<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421640" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Woman Of Samaria</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jesus, to what didst thou submit<br>To save thy dear-bought flock from hell!<br>Like a pour trav'ller see him sit,<br>Athirst, and weary, by the well. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The woman who for water came,<br>What great events on small depend<br>Then learnt the glory of his name,<br>The Well of life, the sinner's Friend! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Taught from her birth to hate the Jews,<br>And filled with party-pride; at first<br>Her zeal induced her to refuse<br>Water, to quench the Saviour's thirst. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But soon she knew the gift of God,<br>And Jesus, whom she scorned before,<br>Unasked, that drink on her bestowed,<br>Which whoso tastes shall thirst no more. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His words her prejudice removed,<br>Her sin she felt, relief she found;<br>She saw and heard, believed and loved,<br>And ran to tell her neighbors round. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O come, this wondrous man behold!<br>The promised Saviour! this is he,<br>Whom ancient prophecies foretold,<br>Born, from our guilt to set us free. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like her, in ignorance content,<br>I worshipped long I knew not what;<br>Like her, on other things intent,<br>I found him, when I sought him not. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He told me all that e'er I did,<br>And told me all was pardoned too;<br>And now, like her, as he has bid,<br>I live to point him out to you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421640" data-title="The Woman Of Samaria de John Newton" data-description="Jesus, to what didst thou submit To save thy dear-bought flock from hell! Like a pour trav'ller see him sit, Athirst, and weary, by the well. The woman who for water came, What great events on small depend Then learnt the glory of his name, The ..."></div> </div> </div>

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