Article November 29, 1975 Issue

When Cleanliness Is Godliness

SARAH SAVAGE

When someone is told to "come clean," this has no reference to his outward appearance. The cleanliness demanded is the truth, the uncleanness to be shed is falsehood. Every member of the human family needs to "come clean"—to cleanse himself of the false doctrine that the man made in the image and likeness of God fell into a morass of sin, sickness, and misery from which he has never wholly been able to extricate himself.

Christ Jesus showed humanity the way to be made clean from this falsehood. To those who accepted the doctrine he taught and proved by demonstration to be the revelation of man's true nature, he said, "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you."^{John 15:3;} This word of truth not only enabled those like the tax collector, Zacchaeus,^{See Luke 19:1-10;} to "come clean," but also cleansed those plagued with diseases of every sort.

The human Jesus has departed, but the Christ, Truth, as eternal as the universal Father, God, is here with us today. When we open our mental doors to its cleansing action, every kind of uncleanness disappears, whether it calls itself deceit or disease. The arch-deceiver is the false doctrine portraying man as originating in dust, falling into sin, spreading unwholesomeness over the whole earth, and requiring a major flood to wash away the pollution. Jesus came to destroy this falsity and its unhealthful effects.

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