The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-08-08


eyes Of God. We may not be able to
see the Inhabitants Of other worlds
but perhaps they may be able to see
us. We have not optical instruments
strong enough to descry them; per.
haps they have, optical Instruments
strong though to descry us, The mole
cannot see the eagle mid sky, but the
eagle mid sky can see the mole mid
grass. We are able to see mountains
and caverns Of another world; but
perhaps the inhabitants of other
worlds can see he.towers Of our cities
the flash of our seas. the marching OF
our professions, the white robes ct
our weddings, the black scarfs Of our
obsequies.
1t passes our from the guess into the
positive when we are told in the Bible
that the inhabitants 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 in
spection, and lunar inspection, and
solar inspection are tame compared
with the thought of divine inspection.
"iou converted me twenty years ago."
said black man to my father. "How
SOP said my father "Twenty years
ago. said the other, Tin the school
house prayer meeting at Bound
Brook you said in your prayer, "Thou
God, seest me-" and I had no peace
under the eye of God until I became
Christian" Hear it. '"rhe eyes of
the Lord are in every place." Ellis
eyelids try the children of men," ellis
eyes were as a flame of fire" II 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
dlgnatlon, so full Of compassion, so
full of mercy! How it peers through
the darkness! How it outshines the
day! How: it glares upon the offender!
How 1T beams on the penitent soul.
Talk about the human eye as being
indescribably Wonderful-hOw much
more wonderful the great, searching,
overwhelming eye of God? All eternity
past and all eternity to come on that
retina.
The eyes with which we look into
each others to-day suggest it, 1t
stands written twice on your face and
twice on mine, unless through casualty
one or both have been obliterated.
"Ee that formed the eye, shall he not
see?'"He that formed the eye, shall he
not see?' Oh, the eye of God! 1t sees
our sorrows to assuage them, sees our
perplexities to disentangle them, sees
our wants to sympathize with them
1t we fight him back, the eye of an all
tagoniSt. II we ask his grace, the
eye of al everlasting friend. You Of
ten lind in book or manuscript Il star
calling your attention to ,footnote,
CT explanation. That star the prin-
ter 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 handWrit-
Ing. Our every muscle a pulley di-
vinely swung. Our every bone sculp-
tured with divine suggestion. Our
every eye a reflection Of the divine
eye. God above us, and God beneath
us, and God before us, and God behind
us, and God within us. What a stu
pendous thing ito die! No such thing
as hidden transgression. A dramatic
advocate in olden times, at night in a
court room, persuaded of the limo
cence of his client charged with muir
der, and of tine guilt of the witness
who was trying to swear the poor
mans life aN:ay-that advocate took
> up the bright lamps and thrust them
close UP to the face of the witness
and cried: MAY it please the Court
and the gentlemen Of the jury, behold
the murderer" and the man, practical
ly under the awful glare, confessed
that he was the criminal instead OF
the man aIraigned at the bar. Oh
my friends, our most hidden sin is
under brighter light than that; it is
under the burning eye of God He is
not a blind giant stumbling through
. the heavens. He is not a blind mon
arch feeling for the step Of his char
lot. Are you wronged? He sees it
Are you poor? He sees it, Have VOL
domestic perturbation of which thu
world knows nothing? He sees it
"Oh," YOU say, "my affairs are so in
\ significant can't realize that Coo
sees Inc ard sees my affairs" Car
you see the point of pin? Can yo,
: see the eye of needle? Can you SCI
, a mote in sunbeam? And has Coo
r given you that power of minute obser
walton and does he not possess i
, himself? ~He that formed the eve
shall he MOTT see?''
:, But you say, "God is in one worl(
= and ann An another world; he seem.
- so far off from me, I don't really
think he sees what is going on in mn
| y
miles away, and do you think God ha
= as prolonged vision? But you say
= There are phases of life and Their
.. are colors- shades of color in nv an
; noyances and my vexations that
> don't think God can understand,
= Does not God gather up the colors AM
:. all the shades of color in the rainbow
:, And do you sunpose'there is any phas
. OF ally shade in your life he has no
q gathered up in his own heart? Be
= sides that, I w.rnt to tell you it will
{ soon all be over, this struggle. Tha
a eye of yours SO exquisitely Fashioned
= and strung, and hinged and rooted
= will before long be closed in the las
slumber. Loving hands will smoot]
. down the silken friEges So he givet]
p, his beloved sleep. A Ilcgend of ST
- Frotobert is that his mother was blint
q and he was so sorely pitiful for tn
. misfortune that one day in sympath,
:. he kissed her eyes, and by miracle sh
= saw everything. Burt 1T is not a lie
a a gend when tell you that all the blint
. eyes Of the Christian Mead ,1ndar th