The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
THE HUMAN EYE.
DR.. Talmage Discourses on That
Imperial Organ.
HE Eye In the Bible and the Eye of God
which seeth All Things-The Day
When All Eyes Shall Be
Opened.

Seeing" the text selected being: Psalm
$40, "He that formed the eve. shall III,
not see?" Following is the sermon:
The imperial organ of the human sys
tenn is the eye. All up and down the
Bible God honors it, extols it, illus
trates it. or arraigns it. Five hundred
and thirty-fou= times it is mentioned
in the Bible. Omnipresence-''the ewes
of the Lord are in every place" Di.
vine care-'as the apple of the eve. y
The clouds-''the eyelids of the MORN
ing" Irreverence-''thee eye that mock
eth at its father" Pride-"Oh, how
lofty are their eyes" Inattention-
the FOOLS eye in the ends of the
earth" Divine inspection-''wheels
full of eyes" Suddenness-"in the
twinkling of an eye at the last
trump" Olivetic sermon-"the light
of the body is the eye" This
mornings textile that formed the
eye, shall He not see?'' The surgeons.
the doctors, the anatomists and physi-
ologists understand much of the plories
of the two great lights of the human
face; but the vast multitudes go on
from cradle to grave without any ap-
probation of the two great master
pieces of the Lord God Almighty. If
God had lacked anything of infinite
wisdom He would have failed in Gre
ating the human eve We wander
through the earth trying to see won
.derful sights, but the most wonderful
sight that we ever see is not so wonder
full as the instruments through which
we can see it. 1t has been
a strange thing to me for forty
years that some scientist, with
enough eloguence and magnetism,
did not go through the country
with illustrated lectures on canvas 80
feet square, to startle, and thrill, and
-orerwhelm Christendom with the mar
wels OF the human eye. We want the
eve taken from all its technicalities,
and some one who shall lay aside all
talk about the pterygomaxillary fs-
sures and the sclerotica, and the
chiasma of the optic nerve, and in COM
mon parlance, which you and l and
everybody can understand, present the
subject. We have learned men who
been telling US what our origin is and
what we were. OH if some one should
come forth from the dissectirg table
and from the class room of the univer-
sity and take the platform, and asking
the help of the Creator, demonstrate
the wonders of what we are!
If refer to the physiological facts sug-
gested by the former part of nv text,
jt is only to bring out in palmer way
the theological lessons of the latter
part OF my text: He that formed the
eye. shall He not see?" 1 suppose my
text referred to the human eye, since
IT excels all others in structure and
adaptation. The eyes of fish, and
reptiles, and moles, and bats are very
simple things. because they have not
much to do. There are insects with
hundred eyes. but the hundred eyes
have less faculty than the human eve.
The black beetle swimming the sum-
mer pond has two ewes under water
and two eyes above the waters,
but the four insectile are not equal
20 the two human. Man, placed
at the head of all living creatures,
must have the supreme equipment,
while the blind fish in the Mammoth
cave of Kentucky have only an unde-
veloped organ of sight, an apology for
the eve, which, if through some crevice
of the mountain they should get into
the sunlight. might be developed into
positive eyesight. In the first chapter
Of Genesis we find that God, without
any consultation, created the light,
created the trees, created the fish. ere
Ated the fowl, but when He was about |
to make man He called convention of
divinity, as though to imply that all
the powers of Godhead were to be en-
listed in the achievement. Let US
make man" Put a whole ton of en-
phasis on the word ''us." Let us
make man" And if God called con-
Vention of divinity to create man,
think the two great questions in that |
conference were how to create soul
and how to make an appropriate win
dow for that emperor to look out of.
See how God honored the eye before |
He created it. He cried, until chaos |
was irradiated with the utterance,
a'Let there be lightr' 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 de-
stroyed in the final demolition of the
world, stars are to fall, and the sun is
20 cease its shining, and the moon is to |
turn into blood. In other words, after |
the human eyes are no more |
TO be profted by their shining, 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 a 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 hu- |
man eve are richer by so much as hu |
man bone is more sacred than elephan- |
tine tusk See how God honored the |
ewes when He made a roof for them, so |
that the sweat of toll should not smart |
them; and the rain dashing against the |
forehead should not drip into them; |
the eyebrows not bending over the eye, |
.hnt 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 in the fact, |
presented by anatOmists and physi-
.ologists, that there are 500 contrivances
IN every eve. For window-shutters
the auelids nnaninr and closing 30. 900 |