Article April 6, 1968 Issue

The Growing Season

MARZEE G. HARRISON

Gardeners welcome summer as the growing season. The long sunny days, the warm nights, the sudden showers, all unite to bring about the natural growth of seeds that the gardeners have carefully planted in the early spring. Christ Jesus used the parable of the sower and the seed to illustrate differing states of consciousness as the conditions that attend the growth of human thought. Matthew, Mark, and Luke recorded this parable as one of the Master's priceless impartations of timeless truth. It clearly describes the ideal ground that is to be deeply cultivated so thought may grow and bear good fruit.

A student of Christian Science is, in a sense, a mental gardener. If he relies upon the spiritual laws of divine Science to govern the growth and fruition of his spiritual planting and cultivation, he can expect to reap "the fruit of the Spirit"^{Gal. 5:22;} enumerated by Paul. By the same token, he can prevent the appearance in his experience of barren or depleted thought and unpleasant, blasted fruit "of the flesh."^{v. 19;} Some of the spiritual fruits everyone would really like to know are growing and readying for harvest in consciousness are love, goodness, grace, peace, happiness, and health.

Because health seems so necessary for leading a useful and meaningful life, let us be sure we are preparing the soil for the seeds of better and lasting health. First, let us break up the hardened crust of material consciousness and dig out the stones of self-will, self-righteousness, and self-love. The Christian Scientist early learns from his study of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, that the concepts of mortal man in toto must be dug out and cast aside as unreal and no part of God's creation. This creation is completely spiritual, and man is, in truth, the image and likeness of God, spiritual, perfect, harmonious, and undying.

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