the word of God was sent were called gods." So said
Jesus. The one Jacob saw was called a man. And again, there was a
messenger--an angel, if you please--that bore Jehovah's name upon him.
(See Exodus xxiii, 21, _and context_.) This was the angel of God's
presence. "The angel of his presence saved them."--Isaiah lxiii, 9.
God's great messenger bore his name. Men saw him, the angel, and seeing
him saw God, for this angel was God with them--God's representative
bearing his name. This angel God, or angel having God's name in him,
talked with Moses. Moses saw him, and it is truthfully said that Moses
saw God, that is, saw this angel whose name was that of God. "And when
forty years were transpired there appeared to him, Moses, in the
wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a
bush. When Moses saw it he wondered at the sight, and as he drew near to
behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him." * * * * * This (Moses)
is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which
spoke to him in the Mount Sinai and with our fathers, etc. Moses went
up into Sinai and saw God, but it was simply the angel that bore his
name--the angel of his presence. That is all there is of it. I once sat
in a church-house in Logansport when there were present representatives
from different states in our Union, and a gentleman made a little
address and introduced them to the audience, saying, Ohio is here, Iowa
is here, Kentucky is here, Illinois is here, California is here. How was
this? Well, those men were messengers from those states, and their
presence was the presence of those several states. Just so the angel of
God's presence was with Moses; and Stephen said, _with our fathers_. The
presence of this angel was the presence of God, and they who saw him saw
God, for this angel's name was _God_, or, in other words, "God's name
was in him." But the God whose name this angel bore, and whose name even
men bore who were called Gods, because to them the word of God was sent,
and they, having God's word, were his representatives, _has not been
seen at any time, neither indeed can be with literal eyes_.

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SOME THINGS THAT NEED THOUGHT.

It has been said of past nations, that side by side have grown in their
midst the elements both of great