Olive tree

Lift up your eyes and look; the fields are golden with the ripened grain.8. Lo, many sowers have gone forth to sow the seeds of life; the seed has grown; the plants have strengthened in the summer sun; the grain has ripened, and the master calls for men to reap.9. And you shall go out in the fields and reap what other men have sown; but when the reckoning day shall come the sowers and the reapers all together will rejoice.10. And Philip said to Jesus, Stay now your work a time and sit beneath this olive tree and eat a portion of this food; you must be faint for you have eaten naught since early day.11. But Jesus said, I am not faint, for I have food to eat you know not of.12. Then the disciples said among themselves, Who could have brought him aught to eat?13. They did not know that he had power to turn the very ethers into bread.14. And Jesus said, The master of the harvest never sends his reapers forth and feeds them not.15. My Father who has sent me forth into the harvest field of human life will never suffer me to want; and when he calls for you to serve, lo, he will give you food, will clothe and shelter you.16. Then turning to the people of Samaria, he said, Think not it strange that I, a Jew, should speak to you, for I am one with you.17. The universal Christ who was and is, and evermore shall be, is manifest in me; but Christ belongs to every man.18. God scatters forth his blessings with a lavish hand, and he is not more kind to one than to another one of all the creatures of his hand.19. I just came up from Judah's hills, and God's same sun was shining and his flowers were blooming, and in the night his stars were just as bright as they are here.20. God cannot cast a child away; the Jew, the Greek and the Samaritan are equal in his sight.21. And why should men and women fret and quarrel, like children in their plays?22. The lines that separate the sons of men are made of straw, and just a single breath of love would blow them all away.23. The people were amazed at what the stranger said, and many said, The Christ that was to come has surely come.24. And Jesus went with them into the town, and tarried certain days.

You know the way to reach the border of this cursed land.16. I have a little band of guards, well horsed and armed, and they will take you out beyond the reach of harm.17. You must not tarry here, young man, you must arise and go.18. And Jesus said, A noble prince has Cæsar in his Pilate Pontius, and from the point of carnal man your words are seasoned with the wise man's salt; but from the point of Christ your words are foolishness.19. The coward flees when danger comes; but he who comes to seek and save the lost must give his life in willing sacrifice for those he comes to seek and save.20. Before the pasch has been consumed, lo, all this nation will be cursed by shedding blood of innocence; and even now the murderers are at the door.21. and Pilate said, It shall not be; the sword of Rome will be unsheathed to save your life.22. And Jesus said, Nay, Pilate, nay; there are no armies large enough in all the world to save my life.23. And Jesus bade the governor farewell, and went his way; but Pilate sent a double guard with him lest he should fall into the hands of those who were alert to take his life.24. But in a moment Jesus disappeared; the guards saw him no more, and in a little while he reached the brook of Kidron where the eleven were.25. Now, just beyond the brook there was an orchard and a home where one, Massalian, lived, where Jesus oft had been.26. Massalian was his friend, and he believed that Jesus was the Christ that Jewish prophets long ago had said would come.27. Now, in the orchard was a sacred knoll; Massalian called the place Gethsemane.28. The night was dark, but in the orchard it was doubly dark and Jesus bade the eight disciples tarry by the brook,29. While he, with Peter, James and John went to Gethsemane to pray.30. They sat beneath an olive tree, and Jesus opened up the mysteries of life to Peter, James and John.