Manuals of Faith and Duty. No. X. ATONEMENT. BY REV. WILLIAM TUCKER, D.D. WE ALSO JOY IN GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM ROMANS V. 11. BOSTON: UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. 1893. Copyright, 1893, BY THE UNIVERSALIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. University Press: V. THE ATONEMENT AND PUNISHMENT VI. THE ATONEMENT OF DIVINE ORIGIN VII. THE NATURE OF THE ATONEMENT VIII. THE ATONEMENT AND THE UNIVERSE 93 Look on me! As I shall be uplifted on a cross But life beyond the reach of guilt and grief, ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Drama of Exile. The cross of Christ! There centre our hopes, there die our fears, there fall our sins, there gushes our penitence, there beams the light of blessed assurance upon our tears. Rev. E. H. CHAPIN, D.D. ATONEMENT. THE INTRODUCTION. HE revealed purpose of the advent, life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Christ "His name shall be called Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins." This is the divine mission for which Christ was sent into the world. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." But what is the divine method of saving the world by Christ? Was the salvation of the human race to be purely an intellectual process, requiring only a divine teacher of the truth? Is the production of this great mental, moral, and spiritual change a function of the reason only, when it has been taught by Christ; or was the process of man's salvation to be ethical as well as rational, demanding a perfect moral law, illustrated by the was the salvation of man. |