The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-02-02

IINsvSSSSeHeAsNeSsNess sSsSsksSskeHssSSSsS
ship the Infinite One, whose ineffable
gift she had just received? On Geri-
zim-to which she pointed as she
spoke-according to hereditary in
struction, or in Jerusalem, from
which He had just come? In answer
to this question, Jesus unfolds that
basal principle of Christianity, that
all the earth is holy, and one spot
more holy than another; that the
item of topography in religion is
henceforth erased; and, further, that
henceforth, to a Spirit God spirit
sacrifices only shall be made. Heb.
TX, ID; Rom. xii, ~ The wo-
man, her clouded mind now thorough
ly illuminated, looked up, and ador-
lngly exclaimed. Your teaching is
just like that which we might expect
from the Messiah Himself!n The
Savior accepts her loving challenge;
and in despised Samaria. and to q
woman till late degraded, He made
His first categorical declaration of
Messiah ship. &
The Teachers Lantern.
The Samaritan woman NAV well
represent that class who probably
would never come to Jesus of the own
accord, as Nicodemus stands for the
seeking and inquiring class. Some
seem thoroughly unsplritual; they
have eyes and ears, but never use
them in religious matters. They are
likely to die in the treadmill of the
daily tasks which concern that we
shall eat and drink and wear. How
to get them above the rut, so that
they may see the new heaven and
the new earth-that is the problem.
They will not come to us. We must
go to them. We must make an op-
portunity to speak to them of relig-
ion. Two classes, but one
gospel for both! Not one gospel for
Nicodemus and another for the Sa-
marian woman. Jesus gives the
same testimony to the ignorant schis-
matte and sinner as to the sanctitied
Pharisee. The terminus is the same,
but the approaches are necessarily
different. However. il is an
open question whether this latter
scene does not portray the ideal meth
cd of sOulsaving. See how Jesus takes
the commonest incident and makes it
a starting point; how He leads on
gently by carefully framed questions
and statements. He does not grow
impatient with inyeterate obtuseness.
He is not diverted from the end in
view by desultory questions He is
gentility itself. but allowed of no eva
sion. He helps the woman first to
see herself, then to see Him-herself
a sinner, Himself Savior. :.
En- route Jesus would pass by Gideon,
and would be reminded of Saul; Be-
thel, and would think of Jacob and
his angel-crowded ladder, and Shiloh,
the resting place of the tabernacle.
The general appearance of the coun-
try surrounding Sychar is unchanged
since Jesus day. The wheatfields of
the rich plain of Elmukhnah, TO
which the Master pointed His discip-
les, still look like bIllowv seas whose
waves seem to break on the base of
twin mountains. What asso-
Citations are here! On Gerizim Mel
chizedeke officiated as priest of the
Most High God. There Abraham
reared his first altar There stood six
of the tribes reciting the blessings,
while on opposite Ebal the other six
responded with the curses of the law.
Just beneath is that parcel of ground
which Jacob, on his return from exile
purchased for hundred pieces of sill
yer, and which he bequeathed to
Joseph. There Joseph's mummied
form was finally inferred. But all
these associations are eclipsed by
that pictorial scene which the evan
gelist has deiineated with inimitable
skill.
rlosaic from Commentar les.
Jacobs we'll: One of the few sites
about which there is no disp ute-sev-
enty feet deep, but originally
much deeper, as the bottom has been
filled with rubbish; seven feet six in
ches in diameter-Hastin Bib.
Dict. Give Me to drink; No line of
proceeding would be more likely to
conciliate the woman 'sfeelings.-Ryle.
Thou being a lew: Recnpnized NV His