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JOHN. And Holiness.

JOSIAH. Knowledge of God.

GEORGE B. Obedience.

EDWARD J. I heard my sister read an allegory yesterday.

(He spoke of Miss M.'s allegory of Faith and Hope.) JOHN B. When Jesus said, I would give thee living waters, the woman thought he meant water for the body; but he meant purity.

MR. ALCOTT. spiritual water?

JOHN B.

Fruits of
Impurity.

What part of your nature drinks

Conscience.

MR. ALCOTT.

Conscience?

Suppose you don't mind

JOHN B. Then the waters will spoil, and

no more pure water comes.

MR. ALCOTT. Name some spoilt waters.

JOHN B. and OTHERS. Impatience, Unkindness, Passion, Ingratitude, Anger, Selfishness, Crossness, Laziness, Ill-humour, Falsehood, Theft.

MR. ALCOTT. Do you generally think that other people must make you good or bad?

SEVERAL. Impure waters flow in to make us bad. MR. ALCOTT. No; the waters become impure by standing still-by your not trying. And what must you do to purify yourself, if you have become impure?

Spiritual
Renewal.

FRANKLIN. You must feel remorse MR. ALCOTT. Which leads to repentance. what guards the fountain from outward evil?

FRANKLIN. Resolution.

MR. ALCOTT. WILL. I will. To will.

But

ANDREW. (Reads.) "And the water that

Holiness. I shall give thee shall be a well of water,

Perpetuity of

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springing up into everlasting life." The water is Spirit; spirit makes goodness; goodness lasts always.

MR. ALCOTT. Why does not the body last always? ANDREW. Because it is no part of God, but is a part of the earth. The spirit is part of God. If the spirit should stay with the body always, it would get bad. MARTHA. Living water means holiness.

MR. ALCOTT.

MARTHA. God.

Who sends that water in?

MR. ALCOTT. Where does he get it from?
MARTHA. From himself.

MR. ALCOTT. Does it get spoilt in us?

MARTHA.

Weariness

of Spirit.

Yes; until he fixes it again.

EDWARD C. I was interested in Jesus' being weary, and sitting by the well.

MR. ALCOTT. What produces weariness? JOSIAH. Jesus' weariness was of the body. There is a weariness of mind when it has strayed away into wickedness.

JOHN D. All the waters in me are spoiled.

Spiritual
Purity.

MR. ALCOTT. Now can you tell what has been the subject of the Conversation? Do not say, a woman, or Jesus, or a well, or

water.

EMMA. The subject has been the purity and impurity of the Spirit.

GEORGE. Purifying the Spirit.

FRANKLIN. And the eternity of Spirit.

Immortality. MR. ALCOTT. What word expresses the

eternity of Spirit in the Soul of man?

(No answer.)

Is it not Immortality?

(All said yes.)

CONVERSATION XXXIII.

SPIRITUAL WORSHIP.

PRAYER AND PRAISE.

Conversation of Jesus with the Samaritan Woman, from the Sacred Text. - Immortality.- Emblem of Holiness. Idolatry.

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Spiritual Worship. Responsive Prayer.

Forgiveness.

Idea of prayer. -Actual Prayer. Ritual of Worship. Prayer of Faith.

Dramatic Prayer. - Devotion to the Holy. - Idea of Universal Adoration and Praise. Reverence of the Godlike in Conscience. - Reverence of Humanity. Reverence of the INVISIBLE. - Admiration of Nature. - Spiritual Awe. Supremacy of Spirit over Nature. Worldliness. from the Flesh. - Instinct of Adoration in Infancy. Subject.

Mr. Alcott read the remainder of the

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CONVERSATION OF JESUS WITH THE WOMAN OF

SAMARIA.

Vulgar Era, 27
Julian Period,

4740.

Samaria.

Worship.

JOHN iv. 16-30

16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband and come hither.

17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, * Deut. xii. 5. that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to wor

ship.

21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

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22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things..

26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?

28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,

29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did is not this the Christ?

30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

(Before he had time to ask the usual question,)

Immortality

SAMUEL T. (spoke). I was most interested in this verse: "He that drinks of this water shall thirst again, but he that drinks of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst.” He means by this, that those who heard what he taught, and did it, should live always, should never die, their spirits should never die.

MR. ALCOTT. Can a spirit die at any rate?

SAMUEL T. For a spirit to die is to leave off being good.

Emblem of
Holiness.

EDWARD J. I was interested in the words, "For the water I shall give him will be in him a well of water." I think it means, that when people are good and getting better, it is like water springing up always. They have more and more

goodness.

SAMUEL R. Water is an emblem of Holiness.

MR. ALCOTT. Water means Spirit pure and un spoiled.

EDWARD J. It is holy spirit.

Idolatry.

ELLEN. I was most interested in these words, "Ye worship ye know not what."

The Samaritans worshipped idols, and there was no meaning to that.

MR. ALCOTT. shipping idols ?

What do you mean by their wor

ELLEN. They cared about things more than God. MR. ALCOTT. What kind of false worship do you think Jesus was thinking about, when he said, "Woman, the hour is coming and now is, when neither in this mountain - " ?

ELLEN.

Oh! She thought the place of worship was more important than the worship itself.

MR. ALCOTT. Well! how did Jesus answer that thought?

ELLEN. He told her what she ought to worship, which was more important than where.

MR. ALCOTT. Some of you perhaps have made this mistake, and thought that we only worshipped God in churches and on Sundays. How is it - who has

thought so?

(Several held up hands, smiling.)

Who knew that we could worship God any where? (Others held up hands.)

Spiritual Worship.

What other worship is there beside that in the Church?

DDWARD J. The worship in our hearts.

MR. ALCOTT. How is that carried on?

EDWARD J. By being good.

NATHAN. We worship God by growing better.

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