The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-05-21
CIy!NE COHCEALMENT
AND HUMAN DISCOVERY.

| Til. Reverend r. TrHmbulI Lee. D. u.
pastor Of second Presbyterian Church IN
Cincinnati, o. preached at Lafayette ParI.
Presbyterian church for the Reverend Dr.
Palmer yesterday morning. His text was:
Prov. xXy. .. ut is the glory Of God To
conceal 2 thing. bu; the honor of kings IS
20 find out matter He spoke in fart
as follows.
"roncealment and discovery are the TWO
thoughts here. 1t i part of th" dvin-.
glory To conceal. and il il ii part OF tie
royalty Of man 20 discover that which
God mas cnncesled- Let Us consider.
"tlTSt-The fact of divine conceHlnert-
God c"nceals himself. No man has seen
to1 Al any time. nu- can see him-Canst
thou md ont the Almighty unto perfection-
| high as hJayer. what canst thou Do
Deeper than hell. wha; canst thou know,
The measure thereof is longer than tho
= What depths Of infinity in God.
Again, there is conccalnient in Gods
History shows that divine judgments. as
a rule advance slowly but steadily gull
y cities and communities. so that those
who are blind To the moral government
of God may. Il they choose. attribute all
that happens to the operation Of second
causes Historians tell as that the Goths
destroyed Rome that PVrsiaus wiped out
III. Bdhyl0nian empire and that Rome con-
uEerto: Greece. We at" fond uf saying that
this great republic huTUblcd Csstilan pride
in the recent war with Spain Yet here
We're only the operations of second causes.
instruments of divine wrath on pagan ami
aTostate peoples. Be mindful that God is
in history But man may become so blind
Ia this fact. because God does not appear
in personal form. as to imagine he is not.
that the fact Of an unseen God reduces
him To dream, or tn an dhSurtliy.
Again. God conceals himself in revela-
jior. What! Conceais himself in revsla-
tion' What is revelation If not God MAX
ing himself known, There are the Old Tes-
lament Theophanies. Each is d form OF
revelation ~ God, yet in each God con-
cealS himself As for example. the burn
ing bush; God made himself known in that
portentous flame and Yet that fame was
the cloak by which God wrapped himself
about to hide himself from his servant
So with the incarnation That was a Won
explain that mystery? That God was in
Christ believe. but how vas; the divina
cnnceainient when our Lord could saw at
Father glnrify thou me. with thine own
self with th, glory which had with thee
before the world was
Then there is the revelation Of God in
all the operations of the Holy Spirit. Rut
who ever saw the Spirit, or can give a ra-
that lle came from God. and will return -
God when our Lord comes hack to earth.
The Holy scripture. too. sets forth ths
same fact of revelation and conCealment.
Nature also Is vocal with it, Providence
presents a supreme fact of revelation and
concealMent. Redemption likewise. and life
itself.
'Seco-a-Things concealed from us have
their suggestion in the things We see lie
ment Tabernacle. in that wonderfully en-
hroidered veil which carried on its symbolic
eXpansc the figures Of the contents of tho
holy of holes. also in the spectrum analysis
In science. by which the chemistry of suns
and stars and the physical constitution OF
distant worlds are known
In the spiritual world the same trutf.
obtains. In the thirteenth chapter of Mat
thew we learn what the Kingdom of God il
like. In the fifteenth chapter of Cortn-
thiaus We are taught by object lessons
sonnet hing about the resurrection. In the
symbols and figures to describe the prog
ress and final glory Of the Kingdom OF
Jesus Christ.
THE world is full of tho skiIlfui embroid.
cry Of Almighty God. all conducive to-
search into what God has concealed. and to
stimulate to inspiring discovery
FINALLY. our text declares that they BE-.
long to the rank of kings who study Gods
embroidered figures. searching into all that
he has concealed. Yet has ever s!iadowed.
forth in love and mercy. that we may dis
cover Thus We have come to understand .
ature. Thus We have advanced In phloso- .
ply. thus also in theology and in religion
Remember that all these trampinG foot
steps IN the grand march of progress rep
resent the eager and intelligent push ot
Gods kings In their hall0wef ambition for
doUirion in the empire of truth.
The glory of II all is Gods and hfa
eternal is 10 know God and Jesus Christ
whom God has sent. God is in Christ re-
Cpncilinc the world unto himself as tho
fountain and source o: higher life of a.
better HE and of complete life.
They who have the royal nature to sealc
H.. savior find the savior. find truth and
find God.
The ncxuS between concealInent and dis.
r1very is Tie seeker. Seek and W. shall
hcd' Faith is the pioneers vision"