EDWARD J. I was interested in the words, "For the water I shall give him will be in him a well of water." I think it means that when people are good and getting better, it is like water springing up always. They have more and more goodness. SAMUEL R. Water is an emblem of holiness. MR. ALCOTT. Water means spirit, pure and unsoiled. EDWARD J. It is holy spirit. ELLEN. I was most interested in these words: "Ye worship ye know not what." The Samaritans worship idols, and there was no meaning to that. MR. ALCOTT. What do you mean by their worshipping idols? ELLEN. They cared about things more than God. MR. ALCOTT. What kind of false worship do you think Jesus was thinking about when he said: "Woman, the hour is coming and now is, when neither in this mountain--"? ELLEN. Oh! she thought the place of worship was more important than the worship itself. MR. ALCOTT. Well! how did Jesus answer that thought? ELLEN. He told her what she ought to worship, which was more important than where. MR. ALCOTT. Some of you, perhaps, have made this mistake, and thought that we only worshipped God in churches, and on Sundays. How is it,--who has thought so? (_Several held up hands, smiling._) Who knew that we could worship God anywhere? (_Others held up hands._) What other worship is there besides that in the church? EDWARD J. The worship in our hearts. MR. ALCOTT. How is that carried on? EDWARD J. By being good. NATHAN. We worship God by growing better. AUGUSTINE. We worship God when we repent of doing wrong. JOSIAH. I was most interested in this verse: "God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." It means that to feel our prayers is more important than to say the words. LEMUEL. And when we pray and pray sincerely. MR. ALCOTT. What is praying sincerely? LEMUEL. Praying the truth. MR. ALCOTT. What is to be done in praying the truth? When you think of prayer, do you think of a position of the body--of words? LEMUEL (_earnestly_). I think of something else, but I cannot express it. MR. ALCOTT. Josiah is holding up his hand; can he express it? JOSIAH (_burst out_). To pray, Mr. Alcott, is to be good, really; you know it is better to be bad before people and to be good to God alone, because then we are good for goodness sake, and not to be seen, and not for people's sake. Well, so it is about prayer. There must be nothing outward with prayer; but we must have some words, sometimes; sometimes we need not. If we don't feel the prayer, it is worse than never to say a word of prayer. It is wrong not to pray, but it is more wrong to speak prayer and not pray. We had better do nothing about it, Mr. Alcott! we must say words in a prayer, and we must feel the words we say, and we must do what belongs to the words. MR. ALCOTT. Oh! there must be doing, must there?