A MAP OF LIFE and Man. The acts He performs in His human nature were truly human acts: yet because every action is of the person, they were acts of God, whose every act is of infinite value : Christ could make the necessary reparation. That particular action of His human nature which Christ chose as an offering-inreparation— a sacrifice — was His death: at the age of thirty-three He was crucified upon Calvary. This was the atonement. By it the breach between God and the human race was closed. The race was redeemed from that condition of separation from God into which the sin of Adam, the representative man, had plunged it. Heaven, the final and eternal union of God and man, was once more possible to man. For even the holiest man of the time between Adam’s fall and Christ’s death was still a member of the human race, a member of the race that had lost oneness with God, and as such debarred from heaven. But, by this re-making of the oneness, not only was Life — the Supernatural Life — set flowing with new richness for the elevation of man’s soul: but that Life could now in heaven receive the full and complete flowering which before Calvary was impossible to it. Christ had come “to save His people from their sins”: He had come that man “might have life and have it more abundantly.” These two purposes are in reahty the same purpose — the effect of sin is the destruction of the Supernatural Life: a soul in sin 50