...afford repose from fear. Now, it was the way of the Redeemer to emancipate from sin by the freeness of absolution. The dying thief, an hour before a blasphemer,...head." And this is what we have forgotten. We have iiot yet learned to trust the power of redeeming love ; we do not believe in the omnipotence of grace,...

...virtue — it is as certain that she may be saved as it was of her' who washed the feet of the Saviour with her tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head ; and the fact that she was saved is a proof that all, to the end of time, and in every land, who come to...

...story of the different treatment, which our Saviour experienced in the same house, — how a poor woman washed His feet with her tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head, whilst the Pharisee murmured at what was done. This difference was doubtless often to...

...meat with publicans and sinners. At the Pharisee's table the Magdalen anointed him for his burial, washed his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. He came to the lost, and they knew their Saviour. The whole, He said, need not a physician,...

...afford repose from fear. Now it was the way of the Redeemer to emancipate from sin by the freeness of absolution. The dying thief, an hour before a blasphemer,...the slavish parts of human nature. Settle it in your minds, the absolving power is the central secret of the Gospel. Salvation is unconditional; not an...

...afford repose from fear. Now it was the way of the Eedeemer to emancipate from sin by the freeness of absolution. The dying thief, an hour before a blasphemer,...the slavish parts of human nature. Settle it in your minds, the absolving power is the central secret of the Gospel. Salvation is unconditional; not an...

...that " woman of the city, which was a sinner," who, afterward kneeling at our Lord's feet, washed them with her tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and concerning whom He said, " Her sins, which are many, are forgiven her." " Let me entreat thee," said...

...his fold. She remembered his forbearance towards fallen woman, whose love for him was great, and who washed his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head ; she remembered, too, that in his genealogy there was Tluimar, who was by her father-inlaw...

...looking to Jesus, and beholding the glory that was around his throne. There too is Mary Magdalene, that washed his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, a worshipper before the throne. What a group is that ! a group composed not of unfallen...

...alone is recorded that touching incident of the penitent woman, who stood behind our Lord weeping, who washed His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and to whom He uttered those words of everlasting significance and consolation, " Her sins, which are many,...