OUR SAVIOR  
By Charles Dickens
 

"The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."
                     Psalm 34:18
 

One of the Pharisees begged our Savior to go into his house and eat with him. And while our Savior sat eating at the table, there crept into the room a woman of that city who had led a bad and sinful life, and was ashamed that the Son of God should see her; and yet she trusted so much to His goodness, and His compassion for all who, having done wrong were truly sorry for it in their hearts, and dropped down at His feet, and wetted them with her sorrowful tears; then she kissed them and dried them on her long hair, and rubbed them with some sweet-smelling ointment she had brought with her in a box. Her name was Mary Magdalene. Jesus said, "As God forgives this woman so much sin, she will love Him, I hope, the more." And He said to her, "God forgives you!"