The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-07

the pebble OF the eye ana emptylng
into bone Of the nostril, y contriv-
ance SO wonderful that il can See he
sun $1,000, 900 miles away and
the point OF pin. Telescope
and microscope in the same con
hivance. The astronomer swings
and moves this way and that and ad-
iusts and readiusts the telescope until
he gets it to the right focus The mi
moves this way and that
and ad justs and readiusts the magri-
flying glass until it is prepared to do
its work, but the human eye, without
a touch. beholds the star and the
smallest insect. The traveller among
the Alps with one glance takes in Mont
Blanc and the face OF his watch to see
whether he has time to climb it.
Oh. this wonderful camera obScura
which you and l carry about with US,
so today we can take in our friends, so
from the top of Mount Washington
we can take in New England, so at
night we can sweep into our vision
the consultations from horizon to ho-
rizon. So delicate, SO semi-intinite,
and vet the light coming 100000 of
miles at the rate of 200, 900 miles a sec
and is obliged to halt at the gate Of the
eve, waiting for admission until the
portcullis be lifted Something hurl-
ed 95, 900, 600 of miles and striking IN
instrument which has not the agita-
ton OF even winking under the power
of the stroke. There, also, is the mer-
ciful arrangement Of the the tear
gland by which the eye is washed and
from which rolls the tide which brings
the relief that comes in tears when
some bereavement or great loss strikes
US. The tear is not an augmentation
of sorrow, but the breaking up of the
arctic of frozen grief in the warm gulf
stream Of consolation. 1ncapaclty to
weep is madness or death. Thank God
for the tear glands, and that the crys
tai gates are so easily opened. Oh, the
wonderful hydraulic apparatus Of the
human eye. Divinely constructed
vision! Two lighthouses at the har-
Dor of the immortal soul. under the
shining of which the world sails in
and drops anchor. What an anthem
of praise to God is the human eye.
The tongue is speechless and 4 clumsy
instrument Of expression as compar
ed with it. Have YOU not seen it flash
with Indignation, or l;indle with en-
thusiasm, or expand with devotion, or
melt with sympathy, or stare with
fright, or lecr with villainy, or droop
with sadness, or pale with envy, or
fire with revenge, or twinkle with
mirth, or beam with love? 1t is tragedy
and comedy and partooral and lyric
in turn. Have YOU not seen its up.
lifted brow of surprise, or is frown of
wrath, or its contraction of pain? If
the eye say one thing and the lips say
another thing, YOU believe the eye
rather than the lips.
The eyes of Archibald Alexander
and Charles G.. Finney were the
mightiest part of their sermon. George
Whitefeld enthralled great assem-
blages with his eyes, though they
were crippled with strabismus. Many
a military chieftain has with q look
hurled a regiment to victory cr to
death. Martin Luther turned his great
eve on an assassin who came to take
his life, and the villain fled. Unde r
the grace Of the human eye the tiger,
With FIVE times & mans strength,
snarls back into the African jungle.
But those best appreciate the value Of
of the eye who have lost it. The En-
perior Adrion by accident put out the
eye OF his servant, and he said to his
servant: "What shall pay you in,
money or in lands? Anything you
ask me. am so sorry l
put your eye out" But the
servant refused to put any tinancia,!
estimate on the value of the eye an%
when the emperor urged again the
matter he said, "Oh, emperor, l want
nothing but my lost eye. Alas for
those for whom thick and lmpenetr-
able vail is drawn across the face OF
the heavens and the face of ones own
kindred. That was a pathetic scene
when blind man lighted torch at
night and was found passing along
the highway, and some one said,
why do you carry that touch when
you can't see2" AM said ne, Il
can't see, but l carry this torch that
others may see me and pity my help
lessness and not run me down" Sam
son, the giant, with his eyes put out
by the Philistines, is more helpless
than the smallest dwarf with vision
undamaged. AL the sympathies of
Christ were stirred when he saw Bar
timeus with darkened retina, and
the only salve he ever made that we
read of was mixture of dust and
saliva and prayer, with which he
cured the eyes of man blind from
his nativity. The value of the eye is
shown as much by its healthful action.
Ask the man who for 20 years has not
seen the sun rise Ask the man who
for half a century has not seen the
face of friend Ask in the hospital
the victim of ophthalmia. Ask the
man whose eyesight perished in a
power blast. Ask the Bartimeus who
never met a Christ or the man born
blind who is to die blind. Ask him.
This morning in my imperfect way,
I have only hinted at the splendors,
the glories, the wonders, the divine
revelation, the apocalypses Of the HUI
man eye. and l stagger back from
the awfu! portals of the physiological
miracle which must have taxed the in
genuity of God to cry out in your
ears the words of my text, 'He that
formed the eye, shall he notsee!' Shall
Herschel not know as much as MS
telescope? Shall Fraunhofer not
know as much as his spectroscope:
Shall Swammerdan not know as
much as his microscope? Shall DR..
Hooke not know as much as his mic
rometer! Shall Tie thing formed know
more than its master? He that formed
the eye, shall he not see"
The recoil of this question is tremen-
dous. We stand at the center of a
vast circumference OF observation.
No privacy On US. ewes of cher!l-