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4—Gainesville, Tex. Daily Register
Fri., March 18,1949
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Educational and Recreational Facilities that they
Might Better Prepare Themselves for Citizens of
Tomorrow.
FOR THEIR SAKES, WHEN YOU GO
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By FULTON OURSLER .
Chapter 14—The Woman at the Well
Queen Herodias demanded of the
king that John at once be tor-
tured and put to death. But Herod
dilly-dallied; he was politically
wise enough to realize that it
would be folly for him summarily
to execute so popular a man as
John had become. But he had to
do something or lose his stolen
wife, so a few days after Jesus
and His followers reached the
desert the king’s soldiers sudden-
ly rode up and seized John and
dropped him into a dungeon.
FOR the issuance of $15,000 School Bonds and the levy of
ad valorem taxes in payment thereof as submitted in
Proposition No. 2.
FOR the issuance of $215,000 School Bonds and the levy of
ad valorem taxes in payment thereof as submitted in
Proposition No. 1.
INSTRUCTIONS—As to each of the foregoing propositions,
each voter shall mark out with black ink or black pencil
one of the above expressions, thus leaving the other as in-
dicating his or her vote on the two propositions, respect-
ively.
Story Ever Told
A Tale of the Greatest Life Ever Lived
the soft-skinned ruler on his tin-
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Often at night Herod would slip
awav from the lacy boudoir of
dreaming, exhausted Herodias to
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MARION McCONNICO has been
named queen for the Lantana Cor-
onation at the- Texas College of
Arts and Industries, Kingsville,
March 19. She’s a senior home
economics student from Gregory,
Texas. More than fifty South
Texas high schools are sending
duchesses to take part in the cere-
mony.
OFFICIAL BALLOT
SPECIAL ELECTION
City of Gainesville, Texas
March 19 th, 1949
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go and talk with the man he had
chained in a pit. Undoubtedly the
king feared John, and he certain-
ly could not understand the moral
indignation that made him preach
such indiscreet and indelicate ser-
mons, yet something in the mys-
tic’s words stirred him, brought
him a little light—like a door that
opens just a crack.
A Men to be Feared
The more Herod Antipas lis-
tened to John, the more thought-
ful and melancholy he became;
the more he realized that John
was a just and good man, and
thus the more to be feared.
It was then that the queen, who
had a cunning brain, decided that
she must get rid of John the Bap-
tist.
Once John was arrested, Jesus
and His five friends started back
toward Galilee. Guided by, an in-
ner voice, the Holy Spirit, the
Master startled the others by His
decision to go home by way of
Samaria.
Here, indeed, was a shock. De-
cent citizens avoided that prov-
ince as they would a colony of
lepers. The feeling of the Gali-
leans against Samaritans was so
deep and malicious that a mere
glance from one was an insult,
cause for a fight. That old feud
between people of identical ances-
try went back hundreds of years
to the time when the Samaritans
fraternized with invaders, when
collaborationists married and in-
termarried, and forever since
they had been held in revulsion
by all patriots of Israel. The an-
cient hatred made trade and
peaceful intercourse impossible in
modern times. Good Jews would
walk far out of their way to go
Those, the best and most tran-
quill days Jesus and His friends
were ever to know, came to an
end all too soon. Presently they
must start back all the way. to
Jericho, for there were rumors
that John the Baptist was getting
himself into serious trouble.
With the five Jesus left Naza-
reth, and they began again the
long trek down to the edge of
the desert. There they made a
little camp and observed for a
while the excitement that was
growing around the courageous
preacher. Day by day word of
what John was telling the crowds
was being brought to Herod, the
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ceive food or water from them.
In bewilderment she answered:
“How do you, being a Jew, ask
to drink of me, who am a Samari-
tan woman?”
Jesus turned His head thought-
fully. The same old racial preju-
dice and fear! From boyhood He
had been familiar with this mad
and senseless hostility - between
His native Galileans and the Sa-
maritans who lived next door.
‘The Gift of God’
“If you would know the gift of
God,” said Jesus, “and who He is
who says to you, ‘give me to
drink,’ perhaps you would have
asked of Him.”
The consternation in her deep-
ened. SHE ask water of Him?
Jesus nodded.
“And He would have given you
living water.”
The words “living water” thor-
oughly puzzled this buxom, vital
peasant full of the swaying and
shapely magnitude of sex. Put-
ting the back of one hand to her
cheek, she said:
“Sir, you have nothing to draw
water with and the well is deep.
From whence, then, do you get
your living water? Are you great-
er than our father Jacob, w h o
gave us the well and drank out
“It is not lawful for him to
have his brother’s wife.”
The Wicked Queen
When she heard about this,
ent thereof as $ul
He told them of the Kingdom of
Heaven. What He taught them,
was a new Testament, a perfec-
tion of the old law, brotherhood
of man for man, for all were chil-
dren of the Father; an end of old
grudges and blood feuds and
hatred; forgiveness the answer to
racial and religious strife; love to
heal all wounds. This lesson of
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Then came more long days of talk and explanation to His first
five disciples. In those beginning days Jesus took time to get ac-
quainted with the hard, logical Andrew; the thoughtful, almost cyni-
cal Nathaneal; the eager, goodhearted Philip, and the always loyal
but explosive, quick-tempered Peter. They and John must be taught
slowly, molded to work together, before others could be added to the
company. And all must begin to understand the deeps of the
startling ideas they were soon to hear Him preach.
you are a prophet.” Her face was
growing paler, body trembling.
It was a relief when, after a long
pause, He spoke to her:
“Woman, God is a spirit and
they that adore Him must adore
Him in spirit and truth.”
She whispered:
“I know that the Messiah is
coming who is called Christ.
When He comes He will tell us
all things.”
Jesus stood up and looked at
her and said:
“I am He who am speaking to
you.”
She stood and looked at Him
dumbly, for she had heard the
great secret that He had not yet
told His followers. There was a
sudden noise behind them—Peter,
John, Nathanael, Andrew, and
Philip — back from town, their
arms filled with bundles of good.
On seeing them, she concealed
her water jug, and ran off into
the city, where she told every-
one she met that the Christ, the
Messiah vzas out at Jacob’s well.
His First Teaching
Soon crowds of Samaritans
were surrounding them; they had
heard the story of the woman at
the well and were trooping out i
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of it himself, and his children and
his cattle?”
Leaning forward and speaking
confidentially, He replied:
“Whoever drinks of this water
shall thirst again. But he that
shall drink of the water that I
will give him shall not thirst for-
ever. The water that I will give
him shall become in him a foun-
tain of water springing up into
life everlasting.”
She smiled incredulously.
“Sir, give me this water that
I may not thirst.”
“Go call your husband and
come here,” He suggested.
Those words flustered her.
With a toss of her head she re-
plied:
“I have no husband.”
‘You Are a Prophet’
And now the voice of Jesus was
so low she could scarcely hear
Him:
“You have said well, ‘I have
no husband.’ For you have had
five husbands. And he whom you
now have is not your husband!
You have said truly. ”
The woman leaned against the
parapet of the wall, both hands
grasping the stones.
“Sir,” she gasped, “I see that
An then, most curiously, the lit-
tetrarch and puppet ruler of Gali- tie Herod Antipas — dissolute,
lee. And day by day John’s hints drunken, and singularly free
about the tetrarch’s marriage made from decency as he often was-
his adulterous queen more en- 1 began to take a curious interest
raged. Finally one afternoon in his prisoner. For some obscure
John thundered explicitly to reason the brave, uncompromising
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Messiah; they would judge for
themselves.
If He was the Messiah, how did
He mean to improve the condi-
tion of the world? Wherever one
looked, one saw intolerance,
cruelty, misery.
Did Jesus offer Himself as the
hope of the distressed?
And He, hearing these ques-
tions from the Samaritans, lin-
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around Samaria. Only Romans
befriended them.
Jesus led His fi v e followers
straight to this forbidden prov-
ince, 50 miles north of Jerusa-
lem. Once within its borders He
did not rest until He had reached
its most historic spot, the well of
Jacob, at the eastern base of
Mount Gerizim. By now the five
disciples knew when Jesus de-
sired to be alone and so they
went on, a mile and a half, into
the town of Sichar, to buy provi-
sions for the evening meal.
In a Reverie
Meanwhile Jesus sat in a rev-
erie on the stone rim around the
old well. Presently a woman
came toward Him with a jug
slung over her shoulder, a green
hood thrown back from her head.
As if she did not see Him at all,
she busied herself tying a rope to
the handles of her vessel and
then lowered it into the darkness
of the well.
“Give me to drink,” said Jesus
suddenly.
With stunned deliberation the
woman pulled up her dripping
jug of water and set it on the
stone. Then she turned to him
blankly. Plainly he was not a
Samaritan; this stranger was a
Jew. She knew, too, that it was
forbidden of a God-fearing Jew to
ask help of Samaritans or to re-
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