Foremothers? And A Woman Having An Alabaster Box

Mark 14
3 And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on His head.

This is the story of a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious. The passage suggests she could have sold this ointment and given the money to the poor. But she did not. She used this valuable ointment for the anointing of Jesus. And finally, Jesus blesses her with these words:

More From Mark 14
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

There is another woman who is well remembered throughout the whole world, by her hymns if not by her name.

Hymn By Fannie Crosby
Jesus, keep me near the cross,
There a precious fountain
Free to all, a healing stream
Flows from Calvary's mountain.

In the cross, in the cross,
Be my glory ever;
Till my raptured soul shall find
Rest beyond the river.