“How like death and birth is that beautiful type. They level all life.”
“Are our lives leveled? knight.”
“Henceforth; and we are brethren.”
“And our King and Savior was baptized here by the herald of His Kingdom, John?”
“Yea; here the new Judaism was formally inaugurated. Tradition says also that Jesus baptized his mother afterward at this ford.”
“How filial; how beautiful; how expressive! He was her God, yet her son, she his mother and disciple; and each by all ties and forms bound together in a fellowship of helpfulness.”
“The Jew’s an interpreter.”
“Sir Charleroy sweetens my trust as Jordan sweetens the bitter waters of Bahr Lut.”