It all depends upon what kind of a stain you want washed away.
If you had a fall in the mud and your face is stained with dirt, soap and water will cleanse it.
If you have brushed against some wet paint, a little turpentine will remove the stain.
If you have inked your fingers while writing in your copy-book, rub them with pumice-stone and the stain will soon disappear, if it is tar that has blackened your hand, ask mother for a piece of butter, it will make your hand clear again.
But if you say that it is not your hands or face that are stained, but your soul, and that it is sin which has caused the stain, then there is only one thing that can wash it away before God. Do you know what it is?
ML 07/28/1946