The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-27 00:00:00

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Even this, however,;.Would be insufficient. The face of the eve
must be protected from injury. Our eye bones form large over-
hanging ruins to protect the eyes from the injuries to which
'they are exposed.. There is hair growing upon the brows,
which lie obliquely, And by .that contrivance turn off any
perspiration which comes upon the brow, and by their elasticity
throw off any substance having a tendency to fall into the eyes.
Persons who lose their eyebrows experience a great many
miseries, which would surprise those who have them. In addi-
tion to these we have eyelids, which are a decided convenience.
When- we look, at the sun, Our eyelids immediately close ; in-
deed, if we had them not, eur sight would be destroyed by the
powerful light of the sun. In order to .enable us to close our
eyelids, we have muscles which raise of.depress them agreeably
to our will. The upper eyelid has more motion than the lower
one, and sometimes its muscle becomes palsied, in which case,
the afflicted individual has to raise the eyelid with his hand.
We have got lashes attached to these eyelids which completely
close up the openings to the eyes, by the manner in which they
insert themselves into one another.. Our eyelids would be apt
.to grow together by being closed for so bang a time, wer& it not
that in their margin there is a very beautiful thing called a
fringe. There is likewise introduced into the margin of each
eyelid, pieces of stiff gristle called tarsi, which stretches out to
the proper extent. There is another contrivance : there are an
immense number of little glands which secrete and pour out a
quantity of oil to anoint the margins of the eyelids. This goes
on every moment of our lives. Some children get diseases in
their eves, and these glands do not perform their duty, but on
the contrary secrete a quantity of. unhealthy, indeed, poisonous
matter. By frequently washing their eyes with milk and water
.this complaint is readily cured. Persons who get sand or some
such like matter into the eyes, sometimes cause themselves con-
siderable pain by rubbing their eyes. Now, we have inside
.of
the eye a tear hag, which we call the lachrymal gland; Which is
the wash-house fur washing the eye. This cistern is supplied
with blood-vessels. Whether we cry or do not cry, this tear
vessel is always pouring Out moisture, provided it is in a proper
state; and when a person gets anything into the eye, this gland
secretes a great quantity of water, which it pours out all over
the eye. To shed tears is one of the greatest reliefs in the
world. Men cannot cry, and in consequence they frequently
go mad. Women can, and therefore, they rarely go mad.
Thus we see in some novels, when the heroine is placed in a
critical situation, " nature came to her relief, and she shed a
flood of tears." Many persons get rid of headaches by a good
flow of tears. If, when a person has got any dust in his eye,
instead of rubbing it, he would only - pull up the upper eyelid,
the tears would rundown and remove the irritating body. At
the margin of the eves there are two little ducts which receive
the sears when they have done their duty, and carry them into
the no-se. There is a little red body at the corder of the eyes,
next-the nose, which is called a gland, which secretes a poison
which is very unpleasant to insects, and keeps them away. This
little gland passes out during the night a quantity of water.
Many persons think they cannot do any harm to their eyes.
and you will frequently see persons on the top of a coach read-
ing books; this is bad, because, as the coach shakes you are
always altering the axis of vision, which injures the vision.
There is not a class of her Majesty's subjects which is worse
treated than mantuamakers. They sit from morning to night
stitching, and their sight is injured sooner than that of any
other class of persons. The eyes of watchmakers are very
much injured, and you will find that watchmakers are cut off
much &niner than clockmakers. We should remember that our
eves were given to us for use, and we should endeavour to do
all the benefit we can for them, by treating theta as they were
intended to be used.

ANNUAL MEETING .
CIP THE CHURCH DIOCESAN SOCIETY.

Yesterday morning, at twelve o'clock, the third annual meet-
ing of the Chester Diocesan Society, was held in the Chapel of
the Blue Coat Hospital, the Lord Bishop of Chester, in the
chair. The meeting was respectably attended, and there was a
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world. Many of those black spots had been retrieved, and he
trusted, the results to be expected were such as they looked for.
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on paper as the reports of the operations of some societies
made. They could not count so large a number of individual
churches, or so large a number of persons accommodated as
might hate been done, if the object wasdiffereot to what ii was.
But the object of this society was not to assist those who had
assistance teem other societies, or had resources within them-
selves; its object was rather to do for those who were destitute
of means, what they themselves could not accomplish, and to
assist those who could not be assisted by other societies. The
consequence was, that larger expenditure had taken place in
certain individual churches, than would have been the ease, if
the objects of the society had been different. They set out
with the idea of being the friends of the wretched; or if they
did not like to take an idea from anything so me;ancholy as
death, let them take it from Him who sought those, who, with-
out Him, were lost—to raise those, who, without Him, were
without the knowledge of being able to raise theinselves. It
was the object of the society to go to those desolate places
where no great funds or ample resources could be found, but
where, without aid, they must remain destitute. But, notwith-
standing, that they should be able to show a considerable num-
her of churches that had grown up under the assistance, and
auspices of this society; and they tnust remember, that of those
churches they should so exhibit, not perhaps, oue fourth of them
—not five out of twenty would have existed at all without the
assistance of this society; that, as far as they went in the re-
port, they were actual creations. (Hear.) Another thing he
wished to mention, that they were not to suppose, that they
were mentioning in the report all that had been done without
the aid of the society. On the contrary, it would tell them'
nothing of the new churches building at Manchester, of which
four or five were in progress in the last few years, since the
society had been established. It would not tell them of the
new church recently erected at Rortenstall, nor at Walton, nor
of the church erected by Mr. Greenall, at St. Helens, nor of
the new church at Prescot. Nor still inure should they tell
them of other churches erected out of the beat of the society.
They did not take all these things to themselves, and they
therefore, did not intrude them into the report. But it was
necessary that they should know, that there were these different
gleams in their prospect, though they did not come within the
view of their own picture. But there was another thing which they
might fairly speak of, which still less came within the province
olcalculation; he meant the general inrpulse which had been
given, (applause,) which, he trusted, would not stop till the
districts which had hitherto been looked upon as places of des-
titution, should have been provided with that without which
they were poor indeed. For example,
they could take no ac-
count here of the number of schools which- were growing up
under the auspices of churches, which were wineno operation.
In almost all the large manufacturing districts thr were now
schools which did, in fact, supply the place of churches. There
were as many of these as there were of churches, and perhaps
as many persons received religious instruction iu thole school-
rooms as in the churches, and the instruction there given was
quite as adequate to furnish the means of glace. Let no one
say there was any degradation in this. Let them consider the
origin of our religion. What was It but a small seed? What
was it but a little at first which now furnished capability of,
shelter to the world. Let them consider again the scriptural
authority they had for purposes of this kind. How was it un-
der the Jewish dispensation, where, for a length of time, for
many hundred years, where was the ark of God and the coven-
ant but in a tent, and moved from place to place as the people.
had to move ? And yet God did not withhold his blessing from
that ark which was in that tent; and so those who were two or
three miles distant from their parish churches would find a
blessing in those schools, in which situations they often found
two or three thousand persons. Though they might not be able
to raise a church, they weie still able to find a place
might
the truths of the gospel were preached, and where they might
learn those things which appertained to their everlasting inter-
est, and where, in the progress of things, the event might be as
it was in the Jewish dispensation. There was a time when it
was no longer suitable that God should be so worshipped, and
then He raised up one in whose mind he taught to have a tem-
ple worthy of Him. " Behold," said David, " what luxuries
am I surrounded by? I dwell in a house of cedar, whilst the
ark of God dwelleth in curtains. It ought not to he." So might
in the end in our populous districts. There might be many, he
hoped, who would tise up and say, God should not be worship-
ped
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while there was room to preach his doctrines in a church—
till the population should say, " we dwell in houses of cedar;
God has blessed us; how can we best show the sense we have of
the distinction which he has afforded us." We will not give
sleep to our eyes, nor slumber to our eyelids, till we find a tem-
ple fittin. for the Lord. (Hear.) Therefore let them not de-
spise the day of small things; let them not despise the humble
building where the minister may preach those truths which be
has not the power to do elsewhere. One word on the subject of
funds. They had trot husbanded their funds; they thought that
they had been placed in their hands that they might be spent,
and therefore they had sent them; and he believed before they
left that room, that day, that they should be £1001) worse than
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nothing. They had ten applications to assist churches that day;
andtheh
course of the public gave them leave, they should do it in faith. It cer-
tainlynieasures for the more permanent provision tor the great object,
for forwat ding which they were met, than it now had. But last
year had not been a favourable one. In the present year they
might look forward under the favour of God to make themselves
there known in the provinces than they had done—to slake
themselves as well known as in the metropolis of Liverpool.
H is clergy would allow him to send a letter, in the course of the
summer, requesting that collections might be made in their
churches fur this great object. In that way he trusted they
should proceed in the measures they had begun, and in which
they hail so greatly prospered. They had set an example for
others to follow. He was sure that as friends of their established
religion, they had chiefly to objects of this kind to make their
church strengthen her cords, and strengthen her tents; and the
way to strengthen her tents, was by adapting herself to the in-
creasing wants of the population. In that way he trusted that
they should see as they had hitherto seen, that the God of David
was present. He trusted that our church would be able to hand
to those who came after her what she had herself received, the
lamp of pure and undefiled religion. (Hear.) He concluded‘
with calling on the Rev. Chancellor Raikes to read
the report.
The .Rev. Chancellor RAIKES then proceeded to read the
report.'