On the atonement

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Leviticus 12, 13

“I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me” ( Pss. 51:5 KJV).

From the beginning of my life my contact has been with the unclean—how than can a man become pure? The atonement blood that cleanses my mother must avail also for me.

O Lamb of God, what a sacrifice Thou art! Whose blood could avail like Thine?

Goat’s blood could not cleanse for animals are nonmoral.

My own blood could not avail for I am immoral.

Only Thou art perfectly moral, and only Thy blood could be of any effect.

—14 April, 1948

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