The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-05
MR.. PENR0SE'S SERMON.
THE EVOLUTION OF REVELATION
rs DISCUSSED.
The Real Man Is the one Living
Nearest Christ.

At Central Union church Sunday
morning Rev. S. B. L. Penrose preached
upon the subject, Evolution OF Revela-
ton" subject which was crowded out
OF Mondays paper. His text was taken
from Genesis l :27, which reads as
follows:
80 God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he
him."
Do not make mountain out of that
word evolution" The growth of a
baby into a man is an evolution; the
growth of world is an evolution; pro-
gress is evolution. BY 1.-THE Evolution
of Revelation" mean the development
in one knowledge of God, and TO one
who believes in God at all denies that
there has been such development.
From Noah to Abraham, from Abraham
10 Moses, from Moses to Jesus, are long
steps, not only i'll years but IN know
ledge. not only in civilization but in
revelation. Aud this advance has been
orderly and progressive, so that Tenny-
son was stating scientific fact of
history when he spoke of that
"Far-off, divine event
Towards which the whole creation
moved"
How and why the world has grown in
its knowledge Of God | wish to show
,,n,, f,r ,phon ,,,. ,,p1nrSto nd tba stnns
in our schooling, the reason for our
education, we can better appreciate the
purpose, the aim, the goal OF our en-
deavors. Now life is mans schooling
in the lessons of God.
The most Important ruth of religion
is the truth of our text, "God created
man in his own image" Likeness be-
tween man and God is the condition,
the foundation on which all religion
rests. If there is no likeness between
you and God, you can never know God,
nor worship him. Some people have
received it, and falsly said that "Man
created God in his own image" inn
plying that there is no reality to the
idea OF God, and that God is but an
image, ghost, fictitious image of mans
imagination, bigger man but not
SO great because unreal. Yet if any
one should understand the real mean
ing OF my text God created man in his
own image" he would have the golden
key to the temple OF the knowledge OF
God; he would find living truth within
his heart, divine life within his soul.
What is the real man? that is the
image by which you may know God. The
heather says, in his ignorance, "The real
man is just body. | have eyes, ears
hands and feet; so has God" He news
down tree and cuts out a block OF
wood and makes an idol in the rude
shape OF man. and worships it. He
has dimly, uncertainty felt the great
truth that man and God are alike, but
he has not learned that man is more
than body like beast; man is liv.
ing spirit and so is God. Resemblance
is not bodily but spiritual. ''God is {
spirit, and they that worship him mus
worship Him in spirit and in truth.
And hence, idolatry is the falsest idea O
God, which grows out OF false idea O
man.
What is the real man ? That is the
likeness of God. The real MANI "Why
we are real men," said the Greeks
They were beautiful, intellectual, power
full men, so they thought of their god
as beautiful, intellectual and powerful
but they were also lustful, vengeful
cruel, and they thought OF their gods Il
the same. The great truth OF the like
ness between God and man was at thu
bottom OF their minds, but they neve
found out what the true man is, and st
never found out what the true God is
The religion of the Greeks was gropinl
after light, but all their cropping lei
them in the darkness. Their gods wer
men, nothing more.
This Bible of ours, made up of sixty
six different books, written hundred
of years apart.-what is it? 1t is tn
biographies OF men. 1t is not the repor
of voice, speaking out of the skies
whose words were taken down in short
hand by the writers and transmitted t
the world. 1t is not a book let fall fror
heaven, containing Gods commands
God does not reveal Himself to man i
that way. God speaks to the man
likeness, breathes great thoughts int
his soul, sends him out into the worlt
The Bible is the biographies of sue
men of God.
Moses and Elijah spoke for God b.
cause something of the character {
God had been impressed upon then
They looked into their own hearts an
saw imperfectly the image of the livin
God, and they declared that image
their fellows. SO, knowing God, the
became spokesman for God, and taugl
the world in part the character of Go'
For that Is the meaning of revelation
making known the character of Co
Not the commands of God upon &c
tain occasions do / care to know,
much as the character Of God, the i
finite and Eternal One. What is &c
like? What are the attributes of Go
hood? What are the qualities whic
God reveals? Those are what want
know, for in knowing them | know Il
true aim of life, know what the re
man is, for man is made IN the image
God. Hence Gods revelation Of Go
hood is through the revelation of ma
hood. Teach me who is the real ma
and as look upon him | shall see Il
true likeness of the living God.
might look into my own heart, but d
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