our best way of cleansing ourselves is by keeping firm hold of Jesus Christ and of the cleansing powers that lie in Him. To take a very homely illustration—soap and water wash your hands clean, and what you have to do is simply to rub the soap and water onto the hand, and bring them into contact with the foulness. You cleanse yourselves. Yes! Because without the friction there would not be the cleansing. But is it you, or is it the soap, that does the work? Is it you or the water that makes your