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"But He rose again from the dead," he persisted, "and left the earth

to its own devices hereafter And so behold Jerusalem!

"And there was one woman," he added, "who had been a scarlet woman

She had anointed His feet with precious oil and wiped theht them all out, because they could do

miracles and foretell events Thousands upon thousands believe in

them"

"Crucified!" she whispered

"They say," he went on, "that He pronounced judgment on Jerusalem and

that it now cometh to pass!"

The accumulated effect of the calaazed at hient eyes, and her lipsFor one reared in constant contemplation of God's nearness

to His children, acquainted with divine politics, divine literature

and divine law, cut off froion,

the story of a divine tragedy carried with it the full force of its

fearful i of

earth and the effacement of Heaven She cried wildly her unbelief when

words returned to her But under the fury of her denunciation,

unconsciously directed against the conviction that the story was true,

she felt her hope of a restored Kingdo toward a

fall

While she stood thus, Auid and pre-occupied, entered the