A lady has bought a Bible, intending to give it to one of her relatives. Not having an opportunity for sending the book, it remained some time in the room of one of the maid servants. One evening this young woman opened it, and her eyes fell upon this passage; "Though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before Me, saith the Lord God." Jer. 2:2222For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. (Jeremiah 2:22).
Being struck by these strange words unknown to her, she became troubled and closed the book, but what she had read impressed itself upon her mind, and occupied her thoughts all the following day. In the evening she took up the Bible again, and behold it opened at the very same place. The same solemn words met her view.
"Though thou wash thee with niter.”
Her trouble increased, her sins were brought to her remembrance, she sought and found rest in Jesus, the Son of God, whose blood, "cleanseth us from all sin" (1 Joh. 1:7).
Reader have you found rest for your soul in the blood. the blood of Christ, which cleanses from all sin.