Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... Comprehensiveness of Cbrist's atonement Dr. Hugh McMillan says: "The Atonement of our Lord is the grandest and most distinctive thing in the Bible--for the sake of which, indeed, the Bible was produced. Very superficial must be the study of the natural and human worlds, that overlooks the vast concurrent testimony which they give to this vital truth. In certain of its aspects, the Atonement is no unique doctrine, no startling theme. The oldest fact of nature, the inmost fact of society, the greatest fact of Christianity meet and are one on Calvary." I have no hesitation in saying, the Atonement is not only "the greatest fact of Christianity," IT IS CHRISTIANITY. It is the supplier of all human need, the answerer of all human questions, the minister to all human ills, the joy of all human sorrows, the remover of all human guilt, and the securer of all Divine glory. Dryden has aptly and happily expressed it when he said: "Look humbly upward, see His will disclose, The forfeit first, and then the fine impose; A mulct thy poverty could never pay, Had not eternal wisdom found the way, And with celestial wealth supplied thy store; His justice makes the fine, His mercy quits the score. See God descending in the human frame, The offended suffering in the offender's name: All thy misdeeds to Him imputed see, And all His Righteousness devolved on thee." In these studies on this theme of themes in the pages of Holy Writ, and by the inner illumination of the Holy Spirit, I trust we shall come to this conclusion--"CHRIST DID NOT DIE FOR NOTHING, NOR FOR SOMETHING MERELY, BUT FOR EVERYTHING." L Christ in His Atonement is the Sum of All Knowledge. The essence of Greek philosophy was, "O, man know thyself." The sum of the gospel is, "This is life...
