"Do you not think it is hard to feel that we are utterly black and sinful, no good in us at all?"
"Oh, mother!"
"But turn over the page, and the Blood shuts out all remembrance of the sin. The Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world."
"How beautiful!" said Agnes.
Their mother turned to the next page, and went on.
"Then, when the Blood has cleansed us, what are we?"
"Whiter than snow," said Minnie reverently.
"That is right, little Minnie; and I think the white reminds us of two or three things. Can you suggest them, children?"
"How pure we ought to be?" asked Agnes.
"Yes, and how pure He is," answered her mother.