Various Ways of Serving Christ
Bishop F. D. Huntington. Mark 14:8 She has done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying. The Father has appointed many ways in which we may walk toward His face, and run on His errands. Work is the way for strength; lying still is the way for infirmity, — if only there are trust and prayer in both. There is some instruction in a picture I have read of, which represents the lives of twin brothers diverging from the cradle. One, by study, becomes a learned and skilful physician, reaching great riches and honours by ministering to the sick. The other has no talent for books, and no memory, and so no science; he becomes a poor, strolling musician, but spends his days in consoling, by his lute, sufferings that are beyond all medicine. The brothers are shown meeting at the close of their career. The vagrant is sick and worn out, and the brother prescribes for him out of his learning, and gathers ingenious compounds for his relief; but, meantime, he to whom God gave another gift, touches his instrument for the solace of the great man's shattered nerves, and heals his benefactor's disordered spirit. (Bishop F. D. Huntington.) Parallel Verses KJV: She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. WEB: She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.