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chosen people, a poor old woman, and an heretical community. When Jesus went from Nazareth to Capharnaum, He, after two days, went south to Jerusalem to the feast of Passover. In Jerusalem his miracles and words aroused but opposition and unbelief. Returning into Galilee He passed through Samaria, whose people the supercilious Jews regarded as heretics and little less than heathens. Yet there Christ found the faith He sought. The poor woman at Jacob's well, all sinful as she was, quickly perceived His Messiasship and blazed it abroad, and though He remained there but two days and performed not a single miracle, yet the citizens believed in Him, " not for the word of the woman but because of His own word." " Because," said they " we ourselves have heard Him and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world." What a disappointment, then, on His arrival at Cana, as to-day's Gospel relates, to find a man from Capharnaum, a Jew, petitioning for the life of his son, but unwilling to believe until he had seen signs and wonders! What a disappointment again when Jairus, also a Jew, asked Him to raise up his dying or dead daughter, but despaired even while the Saviour was on the way to do so, and probably joined with those who on Christ's arrival laughed Him to scorn! But presently came the poor old woman, who believed first, and, believing, touched the hem of His garment and was healed of her issue of blood. Presently also came the heathen centurion, that bluff, large-hearted soldier, petitioning for the life of his servant, believ-