Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-01

whslmng Is the Indescribably Search
ing Eye of God The Kiss of the Rcsur-
rcction-Sight Restored.
New YORK. July 2S-Rcv Dr.. Tai
mage, who is still absent ON his summer
preaching tour hl the west and southwest,
has prepared for today q sermon on "Vhc
All Seeing. the text selected being Psalm
xciv 81, "IIe that formed the eye. shall he
not seq"
The imperial organ Of thcl man system
IS the eye. All M and down the Bible God
honors it, cxtols it, illustrates it, or ar
raiPns it, Five hundred and thirtv-four
times it is mentioned in the Bible Omui-
prc,cncc--"thc eyes of the Lord are in cv-
cry place Divine carr-'as the apple Of
the eye The rlouds-"thc cyulids of the
morning. lrrcvcrrncc--"th the eye that
mork'th at its father Pride" oh, how
lofty are their yycsl' Inattcntion-"the
faol' eye in the ends Of the earth" Di-
vino Inspection" whcrl- fun Of eyes
Sudlcnuo-,--"i thr tvnl>ling Of an eye
at the last trumu' Olivctio scrmon--
"thc light Of the body is tho eye" This
mornings tcXt-"IIc that formed the eye.
shall he not scc:' The Surgeons the doe
tor, the anaromists and the phy,ioiugi-ts
great lights of the human face, bat the
vast mullitudcs COON from cradle to grave
without any appreciation of the two great
masterpieces Of the Lord God Almighty.
If cod had lacked anything of infinite
wisdom, he would have failed in creating
the human eve. We wander through the
earth trying to see wonderful sights but
the most wonderful sight that we ever sec
Is not so wonderful rs the Instruments
through which we see it,
It has been strange thing to me for DO
years that some scientist, with enough
CloQuenCe and magnetism did not go
through the country with illustrated Ice
lures on canvas 80 feet square to Startlo
and thrill and ovcrwhcm Christcudom
with the marycls of the human eye We
want the eye taken from all its tCchnicali-
ties and some one who shall lay aside all
talk about the ptcrYgomaxillarY assures,
and the sclerotica, and the chiasma Of the
optic nerve, and in common parlancc,
which you and I and everybody can un-
dcrStand, present the subject We have
learned men who have been telling us
what our origin is and what we were. OH
If some one should come forth from the
dissecting table and from the classroom
of the university and take the platform,
and asking the help of the Creator demon
strate the wonders Of what wc are!
The Surprising Human Eye.
If l refer to the physiological facts sug
gcsted by the former part of my text, it is
only to bring out in u palmer way the
theological lessons Of the latter part of my
text, He that formed the eye, shall he
not Sec" l suppose my text referred to
the human eye, since it exCcls all others
in structure and in adaptation. The eyes
of fish and reptiles and molcs 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 inscctilC are
not equal to the two human. Man, placed
at the head Of all living creatures, must
have supreme Cquipmcnt while the hlinG
fish in the Mammoth cave of Kentucky
have only an undcVclupCd organ of sight
an apology for the eye, which, if through
some crCviCc of the mountain they should
get into the sunlight, might be developed
in,o positive cycSight. 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 hr was about to make man ne
rallied . convention of divinity, as though
to imply that all the powers of Godhcad
were to be enlisted in The achievement
LET us make man" Put whole ton Of
emphasis on that word us" "1.pt us
make man And if God called conycr-
tion Of divinity to create man ! think the
two great questions in that conference
were how to create n SGul and how IA 1ttIl Z,