A RECEIPT IN FULL
Do you remember the story of Martin Luther,
when Satan came to him, as he thought, with a
long, black roll of sins which truly might make a
swaddling band for the round world? To the
arch-enemy, Luther said,
"Yes, I must own them all. Have you any
more?"
So the foul fiend went his way, and brought
another long roll; and Martin Luther said,-
"Yes, I must own them all. Have you any
more?"
The accuser of the brethren, being expert at the
business, soon supplied him with a further length
of charges, till there seemed to be no end to it.
Martin waited till no more were forthcoming,
and then he cried,-
"Have you any more?"
"Were these not enough?"
"Aye, that they were. But," said Martin
Luther, "write at the bottom of the whole account,
'The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.'"
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