p. 12 | IT’S ON THE INSIDE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 22, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 47.

“IT’S ON THE INSIDE.”

WHILE walking down the street one day, I passed a store where a man was washing the large plate-glass show-window. There was one soiled spot which defied efforts to remove it. After rubbing hard at it, using much soap

and water, and failing to remove it, he found out the trouble. "It's on the inside," he called out to some one in the store.

Many are striving to cleanse the soul from its stains. They wash it with the tears of sorrow; they scrub it with the soap of good resolves; they rub it with the chamois of morality, but still the consciousness of it is not removed. The trouble is, "it's on the inside." It is the heart that is bad. If the fountain is bitter, the stream will not be sweet.

Nothing but the blood of Jesus applied by the mighty hand of the Holy Spirit can cleanse the inside; for God's Spirit alone can reach the inside.—Selected.