A Receipt in Full

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 10, 1882

A Receipt in Full.

Do you remember the story of Martin Luther, when Satan came to him, as he thought, with a long, black roll of his sins, which truly might make a swaddling-band for the round world? To the arch enemy Luther said, "Yes I must own them all. Have you any more?"

So the foul fiend went his way and brought another long roll, and Martin Luther said, "Yes, yes, I must own to them all. Have you any more?" The accuser of the brethren, being expert at the business, soon supplied him with a further length of the charges, till there seemed to be no end to it.

Martin waited till no more were forth-coming and then he cried, "Have you any more?"

"Were these not enough?"

"Aye, that they were. But," said Martin Luther, "write at the bottom of the whole account, 'The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.'"