ATONEMENT,  its  significance. 

It has been said that no more suggestive spectacle of the moral condition of mankind could be present to a stranger from another planet than a scaffold on the morning of an execution. Every post and board and beam has a tongue. Each tells of sin, guilt, pain and death. In the faces of the awe-struck bystanders, we read of law, penalty, justice, and so, by inference, are taught the existence of a lawmaker and an official executive. 

But the Cross is a motive as well as a menace, telling of love as well as of law, of life as well as of death. A Father gives His only Son to the guilty. A Judge pronounces on the demerit of sin and yet honorably meets the demands of a broken law. “Mercy and Truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other."