The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02

able to see mountains and caverns oi
another world; but perhaps the inhab'
ants of other worlds can see the towers
of our cities. the flash of our seas, the
marching of our professions. the white
robes of our weddings, the black scarfs
of our obsequies.
1t passes from the guess into the
positive when we are told in the Bible
that the inha bitants of other worlds do
come as convoy to this. Are they not
all ministering spirits sent forth to
minister to those who shall be heirs of
salvation? But human inspection, and
angelic inspection, and stellar inspec-
ton, and lunar inspection, and solar
! inspection are tame compared with the
thought of divine inspection. "You
converted me twenty years ago." said
black man to my father. How sop
said my father. Twenty years ago" :"
said the other. ''in the old
schoolhouse prayer meeting at Bound
Brook you said in your prayer
Thou, God, seest me- and | had no
peace under the eye of God until be-
came a Christian" Hear it. THE
eyes of the Lord are in every place"
''His eyelids try the children of men,"
''His eyes were as a flame of fire." 81
will guide thee with mine eye." oh,
the eye of God, so full of pity, so full
of power. so full of love, so full of in
dignation, SO full of compassion, so
full of mercy How it peers through
the darkness, How it outshines the
day! How it glares upon the offenderl
How it beams on the penitent soul.
Talk about the human eye as being in
describably wonderful - how much
more wonderful the great, searching,
overwhelming eye of God? All eterni-
ty past and all eternity to come on
that retina.
The eyes with which we look into
each others face to-day suggest it. 1t
stands written twice on your face and
twice on mine, unless through casualty
one or both have been. obliterated.
He that formed the eve. shall lie not
see?' Oh, the eye of God! 1t sees our
sorrows to assuage them. sees our per-
plexities to disentangle them, sees our
wants to sympathize with them. If
we fight Him back, the eye of an an
tagonist. If we ask His grace, the eve
of an everlasting friend. You often
find in book or manuscript a star
calling your attention to foot note,
or explanation. That star the printer
calls an asterisk. But all the stars of
the night are asterisks calling your
attention to God. an all-observing
God. Our every nerve a divine hand
writing. Our every muscle a pulley
swung. Our every bone sculp-
tured with divine suggestion. Our
every eve a reflection of the divine
eve. God above us, and God beneath
US. and God before us, and God behind
us, and God within us. What a std
pendous thing to live. What a stu
pendous thing to die! No such thing
as hidden transgression. A dramatic
advocate in olden times, at night in
court room. persuaded of the innocence
of his client charged with murder. and
of the guilt of the witness who was
trying to swear the poor mans life
away-that advocate took up two
bright lamps and thrust them close up
to the face of the witness. and cried:
May it please the court and the gen
tlemen of the jury, behold the mur-
derer!" and the man, practically un-
der that awful glare, confessed
that he was the criminal instead of the
man arraigned at the bar. Oh. my
friends. our most hidden sin is under
brighter light than that: it is under the /
burning eve of God. lie is not a blind I
giant stumbling through the heavens. |
lie is not blind monarch feeling for
tine step of His chariot. Are YOU |
He sees it. Are you poor? /
He seesit. Have you domestic pertur- /
baton of which the world knows moth |
ing? He sees it. ''Oh," you say. my /
affairs are so insignificant | can't real |
re that God sees me and sees my af- |
fairs. Can you see the point of pin? |
Can you see the eye of a needle? Can |
you see mote in a sunbeam? And has |
God given you that power of minute
observation and does He not possess it |
Himself? He that formed the eye,
shall He not see?"
But you say: God is in one world
md am in another world; He seems so
,ar off from me, don't really think He
'ees what is going on in my life" Can
you see the sun $4,000, 600 miles awav,
md do you think God has as prolonged
Vision? But you say: There are phases
Of life, and there are colors-shades of
,olor-in my annoyances and my veXa-
ions that don't think God can under
stand" Does not God gatheEup all the
,olors and all the shades of color in
The rainbow? And do YOU suppose
there is any phase or any shade in your
life He has not gathered up in His own
leart? Besides that, | want to tell
you it will soon be over, THIS struggle.
That eye of yours so eXquisitely fash
oned and strung, and hinged and
-oofed, will before long be closed in
smooth down the silkeu fringes. So
de giveth his beloved sheep. A legend
If st. Frotobert is that his mother was
blind and he was so sorely pitiful for
he misfortune that one day in ssym-
)athy he kissed her eyes, and by
miracle she saw everything. But it is
lot legend when 1 tell You that all
he blind eyes of the Christian dead
Inder the kiss of the resurre ction morn
hall gloriously open. Oh. what day
hat will be for those who went CROP
ng through this world under perpetual
or were dependent on the
land of friend, or with an unc ertain
taft felt their way: and for the aged ,
If dim sight about whom it may be ,
aid that they which look out of the
windows are darkened' when eternal
comes in. What a beautiful
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