The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09

n urged again the matter, he said: "oh
d emperor, want nothing but my los
t eye" Alas for those for whom
o thick and impenetrable vail is draw
e across the face of the heaven
/ and the face of ones ow
I kindred. That was patheti
: scene when blind man lighte
a torch at night and was found passing
along the highway. and some one said
why do you carry that torch whel
J you can't see?" "Ah" said he, f."
J can't see, but / carry this torch tina
others may see me and pity my help
lessness ane not run me down." Sam
son, the giant, with his eyes put ou1
by the Philistines, is more helpless
than the smallest dwarf with vision
unchanged. All the sympathies Of
Christ were stirred when He saw Bar
timeus with darlsened retina, and the
only salve He ever made that we read
of was a mixture of dust and saliva
and prayer, with which he cured the
eyes of man blind from his nativity.
The value of the eye is shown as much
by its catastrophe as by it's healthful
action. Ask the man who for twenty
years has not seen the sun rise. Ask
the man who for half q century has
not seen the face of a friend. Ask in
the hospital the victim of ophthalmia.
Ask the man whose eyesight persisted
in a powder blast Ask the Bartimeus
who never met Christ, or the man
born blind who is to die blind. Ask
him. This morning, in my imperfect
way, have only limited at the splen.
doris, :he glories, the wonders, the
Divine revelations, the apocalypses
of the human eye, and l stag
ger back from the awful portals of the
physiological miracle which must have
taxed the ingenuity of God, to cry
out in your ears the words of my text:
He that formed the eye, shall He not
see?" Shall Herschel not know as
much as his telescope? Shall Fraun-
hofer not know as much as his spectre
scope? Shall Swammerdan not know
as much as his microscope? Shall DR..
Hooke not know as much as his mi
crometer? Shall the thing formed
formed the eye, shall He not see?"
The recoil of this question is tire
nendous. We stand at the center of a
vast circumference of observation. No
privacy. On us, eyes of cherubimi
yes of seraphim, eyes of archangel; |
yes of God. We may not be able to
zee the inhabitants of other worlds,
III no,.h m fbou NAV ha h1a IN eoA
is. We have not optical instru-
nents strong enough to descry them;
'erhaps they have optical instru-
nents strong enough to descry us.
The mole can not see the eagle mid
ky, but the eagle mid sky can see the
nole mid grass. We are able to see
Mountains and caverns of another
'orld; but perhaps the inhabitants of
ther worlds can see the towers of our
tiles, the flash of our seas, the march
1g of our professions, the white robes
f our weddings, the black scarfs of
ur obsequies.
But you say: God is in one world
nd am in another world; He seems
} far off from me, don't really think
e sees what is going on in my life."
an you see the sun ninety-five million
lies away, and do you think God has
! prolonged vision? But you say:
There are phases of life. and there are
,lors-shades of color-in my annoy
nces and my vexations that 1 don't
link God can understand" Does not
cd gather up all the colors and all
lie shades of color in the rainbow?
nd do you suppose there is any phase
any shade in your life He has not
lthered up in His own heart? Be-
des that, l want to tell you
will soon all be over, this
ruggle. That eye of yours so
,quisitely fashioned and strung, and I
nged and rooted, will before long be [
osed in the last slumber. Loving s
lnds will smooth down the silken ,
inges. So He giveth His beloved
eep. A legend of St. Frotobert is |
at his mother was blind and he was s
sorely pitiful for the misfortune :
at one day in sympathy he kissed $
II eyes, and by miracle she I
W everything. But it is not q
legend when | tell you that all the r
ind eyes of the Christian dead under 1
e kiss of the resurrection morn shall s
oriously open. Oh! what day that
II be for those who went cropping
rough this world under perpetual OBJ
nration, or were dependent on the
nd Of frieAd, or with an uncertain
III felt their way; and for the aged
dim sight about whom it may be
Id that they which look out Of the
ndows are darkened" when eternal
ybreak comes in. What beautiful,
itaph that was a for tombstone in
European cemetery: Here reposes
God, Katrina. a saint. eighty five