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Show CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ! "Doctrine of Atonement" is the subject of the lesson-sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on ! Sunday, April 22. I The Golden text is from Romans 5:11: "We also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement." Among the scriptural citations in- ; eluded in the lesson-sermon i3 the following: "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again I leave the world, and go to the Father." (St. John 16:28). I A correlative passage from the Christian Sc ience textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- f.tuies," by Mary Baker Eddy, includ- ' ed in the lesson-sermon reads: "The Christ was the Spirit which Jesus .implied in his own statements: 'I am i the way, the truth, and the life;' 'I i and my Father are one.' This Christ, i or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine nature, the godliness which ; animated him. Divine Truth, Life, and Love gave Jesus authority over sin, sickness, and death." (p. 2fi.) I o |