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Psalm chapter 24 verses 3 and 4.

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in His holy place?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart who does not lift up His soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.

I heard an illustration once that I'm reminded of in this verse.

Ignat Symbol Vice was born in 1818

into a world of dying women.

So one in every six women were dying in childbirth.

And he became a doctor.

He wanted to find out why all these women were dying.

He started to study and found something today that we would think is

appalling. They didn't understand germs in that time. So doctors would go from

morgues where they would prepare dead bodies for burial directly into the

birthing rooms to deliver babies and they

started to experiment with a chlorine solution. They would just wash their hands and they would

when they would go from the morgue to the birthing room and they dropped the death

rate in their area from one in six to one in 50. So he'd found a cure. All you have to do is

wash your hands. But people around him didn't believe him.

And he was speaking to a convention of his colleagues one time, he said,

and I quote, this fever is caused by a decomposed material conveyed to a womb.

I've shown how it can be prevented. I've proven all I've said but while we talk talk

gentlemen women are dying I'm not asking you to do anything world shaking I'm only you asking you to wash for God's sake wash your hands

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