It is related in the fourth chapter of John's Gospel that Jesus once sat down at Jacob's well and asked for a drink from a woman of Samaria who had come there to draw water. When she demanded to know why he made this request of her, in spite of the strained relations between the Jews and the Samaritans, our Master used the occasion to awaken her thought to the higher meaning of life and refreshment. He replied, "If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee. Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water."
What is this living water which the Master freely gave to all and of which Isaiah had long before invited the people to drink with this rousing appeal (55: I): "Ho, every one that thirsteth. come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come we, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price"? It is divine Love, which Jesus reflected, and the healing and life-giving truth of God and man, which he taught. It is the pure love which he demonstrated in overcoming in, sickness, and death, thus proving man's dominion over all so-called powers of the world.
Well may we pause frequently and draw never-ending inspiration from the Master's wonderful words and works. Their unassailable testimony of the unchanging facts of being—the perfection of God and man, the all-power and ever-presence of good, and the consequent powerlessness and nonexistence of evil, revealed again in Christian Science—will stand forever.
