The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-10
SERVICES IN WASHINGTON.
METROPOLITAN METHODIST Z Al
CHURCH.

DIR. Newman's Sermon ON the Grandeur OF
Moses' Praycr-The Mysterious Invfslbility
or God-Whcrc IL God s-God's Presence
Tan6ibly Manifssteds and His Msthsd Of
ReveIaflon.
WASHINGTON Oct. o. 1870.
The Metropolitan church was we'll filled yesterday.
General Grant and family were present Yesterday
filled for many weeks. DR.. Newman took his text
from Exodus, xxxiil, 49, ~
81 beseech Thee show me Thy glory"
GRANDEUR OF MOSES PETITION
Such prayer was never before uttered by mortal
man. 1t Is grander than the lntercession OF Abraham
for Sodom. It Is holder than the persistent demand
OF Jacob TO know the angels named. It Ia mightier
than the prayer OF the disciples for the delverance
Of Peter 1t is petition TO see God face to face;
for 80 the term .glory must be understood in this
passage Experience had gwen inspiration TO Moses
which enabled him to approach so near the throne
and to make this remarkable request. Faith
Ia like the ladder that Jacob saw. We mount
up, round after round, until we stand on the thres-
hold OF heaven and are permitted to behold the King
~ his beauty The prayer Of Moses Is expressive Of
OF God one Of the profound mysteries OF our reli
gion No Intelligent mind can fully doubt HIS
Ing. Ills WISDOM His power, His goodness made
TO appear In the heavens and upon the earth. Yet
the ANXIOUS question from every Intelligent mind
WHERE rs GoDf
lam surrounded with His omnpresence, yet can
not see Him. He is as near to me as am to myself
and yet He Is surrounded with imperyious darkness
or light inaccessible. We can think Of Him, love
with delight In contemplating His glory; but where
"a Her We cannot doubt the existence OF the Divine
It ia not possible for US to conceive that a Beinr
OF such attributes capable OF such manifestations
81 Ms oa
In the vast universe BE must be tangbly manifested
christ said to His dicipes 81 say unto you that IN
Father which Is In heavenn st. Stephen, the pro-
tO-martyr u Persida, cried out "BenOldlI see the
God standing at the right hand Of Cod" In the
Garden or Eden He met our first parents In the time
q tGer innocence He was 70 them father and friend.
the cool OF day. He appeared again to hold an In
guest over the body OF the murdered Abel ana when
went out from the presence OF the Lord. From that
time God withdrew His personal presence, and man
has ever since mourned his solitude and his orphan
The invisibilitY Of God does not necessarily grow
II Rs =. ha M "Do 70 e but
consequence of the original transgression and this
may % Inferred from three iactsTs that His
human 6eart--a calamity that can hardly Be
measured; Secondly, the scriptures expressly
Of SIN; and, thirdly, hell win consist in the
absence OF God. Paul says, .The wicked shall be
presence OF God and the glory OF His power" To be
In Gods universe, conscious OF existence ana yet
forever Withdrawn nom His presence, must const
tute he'll.
TIE PRESENCE OF GOD
On the other hand, heaven Is represented as exist
Ing IN the presence Of God. But what Is the pro-
vision God has made to meet this great human
want? Since He left Eden He mas revealed Him.
self In three ways:-Flrst, by assumed forms
assuming the form OF . man and appearing
to Abraham, and assuming the form OF an angel
and appearing to Jacob Hs was manifested again
the pillar Of fire to the israetes; and afterwards In
the snekinah wlich was brightness, a cloud of
luminosity which descended upon the tabernacle.
The third manifestation OF Jehovah the most re-
markable-the incarnation OF the Lord Jesus Christ
the grandest truth in the Bible from the Pentauech
TO the Apocalypse Around this the soul rallies and
faith eliminates. God reveals Himself now to
ns through HIS Holy Spirit In His infinite mercy
God has not abandoned the world TO her orphanage
nor mankind To solitude. He will reveal Himself
through His Holy Spirit, and we may approach Him
aud converse with Him through the same means
that Moses used. the avenue OF prayer; and the EVIL
dence OF that converse may be clear to the human
intellect as converse held between friend and friend.
live inter this prayer in confidence we shall be
answered by His Holy Spirit, and at the last day we
snail see the King Ia HIS beauty.