As I opened my door one morning, I found on the steps a handbill advertising a wonderful preparation for the removal of all stains in cloth: "Sure to do so—never to fail.”
I read it and thought of other stains more foul— stains that had stuck into the textures of life and left a sorry mark upon soul and character— guilty stains. Who is without some of these marks?
Oh, how we try to keep them out of sight—cover them up—washing "with niter!" But the spots stick; they will not come out. Sly management may keep them out of other's sight, so that the garment of life is made to look tolerably respectable. However, sooner or later they glare out, and bring discomfort and terror.
One's very effort to conceal them makes them the more prominent—directs attention to them.
Now, what a sale one might have of a mixture that would "take out the stains of sin!" What a market it would find! Can anything do this? Yes, a stream, a mighty stream of precious blood; and "Sinners washed in that blest flood, lose all their guilty stains.”
Precious, you say? Then is it costly? Ah, poor sin-stained soul, it cost God the life of His well beloved Son, but to you it is "without money and without price." None are so poor but that they may wash in this soul-cleansing stream and be clean, for it is the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, that cleanseth from all sin.
Soul-stained, sin-defiled, will you try it? Try it, and you will find to your joyful satisfaction that it just meets your need—the very thing you want!