dealing we have called, purgative; that which tends to remove out of our internal or external life, what is harmful in its influence upon our spiritual being. The Psalmist prays in the 51st Psalm: “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow; cleanse me thoroughly from my sin”—as though God might wash him or pass through him a cleansing agent. Paul writes, in 2 Cor. 7:1: “Having, therefore, these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all