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From Heaven With Love
together. And herein is that saying true, One soweth and another
reapeth.” Those who receive the gospel are to be His living agencies.
One scatters the seed; another gathers the harvest; and both rejoice
together in the reward of their labor.
Jesus said to the disciples, “I sent you to reap that whereon ye
bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye are entered into their
labors.” The disciples were entering into other men’s labors. An
unseen agency had worked silently but effectually to produce the
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harvest. Christ was about to water the seed with His own blood.
His disciples were co-workers with Christ and with holy men of
old. By the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost, thousands were to
be converted in a day. This was the result of Christ’s sowing, the
harvest of His work.
The Samaritans came and heard Jesus, and believed. Crowding
about Him at the well, they plied Him with questions, and eagerly
received His explanations of many things that had been obscure to
them. Their perplexity began to clear away. Anxious to hear more,
they invited Him to their city, and begged Him to remain with them.
For two days He tarried in Samaria, and many more believed.
Jesus performed no miracles among them, save in revealing the
secrets of her life to the woman at the well. Yet many received
Him. In their new joy they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not
because of thy saying: for we have heard Him ourselves, and know
that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.”
Christ Breaks Down Walls of Prejudice
Jesus had begun to break down the partition wall between Jew
and Gentile, and to preach salvation to the world. He mingled freely
with the Samaritans and accepted the hospitality of this despised
people. He slept under their roofs, ate with them at their tables,
taught in their streets, and treated them with the utmost kindness
and courtesy.
In the temple at Jerusalem a low wall separated the outer court
from other portions of the sacred building. On this wall were inscrip-
tions stating that none but Jews were allowed to pass this boundary.
Had a Gentile presumed to enter the inner enclosure, he would have