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TONEMENT is the exemplification of man's unity with God, whereby he reflects divine Truth, Life,

and Love. Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated this oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage. His mission was both individual and collective. He did Life's work aright, not only in justice to himself, but in mercy to mortals, — to show them how to do theirs, but not to do it for them, or relieve them of a single responsibility. He acted boldly, against the accredited evidence of the senses, against Pharisaical creeds and practices, and refuted all opponents with his healing power.

The atonement of Christ reconciles man to God, not God to man; for the Principle of Christ is God, and how

can God propitiate himself? How can the Christ-heart reach higher than itself, when no fountain can rise higher than its source? Christ could conciliate no nature above his own, derived from