep knew his voice, trusted him, followed him.

On the whole we Americans are a religious people. We profess an abiding faith in God; but in spite of this, there is a lack of the spiritual adequacy so desperately needed to control the rising currents of materialism from both within and without.

Some of our leading thinkers are disturbed, and rightly so, because our moral and spiritual progress has not kept pace with our technological achievements. More and more of our physical needs are being adequately cared for. We can be grateful for that. But there is a spiritual dearth in the land. As a people we are spiritually undernourished. A faulty standard of morals, individual and collective, is evidence of that. It shows up in our immature approach to problems, social and economic. An anxious and uncertain sense of the future betrays our lack of spiritual vision—our inability to identify ourselves with the realities of being, the spiritual realities.

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