"Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" (Jeremiah 8:22)

What is this precious balm? Is it not the Savior's blood--that precious, precious blood? The blood of which the Holy Spirit testifies that “…cleanseth from all sin." (1 John 1:7) Look at the words; weigh them well; they will bear the strictest, closest examination. "...all sin;" the sins before salvation, sins after salvation, sins of thought, sins of word, sins of deed, sins of omission, sins of commission, sins against Light, sins against Life, sins against Love, sins against the law, sins against the Gospel, sins against God--in every shape, in every form, of every name, every kind, every hue, every blackness, one sin only excepted--the sin against the Holy Spirit, which a believer can never commit. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses, not from some sins, not from many sins, not from a thousand sins, not from a million sins, but "...the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from ALL sin.”

This is indeed the balm, when the conscience is cut and gashed, bleeding and sore, to allay the hurt, to soothe the pain, to bring together the edges of the wound and to make it Graciously heal.