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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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who sat at meat. But none spake; nor did she heed<br />

any but One. Like heaven's own music, as Angels'<br />

songs that guide <strong>the</strong> w<strong>and</strong>erer home, it still<br />

sounded in her ears. <strong>The</strong>re are times when we<br />

forget all else in one absorbing thought; when<br />

men's opinions—nay, our own feelings <strong>of</strong> shame—<br />

are efiaced by that one Presence; when <strong>the</strong> * Come<br />

to Me ; learn <strong>of</strong> Me; I will give you rest,' are <strong>the</strong><br />

all in all to us. <strong>The</strong>n it is, that <strong>the</strong> fountains <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Great Deep within are broken open by <strong>the</strong><br />

wonderworking rod, with which God's Messenger<br />

to us^-<strong>the</strong> better Moses-has struck our hearts. She<br />

had come that day to * learn' <strong>and</strong> to ' find rest.'<br />

What mattered it to her who was <strong>the</strong>re, or what<br />

<strong>the</strong>y thought ? <strong>The</strong>re was only One Whose<br />

Presence she dared not encounter—not from fear<br />

<strong>of</strong> Him, but from knowledge <strong>of</strong> herself It was He to<br />

Whom she had come. And so she ^ stood behind at<br />

His Feet.' She had brought with her an aldbastron<br />

(phial, or flask, commonly <strong>of</strong> alabaster) <strong>of</strong><br />

perfume.' It is a coarse suggestion, that this had<br />

originally been bought for a far different purpose.<br />

We know that perfdmes were much sought after,

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