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 ready to forgive. You have heard that Jesus, his beloved Son came into this depraved world with the design to save sinners. The 7th chapter of Luke records an affecting instance of salvation— to you it applies with unspeakable interest, for, it describes the mercy of which one criminal like you, became a partaker ‘Behold, a woman, who was a sinner,’ that is, one addicted to lewdness ‘came to a house where Jesus sat at meat, and brought an alabaster box of ointment. And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, 'Seest thou this woman? l entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet, but she hath washed my feet with her 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.—Wherefore l say unto thee, her sins, which are many, are forgiven. And he said unto her, 'Thy sins are forgiven.— Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.’

Are you young, and but lately led astray?— Draw back your foot this instant, rush from the destructive path, It were ten thousand pities to thicken the cloud that has begun to hide from you the light of heaven; and to employ the energies of youth in preparing arrows which shall pierce and poison the last hope of drooping age.

Are you confirmed in iniquity, in full receipt of its wages? Reflect on the desolation you