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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.