CLEANLINESS AND GODLINESS by S. S. Times

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 19, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 16.

CLEANLINESS AND GODLINESS.

By S. S. Times

CLEANLINESS may be next to godliness when we are considering merely the surface of our bodies; but cleanliness conditions godliness when we get to the spiritual life. No unclean heart or mind can harbor God. There is not enough room for both. Impurity can not be kept in a corner by itself; it taints the whole man; and God must have the whole man or none. There would be fatal discouragement here for us all, but for the fact that the most tainted heart and life is not beyond instant cleansing when that cleansing is honestly sought. Then the loving Father rejoices to show His power over uncleanness. His cleansing forgiveness never stops short of a result that is "whiter than snow" To-day that purity may be ours.