Article June 5, 1976 Issue

Maintaining Fruitful Progress

DORCAS W. STRONG

How natural it is to desire one's life to be fruitful, purposeful, and a blessing to others—to deeply desire that the fruits of spirituality, health, harmony, and expanding usefulness may appear in our lives as we continue to grow in spiritual understanding. But sometimes the growth that results from earnest study of Christian Science is not maintained. Why is this so? How can fruitful progress be sustained?

In his parable of the sower and the seed Christ Jesus depicts the types of soil (human consciousness) in which the seed of Truth does not flourish, as well as the soil in which it propagates and bears much fruit.

In his interpretation of the parable Jesus refers first to those errors that negate or retard spiritual growth. "Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved."^{Luke 8:12;}

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