Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-21

not ascertalned from whence he came no1
by what name he was called, bu
there was such majesty in biz
manner, such q lustre in his eye
such dignity in his appearance as com
manded her respect and reverence, and con
strained her implicit belief and confidence
The reverend gentleman then proceeded tc
describe the whole scene of the angels second
I appearing in answer to ManQah's prayer,
the offering, the sacred fire, and the angels
ascension. The interview had filled Manoah
with unutterable awe and fear-like Jacob al
the brook of Jabbok they had "seen God face
to face;'' could his life be preserved? He
was not so ignorant as to affirm that he had
seen the Jehovah, the Allsuffcient and Inef-
able One, whom no man hath seen at any
time, it was enough that as he had declared.
! they had seen "Elohim,'' s'the Manifester,'
the messenger, and like Gideon, when the
appantion had passed away; he supposed that
he could no longer remain in this world. But
mark he was blessed with good wife, and
the wife was wiser than the husband. She
looked at the matter in a religious and phi
losophical light, and she replied to her
alarmed husband, eff the Lord were pleased
to kill us He would not have received burnt
offering and meat offering at our hands,
neither would he have shown us all these
things, nor would He at this time have told
us such things as these"
After giving this narrative the preacher
stated there were two things to consider.
LIST, The Fearful Inference; I'd, The Con-
elusive Argument. The fearful inference is,
eve shall surely die because we have seen
God.' Passages were next quoted in rela-
ton to the belief of Manoah-angels who
always beheld the face of our Father who is
in Heaven worship in the light, but they veil
their faces. There have been manifestations
of God in the world but they have been
through the medium OF Him 1swho was in
the form of God" He walked in the gar
den with Adam. To Moses there was given
a manifestation of the divine presence in the
burning bush. The hottest of men have
been filled with the painful consciousness of
their imperfections when they have realized
perfect man in Gods estimation when
have heard of Thee by the hearing of the
ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee, wherefore
I abhor myself and repent in dust and ash
es." The greatest of prophets "saw the
Lord sitting upon throne" and he heard
the loud cry Of seraphin proclaiming
the absolute holinesf of the Lord
of hosts and he said
woe is me for am undone because am
man of unclean lips X x = for mine
eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.
that he had seen God face to face and that
his life was preserved.
1t was the commonly received opinion
that if men saw God they would die, and
thus tradition must have had its origin in
the universal consciousness of men. We
never get into the presence of the super
natural but we are ready to say, ssLet not
God speak to us or we die.'' Whence comes
this fear? There is a time in your history
when God reveals Himself to you; when He
is moro than name; when He becomes re-
aity. You say He is about my bed and
about my path. He is the besetting God. I
feel His hand on me; I cannot hide myself
when consider am afraid of Him. The very
consciousness that you are haunted by the
Omniscent is SO awful that you would fain
find some shade or darkness to escape from
light which yuo cannot bear. The preach
er showed this universal dreap of God did not
come from the inviolableness of natures
laws, from the regular succession of the
seasons, from the light and warmth of the
sun: Not from the beauty and harmony of
nature, not from the variety and costliness of
his gifts. His gifts are like voices that in
soft and gentle tones are always breathing
the love of our Father. But if some of His
ministrations come to us like angels of light
singing their sweet songs, others come like
angels yelled in sadness, uttering words that
fill us with fear. When God comes to a
man and separates him from other men and
takes him into the wilderness and speaks to
hiK. then the man feels and confesses
thu snfulness of his sin and at first thinks he
shall surely die. When God comes to us in
His displeasure and by touch He causes our
flesh to wither, paralyzes the imbs-when
he removes friends far from us or strips us
of property and leaves us like Job-then we
are filled with fear. It is only the sight of
God in Christ that can calm our minds and
Stunning fire." He is then terrible God, but
Gods goodness shines forth in the face OF
Jesus Christ.
In the second place the preacher went on
to show that the woman had arrived at the
truth, not by reason or argument, but by her
emotional nature. 1t is impossible to
follow the discourse through its
whole lengthy and eloquent argu-
ment, but he concluded as fol
lows; I'VE are not left without some man
ifestations. We believe that there was time
when God came to earth. Christ has been
and gone up again to heaven. Are we left
without any manifestation of God? There
are spiritual revelations for spiritual men
God does come to true and loving hearts
Love will always come to commune with
love. Christ has told us that if a man will
! love him the Father will love him, and he
| "adds, we will come with him and make oul
abode with him." 1t is a fact then, that God
comes into mems homes still; that there are
yet manifestations of his presence to men
and surely if God visits you there is ground
for the conclusion that God will save you
We are not left without Divine
instructions as to the future. There
are assurances that this life is not all that il
contains, only the germ of the future, tina
| God will "shew us the path of ife,'' that Ht
has given to us the power of an endless life
Brethren, if you have seen Christ by the ey,
of faith as your Saviour: if you see him il
this manner now-if you love him and serve
him, though in your own Judgment it ma,
be very imperfectly, you need not be afrait
of death: you have the promise of victory
Good Richard Cecil says: II shall never for
get standing by the bedside of my sic]
mother. Are you not afraid to die?' asked
No. was the reply: 4 am not afraid, becaus
God has said, Gear not when thou passes
through the waters. !"
Jackson Street Methodist. .
At the Jackson Street M. e. Church, las
evening, the Rev. John Stafford breaches
from these words:
'.Oh, wretched man that / am! who shall dc
liver me from the body of this death?
Romans CHI, "a v.
! He said: There is an allusion in this tex
to a certain custom of ancient tyrants i