In the wonderful dialogue of Christ Jesus with his disciples at the last supper, recorded in John's Gospel (chapters 14 through 17), the Master said (15:8), "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples." Thus he indicated that fruition is the test of discipleship. History has recorded little of the physical surroundings of that scene, art has depicted it according to the fancy of the artist, but the truth that was uttered in those holy moments vibrates and kindles in living inspiration. The Master said (15:16), "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain."
Where there is fruit there is harvest; where there is harvest there is no lack. At this period of the world's history there is perhaps a greater need for spiritual fruition than at any other. To fill this need has come the revelation of Christian Science, doing many mighty works in demonstration of its divine origin. Science reveals the uninterrupted oneness and allness of God and His idea and the deception and nothingness of everything unlike Him. It demonstrates the falsity of all material sense testimony and shows it to be mere illusion, which neither touches nor impairs reality.
Are we fulfilling the trust of our discipleship? The greatest disciple of this age, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science and the inspired Founder and Leader of its movement—she who ministered to humanity's needs as none other has ever done since the ministry of Christ Jesus—has said of herself in all meekness (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 158): "All God's servants are minute men and women. As of old, I stand with sandals on and staff in hand, waiting for the watchword and the revelation of what, how, whither." Are we, her followers, doing likewise? Are we truly minutemen, being, as Paul says (II Tim. 4:2), "instant in season, out of season;" always ready to "reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine"?
