A mother who is a Christian Scientist seemed to have great difficulty getting her children up in the morning. She finally formed the habit of greeting them with this lively challenge: "Wake up, wake up, the world has need of you today!" Although it was spoken in fun, she gradually saw in it a spiritual message.
It reminded her of the question Jesus asked in the twenty-first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. He said: "What think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father?" The answer, of course, is the one his listener gave, "The first."
The world has great need of consecrated workers in Christian Science. If the call of the Master came today, how many of us would be found victims and how many conquerors of the subtle arguments of apathy and procrastination in response to his entreating command, "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons" (Am. Stand. Ver., Matt. 10:8)?
