2 _Nephi_ 2. 16 Lord gave unto man that he should act for himself. 10. 23 ye are free to act for yourselves. _Mos_. 2, 33 if he listeth to obey him, the same drinketh damnation. _Alma_ 3. 26 reap eternal happiness or misery, according to the spirit they obey. 12. 31 in a state to act according to their will. 13. 3 being left to choose good or evil. 29. 4, 5 he allotteth to man according to their wills. 30. 9 a man's privilege to believe in God or not. 41. 3, 4 evil or good is restored to men, as they have chosen. _Hel_. 14. 30 ye are permitted to act for yourselves. Doctrine and Covenants. _Sec_. 10. 66 may come and partake of the waters of life freely. 29. 35 Adam to be an agent to himself. 36. 39 men must needs be tempted, or they could not be agents to themselves. _Sec_. 58. 27, 28. 98. 8 I, the Lord, make you free. Pearl of Great Price. _Page_ 7. thou mayest choose for thyself. Satan sought to destroy the agency of man. 16. given to men to know good and evil; they are agents to themselves. 17. many have believed and become sons of God; many have not believed and perished. _See a sermon by B, Young, J. of D., Vol. I., page I_. _Sermon by B. Young, J. of D., Vol. 3, page 80_. ,, _by O. Pratt, J. of D. Vol. I, page 328_. ,, _by D. H. Wells, J. of D. Vol. 9, page 259_. THE ATONEMENT. The word atonement signifies deliverance, through the offering of a ransom, from the penalty of a broken law. The sense is expressed in _Job_ 33. 24: "Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom." As effected by Jesus Christ, it signifies the deliverance, through his death and resurrection, of the earth and everything pertaining to it, from the power which death has obtained over them through the transgression of Adam. The following passage is very comprehensive on the atonement of Christ: "And the end shall come, and the heaven and the earth shall be consumed and pass away, and there shall be a new heaven and a new earth, for all old things shall pass away, and all things shall become new, even the heaven and the earth, and all the fulness thereof, both men and beasts, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea; and not one hair, neither mote, shall be lost, for it is the workmanship of mine hand;" _Doc. & Cov_. 29. 23-25. In the revelations of St. John we read, "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new;" 21. 5. The righteous could not inherit all things in their immortal, exalted condition, if all things were not resurrected to immortality as well as themselves.