Excerpt from The Bible Definition of Religion
Dr. Matheson's preaching is invariably profitable, full of suggestive and pregnant ideas, and enlivened by healthy optimism. This book is to all intents and purposes a sermon or sermons upon Micah's definition of religion, to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God. Dr. Mathe son urges that in order to do justly a man must put himself in his neighbor's place, must pass out of himself and incarnate himself in the life of his brother. There can be no justice. Without sympathy, and there can be no sympathy without substi tution, the substitution of myself for my fellow-man in his circumstances. Mercy in the Christian sense Dr. Matheson distin guishes from pity which is instinctive and.
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George Matheson was a Scottish theologian and preacher.
He was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he graduated first in classics, logic and philosophy. In his twentieth year he became totally blind, but he held to his resolve to enter the ministry, and gave himself to theological and historical study.
However, he was academically gifted, and his sisters learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew to help him study. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh (MA 1862), then became a minister in the Church of Scotland. He pastored in the resort town of Innelan for 18 years; due to his ability to memorize sermons and entire sections of the Bible, listeners were often unaware he was blind. In 1886, Matheson became pastor of St. Bernard's Church in Edinburgh, where he served 13 years. He spent the remaining years of his life in literary efforts.
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