You cannot get rid of Christ. You exclude Him from your schools by act of Parliament, but, passing through the midst of you, He says, “Suffer Me and the children to meet; let the flowers see the sun;” you find Him in statute-books, in philanthropic institutions, in literature; you find Him now just as his disciples found Him, in out-of-the-way places, doing out-of-the-way things;—“they marvelled that he spake with the WOMAN,”—the eternal marvel, the eternal hope! He is speaking with the woman still; speaking with her in India, in China, in islands far out upon the sea; presently He will take up her children in his arms and bless them, and be himself as the child that is born unto every woman.—PARKER.
