WASH UP by J. H. Cook

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1879

WASH UP.

By J. H. Cook

T. De Witt Talmage says a great many good things. From his lecture on the “Night Side of City Life,” I quote the following:—

“The first thing that a bad man does when he is converted is to thoroughly wash himself.”

Again, “When on the Sabbath I see a man uncleanly in his dress, my suspicions in regard to his moral character are aroused, and they are always well founded.”

“God is ever the same; and it is evidently as displeasing now as anciently for his people to appear before him with their everyday clothes on, without their being washed up clean. When he summoned the nation of the Jews to appear before him at the base of Sinai, he said, ‘And let them wash their clothes.’”

After God has so plainly spoken in his word upon this subject, is it any wonder that a neglect to comply with his requirements should be regarded as an indication of the real character of the individual? Brethren, when we go to meeting on the Sabbath, let us expect to meet God there; and let us have our clothes as well as our persons in a cleanly condition, and our consciences void of offense toward God and man. Then may we expect God will meet with us. J. H. Cook.