Milford chronicle., 1895-08-02


xciv, 9, HE that formed the eye, shall
not seer"
The imperial organ of tho human systel
is the eye All up and down tho Bible Go
honors it, extols it, illustrates it, or al
, raigns 1t. Five hundred and thirty fou
, times 1t is mentioned in the Bible. Omn
presence-''the eyes of the Lord are in @,
cry place Divine care-"as the apple G
the eye" The clouds-"the eyelids Of tn
morning" Irreverence-"tho eve tina
mooketh at its father" Pride-"Oh, hoy
lofty are their eyesp' Inattention-''th
FOOLS eye in the ends Of the earth" Di
vine Inspection wheels full of ewes.
J Suddenness-'in the twinkling Of an ey
at the last trump" Olivetic sermon
"the light Of the body is the eye" Thi
mornings TEXTILE that formed the eye
shall he not seeg' The surgeons, tho doc
tors, the anatomists and the Psychologist,
understand much of the glorics Of the two
great lights of tho human face, but til,
vast multitudes 70 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 sec wonderful sights but
the most wonderful sight that we ever see
is not so wonderful rs the instruments
through which we see it
1t has been a strange thing to me for 40
years that some scientist, with enough
eloquenoe and magnetism, did not go
| through the country with illustrated lee
| lures on canvas 80 feet square to startle
and thrill and Overwhelm Christendom
with the marvels of the human eye. We
Hlf NrI- oil
ties and some one who shall lay aside all
talk about the pterygomaxillary assures,
and the sclerotica, and the chiasma of the
optic nerve, and in common parlance,
which you and 1 and everybody can I'M
derstand, present the subject We have
learned men who have been telling us
what our origin is and what VIC 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 we arel
The Surprising Human Eye.
If refer to the physiological facts sug-
gested by tho former part Of my text it is
only to bring out in a palmer way the
theological lessons of the latter part of my
text "He that formed the eye, shall he
not seeY' / suppose my text referred to
the human eye, since 1t exoels all others
in structure and in adaptation, Tho eyes |
of fish and reptiles and moles and bats are /
very simple things, because they have not /
much to do. There arc insects with a /
hundred eyes, but the hundred eyes have
less faculty than the human eyes The i
black beetle swimming the summer pond I
has two eyes under water and two eyes
above the water, but the four inscctile 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 undeveluped organ of 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 cyesight, In the first chapter
of Genesis we find that God, without any
created the light, created tho
trees, created the fish, created the fowl,
but when he was about to make man he
called a convention of divinity, as though
to imply that all the powers Of Godhead
were 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 a conven-
lion Of divinity to create man think the
TWO great questions in that conference
we're how to create soul and how to make
81 appropriate window for that emperor
70 look out OF,
See how God honored tho eye before he
'reated it, He cried, until chaos was ir-
adiated with the utterance, Let there be
ightW In other words, before he intro J
luoed man into this temple Of tho world
10 illuminated it, prepared it for the eye
light. And so, after the last human eye y
las been destroyed in the final demolition
t the world, stars arc to fall, and the sun !
} to cease its shining, and the moon is to I
urn into blood In other words after the =
uman eyes are no more to be proflted by .
heir shining. the chandeliers Of heaven A.
re to be turned out. God, to educate and
3 bless and to aelp the human eye, set in
he mantei Of heavoa two lamps---a gold 2
mp and o silver lamp-the one for ths q
ny and the other for the night. To show Q
ow God honors the eye look at the two Q,
alls built for the residence Of the eyes, n
wen bones making the wall for each eye, "
10 seven bones curiOusly wrought to- st
ether. Kingly palace of ivory is consid- st
ed rich, but the halls for the residence Of Il
10 human eye are richer by so much as OF
lnan bone is more sacred than elephan- u
ne tusk. SEQ haY COD hpnorej the eyes ga
D
Veat Of toll should not smart them and "
10 rain dnshing against the forehead "
ould not drip into them, the eyebrows fla
II bending over the eye, but reaching to ee
6 right and to the left, so that the rain tn
I'd the sweat should be compelled to drop
ION the check, instead Of falling Into this pc
yinely protected human eyeslght, See IN
w God hOnOred the eye In the fact pre- co
nted by anatOmists and psychologists M
at there are 500 contrivances in every to
2, For window shutters, the eyelids 81
eninR and closing 30, 600 times a day. sp'
10 eyelashOs 80 construed that they have ini
cir selection as to what shall be admit col
!, saying TO the dust, "Stay out, " and sp'
ring to the light, Come in. For In ag
10 curtains the iris, or pupil Of the eye, -
,ording as the light is greater or less, ye'
or dilating. SCI
The eye Of the owl Is blind in the day
le, the eyes Of some creatures arc blind Br
night, but the human eye, so marvellous Go
can SEQ both by day and by the
INT. Many Of the other creatures Of He
can move the eye only from side TO cry
e but the human eye, so marvel9usly Of
has one muscle to lift the eye fire
another muscle to lower the eye, and Oh
'ther muscle to roll 1t to the right, and Of /
'hulI iuNnt4o ~ fllA ~ ~ tld l1ltt ana lAoi
'ther muscle passing through pulley Ho
urn it round and rOund-an elaborate 1t @
ring of six muscles as perfect as God the
Id make Them. There also is the retina, ten
herring the rays Of light and passing the beii
ial impression along the optic nerve, mo-
ut the thickness Of the lamp Wiok-s whit
sing the visual impression on to the =
s0rium and on Into the soul, What q
cate lens, what an exquisite screen, oth,
It soft cushions, what wonderful chem sgri'
= Of the human eyel The eye washed min
! slow stream Of moisture whether we No.
p or wake rolling imperceptibly over tho
pebble Of tho eye and emptying into Cod
Q Of the nostril. A eoatFtyancs 50 yon- soos
III that 1t can see the sun 05 600, O0Q 49,
IS away and the point Of Q pin Teles n Z
q and microscope In the Same eoatriYs en,s
}. The astronomer swings and moves sver
way and that and adjusts and read ~,