The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-29
"EYEuIDS OF THE MORNING. >
IMPERIAL ORGAN OF THE HUMAN
SYSTEM AND ITS MARVELS.

tive Sermon on the Wonders of the
Eye-The Eye HOnOred by the Gree
atOr Before IL Was Crented-"IIe
Cried. Until Chaos Was Irradiatcd
With the Utterance, Let There BE
Lightv Eight Hundred COntriv-
ances I'm Every Eye.
New York, July 2S.-Rev. DIT. Talmage.
who is still absent on his summer preach
ing tour in the west and southwest, has
prepared for to-day a sermon on The
Au-Seeing." the text selected: Psalm, 81:
8. He that formed the eye. shall he not
seq"
The imperial organ Of the human sys-
TEN is the eye. All up and down the BIZ
BE. God honors it. extols it, illustrates it.
or arraigns it, Five hundred and thirty
four times it is mentioned in the Bible.
Omnipresence-"the eyes Of the Lord are
in every place" Divine care-"as the APP
pie of the eye" The clouds-''the eyelids
of the morning" Irreverence-"the eye
that mocketh at its father" Pride-"Oh,
how lofty are their eyesw Inattention-
the FOOLS eye in the ends of the earth"
Divine inspection-"wheels full of eyes"
Suddenness-'in the twinkling Of an eye
at the last trump" Olivetic sermon
"the light Of the body is the eye" This
mornings textile that formed the eye,
shall he not see?" The surgeons. the doc
tors, the anatomists and the physiolo-
gists undertand much of the glories of the
two great lights of the human face; but
the vast multitudes 80 on from cradle TO
grave without any appreciation of the
two great masterpieces Of the Lord God
Almighty. If God had lacked anything
OF infinite wisdom. he would have failed
in creating the human eye. We wander
through the earth trying TO see wonderful
sights, but the most wonderful sight that
we ever see is not so wonderful as the in
struments through which we see it. 1t
has been a strange thing to me for forty
years that some scientist. with enough
eloquence and magnetism, did not go
through the country with illustrated lee
lures on canvas thirty feet square, to
startle. and thrill, and over
whelm Christendom with the marvels Of
the human eye. We want the eye taken
from all its technicalities, and some one
who shall lay aside all talk about the
pterygomaxillary assures. and the seller
otica, and the chiasma of the optic nerve,
and in common parlance, which you and
1 and everybody can understand, present
the subject We have learned men who
have been telling us what our origin is
and what we were. On! II some one
should come forth from the dissecting-
table and from the classroom of the uni
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ing the help of the Creator, demonstrate
the wonders of what we are!
If / refer to the physiological facts sug-
gested by the former part of my text II
Is only to bring out in palmer way the
theological lessons OF the latter part OF
my text, He that formed the eye, shall
he not see?' 1 suppose my text referred
to the human eye, since 1t excels all others
in structure and in adaptation. The eyes
of fish, and reptiles, and moles, and bats,
are very simple things, because they have
not much to do. There are insects with
a hundred eyes, but the hundred eyes have
less faculty than the human eyes. The
black beetle swimming the summer pond
has two eyes under water. and two eyes
above the water, but the four tnseCtiie
are not equal to the two human. Man,
placed at the head of all living creatures,
must have supreme equipment, while the
blind FISH in the Mammoth Cave of Ken
sight an apology for the eye, which, If
through some crevice of the mountain
they should get into the sunlight, might
be developed into positive eyesight. In the
first chapter of Genesis we find that God,
without any consultation, created the
light, created the trees, created the fish,
created the fowl, but when he was about
to make man he called convention of
Divinity, as though to imply that all the
powers of Godhead We're TO be enlisted
in the achievement. Let us make man."
Put whole ton of emphasis on that word
''us." Let us make man." And if God
called convention of Divinity to create
man, think the two great questions in
that conference were how to create a
eoul and how to make an appropriate win
dow for that emperor to look out of.
See how God honored the eye before he
created it. He cried. until thaos was trad
lated with the utterance, Let there be
light" In other words, before he intro
duced man into this temple of the world
he illuminated il, prepared it for the eye
sight. And so, after the last human eye
has been destroyed in the final demolition
of the world, stars are to fall, and the
sun is to cease its shining and the moon, is
to turn into blood. In other words, after
the human eyes are no more to be proftted
by their shining, the chandeliers of heaV-
en- are to be turned out. God, to educate
and to bless and to help the human eye,
gold lamp and a silver lamp-the one for
the day and the other for the night To
show how God honors the eye, look at
the two halls built for the residence of
the eyes, seven bones, making the wall for
each eye the bones curiously wrought
together. Kingly palace of ivory is consid-
cred rich, but the halls for uhe residence
of the human eye are richer by so much
as human bone is more sacred than ele-
phantine tusk. See how God honored the
eyes when he made a roof for them; so
that the sweat of toll would not smart
them; and the rain dashing against the
forehead should not drip into them; the
eyebrows not bending over the eye, bat
reaching to the right and to the left, SO
that the rain and the sweat should be
compelled to drop upon the cheek, instead
of falling into this divinely protected hui
man eyesight. See how God honored the
eye in the fact presented by anatomists
and Psychologists that there are 800 con-
trivances in every eye. For window-shut-
tiers, the eyehds opening and clos
ing $4,000 times a, day. The
eyelashes SO constructed that, they
have their selection as to what
shall be admitted, saying to the dust.