A dear friend of mine was some time ago brought to the Savior, and I cannot do better than give her conversion in as near her own words as possible.
"Thank God," she said, "I have a conversion to tell. It was on a Sunday afternoon, in a little mission room. I went there merely to pass the time, for the Lord's Day was a burden and a weariness to me. The preacher read the seventh chapter of Revelation, and read over again this part of the fourteenth verse,
`These are they which have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb,' and then he read a hymn having this line in it—
`Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?'
" 'Let me ask each of you,' he said, 'are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Do you stand in God's sight pure and white, clothed in the robes of spotless righteousness? or do you still cling to the old garments fouled and stained with sin? Is it a light thing that the Savior poured out His life-blood, and is now offering you pardon and peace?
“‘Let those,' he continued, 'who really know that they are washed, sing—
'Yes, I am washed in the blood,
In the sin-cleansing blood of the Lamb.'
"I, for one, could not sing those words. My heart condemned me, and I stood convicted of sin. There and then I saw my need of cleansing, and left the meeting as in a dream, my one wish being to be left alone with God.
For days that chorus kept repeating itself in my mind, but, through feeling wretched and undone, I made the too common mistake of looking within for some evidence of salvation, instead of looking off self to Christ.
"Some time after, at the close of a meeting in our village, the minister asked those who were saved to confess to it. I felt I must do so, and upon this, joy and peace filled my soul. It is written,
And now, my dear reader, let me ask, Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? God says,
Death may come to you, and after death comes the judgment. If you are not sheltered under the blood, I tremble for you. Without the shedding of blood there is no remission. The great sacrifice has been made once for all, and now Jesus invites you to Him.