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God does not need to be changed: we need to know him, to love him, to come into conscious relationship with him. This is what we need, so far as our relation to God is concerned. Now for the more important side; for it is infinitely the more important practically. Let me speak a little while of the work of atonement between man and man.
Wherever you see a man trying to do something for the common good, you see the uprising of the spirit of Christ; what he is doing is a part of the Atonement. In church or out of church, with or without a formal creed, this is the true way in which the redemption of the world is proceeding.
"Receive our past griefs: the griefs of manhood, engrafted on youth; accept these tears, falling fast and bitterly! take them as past atonement, as mute witnesses that we feel: that reason slumbers not, although passion may mislead: that gilded temptation may overcome, and gorgeous pleasure intoxicate: but that sincere repentance, and bitter remorse, are visitants too. "Oh guide and pity us!"
The Israelites were required to pay money for their own souls. This is called sometimes a ransom, sometimes an atonement. Were their souls therefore marketable commodities? 3.
It is the divine germ of a flower and fruit too precious to mature in the first years after grafting; in other soils, by other waters, when the healing of the nations is fulfilled, we shall see its perfection. Oh! what atonement will be there! What allowances we shall make for each other, then! with what love we shall love!
Placing a pen and inkstand on the table, she takes her seat opposite them, and commences watching their declining consciousness. "Thar," ejaculates the old Judge, his moody face becoming dark and sullen, "let us have the wish." "You owe me an atonement, and you can discharge it by gratifying my desire." "Women," interposes the old Judge, dreamily, "always have wishes to gratify.
'May it be an atonement for us all! interrupted Peleg the pawnbroker. 'We must beg him not to destroy religion, repeated the Parnass. 'I thought Mr. Gabriel had done that, said the Gabbai. 'He is only a minister. He has no worldly tact. 'Then, why don't you go? said Solomon Barzinsky. 'I have too much worldly tact. The President's visit might seem like an appeal to authority.
Riddle for having the Visiter printed and sold in his office, and, as for me, I was to suffer all the pains and penalties which law and public scorn could inflict. He demanded a satisfactory retraction and apology as the least atonement he could accept for the insult. These Mr. Riddle promised in my name, and I did not hesitate to make the promise good.
As this knowledge is gained, it will be possible for the learner to know in his heart, and not merely by heart, what is meant by the great mysterious terms Incarnation, Atonement, Resurrection; as this knowledge is tested and proved true by experience of life, the meaning and power of prayer will become clearer.
"At all events," said he, almost aloud, "I will see if this conjecture be true: if Constance, yet remembering our early love, yet feeling for the years of secret pining which her ambition bequeathed me, should appear willing to grant me the atonement fate has placed within her power, then, then, it will be time for this self-sacrifice."
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