The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-09-06
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR.
GOD IN THE IMAGE OF MAN-DIscoURsE BIZ
REV. DR. EDWARD EGGLEsToN

GOD IN THE IMAGE OF MAN-DIscoURsE BIZ
REV. DIR. EDWARD EGGLEsToN.
Rev. Edward Egglcston, D. d., the well known author,
who has been since May last the pastor Of the Church OF
Christian Endcavor corner of Lee avenue and Hooper
street Brooklyn yesterday preached his first sermon
after the summer vacation Although the membership
has nearly doubled under Or. Eggeston's illustrations,
the attendance yesterday not large, owing TO the
absence Of many Of the congregation at the summer re-
sorts Mr. Eggleston's subject was, God in the
image Of man." He took as his text Matthew, ", s.
"Blessed the pure in heart, for they shall see God
He stated that God is made in the image Of man him
self and the approached to God the better
able is he TO understand his material and
moral state He referred to the ideas the
ciert Greeks entertained OF God as represented in
their dccs, and dwc at considerable length upon our
ancestors appreciation of God showing that in the
Middle Ages the characteristics Of God weighed
by the standard man. that the old Jewish Judges did
not understand anything about the universal brother
hood OF man. The God of the Pharsees regarded
as a God of tithes to whom offerings were to be made
whose mission TO sec that they gave Him his full
measure of wine and oil When that was done they be-
heyed
and let them cheat widow out of her potrimony
There are many in the world to day he said, who are
like these Pharisces They will contribute to the
Church. and, having pleased God, will call in their
heaviest creditor and ask him TO accept nifty cents on
the dollar that the others will do likewise He argued
that intellectual enlargement has given higher
conception OF the nature of God Geology. astronomy
and microscopy have aided us in this particular and
our souls are lost in wonder and amazement, and
worship Him a hundred times more than the ancients
There are some men who always see
MONSTER.
They themselves vicious, and they expect 10 find
God like themselves. The glory of the doctrine Of
forgiveness is that need not shake in terror of
the past The man who is selfish understand
God, who gives and gives. The man Of a mean soul
cannot take Him in he cannot measure Him. II is
only when man begins to keep step to Gods heart
and hungers and thirsts that he can know God; the
pure soul brcahes Him. They must have key OF vi
bration to God Last of ALL there is feeling within of
God In other words,
will Him most; the man nearest in sympathy with
Him will and know more of HIM. The pastor related
anecdote of Napoleon Bonaparte, who, when asked
why he compromised with enemy answered, ''Oh,
want to be like God, to be forgivng;" and said that
there arc
MANY LITTLE
in the world who moro like God than was Bona
parte. The who strive to be like God-forgiving
unselsh, meek, &c.-shall God and be the jewels
carried in the bosom Of God. They meek, they
pure in heart they forgiving, they nearer God
they His jewels Learn brethren TO be like Cod
meek forgiving pure-and then you shall HIM and
realize the truth OF the declaration BLESSED the
pure in heart, for they shall see God"