The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-17

of vast circumference Of observation.
No privacy. On us eyes of cherubim,
eyes of Seraphim, eyes of archangel, eyes
of God. We cannot see the inhabitants
of other worlds, but they may see US. If
our optical instruments fail 60 scrunti-
nize them that is no proof that they
have no optical instrument strong
enough to scrutiniZe us. Because the
mole cannot see the eagle midsky is no
reason to belieAe that the eagle cannot
see the mole mid-grass. We only see the
caverns on Gne mountains of other
worlds, but they may behold the towers
of onr cities, the fash of our seas, the
marching of our professions, the white
robes of our weddings, and the black
scarfs of our Obsequies. Yea, the Gospel
says, we know that from one world at
least they come on envoy to this. Are
they not all ministering spirits sent
forth to minister to those who shall be
heirs of salvatiOnp But human inspec-
stellar inspection, and solar inspec-
tion, and lunar inspection, are
tame compared with the thought of
divine inspection" Twenty years
ago you converted me-" said black
man to my aged father. "HOw so, said
my father. "Oh," said the man, Gin
your prayer in the school house atBOund
Brook, N. j., you used to say: Thou God
seest me-
Hear it: "The eyes of the Lord are
in every place, behOlding the evil and
the good"
ellis eyelids try the children of men,"
Ellis eyes where is the flame of fire." o,
the eye of God, so full of pity, so full of
power, so full of love, how it peers thrO'
the night How it Outshines the day!
How it glares on the wickedl How it
beams on the repenting soul! If the eye
of man is so indescTibably wonderful,
how much more so the great searching
and overwhelming eye of God. What
overhanging brow OmnipOtentl All eter-
nifty past and all eternity to come on that
retina. These eyes with which we look
into each others faces suggest it. 1t
stands written twice on your face ana
twice on mine, unless some casualty has
Obliterated one or both of them. "He
that formed the eye, shall he not seep"
Yes; he sees our sins to condemn them;
our sOrrOwS to assuage them: our wants
to sympathize with them. If we fight
him back, 1t is the eye of an eternal an
tagOnist. If we come to him for pardon
it is the eye Of an everlasting friend.
You see in books and in manuscripts Of
ten star, calling off attention to foot
note of explanation. That star the prin-
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the night are asterisks, calling your at
tentiOn to God, the all observing and
good. YEA our every nerve is of divine
handwriting, and our every muscle
pulley diYinely swung, and over every
bone is sculptuTed with divine sugges-
tiOn, and our eye is revelation of the
divine eye. God before us, God behind
us, God above us, God beneath us, and
God within us. What a stupendous
thingl
Let us give up all idea of hidden in
iquity, A dramatic advocate of Olden
time in the court room at night, know
ing his client was innocent of the muir
der charged, and that the witness on
the stand swearing the mans life away
had himself committed the crime, lifted
two lambs from the table and rushed at
the perjurer, and holding the light close
to his face, shouted: "BehOld the muir
derer" Under the glare the witness con-
fessed the crime. But under brighter
light than that every sin is committed,
for it is under the burning eye of God,
and there is no hiding 1t. HE that
formed the eye, shall he not see% He
is not blind giant stumbling through
the heavens, or a monarch cropping for
the step of his chariot. Do you suf-
fer great wrOngP He sees it. Are you
abused and slandeTedp He sees 1t. Is
there domestic perturbation that the
world knows nothing OFF He sees it,
and the day of rescue is not far off.
But" says some one, my affairs are
too small and insignificant for God to
discern them." Can you see the point
of pinP Can you see mote floating
in a sunbeam? Can you see an eye of a
that power equal capacity for seeing
such things? But" you say, 81 am so
far off from God that he will not notice
my affairs" Can you see word eight
million miles awayp Do you not think
that God has prolonged VisiOnP "But,"
you say, there are particular phases of
my life that will escape divine atten-
tiOn." Does not God gather all the
shades of color in the rainbOwe. Can he
not appreciate the most delicate shade
of your affaiTsP Besides that your eye
which God so exquisitely fashioned and
hinged and rooted, and through which
haye marched so many of the glOries of
lifetime, will soon close in the last
slumber. Loving hands will smooth
down the silken fringes. $50 he giveth
His beloved Sleep" A legend of Saint
FrOdebeTt says that his mother was
blind and he sOrely pitied her and one
day kissed her eyes and they miraculous
ly saw everything. SO the blind eyes of
the Christian dead shall, under kiss OF
resurrection morning, glOriOusly open.
Yea, what day that will be for those
who stumbled their way through life,
led by the hand of friend or felt their
pathway with uncertain staff, their pill
grimage under perpetual observation,
or, because of old age, 'thOse that look
ed out of the windows when at last eter-
nal day breaks in be darkened. What a
beautiful epitaph in a European ceme-
terry:
n Here TepOses in God, Katrine, a saint,
aged eighty-three years and blind. The
light was restored to her on the 10th of
May, 1920"