been ignorant.

The Jewish worship had been symbolical, every person and thing, every
colour, gesture, movement, having a meaning for the initiated. The time
for this, says our Lord, is past. We are to worship really. They need no
longer take an animal to the temple to symbolise that they gave
themselves to God; they were to spend their whole care on the _real_
thing, on giving themselves to God; they were not to set candles about
their altars to show that light was come into the world, they were
themselves to shine as lights lit by Christ; they were not to swing
censers to symbolise the sweet-smelling prayers of the saints, they were
to offer prayers from humble hearts. In effect Christ said, You are
grown up now, and can understand the realities; put away then these
childish things. And those who continue to worship with various robes,
and prescribed gesticulations and movements, and pictures, and altars,
and everything to impress the senses, write themselves down children
among grown-up people.

Truth is opposed also to error or misconception about the object of
worship. Christ, by His presence, enables men to worship the Father in
truth. He gives them the true idea of God. He makes God real, giving an
actuality to our thought of God which we could not otherwise arrive at;
and He shows us God as He truly is, connected with ourselves by love;
holy, merciful, just.

XI.

_THE SECOND SIGN IN GALILEE._

"In the mean while the disciples prayed Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. But
He said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. The
disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought Him
aught to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of
Him that sent Me, and to accomplish His work. Say not ye, There are
yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto
you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white
already unto harvest. He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth
fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may
rejoice together. For herein is the saying true, One soweth and
another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not
laboured: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their
labour. And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on Him
because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all
things that ever I did. So when the Samaritan