It's time to gather the tares together
and burn them.
We've faithfully worked in the fields
preparing the soil.
See Matt.13:1-8, 18-30; Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health 300:9-22
We've faced the needful lessons of growth
and learned them,
And now the Science of Life is rewarding
our toil.
We've planted the wheat, but not
on stony places
Or by the wayside where birds
could swallow the seeds.
We've watched and wisely avoided
all thorny traces
And yearned to see good intentions
flourish as deeds.
But we slept, self-assured, while the enemy
sowed his mischief.
Then waking, we started to act
in a foolhardy way.
Yet wisdom and patience forbade us disturb
what was golden:
Divine understanding and growth
and the harvest day.
It's time to gather the tares together
and burn them,
For the Master has said the harvest
is surely now.
See John 4:34, 35
Are we ready at last to take his precepts
and live them?
The answer is "Yes"—and the Shepherd
will show us how.
