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God is Love.

washing them with her tears dried them with her hair: and he noted how Christ defended her. Reaching the forty-fourth verse he read:

"And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet; but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment."

After reading these verses he thought to himself: "Thou gavest me no water for my feet. Thou gavest me no kiss. My head with oil thou didst not anoint."

Again removing his eye-glasses, he placed them on the book and gave himself up once more to reflection.

"It is true," he thought; "that Pharisee was a man such as I am. I also remember only my-