When the Saviour and husbandman of humanity, gifted as he was with foreknowledge and its correlative power of foretelling all things meet for human ears to hear, paused in the wheatfield, already white and ripe with vegetable richness, he spiritually admonished his Christian students, as he doubtless would the Christian Scientists in this day of harvest. How well he understood the temptations, the procrastinations, the dilatory and shuffling modes and methods of those who were destined to be enlightened when he said, "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."
The teacher who looks into the expectant and uplifted faces of the children, prepared and assembled for class work in Sunday school, is expected to understand the correction administered by Jesus; he is furthermore expected to know that lisping infancy, guided and protected by the teachings of Christian Science, not only promises but fulfils more of spiritual expectation than does the laborious pondering of spiritual premises by adults; and this comparison is acknowledged by none sooner than by one truly consecrated to receive from the children their weekly harvest of the Father's revelation to humanity.
The Scriptures known to us as the Old Testament were once in ancient Jerusalem patiently opened by a child so young in years as to evoke the astonishment of men who held seats of prodigious learning, the consecrated scholars of Jesus' day, the doctors and councilors constituting the great body of the Jewish Sanhedrin; continuing through his young manhood, in temple and synagogue, on the hillcrest of Olivet and the outskirts of Emmaus, by beds of sickness and before sealed tombs, through the tortuous experience which led to the judicial ordeal with Pilate, and still beyond apparent physical death into the upper chamber where eleven loyal men sat at watch, always untiringly "opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures" concerning himself.
