Article August 10, 1907 Issue

SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM

LOUISE DELISLE RADZINSKI

And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.—Luke, 9:53.

What happens when a man turns his face to Jerusalem, the city of the God of peace? Do the inhabitants of Samaria come forth from their vilages and towns (their habitations of thought) to welcome him, to bathe his feet, to refresh him with food? When our Master, Jesus the Christ, passed through Samaria in the first year of his public ministry, his words to the woman who came to the well as he rested there (for the Scripture tells us he was "wearied with his journey") were received by her as the words of an inspired teacher, and she carried to her friends in the city the news of one who had told her all things she had ever done. Many of the Samaritans from that city believed on him, and came and besought him to abide with them; and he abode with them two days, and many more believed because of his words, for they realized that he was indeed the Saviour of the world.

The apostle does not tell of healing then performed, but we know that no one ever heard Jesus teach the love of God and the truth of Life without being blessed and healed; it was where unbelief ruled and closed the hearts of men that no great wonders could be done. These people received him and believed on him, and we may be sure their trust was well rewarded, that the two days Jesus spent among them were fruitful of good works and left a fragrant remembrance of the great Teacher.

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