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degree at the University of London. He preached his first sermon
from the text, "I am crucified with Christ," and told his hearers,
with fluent self-confidence, that salvation meant perfect sympathy
with Christ--"Not I, but Christ liveth in me;" that the office of
Christ was not to reconcile God to man, but man to God; and this is
effected in proportion as Christ dwells in us, bringing us more and
more into harmony with the Divine. The Atonement is indeed the
central doctrine, the pivot of Christianity, but it is an atONEment,
a making of one mind. To which Tanner's Lane listened with much
wonderment and not without uncomfortable mental disturbance, the
elder members complaining particularly that this was not the simple
gospel, and that the trumpet gave an uncertain sound. But opposition
gradually died out; the meeting-house was rebuilt, and called Latimer
Chapel. The afternoon service was dropped and turned into a service
for the Sunday-school children; an organ was bought and a choir
trained; the minister gave week-day lectures on secular subjects, and
became a trustee of the Cowfold charity schools, recently enlarged
under a new scheme.
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