Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-08-03

Wonderful. Searching and overwhelm-
ing-An Extremely Eloquent and In
stsuotivo Dlscourso-siGht Restored.
NEW York, July 2s.-Rov. Dr.. Tai
! mage, who is still absent on his sum-
mer preaching tour in the west and
southwest, has prepared for today SCR
MOI on "Tho All Seeing" tho text Sc
lectd being Psalm kew, 8, "He that
formed the eye, shall he not see3'
Tho imperial organ of the human sys-
tennis tho eye. All up and down the
Bihie God llonorsit, extols it, illustrates
it orarraigus it Five hundred and thir-
ty-feur times it is mentioned in the
Bible. Omnipresenco-"the eyes of the
Lord are n every place." Divine care
"asi.he apple of the eye" The clouds
-ifthe eyolids of the morning" hrev-
ereace-"tho eye. that mocketh at its
father. " Pridc-"Oh, how lofty are
theft eyesl" Inattcntion-"the FOOLS
eye5in tho ends Of the earth. 5" Divine
nspection-"w wheels full of eyes. F" Sud
denness-'tin the twinkling Of an eye at
thelast trump" Olivctic sermon-"the
light of the body is the eye" This
mornings text-"Ho that formed the
eyegshall he not see?" The surgeons,
thelsdoctors, the anatomists and the
PSYCHOLOGISTS understand much of the
glories of the two great lights of tho hui
man face, but the vast multitudes go
on from cradle to grave without any ap-
PROBATION of the two great masterpieces
of Ae 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 try
ing to see wonderful sights. but the
most wonderful sight that we ever see
is not so wonderful as the instruments
through which we sec it
Tt has been strange thing to mo for
40 years that some scientist with enough
eloduence and magnetism did not go
through the country with illustrated
lectures on canvas 30 feet square to
startle and thrill and overwhelm Chris
tendon 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 ptery-
goraaxillary assures, and the sclerotica,
and the chiasma of the optic nerve, and
uncommon 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. 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
state the wonders Of what we are
II I refer to the physiological facts
suggested by the former part of my text
it is only to bring out in palmer way
tha.t Theological lessons at the latter part
of my text, "He that formed the eye,
sliazl he mot seo?" suppose my text re-
ferred to the human eye, since it excels
allSothers in structure and in adapta-
Tie eyes.ef fish and reptiles and
moles and bats are very simple things,
because they have not much to do There
are insects with 100 eyes, but the 100
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 insectile 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 Kentucky have only
an undeveloped organ Of sight, an apol-
ogy 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 chap
ter of Genesis we find that God, with
out any consultation, created the light,
created the trees, created the fish, Great
ed the fowl, but when he was about to
make man he called q convention of di-
vinity, as though to imply that all the
powers of Godhead were to be enlisted
in the achievement. "Lct US make
man +" Put whole ton of emphasis on
that word "us. " "Let US make man. "
And if God called Il convention Of di-
vinity to create man I think the two
great questions in that conference were
how to create soul and how to make
an appropriate window for that emperor
to look out of.
Structure of the Eye.
See how God honored the eye before
he created it. He cried, until chaos was
irradiated with the utterance, Let
there be light" In other words, before
he introduced man into this temple of
the world he illuminated it, prepared it
for the eyesight. 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 shin
ing, and the moon is to turn into blood
In other words, after the human eyes
are no more to be profted by their shin
ing, the chandeliers of heaven are to be
turned out. God, to educate and to bless
and to help the human eye, set in the
mantel of heaven two lamps-a gold
lamp and 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 seven bones curiously
wrought together. Kingly palace of ivory
is considered rich, but the halls for the
residence of the human eye are richer by
so much as human bone is more sacred
than elephantine tusk. See how God
honored the eyes when he made roof for
them, SO that the sweat Of toll should
not smart them ard the rain dashing
against the forehead should not drip in
to them. The eyebrows not bending over
the eye, but 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 di-
vinely protected human eyesight. See
how God honored the eye III the fact
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