them and bathed them with ointment.

"Wherefore, O woman, weep not! I forgive thee

thy sins which are many.

"Go thou in peace."

And those who were with Him at meat were astonished.

"Lo! she spoke not, she asked not and yet He forgave

her," they whispered.

* * * *

Dear to my God are the rills that flow from the

mountains of sorrow