Connecticut western news., 1895-08-01
THE ALL SEEING EYE.
VISION, SAYS TIRE REV. OR. TAlMAGE, IS THE CREATORS MASTERPIECE.
Hut the Eve of God Is More Inde cribably
 Wonderful, Searching and Overwheln- tng-An Extremely Eloquent and In-


 ng-An Extremely Eloquent and In-
 structive Dlscourse-Sight Restored.
 NEW YORK, July 2S.-Rev. Dr. Tal- mage, who is still absent on his sum- mer preaching tour in the west and southwest, has prepared for today ser mon on ''The All Seeing" the text se- lected being Psalm xciv. g. "He that formed the eye, shall ho not see?"
 The imperial organ of the human sys- tenn is tho eye All up and down the Bible God honors it, extols it, illustrates it or arraigns it. Five hundred and thir- ty-four times it is mentioned in the Bible. Omnipresence-"the eyes of the Lord are in every place. Divine care t'as the apple of the eye. Tho clouds -"the eyelids of the morning. Irrev erence-''the eye that mocketh at it's father. Pride-"Oh, how lofty are their eyes" mattention-"the fools eye in the ends of the earth. , Divine wheels full of eyes Sud- denness-''in the twink ling of an eye at the last trump" ," Olivetic. .sermon-"the light of the body is the eye" This mornings text-"He that formed the eye, shall he not seer" The surgeons, the doctors, the anatomists and the physiologists understand much of the glories of tho two great lights of the hu- man face, but the vast multitudes go on from cradle to grave without any ap- preciation of the two great masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty. If God had lacked anything of infinite wisdom, he would havo 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 see it.
 It has been a strange thing to me for 40 years that some scientist with enough eloquence and magnetism did not go through the country with illustrated lectures on canvas 80 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 gomaxillary Assures, and the sclerotica,
 
 in common parlance which you and I 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 ono 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 are!
 If 1 refer to the physiological facts suggested by the former part of my text it is only to bring out ill plainer way the theological lessons at the latter part of my text, "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?" suppose my text re- ferred to the human eye, since it excels all others in structure and i'll adapta- tion. 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 100 eyes, but tie 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 ill 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, creat- cd the fowl, but when he was about to make man he called convention of di- vinity, 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. '' 'tLet us make man. :" And if God called convention of di- vinity to create man 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 HghtP 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 ont. God, to educate and to bless and to help the human eye, set in the mantel of heaven two lamps-a gold lamp and n silver lamp-the one for the day and the other for tne 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 fol them, so that the sweat of toll should not smart them and 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 tine eye in the fact presented by anatomists and physiolo- gists that there are 800 contrivances in every eye. For window shutters, the eJelids opening and closing 33, ,000 times day The eyelashes so construct ed that they have their selection as to what shall be admitted, saying to the dust, "Stay out, and saying to the light, "Come in. For inside curtains she iris, or Uupii of the eye according