Article January 15, 1916 Issue

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with contributions from John Hunter, William Bryant, Minot Simons, David James Burrell

[John Hunter, D.D., in The Homiletic Review]

The whole ministry of Christ, from its beginning to its close, was a ministry of reconciliation,—a power of atonement. By what he was, what he said, and what he did, he sought to make God known, to save men from those false ideas of the divine character and ways which set human thought and feeling wrong, to expel suspicion and fear from their hearts, and to make them realize that they were his Father's children, and therefore had no right to despise themselves or despair of themselves. They saw in his compassion the divine compassion, in his love the revelation and assurance of the divine love, in his forgiveness the type and promise of the divine forgiveness.... Coming to know God as He is revealed in Jesus Christ is to trust and rejoice in God, and to have sympathies and harmonies created where previously dwelt antipathies and antagonisms. When on earth our Lord also sought to make men in all the relations and provinces of their lift at-one with the divine will. He fought against disease, ignorance, injustice, hate, and all forms of selfishness, as the enemies of God and man. The great burden of his message was God's kingdom, God's order, and he suffered and died daily to reconcile men to the divine order of their life.

[Zion's Herald]

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