The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-08-02

tmperceptlbly over the people OF the eye
and employing into bone Of the nostriL
A continuance so Wonderful that 1t can
see the sun, 95, 900, 900 miles away, and
the point of a pin. Telescope and mi
croscope in the same contrivance, The as
ronomer swings and moves this way
and that and adjusts and readjusts the
telescope until he gess 1t to the right TO-
Gus The microscopic moves thisway and
that and adjusts and readjusts the mag
nifying glass until it is prepared to do its
work, but the human eye, without Il
touch, beholds tho star and the smallest
insect. The traveller among the Alps,
with one glance taking in Mont Blanc
and the face of his watch to sea whether
he has time to climb it.
The Tear Glands.
Oh, this wonderful camera obscura
which you and ] carry about with us, so
today we can take III orr Friends, SO
from tho top Of Mount Washington we
can take in New England, so at night
we can sweep into our vision the con-
stellations from horizon to horizon. So
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| light coming 50, 10000 of miles at the
rate Of 200, zoe miles second is obliged
to halt at the gate Of this eye, waiting
for admission until the portcullis be
lifted. Something hurled 5000, 900 of
miles and striking an instrument which
has not the agitation 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 as. The tear not an augmenta-
ton of sorrow, but The breaking up Of
the arctic of frozen grief in the warm
| gulf stream of consolation. Incapacity to
weep Is madness or death. Thank God
for tho tear glands, and that the crystal
gates are so easily opened Oh, the won
derful hydraulic apparatus of the hui
inan 6ye Divinely constructed vision !
| Two lighthouses at the harbor Of the
immortal soul, under the shining of
which the world sails in and drops
anchor! What All anthem of praise to
! God is the human eye The tongue is
speecnl5sE ahd D fluinsy instrument of
expression as compared with IT, Have
you not seen it flash with Indignation, or
kindle with enthusiasm, or expand with
devotion, or melt with sympathy, or
stare with fright, or leer with villainy,
or droop with sadness, or pale with
. / G,,n l,,;E p,s t,x-i,,l l. In
with mirth. or beam with love? IT is
tragedy and comedy and pastoral and
lyric i'll turn. Have you not seen its up
lifted brow Of surprise, Or its frown of
wrath, or its contraction Of painf If the
eye say one thing and the lips say an
5thor thing, you believe the eye rather
than the lips
The eyes of Archibald Alexander and
Charles G. Finney wela the mightiest
sart Of their sermon. George Whitefield
enthralied great assemblages with his
eyes, though they We're crippled with
strabismus, Many military chieftain
has with look hurled regiment to
victory or to death. Martin Luther turn-
II 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 jungle.
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 l pay you in, money Or in
lands? Anything you ask me. I am SO
sorry put yotr eye out. /" But the serv-
ant refused to put any financial estimate
on the value Of the eye, and when the
emperor urged and urged again the mat
ter he said, "Oht emperor, | want moth
ing but my lost eyep' Alas for those
for whom thick and impenetrable veil
is drawn across the face Of the heavens
and the face Of ones own kindred. That
was pathetic scene when blind man
lighted a torch at night and was found
passing along the highway, and some
one said, "Why do you carry that torch,
when you can't seer "Ah," said he,
81 can t sec, but carry this torch that
others may sec me and pity my helpless
mess, and not run me down. Samson,
the giant, with his eyes put out by the
Philistines, is more helpless than the
smallest dwarf with vision unchanged.
lAll the ssmpathies of Christ were stirred
when he saw Battimeus with darkened
retina, and the only salve he ever made
that we read Of was mixture OF dust
and saliva and Il prayer, with which he
cured the eyes of a man blind from his
nativity. The value Of the eye is shown
as much by its catastrophe as by its
healthful action, Ask the man who fol
20 years has not seen the sun rise ASH
the man who for half century has moi
seen the face of friend Ask in the
hospital the victim of ophthalmia Ash
,he man whose oyesight persisted III
powder blast Ask the Bartis4cus who
never met Christ or the man bor1
blind who is to die blind. Ask him.
This morning, in my imperfect way
have only limited at the splendors, tn
glories, the wonders, the divine revela
tions, the apocalypses Of the human eye
, and stagger back from the awful POI
tails Of the physiological miracle whic
must have taxed the ingenuity of a Goo
, to cry out in your ears the words Of III
text, He that formed the eye, shall /
not see?" Shall Herschel not know .
much as his telescope? Shall Fraunhofe
i not know as much as his spectroscope
, Shall Swammerdan not know as niue
as his microscope2 Shall DR.. Hooke NJ
, know as much as his micrometer! Sha
the thing formed know more than i
: master? He that formed the eye, sha
, he not seer"
1 Wonders of Vision.
9 The recoil of this question is tremel
: dous. We stand at the center Of va
Q circumference of observation. No pr
t vacy. On us, eyes of cherubim, eyes I
: seraphim, eyes Of archangel, eyes
a God. We may not be able to see Il
g habitants Of other worlds, but perha]
0 they may be able TO see us. We have III
= optical instruments enough to descl
G them; perhaps they have optical instr,
q ments strong enough to descry rs. II
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