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Simple Confession, Profound Forgiveness
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2022 (message contributor)
In 1818 one out of six women who had children died of something called “childbirth fever.” A doctor’s daily routine back then started in the dissecting room, where he performed autopsies, and from there he made his rounds to examine expectant mothers. No one even thought to wash his hands...at least not until a doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis began to practice strict hand washing. He was the very first doctor to associate a lack of hand washing with the huge fatality rate. Dr. Semmelweis only lost one in fifty, yet his colleagues laughed at him. Once he said, “Childbirth fever is caused by decomposed material conveyed to a wound...I have shown how it can be prevented. I have proven all that I’ve said. But while we talk, talk, talk, women are dying. I’m not asking for anything world-shaking, only that you wash your hands.” Yet virtually no one believed him.
(SOURCE: Timothy Peck. Citation: I John 1:9. http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/
cases/childbed_fever.htm)
(Taken from an illustration by Timothy Peck, entitled “Simple Confession, Profound Forgiveness”, on 2/1/2001, https://www.sermoncentral.com/sermon-illustrations/1224/forgiveness-by-timothy-peck)
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