“What do you think of the person of Christ?”
“He was a created, subordinate, and dependent being; the Son of God, the Son of man.”
“For how many did he die?”
“He tasted death for every man,—‘Gave himself a ransom for all.’”
“Did he make a vicarious atonement?”
“No. He came to teach us that God is our Father, Judge and Savior; that we are immortal beings, shall live forever, and that we should love God, and our fellow men.”
“But did he not come to reconcile God to the world?”
“It was the mission of Jesus to reconcile man to God, by the influence of truth, and his own noble example. God is right, man is wrong, and Jesus preached, lived and died, to advance man in all things pure and good—to make man Godlike, and hence it is said, that ‘God is in Christ reconciling the world to himself.’”
“Do you believe in experimental religion?”
“Religion does no good unless we individually experience its blessings. It is not an abstraction, a speculation, but a reality, something to be known, felt, experienced; it is a life.”