Sunday Sermon

“Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James and Salome, bought sweet spices, that coming they might anoint Jesus.” St. Mark 16: 1. How strange that no one but these three pious women resolved to show the last honors to our dead Saviour, Jesus Christ, and to anoint His sacred Body in the sepulcher. And yet there must have been many people in the city of Jerusalem on whom our Lord had conferred great benefits during His life. Did none of them go to the sepulcher? No; they had already forgotten His benefits; My words to day will be directed against ingratitude, of which most men are guilty toward God