Christ Jesus once recommended a prayer which every follower of his should humbly consider. He was about to send the seventy on a healing mission, and he said to them (Luke 10:2), "The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest." He told these men to heal the sick wherever they were welcome and to say that the kingdom of God is near.
When the Christian Scientist utters such a prayer in obedience to the Master, he knows that he must not ask that others become active church members, diligent workers, or practitioners while he himself loiters in a less responsible state of mind. He utters that prayer first of all in his own behalf. He lets the spirit of God enter his heart and prepare him for the task of demonstrating Christianity as the great Science it is. He lets ripen in his own thought the desire to comfort the sick and penitent, the grief-stricken and the spiritually hungry.
One's zeal as a laborer in the harvest of Christian Science is in the measure of one's actual consciousness of the true idea of being. Once one has glimpsed the substance of God's creation, which is spiritual and God-controlled, one is eager to bring to light more of that realm of Spirit. Inspiration and devout determination are evidence that the Scientist is letting the divine will work in him. He knows that nothing can compare with the importance of unveiling Truth to mankind. Apathy and indifference show that the individual is still ignorant of the issues involved in the coming of Christian Science to the world.
