fpstillammw. THE WELL AT BYOHAB. [From Mrs. Charle’s Journal of hor “ Wanderings over Bible Lands and Seas.”] Towards evening we reached the entrance of the valley of Nablous, one of the few places in Palestine which has preserved the intrusive Greek name (Neapolis), instead of the earlier scriptural one, Sheohem or Sy char. The narrower valley of Shechem branches off from the broad valley we had been skirting, to the left, between the moun tains Ebal and Gerizim. It is said that no place in Palestime is move absolutely identified as connected with an event in the history of our Lord than this spot. And this spot at the meeting of the valleys, links together the sacred history of more than three thousand years. Here is Jacob’s well, dug by the prudent patriarch (whoso father, Isaac,' had had so many'disputes about wells), in the parcel of ground he'hbught from Hamor, and, perhaps, gave at once to Joseph, then the only son of Rachel. Here the children of Israel laid the body of Joseph, which they had brought embalmed from Egypt. Here one of , the most dramatic scenes in Jewish history was enacted, when the whole multitudes of vic torious Israel, with the strangers among them the women and the children, in two i great companies, covered these "two hills, dud probably the valley between and around them, whilst Joshua read the! blessings and the curses of the law successfully froth.; Ebal and Gerissim and, from tihde to time, i the deep Amen of the nation echoed from: height to height, and swept through the plain. And here Jesus, with all these re collections speaking to him from hill .and valley, “ being wearied with the journey, sat thus on the well.” And to us all the other memories of the plain shine through the light of the last. We turned off a little to the right to see this sacred spot, but a very'great disappoint ment awaited uS. Until last January, they told us, the well had been! preserved—a relic of three thousand years, and of one hour worth them all! Until last. January you could,sit on the edge of the well, and look downjnto the depths too deep for Him to draw from. But this year the • Arabs had broken and scattered the stones, and filled the well with rubbish. The Christians and Turks had been at-war.in/Nablous,&,Turk had been accidentally killed by a Christian, and they told us the filling of this well was an 4'pt of revenge on the part of the Moslems, know ing how sacred it Was to Christians. It made us feel very bitterly, as westood'among the scattered stones' and heaps of rubbish where the well had been. Near this melancholy ruin is the tomb called Joseph’s. - It is a holy place of the Moslem's,, plastered and domed like the tombs of Mohammedan saints, / put there is one interesting feature about it in Connection with Jacob’s blessing to Joseph, comparing him to the “ fruitful Bough by a well whose branches run over the -wall. A fine old vine springs out of the tomb throwing its green leaves and .fruitful branches over the YT&lla > • j - ' As we rode to and from this tomb some peasants, working in the fields, warned us from the place with furious gestures, but whether they thought our own infidel feet would desecrate Joseph s tomb, or our horses’ feet injure their fields, we could not make out. Perhaps they were venting On onr innocent heads thdir wrath for some, of the Wrongs inflicted on them by our late com panions, the Bashi-Bazonks. . . We passed once more before entering the valley of Sychar, by the sacred ruined well. Except that sacred, relic itself, all was un changed. Down that narrow valley, the woman came with her pitcher, whilst Jesus was resting on this well. The Saviour and the sinner met alofte, P-nd to her at first lie was nothing more than a stranger and an alien from her race. Then followed that rapidly-varying dialogue with its, vivid ima eert, taken, as so constantly m our Lords conversations or sermons, from the things in sight at the time; the pnagery so sud denly abandoned to flash the. unexpected licrht on her conscience. Then the answer of the woman, betraying how, in hearts where no human eye would suspect a serious thought, deep religious perplexities may be dimly stirring, and how theological uncer tainty And moral laxity accompany each Other.* Probably pot a perspn: in, gycnar euspected that Samaritan woman of. haying a conscience, still less of weighing the merits of various religions, and expecting a Christ who would solve alt difficulties.' Was there, she seems to have thought, indeed,' after all, fUTSw. tobe«< The Jews believed one thing end her people another, and there •litf rJrh-ms be much to be said on both Sd^t^ J even, but might there indeed, be One who would tell her absolutely which was right? There certainly was Ono before her, no empty disputant onhe K ,«wn Without authority, hut ‘a prophet, Who knew all her life, yet did not scorntospeak to her. To Him the secret perplexities of the dbuhting, sin-burdened heart came out. Words, altogether new to her, came mreply. The controversy was carried to » higher level than her thoughts had'beached. It was to he no more Jew or Samaritan 5 but tro and adoring, men and woiieh- ~ 0 Gerizim, or Sion; but the Fatfcpr and the human spirit. One more secretj lay m tier, heart Through all that life of sin and-doubt THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY a dim desire and longing had lived on. The Christ was coming, the expectation of Jew and Samaritan alike. One who oould answer all the heart’s questionings was coming. One who could read all the heart’s secrets — was before her. In words, at least, she made no inference, but all the secret aspirations of her soul were poured forth. And she found the answer to which, per haps, her heart had already almost sprung,. “ I that speak unto thee am He.” Then, also down this valley, unless they had bought bread in that village on the hill-side nearer, came back the disciples. The woman had placed her pitcher by the well. It was not in her hands. She had not drawn any water for herself or for Jes Us. But she had understood Him, as so few did. all were forgotten. There were men in Sychar who wanted the Christ as she had: there were hearts there who I looked for him. She had good, news to take. I And up that valley,, to the city out of sight behind the folding of those hills, sped her eager-steps. ■ The disciples loved their Master, they had followed Him faithfully; they had gone to buy Him food while He rested. But when we turn from the Samaritan woman to them, it is like turning from earnest, intelligent eyes which read your every glance, to a dull prosaic countenance— -beaming, indeed, with the best intentions, but understanding (neith er glance nor illustration, but exactly the literal words you, say.and no more... Jesus | said, “ThavCtneatto e'dt thatyeknow bbtof;” SStd the disciples, who*had walk ed with- Him from Jerusalem, and listened for months to Hisiteaching, of every sentence was an illustration, had no. < idea that He could mean anything hy “meat” but some thing-to eat! , ;! - ’ 'Women and the. Pharisees often under stood our Lord best." The Pharisees, be cause their understandings were sharpened by dislike arid fear,"and “they knew He spoke' these pardbles against them;” and women, because their” hearts were warihj— they felt what He meant, felt that sinners might bathe His feet with tears; that he must help a mother whose young daughter was possessed, whether- Phoenician or He brew; that He,,would welcome the love which broke the alabaster vase, and poured out the precious ointment,;, ! , ,1 wonder if the disciples understood' th,e next parable which our Saviour, spoke, or perplexed themselves as to what He could mean; by there being “ four months to har vest,!’ and yet the fields, so obviously green with the young corn, being “ white already to harvest: l 1" ; Probably the eye of the Master directed them'to the explanation, asj turning from the'broad valley , behind them, green with the young corn, He said: “Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields white for harvest,’’ and as.He said ,so-gla«Cfid.ppjfl>e; valley., qf Sychar, and watched the-Samaritans coming to Him,—the golden first-fruits of the har vest, of the Gentiles. , ■ - - • They came down that deep valley, proba bly guided by a worn an, no doubt 1 conversing in eager' groups as they came, and question ing her, on account of whose'saying they had come. , And when they reached the wfcll where the Saviour and the, disciples were still lingering, they, besought Him that He would tarry with them. It was a new incident in that life spent among bitter enemies, and- disqiples so slow' in understanding and heart./ The people of Sychar had seen no miracle, they had heard, none of those unequalled discourses. They had'only heard that One sat on the well, at the opening of their valley, a stranger. Who saw with ptophetic insight into the inmost heart and the past life, a Jew who did not scorn to have dealings with Samaritans. They came all that way in the evening from their city, simply. because they had some dim .hope of finding the Messiah there. And when they found Him, they recognized Him. We do > not read, that He wrought any won ders among them. «We might th'iak it was impossible "for Him to 'come to any. place without being troubled with compassion by its sorrows as’ well as by its sins, and heal ing bodies as well as spuls. But we are told nothing 1 of the kind,’ ' And fof.eighteen hun dred years since, then. His heart being the same, and His .arm not shortened, He has been whilst healing souls, to let bodily sickness fulfil; .its,-work-of discipline! Perhaps He could trust these Samaritans enough to treat them in the same way. ;He abode there two days. s Up this valley, which' we were entering, He walked with that listehing !: coiifipahy;and the wondering disfeiples. ; ‘Besidethis stream they went to that white’cluster of flat-roofed houses, nestling among the thick’ trees. ’ . , . ~Her,e,i in ; tl|e .bosom of the. hills,j amongst the!figs,- pomegranates, and mulberries, fes tooned with vines, on the fresh grass .under the shade of thegrpy olives, and among the delicious sound of many waters};our Lord abbde and taught for two days, and the Sa maritans understood Him as, perhaps, nei ther Pharisees nor apostles, had yet done, to be not only indeed the Christ, but “ The Sa viour of the world.” It was Saturday evening as we rode up that lovely valley. Our tents yere pitched outside the town under ijhe thick shade of trees, amongst a chorus of streams flowipg on every side. And here we were to.remain for nearly two days, from Saturday until Monday. : - I may add some lines-which were written that Sunday at Nablotuftb give' some conso lation for our 'great about the rtf in of the well: l ’ . . on Jacob's well ruined by the akabs- They have stopped the ancient well, Which the patriarchs dug.of old; Where they watered the patient flocks at upon, From the depths so pure and cold, Where the Saviour asked to drink, And found at noon repose : But the Living Spring He opened there No human hands can close. They have scattered the ancient stones’ Where at noon he Stopped to rest; ' None ever shall rest by the well again- » And think how His accents blesSed l ■ ; But the Rest fonthe burdened heart, The shade in .the weariedltnd, ~ The riven Rock with its living streams : For ever unmoved shall stand. 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