WHITE AS SNOW | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 28.

WHITE AS SNOW.

Isa. 1:18: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

“We have some difficulty,” said a chemist, who was explaining the process of paper-making, “with the iron dyes, but the most troublesome of all are the turkey-red rags. You see I have dipped this rag into my solution; its red is paler, but it is still strong. If I steep it long enough to efface the color entirely, the fiber will be destroyed; it will be useless for our manufacture. How, then, are we to dispose of our red rags?—We make them into red blotting paper. Perhaps you have wondered why your writing pad is red. Now you know the reason.”

But what man can not do, the grace of God through “the precious blood of Christ” can do—change the scarlet and crimson to snow white. The Spirit of God likens sin to the very color which modern science, with all its appliances, finds to be indestructible. But God takes out its stain and renews the fibers.