The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-09
THE ALL-SEEING.'
Rev, DR.. Ta,nage Discourses Upon
tho Human Eye.
The Imperial Organ OF Mans MANY Won
derful Parts-Divine In It's Con-
ception and Wonderful In
Its Construction.

The following discourse on "The A
Seeing is chosen by RU. L. Dewitt
-TaImage for publication this week.
is based on the text:
He that formed the eye, shall He not sees-
ESalm xciv..e.
The imperial organ of the human
system is the eye. All up and dow
she Bible God honors it, extols it, Illus
erates it, or arraigns it, Five hun
ytired and thirty-four times it is men
eioned in the Bible. Omnipresence-
1.-THE eyes of the Lord are in every
place" Divine care-''as the apple OF
Che eye" The clouds-'the eyelids OF
Che morning." Irreverence-''thee eye
that mocketh at its father" Pride
.'Oh, how lofty are their eyes" Inat-
tcution-"th FOOLS eye in the ends of
She earth" Divine inspection
-'wheels full of eyes" Suddenness-
Sin the twinkling of an eye at the last
trump" Olivetic sermon-"the light
of the body in the eye" This morn
4ng's TEXTILE that formed the eye,
shall he not see?" The surgeons the
DOCTORS the anatomists and physiolo-
gists understand much of the glories
of the two great lights of the human
lace; but the vast multitudes go 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.
IL, ha
to see wonderful sights but the most
wonderful sight that we ever see is not
so wonderful as the instruments
through which we see it. 1t has been
a strange thing to me for forty years
that some scientist, with enough elo-
quence and magnetism, did not 60 |
through the country with illustrated |
lectures on canvas thirty feet square,
to startle, and thrill. and overwhelm
HChristendom with the marvels of the
human eye. We want the eye taken
from all its technicalites, and some.
one who shall lay aside all talk about
the pteryomaxillary assures, and the
chiasma of the optic nerve, and in
common parlance, which you and
and everybody can understand pre-
sent the subject. We have learned
sneu who have been telling us 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 demonstrate the
wonders of what we are!
{f 1 refer to the physiological facts
suggested by the former part of my S
!ext, it is only to bring out in plain ,
er way the theological lessons of the I
sfater part of my text, HE that t
,ormed the eye, shall he not see?" / /
suppose my text referred to the human a
,ye, since it eXcels all others in struc- n
arc and adaptation. The eyes of fish, d
md reptiles. and moles, and bats are t.
cry simple things, because they have il
lot much to do. There are insects b
With hundred eyes, but the hundred
yes have less faculty than the human S
ve- The black beetle swimming the t
umaner pond has two eyes under wa D
er and two eyes above the waters, but is
he sour insectile are not equal to the tt
Syo human. Man, placed at the head is
{ all living creatures, must have the ii
upreme equipment, while the blind il
sh in the Mammoth cave CT q
-entucky have only an undeveloped a
ryan OF sight, an apology for the eye, b
Thich, If through some crevice of the q
they should get into the Sc
znlight, might be developed into posi- n
i've eyesight. In the first chapter of q
enesis we find that God, without any sc
onsultation, created the light, Gre h
ted the trees, created the fish, created ID
nc fowl. but when He was about to Ii
lake man He called convention OF m
trinity, as though to imply that all W
ne powers of Godhead were to be en- cl
sted in the achievement LET us is
lake man" Put whole ton of en- 81
basis on the word ''us." Let us e,
lake man." And if God called con- v,
eution of divinity to create man, OF
mink the two great questions in that "
difference were how to create a soul OF
nd how to make an appropriate win lii
DIV for that emperor to look out of. w
See how God honored the eye before t,
e created it. He cried, until chaos 10
as irradiated with the utterance: ps
Let there be light" In other words, n,
,fore He introduced man into this OF
nipple of the world He illuminated it, Ii
-epared it for the eyesight. And SO, I'll
ter the last human eye has been de- I'll
royed in the final demolition of the I'll
orld. stars are to fail, and the sun is al
cease its shining, and the moon is to m
I'm into blood. In other words, after @,
e human eyes are no more to be sc
Gifted by their shining the chan W
Tiers of Heaven are II be turned q
It. God, to educate and to bless and HI
halp fla hurnan ana | Il.