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    extortion , yet eats with publicans . He is pure , and he teaches righteousness , while he discourses with some sinners so polluted that all good men avoid them . No prophet hath done thus of old . **

    "What dost thou therefore believe ?" " I scarcely know : but when I behold how pure he is while doing thus , I inquire whether we might not also be more holy in our minds while less strait in our external observances . Many of us are sinful in our lives , while outwardly sanctified : and may not this be in some degree the case with us all ?"

    " I fear to listen further , " said Michal ; " and I now fear to meet the Teacher . I will return whence I did wrong to come forth . " She raised her head , which had sunk on her knees , and drew her veil around her face to conceal the tears which had sprung to her eyes . Grief had succeeded to hope , and she wished to avoid the mysterious Teacher who could not have been sent by the God of the Hebrews , siuce he had tarried two days at Sychar , boded evil to the Temple , and entered the dwelling of a publican .

    Her brother and his friend accompanied her to the city , and then proceeded along the shore of the lake to the southward , still hoping to see and hear more of him who filled their thoughts . They walked slowly , conversing earnestly concerning the expectation of their people , and the predictions of their Scriptures respecting it . They revived in each other ' s memory the words of grace and truth which they had heard in the synagogue from him who had expounded the law with an authority which none could resist . The remembrance at length awed them

    into silence , and they stood , leaning each against a palm , and gazing on the waters which were now gleaming in the full light of day . After a while , the breeze brought to their ears the voices of men , and as expectation was powerful within them , they , with one consent , pursued their way . They presently reached a little bay , where many boats were riding the waters . In those most distant from the beach , fishermen were busy at their toil ; but those near the margin of the lake were deserted , and the men were collected in groups along the shore . Sadoc approached a man who stood musing apart , with his nets , which he had prepared , hanging over his

    arm . * - ' The fair morning calls thee to thy occupation , Lemuel , " said Sadoc . " Hasten , lest the heat of day come on . ' * The man looked up , only replying , " The Teacher hath passed this way . "

    46 Hath passed 1 " exclaimed Sadoc . " And we have lingered behind . Whither is he gone ?" " We know not , " replied Lemuel , " but he hath called away some of our companions . Simon and Andrew have left their boat and followed him , and others also . "

    " Wherefore ?" " I know not ; but Simon and Andrew had seen and heard him at Beth-;» hara ; and they tell such wonderful sayings of him , that they cannot but follow him when he calls . " " In what manner did he call them ?" " He said somewhat to them which made Simon cast down his nets in haste , and gird himself as if for a journey . " " Moreover , with great joy , " said one who stuod by , " The Teacher pro-

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    The Hope of the Hebrew . 103

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1830, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2581/page/31/