The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-17
e" Our God, our help In ages past,
Our hope for years TO come"

"Our'GOd, our help In ages past,
Our hope for years to come"
DIR. Talmage read and expOunded the
ninth chapter of John concerning the
man born blind.
Subject of the sermon: "The Eye"
Text, Psalms KEW, 9: "He that formed
the eye, shall he not seeP"
The imperial organ of the human sys-
tenn is the eye. All up and down the
Bible God eulOgizes, hOnOrs and eXtOls
il, Five hundred and thirty-fOur times
does that book speak of the eye. Omni-
presence: "the eyes of the Lord are in
every place. Divine case: las the apple
of the eye." The clouds: "as the eyelids
of the morning" IrreVeTence: "the eye
that mOcketh at its father" Pride: "Oh
how lofty are thine eyes," Beneyolence:
"as eyes to the blind" InattentiOn: "as
the eye of the fool in the ends of the
earth. PrOvidential management:
"wheels full of eyes," Suddenness: "the
twinkling of an eye." 0livetic sermon:
"the light of the body is the eye" This
mornings text: "He that formed the
eye, shall He not see?" The surgeons,
the doctors, the Psychologists and the
anatOmists know the wonders of these
two great lights of the human face, but
the vast multitude go from cradle to
grave without any appreciation of these
two great masterpieces of the Lord God
Almighty. Had God lacked the smallest
part OF infinite wisdom he must have
failed in the attempt to create the eye.
We walk the world over to see great
cities not realizing that all the things
we see in the earth and in the heavens
are not as wonderful as the instrument
with which we see them. l have for
thirty years been wondering why some
great scientist with elOquence and
magnetism enough did not come forth
and with illustrated lecture on the can
vas thirty feet square, startle and thrill
and Overwhelm ChTistendOm with tht
wonders of the human eye. Weneed this
subject shaken out from all the techni
cAliIies of the schools by men who lay
aside their talk about the sclerOtica anG
mechiasma of the optic nerves, and IL
common parlance such as you, and J.,
and ali the people of the race can under
stand unrOll these wonders. Will,
our learned men have for many year,
been trying to tell us what we came
from, why does not some one advance
from the dissecting table and the class
room of the university and take the
platform, and asking the help of th,
Creator of all things show us what we
physically areP
III discuss the physiological facts IL
5he former part of my text it is only t.
latter part of the text. My text evident
ly refers to the human eye, because IL
excells all others in structure and adap
tatiOn. The visual organs of fish AM
reptile and mOles and bats are very
small things for they do not have mucl
use for them. Some insects have NOR
than hundred eyes, all of them will
less capacity than one human eye. Th'
black beetle that floats the pond has
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above the water, but the two human
eyes can take in more than the four eye
of the insect. Man at the head of al
living creatures needs highest equiI =
ment, while the blind fish of the Nam
moth Cave have only undeveloped ap
paratus of sight, mere apology for tn
organ which might, If through som
,crevice of the mountain they shOul
escape into daylight, develop into vision
In Genesis, the first chapter, you finc
that God the Father, without any col
sultatiOn, made the light and made thr
trees and made the stars, and made tn,
! fowls and made the fish, but a cOnVen-
tiOn of divinity was called for the max
ing of man, as much as to imply that j
took the entire GOdhead for this achieve
ment-"Let US make man." Put a tor
of emphasis on the word ''us." And j.
all the three persons of the GOdheat
ing of our Edenic prOgenitOr, L thinl
the chief subject of that conference was
first, how to make the soul, and second
ly, how to make a window for the pa
ace of that eternal emperor. Have yOt
not noticed how God hOnOred the eye, H.
the fact that before he made it He cried
till chaos ITTadiated with the utteTance
"Let there be light;" in other words
he illumined the great temple of tn
Mt
that after the last human eye IL
destroyed in the worlds demolition thr
stars are to fall and the sun cease IL
shining and the moon be turned int,
blood. No more human eye to profit by
the shining; all the chandeliers of heay-
EN- will be turned out. To please ali,
instruct the eye 1t seems God set up OIL
the mantle of the heavens a gold lamI
and a silver lamp, one for the day ant
the other for the night. To show hON
much God thinks of the eyes, notice hOv
ne builds two walls for their residence
these halls each made out of seven bone
curiOusly fastened together. Kingly
halls of ivory are considered rich, bui
the halls built for the eyes residence
are richer by 80 much as the human
bone is more sacred th All elephantlnt
tusk. To show still further how mucl
God thinks of the eye; he projects rOOl
Oyer Als Iub bW c1b VI tOAA Llhbb hOb w
literate or smart it; and the rain dash
ing against the forehead must not drOI
into 1t; and 80 the eyebrows do not benz
over the eye but lay off to the right ant
left, so that the rain and tine sweat arr
compelled to drop Off on either cheek
To show what God thinks of the eye
nave to tell you, that according to phys
iOlOgists 1t has 500 distinct cOntrivan
ces: For window shutters. the eyelid
which is closed 10000 times day; til,
lRshes = the eye so constructed as /,
select what shall be admitted, say
ing 10 the dust, stay out" and to th'
light, come in" For inside curtain
VI the iris or pupil of the eye, according t,
! greater or less light contracting OF di
lating. The owls eye is blind in day
time and other birds are blind at night
but the human eye Is so constructed
that it can fully see by day and partially
( see by night. The eyes of some crea
+ .tAres have only motion from side Il
side or up and down. but the human eyt
has a uuaala Tn lift IL and anOthar IA