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We usually assume that Mary Magdalene was a great sinner. She was a descendant of the woman who was turned out of the garden in the beginning. And she, the first woman, the mother of all women, was a sinner. But we do not know as to Mary Magdalene what kind of a sinner or how great a sinner she was. Probably she sinned in more than one way, and certainly she needed the saving grace of the Lord Jesus. It is by some supposed that she was the woman in Simon’s house of whom Luke tells us, and to whom the poet refers:
> “She sat and wept, and with her untressed hair
> Still wiped the feet she was so blessed to touch.”
And whether she was this same woman or not, it is certain that Jesus had helped and comforted her, and had
> “wiped off the soiling of despair
> From her sweet soul because she loved so much.”
We learn that seven devils were cast out of her. If one devil possessed her, cer-