The New York herald., 1876-11-06
FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH
EYE EVIDENCE OF GoD-sERMoN BIZ REV.

DIR. ARMITAGE.
Yesterday being the 1rst Sunday of the month
was communion Sunday at the Fifth avenue baptist
church. n West Forty. sixth street, Fifth avenue
and the attendance was very large. Rev. Dr. Armage
preached from the text Psalms xxxiL, s:-T will
guide thee with mine cye." He said every man has
some conception OF Gods character natural or dis
torted The difference between these two concep-
tions Of God is that The leads you to run away
from Him hard and harsh. while the other draws
you irrcsstibly toward Him. full of tender and in
dulgent impulses. But then a should remember
that he himself has heart before he can understand
tha: God has heart, just as he must understand
human being before he can feel he feels
The watchfuI, tender, loving God that man has
dangerous to 20 and knows not the path therefore
He himself undertakes TO guide him. Every one OF
you has need OF an lniallible guide Solomon says.
ssHe that trusteth in his own heart Is foor Solomon
that the man who In all the complex actions OF
life trusts himself TO himself fool. The highest
pitch OF folly for man TO the responsibility
all tho intrcacies Of bis ways. The who does
that shows ignorance OF himself TO begin with. He is
BLIND ro HIS own WEAKNESSES.
knowledge of his own constitution us a responsible
being would load him TO see that he not created
Tor himself consequently that his scf guidance will
present all his powers and lead him to sclf-worshIn
Tho se-dcccpion OF this ignorance assists
itself unpcrccivcd Your labors are miscalcuations
and sacrinces made Independently Of God and
therein only iniauates you with the feeling II
not the idea Of sefkeepiug till your soul becomes
swathed In the bonds oil conscious self cxistence,
which bndfold you TIL you s;agger into which
Paul describes when he says. ''Men become Worship
pers Of themselves
swelling words and rebelous deeds must give way TO
calm trust and to n seadas, heart. In such a heart
all srcpticsm will depart with reference the
sight OF God in the smallest details OF everyday lie.
We're there example in the world OF contrvance
the eye IL alcne would be sufficient to support the
conclusions derive from 1t TO the existence of
intelligent Creator. The sense of sight the
fined OF all senses; part OF human organiza-
tion so beautifully represents
BENEyoLESCE con.
Its structure is ul and its provision
rious us functions minute that IL seems worthy OF
God to borrow this strangely contrved organ
as the III sign OF His sleopcss guardian
ship us, indicating His incessant protection.
There is nothing so expressive as the glance OF the
eye ips fail 10 express onchalf the power in hours
of time that the eye does in monientary glance.
Think Of that glance OF the fond father toward the
wayward daughter or the prodgal SON. and you cannot
misuudcrstand II. Neither nisunder 81 and
what Jesus meant as lie cast his sad loving gaze
these sons Of men, ana burst into because they
were as sheep without a shepherd. But when Gods
sympathy has full play few needed A soul
in sympathy with Hum will catch HIS meaning IN the
twlukl,ng of an eye; one look treasury OF wisdom
OH lot this eye guidance lead you doce and lcvng
children to your home let be perpetual perception
Of His leadership Look upon God Cowper when
lie walked before tho portrait OF his mothcr who fixed
her eve upon him turn where he would.