September 19th 1968
You go here and there amongst the sick and the suffering. We can at all times summon more and more help. There are countless thousands of ministering angels waiting only for the Earthly agent. And here is one whose mind had been opened to the truth. Albeit the path is long and narrow and at times will be tiring, and she will feel that she must sit a while at the roadside. She too, like you, will wonder how much further she will have to go, but she will find, as you have found, that every weary mile is worthwhile.
And we would remind you of the man who said to the labourers, "I will pay you for your hire. It is not yet dawn. You may go forth to my vineyard and work”. And at noonday he went into the market place and saw men standing about with no work to do. He said to them, "Go forth into my vine-yard and work, and at the end of the day I shall pay you your hire." And when the sun was setting and there was only another hour or two to go, others came and he sent these along also to his vineyard. And when the time was come and darkness had fallen, he sent his stewards and they paid them all the same wage. And those who had started early grumbled and said, that this was unfair. Likewise those that started at midday. But the master said, "It is my money. I will do with it as I will."
Dear children, there are those, who, from the very beginning, are drawn, perhaps through their environment and through their circumstances into so-called religion. Perhaps they have a natural religious bent in their nature. They find that they are happy and contented in this way or that. They come into homes where they are loved, and tutored concerning religious things, and they go forth into the church or temple or chapel, into this religious sect or that, and they work and play with those on like vibrations, and all is well. There are others who, in their middle life, through some drastic change in their environment or circumstances, in the middle of the days when the sun is up, they are weary and they are tired. They have nothing to do because the world leaves them high and dry. Maybe a loved one dies, perhaps an only child is taken away, perhaps in the heat of all the chaos of circumstances, they look for some-thing useful to do. They look around for the master. For they feel the Spirit of Christ moving within them. Through their sorrows and through their tears and they see and feel that they can serve in one way or another their Father, God.
There are those who, perhaps through misunderstanding, wrong thinking, waywardness, stiff-necked, and all these things, and yet, at the very end of their little days, they see that there is something else. That they can at last, even at this late hour, go to the Father and receive from him love and peace and understanding. And in their old age, albeit they cannot do very much, but they ask to do what they can.
And so, beloved, we want you to remember that the Father is all-loving, all giving, all feeling. And His love is His own, and every human soul is his very own child. And whether one comes early or in the noonday or at the end of the little Earth day, the Father is waiting and willing to give. He favours not the one that started in the vineyard early in the morning, because that one is already blessed, and has always belonged to Him. The only thing that is amiss is that these little ones who start off so happily and so easily come into the so-called religion, these should be grateful and never condemn or judge. So whether you come early or late matters not, just so long as you recognise the Spirit within your own heart.
It has been said and written that when Jesus told his disciples that he would be taken into heaven, that he would be leaving the Earth, the mother of the two disciples came to him and said, "Dear Master, I would that my two sons would sit, one at thy right hand, and one at thy left."
And Jesus said that he could not promise this. That all who served him with the true Spirit would be prepared to come last. And we would have you know that all those who are seeking for Truth, who are learning through love, who are asking for righteousness, for wisdom, and understanding, all these will remember and know that the only place to be as far as the Christ is concerned, is at His feet, humble, meek, and full of love. And the one, whether he came in the morning, at the noonday, or in the evening, who is willing to sit at the feet of Christ, at the footstool of the Father, God, will receive all help, all happiness, but only through the key which is humility and compassion.
And so we say unto you as you make your daily way, as you serve with a humble heart, feel also grateful and be of good cheer, for in very truth, because you are giving your whole body, your hands, your lips, your eyes, your heart and your head to the father. to be used as he would use your whole body, then in very truth will the Spirit be moved within you, and come forth from you.
And care not for the troubles and cares and the stupidities and the frailties of this, your world. Be at peace, dear children, be at peace.
The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20:1–16) grounds this transcript's central claim: those who come to faith early — through loving upbringing, natural religious temperament, easy circumstance — and those who arrive only in mid-life crisis, or in old age at the very end of their days, receive the same welcome from the Father. Timing carries no privilege; the labourer hired at the last hour is paid exactly as much as the one who started at dawn. What matters is not when the search began but that it happened at all.
The transcript translates the parable's different starting hours into real human paths: the child raised gently into faith and finding it easy; the person broken open in mid-life by loss, illness, or grief who turns to God only because circumstance has stripped everything else away; the one who comes late, "wayward, stiff-necked," and finds room at the very end of their days regardless. None of these paths is ranked above the others — the only fault named is if those who arrived early and easily should look down on those who came harder or later.
Its closing turn addresses status directly, through the mother of James and John asking Jesus to seat her sons at his right and left hand (Matthew 20:20–23, Mark 10:35–40) — a request Jesus refuses, since what he offers isn't rank but service. The place given here, regardless of when or how someone arrived, is simply "at His feet, humble, meek, and full of love" — the only currency that matters, in the end, being humility and compassion rather than seniority in the search.