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would tell how Jesus, the wise and the holy, loved the infants who were brought to him: I would repeat to them his parables, and declare how benignantly he lived, and how mournfully he died; and they would come continually to me, saying, 'Tell us again of Jesus.' — To the laborers in your fields I would speak of the day when he fed the thousands who had followed him into the wilderness; of his choosing some who were fishermen to be his witnesses; some who were poor to be his friends; and some who were despised in this world to teach men the way to a better: and your servants would cry with one voice, 'If he were here, we also would follow!' — Where I see families rejoicing or mourning together, I would tell how he compassionated the woman of Nain, and restored her son to her: how he also raised the young daughter of Jairus, and how he smiled on human love, and wept for human grief, and remembered his mother and his friend in his last hour: and such families would agree to love him as one of themselves. — I would seek out the wisest and holiest of your sages as he gazed upon the heavens, or watched the stirrings of his own soul: I would pour into his ear the truth which Christ drew forth
