LUTHER & THE DEVIL
There is a legend of Martin Luther, that, during a serious illness, the Evil One entered his sick-room and, looking at him with a triumphant smile, unrolled a big scroll which he carried in his arms. As the fiend threw one end of it on the floor, it unwound by itself. Luther’s eyes read the long fearful record of his own sins, one by one. Suddenly, it flashed into Luther’s mind that there was one thing not written there. He cried aloud: “One thing you have forgotten. The rest is all true, but one thing you have forgotten: ‘the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin!'” And as he said this, the Accuser and his scroll disappeared. What can wash away your sin?
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