CMP Review 2026-01-04

The final poem that Charlotte Mason wrote for “The Saviour of the World” was (as far as we know) a meditation on the parable of the workers in the vineyard. Mason’s vision had been to write eight volumes of poetry covering the entire Gospel History. She made it as far as Matthew 20:16 in her incomplete seventh volume. I wish she had made it farther, but I find in this a sobering reminder that our time to work is limited. Her final poem is fitting:

He found you idle in the market-place,
Early or late, what mattered to His grace?
He bade you to His vineyard, gave employ,
And named the wages each one should enjoy

Charlotte Mason was bidden to Christ’s vineyard and given an employ. Perhaps an earlier start would have meant more poems. But what does that matter to His grace? I am thankful for the poems we do have, and I hope that you will use them in your homeschool and in your devotional life, to the glory of God in Christ.

Find her final poem here.

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🖼️: Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard by Johann Christian Brand