The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-10

eyelids opening and closing shirty
thousand times. . day. The eyelashes
SO constructed that they have their 80
lection as to what shall DO admitted.
saying to the dust, "Stay out" and
saying to the light. ''Come in" For
inside curtains, the iris, or pupil, of the
eye. according as the light Is greater
or less. contracting or dilating. The
eye Of the owl is blind In the daytime,
the eyes Of some creatures are blind at
night, but the human eye, so marvel
ously constructed, can see both by day
and by night Many of the other
creatures of God can move the
eye only from side to side. but
the human eye is marvelously con-
structed has one muscle to lift the
eye, and another muscle to lower the
eye, and another muscle to roll 1t to
the right, and another muscle to roll
IL to the left, and another muscle pass
ing through pulley to turn 1t round
and round-an elaborate gearing Of
six muscles as perfect as God could
make them. There also is the retina,
gathering the rays - light and pass
ing the visual impression along the
optic nerve, about the thickness Of the
lampwick-passingt the visual impress
sion on to the sensorium, and on into
the soul What delicate lens, what
an exquisite screen, what soft cush-
ions, what wonderful chemistry of
tho human eyel The eye washed
by a slow stream of moisture,
whether we sleep or wake, roll
ing imperceptibly over the pebble
of the eye and emptying into bone of
the nostril. A contrivance so wonder
full that it can see the sun. ninety-fve
million miles away, and the point of
a pin. Telescope and microscope in
the same continuance. The astronomer
swings and moves this way and that,
and adjusts and readjusts the telescope
until he gets it to the right focus; the
moves this way and that.
and adjusts and readjusts the magni-
flying glass until it is prepared to do
its work; but the human eye, without
n torch, beholds the star and the
smallest insect. The traveller among
the Alps, with one glance taking 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 carry about with us,
so to-day 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
horizon. So delicate, SO semi-infinite,
and yet the light coming ninety. five
million miles at the rate of two hun
dred thousand miles second is obliged
ing for admission until the portcullis
be lifted. Something hurled ninety
five million miles and striking an in
strument which has not the agita-
ton Of even winking under the
power of the stroke. There, also,
is the merciful arrangement OF
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 u.s. The tear not an
of sorrow, but the
breaking up of the arctic of frozen
grief in the warm gulf stream of con-
ISOLATION. Incapacity to weep in mad
ness or death. Thank God for the tear
glands, and that the crystal gates are
SO easily opened. Oh! the wonderful
hydraulic apparatus OF the human eye.
Divinely constructed vision! Two
light houses at the harbor Of the i'm
mortal soul, under the shining Of
which the world sails in and drops an
Choir. What an anthem of praise to God
is the human eye! The tongue Is
speechless and clumsy instrument of
expression as compared with it. Have
you not seen it fash with Indignation
or kindle with enthusiasm, or expand
with devotion, or melt with sympathy,
or stare with fright, or lecr with viii
liany, 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
pastoral and lyric in turn. Have you
not seen it's uplifted brow of surprise,
or its frown' of wrath, or its contrac-
tion 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 Alex
ander and Charles G. Finney were the
mightiest part of their sermon.
George Whitefeld enthralled great as
semblages with his eyes, though they
were crippled with strabismus. Many
a military chieftain has with look
hurled regiment to victory or to
death. Martin Luther turned his great
eye on an assassin who came to take
his life, and the villain fed. Under
the glance of the human eye, the tiger,
with five times mans strength,
snarls back into the African jun
gle. But those best appreciate the
value of the eye who have lost it. The
Emperor Adrian 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; I am SO sorry put your eye out"
But the servant refused to put any
financial estimate on the value of tho
eye, and when the emperor urged and
urged again the matter, he said: "Oh,
emperor, want nothing but my lost
eye" Alas for those for whom a
thick ard impenetrable vail Is drawn
across the face Of the heavens
and the face of ones own