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orment through the endless ages of

~ III OIueT 10 rescue humanity IrOI
re this awful condition it was pointed on
IN that some extraordinary thing must b
done. In this behalf it was declare
'r that God had one Son who had neve
Ie transgressed, OF comitted any wrong
II and that the only thing that woul
propitiate God would be for this on
perfect Son to be subjected to ever,
humiliation, every suffering, and fin
" ally to be put to death, and that afte.
y he had thus suffered and died, Coz
would be satisfied, and that %thereafteI
e His attitude towards His erring chill
e dren would change.
e Therefore, humanity has been taught
. for many centuries that it was the
function of the atonement to reconcile
God to man.
Christian Science finds it impossi-
S Bile to take this view of the atone
] ment. The Bible declares that God is
u~nchanging. In Malachi iii. 6, we
read, 81 am the Lord I change not
The ~atonement, therefore, could not
t change the attitude of God towards
} His children. That infinite love which
He had for them in the beginning has
: remained always the same. He was
not incensed or offended at them in
IiC DCSilluilS, LII SlllCS I1G udS ucN-
er changed, it follows that He has
never been incensed or offended at
them.
Christian Science shows that it
could not possibly be the function of
the atonement to reconcile God to
man, for God does not need to be
reconciled, and cannot be changed, but
that it is the true function of the
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If n will approach the study of
the atonement from this viewpoint it
will unfold in his consciousness as a
practical and helpful thing. God can
not shange, but man needs to change.
He needs to learn how to get out of
the wilderness of sickness, failure
and sin, and how to find his way to
God. Jesus came as the great way-
shower, to teach human beings how
to do this. There was nothing mys-
tlcal about his ministry or it's pur-,
pose. 1t was entirely practical. He
came to teach the people how to get
rid of sin, disease, and death, and how
to find God. He did not come to help
God to find man, nor to show God
how to be kind and loving.
1t, therefore, follows that since Je-
oUO oii do IhC wa " Lu6TG Is .
something for us to do in order to
make the atOnement operative in our
behalf. 1t Is not alone sufficient for
us to say that we believe that Jesus
was the Son of God, and that he suf-
fered n died on the cross. Some
thing more than this is necessary.
We must follow the way that he has
shown; we must learn the truth that
he fQ1Ipht orad r,rICf( -
to meet our human needs, as he DEM
onstrated it and commanded his fol- i
to do; we must incorporate
his life in ours, by exemplifying the
love that he manifested. In this way /
alone can the atonement become oper- !
alive for us. Through our continuing 8
efforts to follow in his way needed .
changes take place in us. We get rid +
Of superstition and sin, our consci- +
BUSINESS is evangelical by truth and :
love, n we are thus brought into g
at-one-ment with God who all the n
remains unchanging good. +
The belief that the atonement chan 2
ses God and makes it possible for Him 7
% save man loses sight of the changes T
hat man must make in himself before a
he is fit to be saved. 1t is not the +,
blood of Jesus shed on the
ross that saves us from the ~conse-1
luences of sin, but living the life ),
he lived, and demonstrating the :,
ruth that he taught, does save us. =
lot only from sin, but also from sick !"
less and from every kind of human ;,
Iiscord. q,
The Man Jesus =,
In Christian Science we are taught ?,
o d~ifferentiate between Jesus and :"
'hrist. Jesus was the human man. !,
orn of Mary: Christ was the Divine ~
Ian, the Son of God. 1t is only as ~
his difference becomes clear to us =,
hat we can begin to understand the =,
fe and works of the man, Jesus. In -
ohm viii. $3.50 we may read what y,
lrows much light on this subject. h.
said, Your father Abraham re- :
'lced to see my day; he saw it and :.
as glad. Then said the Jews into w.
i'm, Thou art not yet fifty years old, &c
nd hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus he
lid into them, Verify, Verify, | say ~
nto you, before Abraham was, | am.
hen took they up stones to cast at
m: but Jesus hid himself, and went "a
of the temple, going through the ~
ldst OF them, and SO passed by" "
When Jesus said, Before Abraham "
as, | am" he referred to his real ID
Christ. Had he meant that VI
e material flesh and blood man p
hlch they there saw with their ply ,s
cal eyes had existed before Abraham. ne
S statement could not have been vi
for that material body was actu- 80
~ less than fifty years old. His al
atement was a solemn declaration =,
the divinity and ~eternality of the tns
lrlst-the real man-who is and WI
be the Son of God. The Jews Gu
d no understand him. Because of lhe
cir materiality they had no COM 10y
.ehension of the spiritual man made les
the image and likeness of God. 70
lie only kind of man they could tdl
mprehend was the material man nid
e Adam-man-who was not and nev- ane
can be the Son of God. -
In Christian Science we learn that
Sus~was human, but Christ was di- b
lie. We worship the invisible, spir-
al Christ as the Son of God, and -
love and reverence Jesus as the
N who tauphtA thp Cbrict Truth -