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This devotional address entitled,

The Atonement and Our Part in It,

was given on December 4th of 1983 by A. Theodore Tuttle,

then a member of the first quorum of the 70 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

While I have not come to entertain you, I have come to teach you.

To teach you the most important thing I know.

I cannot do this, however, without your help.

The words and many of the principles I intend to teach you have already heard before.

But tonight we approach the season of the celebration of the birth of the Son of God.

We join with all of the rest of the Christian world in observance of

his birth at this time. To us, he is far more than a babe in Bethlehem. I want to teach about the culminating event the single most important thing he did, the

atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, and for us equally important, our part in it. I've done everything I know how to do to prepare for

tonight except to write a talk. That's why I especially need your help.

Would you please pray for an outpouring of the Spirit of the Lord?

The promise is that if you will do this, we can enjoy a sweet spiritual experience.

You will be able to understand more than I say.

My common words will take on relevance and have meaning. You will gain insights that I have not explained.

The united faith and prayers of this great body can call down from heaven a mighty spiritual power.

Will you please pray or that spirit to come? I have time to put in place only a few basic

principles about the Atonement. No doubt, the best part of my effort tonight, will be when in the future, through

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