committee meeting where we have only the salient points of the discussion recorded. I think that the Samaritan woman must have unburdened her soul to this stranger. How else could Jesus have known of her tangled domestic affairs? For one of the very few times in her life, she had found one with kindness in his eyes instead of critical superiority; and she opened her heart. Few stories in the gospel record show us so much about the character of Jesus. (1) It shows us the reality of his humanity. Jesus