New-York tribune., 1880-01-12
SEEING GOD AFTERWARDS.

The Rs Robert Collger at The Church Of Tie Messiah
The congregation at the Church of the Mes
siah has been increasing since the beginning ot
Robert Colyers pastorate, and at Yesterday mornings
service there was scarcely a seat unoccup.ed. Inc
preacher took as his text Exodus xXXiii, @3 Thou
shalt afterward but my face shall not he seen'
This text said the speaker is taken from singular
chapter in the life OF Moses He had been alone III the
businesses OF Horeb forty days, broOding over
those safeguards of our human life which took shape
finally in the Ten Commandments. When Moses came
down he found those he had loved well, and worked
so faithfully for, fallen back into the gross dolaty
from which he hal done his best TO save them ana MS
nature being strung its utmost tension, ana worn
with long ing, he broke oui into mighty rage lie
broke up the tables Of tie law and did all sorts oi stern
ana ruthless work. But when this was done ne
went into the Mountains again Guc cast down.
and douhting whether it WAS any use trying 10
do more for his people; md this IL the
time touched in my text. Every hing was III misl
what ho had and what he III ght do the old assur
ancc4 were ike music which has lost its melody.
And 20 it was that he wanted what We all want Whcn
VIC are IN tins trouble and the future Is all uncertain
get no good as ! watch tic man standing there WIN
that great trouble on him. from the doctrine tagt 30
often u our time that Jehovah IS sitting IN his mimic
ordnoss while the man cries ont 10 HIM. "s hceuie'So Vi
the trouble rs the great sphinx wasof those VINO uSeu
TO pray in her presence BY The Nile love 10 br"e'o
rather. that the heart OF God yearned over tins be-
come TO do this If IT pest; hut must put S"n TOT
your own sake where You nothing night Oh ci'
hut the great rocks that hem You in and raloW al see
INK down 10 the niche in which You t"hu'
Eat then. Won shell know 1t is my hand Nhch
has PIT you There, and you must he sure
that when il is darkest am nearest and you shal see
BE altr.vard" Th sccns 20 mc to he ihe tiu" ih'rI
nrctaton OF this passage between the man ahd ma
Maker You viii notice that His Is the irst truth oi an
touchn. the creation. W. gropc our way throuen
inc ,,, g1,Tl f. sard he central ftcs and
can sec at every stop take, how limited our sehsc 'l
a divine rre,oncc must haze been u we conc s nav nay
ing ovcr Ills retorl- and furnaces But row ne tm.
has come when We can sec hod III lhc cIed"oH' p"'
nothing done in the dlsI'; th't-
And not moth witn vain dcs.rc,
Was shriycicd So uuut-~h hrr .
or hu' -ub4crycd unoihci's gain"
It has been the fortune OF good man' OF us 10 t,
som- such storm hr. sing aud blowing nom ~. pa,.
touching tIe gepc-i, of man H5 iai "hleh l.c '-l
sng5'S" 10 the 'front.' TL'' rue @ storm 1 is not yc
blown over ana 1t can h1'" but one i'a"c. |
10 tn- tnat We have to -rc how Iau also va, ." ''
within the c,.tt.. VITA Garkca above 'ad '.'I, ,''
the evolution toward higher he D. 10 The same dVnr
order Hat bu.i up thc %ou" nom lnr l"t- ",in m &
Tie old rcd giauito TO the june roses. ana
l'm 'Ns y M i. sa,r .ts,1n. f. te orioles aud
humming-bird-. II does not yet appear What y" h'o
been nIi " are Ai@445 Cal, w 'lS mi t', t . tbcrr.
toT. what Iacn Ike Darwin he say, but iako gladly
any truth they can prove. Ihc lis bc tAe uuthtO
Which ihcy aIc slowly feeling tier way II will Mt oalt
he precious revelation OF tue past, oH,
"A glorious prophecy Of the luInr" Ihli
man was not srt on the very summit OF
t.o worlds great n'tar-stairs that slope through
nature up TO Cod and Tell down fsom thence To tLo
ruin OF our whole human KIND, nut began or ihc very
base to aspire and j. climbing itu and VIII keep on
climbing until lie reaoheA the throne. ,
The truth then, OF tlc Ccit IN thc rock R l'
ov-rAhadOwtug hand Do appears o. The hum D. race
solomon means mat man hath no p cminehee over nc
beast. for ali Is vanity. so.oaon was uitIk
mlstahcu; be Is but plpr. su!YclNlg od
fool when he says that Man has tbs pic-
cmucnrc over the beast tuat nc must cmb tdt lddti
whose top reaches Heaven I.lcyt me- n j. lli- i'Iih
which grow. strong and deep ~ what i cannot sec,
tbat will some day. lu the whole Christian world
ont Of this most beautiful ADD uo.t InId'nHb'
ldoairvt intoI which men over waudcrcd-thc woTah'p
Of the man Jcsus Chfstio faith I'm the Unseen Cod
and b" 81 il ho hcDn h;cfTarl, WAcu Chis shh nave
delivered up the kingdom 20 Goi, ana God suh hr a',
IN all Do y0u long 10 the way clear DeioIs YOU J
:, fd this man Jc.us hut H. had {" stay ia tie dTh
unii He grew So m ghty of heart that lie was the wAv
Heaven stole IA through the dark and be saw God
sftcrwaId. s. shall you. Tbs a. no Oh thistle l'#i
Of Legend 10 bc blown to tc wind hy hr ath ot ril
clsm II g., "a chapter linking our NE TO The HE OF God
and AS true to-day your c and mthc Rs ~ was 10 lac
ufc OF the man Moses four thousand yents age.