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Show DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT IS LESSON SUBJECT "Doctrine of Atonement" is the subject of the lesson-sermon In all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday April 18th. Among the Scriptural citations are the following: "Have mercy upon up-on me, O God, according to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies Bn out my transgressions. Create in me a clean heart. 0 God; and renew a right spirit within me" (Psalms 51: 1. 10). Included as a correlative is the following from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Every pang of re-pentence re-pentence and suffering, every effort for reform, every good thought and deed, will help us to understand Jesus' atonement for sin and aid its efficacy;; but if the sinner continues con-tinues to pray and repent, sin and be sorry, he has little part in the atonement,-in the at-one ment with God, for he lacks the practical re-pentence, re-pentence, which reforms the heart and enables man to do the will of wisdom" (p. 19). |