Little events and trivial operations engross her whole soul;
while a woman of sense, having provided for their probable recurrence, guards
against the inconveniences, without being disconcerted by the casual
obstructions which they offer to her general scheme.
A general capacity for knowledge and the cultivation of the understanding at
large, will always put a woman into the best state for directing her pursuits into
those particular channels which her destination in life may afterwards require. But
she should be carefully instructed that her talents are only a means to a still
higher attainment, and that, she is not to rest in them as an end; that merely to
exercise them as instruments for the acquisition of fame and the promotion of
pleasure, is subversive of her delicacy as a woman, and contrary to the spirit of a
Christian.
Study, therefore, is to be considered as the means of strengthening the mind,
and of fitting it for higher duties, just as exercise is to be considered as an
instrument for strengthening the body for the same purpose
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Womans way to be more economical-'Hannah Moore's Strictures on Female Education,'
Economy such as a woman of fortune is called on to
practise, is not merely the petty detail of small daily expenses, the shabby
curtailments and stinted parsimony of a little mind operating on little concerns;
but it is the exercise of a sound judgment exerted in the comprehensive outline of
order, of arrangement, of distribution ; of regulations by which alone well-
governed societies, great and small, subsist. She who has the best-regulated
mind will, other things being equal, have the best-regulated family. As in the
superintendence of the universe, wisdom is seen in its effects; and as in the
visible works of Providence, that which goes on with such beautiful regularity is
the result, not of chance, but of design; so, that management which seems the
most easy, is commonly the consequence of the best-concerted plan ; and a
well-concerted plan is seldom the offspring of an ordinary mind. A sound
economy is a sound understanding brought into action ; it is calculation realized;
it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing consequences,
and guarding against them ; it is expecting contingencies, and being prepared for
them
practise, is not merely the petty detail of small daily expenses, the shabby
curtailments and stinted parsimony of a little mind operating on little concerns;
but it is the exercise of a sound judgment exerted in the comprehensive outline of
order, of arrangement, of distribution ; of regulations by which alone well-
governed societies, great and small, subsist. She who has the best-regulated
mind will, other things being equal, have the best-regulated family. As in the
superintendence of the universe, wisdom is seen in its effects; and as in the
visible works of Providence, that which goes on with such beautiful regularity is
the result, not of chance, but of design; so, that management which seems the
most easy, is commonly the consequence of the best-concerted plan ; and a
well-concerted plan is seldom the offspring of an ordinary mind. A sound
economy is a sound understanding brought into action ; it is calculation realized;
it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing consequences,
and guarding against them ; it is expecting contingencies, and being prepared for
them
'Hannah Moore's Strictures on Female Education,'
And let every Christian remember, that
there is no other way of entering truly into the spirit of that divine prayer, which
petitions that the name of God may be “hallowed," that "his kingdom (of grace)
may come," and that "his will may be done on earth as it is in heaven," than by
each individual contributing according to his measure to accomplish the work for
which he prays; for to pray that these great objects may be promoted, without
contributing to their promotion by our exertions, our money, and our influence, is
a palpable inconsistency.
there is no other way of entering truly into the spirit of that divine prayer, which
petitions that the name of God may be “hallowed," that "his kingdom (of grace)
may come," and that "his will may be done on earth as it is in heaven," than by
each individual contributing according to his measure to accomplish the work for
which he prays; for to pray that these great objects may be promoted, without
contributing to their promotion by our exertions, our money, and our influence, is
a palpable inconsistency.
the LORD that watches over our lives
Often the LORD that watches over our lives , does not let us go astray and brings us back to the track long planned for us.
This LORD will not allow us to suffer beyond what we can bear.
He promises to provide strength for the trials.
He will not delay His help but it will arrive at the right moment.
He cannot be seen by the eyes of sight but only by the eyes of FAITH.
He will protect us from every danger and will not allow the enemy to touch us.
He requires us to not fret but trust in HIS care and provisions.
His provisions are just for the day, a day , and each day HE sends them as per the need.
He wants us to know that worrying for the next day is futile as the next day is entirely unexpected.
He wants our cooperation in the form of prayer, a prayer from the heart and not from the lips.
He is the giver of justice .
His plans are not ours, but HIS plans are the best for us.
He wants us to claim the promises HE has given us.
He wants us to guard our mind as our thought battles are the main battles.
HE WANTS US TO READ HIS WORD AND GET HELP FROM THERE.
HE knows as humans we are weak and we often fail and falter.
posted on the evening of 24th june 2010, after much contemplation.
Wanted my fundamentals to get prioritized.
Through this time of crisis HE alone is our anchor,refuge, strength and victory.
This LORD will not allow us to suffer beyond what we can bear.
He promises to provide strength for the trials.
He will not delay His help but it will arrive at the right moment.
He cannot be seen by the eyes of sight but only by the eyes of FAITH.
He will protect us from every danger and will not allow the enemy to touch us.
He requires us to not fret but trust in HIS care and provisions.
His provisions are just for the day, a day , and each day HE sends them as per the need.
He wants us to know that worrying for the next day is futile as the next day is entirely unexpected.
He wants our cooperation in the form of prayer, a prayer from the heart and not from the lips.
He is the giver of justice .
His plans are not ours, but HIS plans are the best for us.
He wants us to claim the promises HE has given us.
He wants us to guard our mind as our thought battles are the main battles.
HE WANTS US TO READ HIS WORD AND GET HELP FROM THERE.
HE knows as humans we are weak and we often fail and falter.
posted on the evening of 24th june 2010, after much contemplation.
Wanted my fundamentals to get prioritized.
Through this time of crisis HE alone is our anchor,refuge, strength and victory.
Unfailing sympathy, undying love.
God hath not promised skies always blue,
Flower strewn pathways all our lives through;
God hath not promised sun without rain,
Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.
God hath not promised we shall not know
Toil and temptation, trouble and woe;
He hath not told us we shall not bear
Many a burden, many a care.
God hath not promised smooth roads and wide,
Swift, easy travel, needing no guide;
Never a mountain rocky and steep,
Never a river turbid and deep.
Refrain: But God hath promised strength for the day,
Rest for the labor, light for the way,
Grace for the trials, help from above,
Unfailing sympathy, undying love.
Flower strewn pathways all our lives through;
God hath not promised sun without rain,
Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.
God hath not promised we shall not know
Toil and temptation, trouble and woe;
He hath not told us we shall not bear
Many a burden, many a care.
God hath not promised smooth roads and wide,
Swift, easy travel, needing no guide;
Never a mountain rocky and steep,
Never a river turbid and deep.
Refrain: But God hath promised strength for the day,
Rest for the labor, light for the way,
Grace for the trials, help from above,
Unfailing sympathy, undying love.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Be Not Anxious-Annie Johnson Flint
Be Not Anxious
I cannot change the yesterday when I distrusted Thee,
Though all my fears unfounded proved, and shame me now as then;
I cannot promise that my faith will last throughout the night,
Or that, when Thy tomorrow comes, I will not doubt again.
But grant, O faithful Lord and true, that I may trust Thee now,
Just now, each moment of each hour of this Thy present day;
That, looking backward, I may read the record of the past,
And, forward, see Thy steadfast word light all the future way.
With Memory to guard the rear and Faith to lead the van,
And all Thy tested promises like beacon lights to shine,
How can I dread that demon shape of anxious, faithless fear?
For he shall lose his power when I fully trust in Thine.
Annie Johnson Flint
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every
thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God
I cannot change the yesterday when I distrusted Thee,
Though all my fears unfounded proved, and shame me now as then;
I cannot promise that my faith will last throughout the night,
Or that, when Thy tomorrow comes, I will not doubt again.
But grant, O faithful Lord and true, that I may trust Thee now,
Just now, each moment of each hour of this Thy present day;
That, looking backward, I may read the record of the past,
And, forward, see Thy steadfast word light all the future way.
With Memory to guard the rear and Faith to lead the van,
And all Thy tested promises like beacon lights to shine,
How can I dread that demon shape of anxious, faithless fear?
For he shall lose his power when I fully trust in Thine.
Annie Johnson Flint
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every
thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God
For He saith, "Thou passest THROUGH." --Annie Johnson Flint
For His promise shall sustain us,
Praise the Lord, whose Word is true!
We shall not go down, or under,
For He saith, "Thou passest THROUGH."
This sustained me today, though very well aware that nothing escapes the gaze of my God, still with waves of fear surging up against the fortress of faith ,i was wavering , trying to calm my hurried heart when i was reminded to pray and lay the matter down in the mighty arms of Jesus, for He knows the way in the storm and the whirlwind , He will not let us sink but will make way through the ocean unto the promised land.
Praise the Lord, whose Word is true!
We shall not go down, or under,
For He saith, "Thou passest THROUGH."
This sustained me today, though very well aware that nothing escapes the gaze of my God, still with waves of fear surging up against the fortress of faith ,i was wavering , trying to calm my hurried heart when i was reminded to pray and lay the matter down in the mighty arms of Jesus, for He knows the way in the storm and the whirlwind , He will not let us sink but will make way through the ocean unto the promised land.
Annie Johnson Flint
Threatening breakers of destruction,
Doubt's insidious undertow,
Shall not sink us, shall not drag us
Out to ocean depths of woe;
For His promise shall sustain us,
Praise the Lord, whose Word is true!
We shall not go down, or under,
For He saith, "Thou passest THROUGH."
--Annie Johnson Flint
Doubt's insidious undertow,
Shall not sink us, shall not drag us
Out to ocean depths of woe;
For His promise shall sustain us,
Praise the Lord, whose Word is true!
We shall not go down, or under,
For He saith, "Thou passest THROUGH."
--Annie Johnson Flint
Streams in the Desert
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us" (Rom. 8:18).
Short-sighted man! How know I that one of these pangs or groans could be spared? The far-sighted, perfect love that seeks the perfection of its object does not weakly shrink from present, transient suffering. Our Father's love is too true to be weak. Because He loves His children, He chastises them that they may be partakers of His holiness. With this glorious end in view, He spares not for their crying. Made perfect through sufferings, as the Elder Brother was, the sons of God are trained up to obedience and brought to glory through much tribulation
Streams in the Desert - June 23
Is there some problem in your life to solve,
Some passage seeming full of mystery?
God knows, who brings the hidden things to light.
Short-sighted man! How know I that one of these pangs or groans could be spared? The far-sighted, perfect love that seeks the perfection of its object does not weakly shrink from present, transient suffering. Our Father's love is too true to be weak. Because He loves His children, He chastises them that they may be partakers of His holiness. With this glorious end in view, He spares not for their crying. Made perfect through sufferings, as the Elder Brother was, the sons of God are trained up to obedience and brought to glory through much tribulation
Streams in the Desert - June 23
Is there some problem in your life to solve,
Some passage seeming full of mystery?
God knows, who brings the hidden things to light.
Best way to live your life
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
stuart
Albert Einstein quote
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now – and do it.
William Durant
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale
No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Unknown
The obstacles you face are… mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.
Clarence Blasier
I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Maya Angelou
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom
Life’s uncertain voyage.
Shakespeer
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Theresa
It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing, you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
Albert Einstein
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
Robert Collier
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Norman Vincent Peale
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,–’Wait and hope’.
Alexandre Dumas
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."
Henry Van Dyke quotes
"Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German playwright, poet, novelist and dramatist. 1749-1832)
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I Like this quote I dislike this quote"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth"
Henry Louis Mencken quotes
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
stuart
Albert Einstein quote
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now – and do it.
William Durant
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale
No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Unknown
The obstacles you face are… mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.
Clarence Blasier
I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Maya Angelou
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom
Life’s uncertain voyage.
Shakespeer
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Theresa
It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing, you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
Albert Einstein
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
Robert Collier
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Norman Vincent Peale
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,–’Wait and hope’.
Alexandre Dumas
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."
Henry Van Dyke quotes
"Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German playwright, poet, novelist and dramatist. 1749-1832)
About: Life quotes.
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Henry Louis Mencken quotes
quotes on risk taking-Paulo Coelho
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart saying, 'What have you done with the miracles that G-d planted in your days? What have you done with the talents G-d bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage: the certainty that you have wasted your life.
We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist, that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow.
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart saying, 'What have you done with the miracles that G-d planted in your days? What have you done with the talents G-d bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage: the certainty that you have wasted your life.
We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist, that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow.
Suffering quotes -Paulo Coelho
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
I still pray but it's something automatic, and I'm not even sure I still believe in it... Because I've suffered, and G-d didn't listen to my prayers. because many times in my life I have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed. If G-d is love, he should have cared more about my feelings.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
I still pray but it's something automatic, and I'm not even sure I still believe in it... Because I've suffered, and G-d didn't listen to my prayers. because many times in my life I have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed. If G-d is love, he should have cared more about my feelings.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo Coelho quote
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting......Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams master the lessons we have learned as we have moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up.... [At this point] Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
-- Paulo Coelho
-- Paulo Coelho
for I shall not pass this way again
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
-- Stephen Grellet
-- Stephen Grellet
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Dale Carnegie quotes
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie
"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts:
what we do, how we look,
what we say, and how we say it."
Dale Carnegie
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
Dale Carnegie
"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie
"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts:
what we do, how we look,
what we say, and how we say it."
Dale Carnegie
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
Dale Carnegie
"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
Dale Carnegie
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Like the samaritan women - a prayer
Prayer
Lord, I come to the well with my earthenware vessel. I come burdened with the weight of my past sins, steeped with feelings of unworthiness. I stand hidden with my veil of self-deprecation, of rejection. I am an outcast. Travel the short way, Jesus, and directly touch my heart, taking away all the negative feelings of unworthiness. Let me know that your acceptance is all I need for happiness. Fill my vessel with your compassion and love so I may drink of the living water. Visit the wells of other peoples and other nations, and refresh them with your water. Take away our stony hearts and give us natural hearts, ready to accept and love. Let it begin with me. Amen.
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Lord, I come to the well with my earthenware vessel. I come burdened with the weight of my past sins, steeped with feelings of unworthiness. I stand hidden with my veil of self-deprecation, of rejection. I am an outcast. Travel the short way, Jesus, and directly touch my heart, taking away all the negative feelings of unworthiness. Let me know that your acceptance is all I need for happiness. Fill my vessel with your compassion and love so I may drink of the living water. Visit the wells of other peoples and other nations, and refresh them with your water. Take away our stony hearts and give us natural hearts, ready to accept and love. Let it begin with me. Amen.
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Excerpt - Graced Time- profound questions-The women at the well
Excerpt
Graced Time
Suggested Questions
1. Have you ever had what you thought was a "chance encounter" that turned out to be a grace-filled event?
2. What things isolate you from the world around you?
3. What perpetuates isolation?
4. What can you do to break that perpetuity?
5. Do you perpetuate bias toward other persons or groups of people?
6. Do you have layers of barriers that make it difficult for God to reach you in a profound way?
7. Can you identify with the woman's isolation?
Graced Time
Suggested Questions
1. Have you ever had what you thought was a "chance encounter" that turned out to be a grace-filled event?
2. What things isolate you from the world around you?
3. What perpetuates isolation?
4. What can you do to break that perpetuity?
5. Do you perpetuate bias toward other persons or groups of people?
6. Do you have layers of barriers that make it difficult for God to reach you in a profound way?
7. Can you identify with the woman's isolation?
Women at the well-the samaritan women
Time erased
By life-giving water,
Offered by a man who had no bucket,
Who knew me not, yet knew me well.
My past washed clean
In the spring that I became —
Flowing, flowing through me,
God's instrument.
Never again shall I thirst.
Judy Ritter
By life-giving water,
Offered by a man who had no bucket,
Who knew me not, yet knew me well.
My past washed clean
In the spring that I became —
Flowing, flowing through me,
God's instrument.
Never again shall I thirst.
Judy Ritter
A SAMARITAN WOMAN.-Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christus: A Mystery
VI
JACOB'S WELL
A SAMARITAN WOMAN.
The sun is hot; and the dry east-wind blowing
Fills all the air with dust. The birds are silent;
Even the little fieldfares in the corn
No longer twitter; only the grasshoppers
Sing their incessant song of sun and summer.
I wonder who those strangers were I met
Going into the city? Galileans
They seemed to me in speaking, when they asked
The short way to the market-place. Perhaps
They are fishermen from the lake; or travellers,
Looking to find the inn. And here is some one
Sitting beside the well; another stranger;
A Galilean also by his looks.
What can so many Jews be doing here
Together in Samaria? Are they going
Up to Jerusalem to the Passover?
Our Passover is better here at Sychem,
For here is Ebal; here is Gerizim,
The mountain where our father Abraham
Went up to offer Isaac; here the tomb
Of Joseph,--for they brought his bones Egypt
And buried them in this land, and it is holy.
CHRISTUS.
Give me to drink.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
How can it be that thou,
Being a Jew, askest to drink of me
Which am a woman of Samaria?
You Jews despise us; have no dealings with us;
Make us a byword; call us in derision
The silly folk of Sychar. Sir, how is it
Thou askest drink of me?
CHRISTUS.
If thou hadst known
The gift of God, and who it is that sayeth
Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of Him;
He would have given thee the living water.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
Sir, thou hast naught to draw with, and the well
Is deep ! Whence hast thou living water?
Say, art thou greater than our father Jacob,
Which gave this well to us, and drank thereof
Himself, and all his children and his cattle?
CHRISTUS.
Ah, whosoever drinketh of this water
Shall thirst again; but whosoever drinketh
The water I shall give him shall not thirst
Forevermore, for it shall be within him
A well of living water, springing up
Into life everlasting.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
Every day
I must go to and fro, in heat and cold,
And I am weary. Give me of this water,
That I may thirst not, nor come here to draw.
CHRISTUS.
Go call thy husband, woman, and come hither.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
I have no husband, Sir.
CHRISTUS.
Thou hast well said
I have no husband. Thou hast had five husbands;
And he whom now thou hast is not thy husband.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
Surely thou art a Prophet, for thou readest
The hidden things of life! Our fathers worshipped
Upon this mountain Gerizim; and ye say
The only place in which men ought to worship
Is at Jerusalem.
CHRISTUS.
Believe me, woman,
The hour is coming, when ye neither shall
Upon this mount, nor at Jerusalem,
Worship the Father; for the hour is coming,
And is now come, when the true worshippers
Shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth!
The Father seeketh such to worship Him.
God is a spirit; and they that worship Him
Must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
Master, I know that the Messiah cometh,
Which is called Christ; and he will tell us all things.
CHRISTUS.
I that speak unto thee am He!
THE DISCIPLES, returning.
Behold,
The Master sitting by the well, and talking
With a Samaritan woman! With a woman
Of Sychar, the silly people, always boasting
Of their Mount Ebal, and Mount Gerizim,
Their Everlasting Mountain, which they think
Higher and holier than our Mount Moriah!
Why, once upon the Feast of the New Moon,
When our great Sanhedrim of Jerusalem
Had all its watch-fires kindled on the hills
To warn the distant villages, these people
Lighted up others to mislead the Jews,
And make a mockery of their festival!
See, she has left the Master; and is running
Back to the city!
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
Oh, come see a man
Who hath told me all things that I ever did!
Say, is not this the Christ?
THE DISCIPLES.
Lo, Master, here
Is food, that we have brought thee from the city.
We pray thee eat it.
CHRISTUS.
I have food to eat
Ye know not of.
THE DISCIPLES, to each other.
Hath any man been here,
And brought Him aught to eat, while we were gone?
CHRISTUS.
The food I speak of is to do the will
Of Him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Do ye not say, Lo! there are yet four months
And cometh, harvest? I say unto you,
Lift up your eyes, and look upon the fields,
For they are white already unto harvest!
Christus: A Mystery
VI
JACOB'S WELL
A SAMARITAN WOMAN.
The sun is hot; and the dry east-wind blowing
Fills all the air with dust. The birds are silent;
Even the little fieldfares in the corn
No longer twitter; only the grasshoppers
Sing their incessant song of sun and summer.
I wonder who those strangers were I met
Going into the city? Galileans
They seemed to me in speaking, when they asked
The short way to the market-place. Perhaps
They are fishermen from the lake; or travellers,
Looking to find the inn. And here is some one
Sitting beside the well; another stranger;
A Galilean also by his looks.
What can so many Jews be doing here
Together in Samaria? Are they going
Up to Jerusalem to the Passover?
Our Passover is better here at Sychem,
For here is Ebal; here is Gerizim,
The mountain where our father Abraham
Went up to offer Isaac; here the tomb
Of Joseph,--for they brought his bones Egypt
And buried them in this land, and it is holy.
CHRISTUS.
Give me to drink.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
How can it be that thou,
Being a Jew, askest to drink of me
Which am a woman of Samaria?
You Jews despise us; have no dealings with us;
Make us a byword; call us in derision
The silly folk of Sychar. Sir, how is it
Thou askest drink of me?
CHRISTUS.
If thou hadst known
The gift of God, and who it is that sayeth
Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of Him;
He would have given thee the living water.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
Sir, thou hast naught to draw with, and the well
Is deep ! Whence hast thou living water?
Say, art thou greater than our father Jacob,
Which gave this well to us, and drank thereof
Himself, and all his children and his cattle?
CHRISTUS.
Ah, whosoever drinketh of this water
Shall thirst again; but whosoever drinketh
The water I shall give him shall not thirst
Forevermore, for it shall be within him
A well of living water, springing up
Into life everlasting.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
Every day
I must go to and fro, in heat and cold,
And I am weary. Give me of this water,
That I may thirst not, nor come here to draw.
CHRISTUS.
Go call thy husband, woman, and come hither.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
I have no husband, Sir.
CHRISTUS.
Thou hast well said
I have no husband. Thou hast had five husbands;
And he whom now thou hast is not thy husband.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
Surely thou art a Prophet, for thou readest
The hidden things of life! Our fathers worshipped
Upon this mountain Gerizim; and ye say
The only place in which men ought to worship
Is at Jerusalem.
CHRISTUS.
Believe me, woman,
The hour is coming, when ye neither shall
Upon this mount, nor at Jerusalem,
Worship the Father; for the hour is coming,
And is now come, when the true worshippers
Shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth!
The Father seeketh such to worship Him.
God is a spirit; and they that worship Him
Must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
Master, I know that the Messiah cometh,
Which is called Christ; and he will tell us all things.
CHRISTUS.
I that speak unto thee am He!
THE DISCIPLES, returning.
Behold,
The Master sitting by the well, and talking
With a Samaritan woman! With a woman
Of Sychar, the silly people, always boasting
Of their Mount Ebal, and Mount Gerizim,
Their Everlasting Mountain, which they think
Higher and holier than our Mount Moriah!
Why, once upon the Feast of the New Moon,
When our great Sanhedrim of Jerusalem
Had all its watch-fires kindled on the hills
To warn the distant villages, these people
Lighted up others to mislead the Jews,
And make a mockery of their festival!
See, she has left the Master; and is running
Back to the city!
SAMARITAN WOMAN.
Oh, come see a man
Who hath told me all things that I ever did!
Say, is not this the Christ?
THE DISCIPLES.
Lo, Master, here
Is food, that we have brought thee from the city.
We pray thee eat it.
CHRISTUS.
I have food to eat
Ye know not of.
THE DISCIPLES, to each other.
Hath any man been here,
And brought Him aught to eat, while we were gone?
CHRISTUS.
The food I speak of is to do the will
Of Him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Do ye not say, Lo! there are yet four months
And cometh, harvest? I say unto you,
Lift up your eyes, and look upon the fields,
For they are white already unto harvest!
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