SOME time ago I read about a little girl of twelve years of age, who was very ill. The doctor had given up all hope, and she, although so young, felt that her end was near. On a certain day she asked her father to read a little for her out of the Bible. On his asking her what he should read, she answered: “Read me the chapter about the new Jerusalem.”
The father read the well-known part of Revelation 21, although he thought that his little daughter would not understand it. She listened quietly, and when he read the last verse where it says, “And there shall in no wise enter into it anything which defileth,” she said, “O father! What clean feet they must have, who enter there.”
If she had, or had received, clean feet, I do not know, but what a solemn truth is contained in these words. Nothing unclean can enter there, but is cast into the lake of fire.
Happy they, who are washed in the blood of Christ. His blood cleanses from all sin. Some years ago a certain professor L....of Geneva died. You all know the city of that name on the beautiful Lake of Geneva. The great reformer Calvin worked, and also died there.
This professor was taken down with a serious sickness, that in a few days made him as weak as a little child. His mind however remained clear. Again and again they heard him say: “The blood cleanses, the precious blood of Christ covers everything, everything!”
Children, do you know if you have been cleansed by that blood? You know the hymn,
“There is a stream of precious blood
Which flowed from Jesus’ veins;
And sinners washed in that blest flood
Lose all their guilty stains.”
ML-04/04/1920