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SCARLET MADE WHITE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 6, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 25.

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SCARLET MADE WHITE

We have some little difficulty, said a scientific lecturer, 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 continue to steep it, the fiber is destroyed before the color is effaced.
As I went home I thought that it must have been the Spirit of God that led the prophet Isaiah to write—not though your sins be as blue as the sky, or as green as the olive leaf, or as black as night, but “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool”—he chose the very color which modern science, with all its appliances, finds to be indestructible.