best of the best ought to be given to him. May she have many imitators in every age until Jesus comes again! 10. When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. She had been very happy in the act; probably it was the happiest hour in all her life when she gave this costly gift to the Lord she loved so well. But a cloud passed over her bright face as the whispered complaints reached her ear. Jesus perceived that the murmuring of the