Her whole spirit is then so "borne down by gladness," that

"She bows, she bathes the Saviour's feet

With costly spikenard and with tears."[24]

No lives are so blessed as those which consist of "faithful prayers:" no

attachments so enduring as those which are based on the higher love of

God.

But are there any souls so pure as to have reached this higher range of

feeling; or, if there be, what blessedness can equal theirs?

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