love for man, then alone will it be seen that at the Cross love and wrath meet in a common purpose, that mercy combines with truth and righteousness and peace kiss each other (Psa. 85:10; Rom. 3:26). In Christ God’s holy and loving work of reconciliation has been accomplished once and for all.44 It is because the way of reconciliation now stands wide open that the ministry of reconciliation has been committed by God to His servants. There is no service to mankind more crucial and urgent than the
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