_CHRIST’S LONGING FOR HUMAN SYMPATHY_ ‘There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give Me to drink.’ John 4:7 Had not Christ the power to create springs in the desert, and showers in a dry and barren land? Yes; but the Incarnate Son of God, Whose delights have ever been... [ Continue Reading ]
_WORSHIP_ ‘God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.’ John 4:24 It is impossible to imagine a subject that more intimately affects the daily life of every one of us. I think we shall best get hold of it if we first study on general principles the sacred o... [ Continue Reading ]
_LOOK ON THE FIELDS_ ‘Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.’ John 4:35 ‘Look on the fields.’ ‘Do you think,’ said the captain of the ship in which Robert Morrison was a passenger, to that brave pioneer missionary, ‘that you will make an impression upon... [ Continue Reading ]
_SOWING AND REAPING_ ‘And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.’ John 4:37 ‘That saying,’—it was then a common and familiar saying already; what we should call a proverb of the people. And there can be little doubt that it had, as so used in the common speech of men, a some... [ Continue Reading ]
_REASONS FOR FAITH_ ‘Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard Him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.’ John 4:42 This incident reminds us that there are different stages and different degrees of faith. The men of Samaria first of all b... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE NOBLEMAN’S SON_ ‘Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. The nobleman saith unto Him, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth.’ John 4:48 There are just three points into which the narrative seems to divide its... [ Continue Reading ]