“And what have you brought from the dream-land to help in the stern and pressing waking hours?”
“A panting heart, as one having climbed mountain above mountain. I burn to know and feel the whole significance of Pentecost!
“I’ve determined to seek holy companionship and wise guiding by attendance at the next ‘Harvest Feast’ at Jerusalem. I think I’ll get peculiar help at the great city.”
“The Israelites will not welcome a Christian to their feast.”
“The one I aim to attend is that that will be observed by the Christian knights in an upper room, in the great city. They think they have possession of the identical apartment in which the disciples of our Lord met and witnessed the glories of Pentecost, after the Ascension.”
“In Joseph of Arimathæa’s house?”
“That is the accepted report. The Hospitaler, whom we believe to be a ‘Grail Knight’ of to-day, is quite earnest in so affirming.”
“Wondrous white-souled Arimathæa! Jewish and a priest, yet secretly a disciple of Jesus! I dare to liken myself unto that holy man, in a measure. He left an old faith for a new one, and followed the cup of the Passion, as I, my ideal.”
“A good man and a just,” says the Testament.