" Mary sat at Jesus' feet, and heard His word" (Lk. 10:39).

" When Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying unto Him, Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died" (John 11:32).

" Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed at the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair:and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment " (John 12:3).

FRAGMENT We find this Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, thus three times mentioned, and in each instance she is at the feet of Jesus.

In Luke, "she sat at Jesus' feet, and heard His word." She was an earnest, diligent hearer then, treasuring in her heart the blessed revelations of grace and truth from the lips of Jesus.

In John 11:32, she rises at once to go to Him, and falling down at His feet she poured out "all her grief there. She had learned to trust Him, then.

Then, in John 12:3, she lays all her treasure at His feet. The "very costly" spikenard is poured out there, and her hair serves as the towel for those blessed feet! Precious picture, and beautiful steps of development in a soul surrendered to Christ- "the chiefest among ten thousand, the altogether lovely." May it attract our own souls to the same blessed Lord, our Saviour. F.