At the pool
Feast of Dedication. Jesus one with the Father.
(The Gospel History, Section 82)
And he went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John was at the first baptizing; and there he abode. And many came unto him; and they said, John indeed did no sign: but all things whatsoever John spake of this man were true. And many believed on him there.
At the pool
(The Saviour of the World, Vol V Book V Poem LXIX)
A spot there was dear to the heart of Christ,
A place where many had kept holy tryst,—
That pool where John baptized, where troubled men
Had sought that washing which makes clean again.
There, beyond Jordan, did the Lord abide,
From the vexing of the Jews, constrained to hide:
Here, many came to Him;—from city street,
From all the country side, the people meet
To hear the words of Jesus, see each sign
Which to the open soul proved Him divine.
For many of these, dear, earlier memories clung
To the spot where on the words of John they’d hung:
The people spake together: No sign did John,
But this Man hath fulfilled them, every one,—
The words John spake of Him.
And, day by day,
The people heard and spake and went their way,
And came again to hear the words of life;
So, many believed on Him, for all that strife
Of words in the city raised by Pharisees.
If John be present, how joyful now he sees,
With the larger eyes of the spirit-life, this grace
His King hath done him, sweet as an embrace!
That Christ should gather with His royal hand
Fruit from that seed he scattered in the land.
St. John x. 40-42.
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