Milford chronicle., 1895-08-02


smallest insect. The traveller among the
Alps with one glance takes In Mont
Blanc and the face Of his watch to see
whether he has tiino to climb it,
The Tear Gland.
Oh, this wonderful camera obscura
which you and I.carry about with us, so
today we can take in our friends, so from
the top Of Mount Washington we can take
In New England so at night we can sweep
into our vision the consultations from
horizon to horizon. So delicate, so semi
infinite, and yet the light coming 90, 600,
! 600 Of miles at the ratio Of 200, 600 miles a
second is Obliged to halt ut tho gate Of the
( eye, waiting for admission until the port
cullis be lifted. Something hurled %, OO0,-
/ 600 OF miles and striking an instrument
which has not the agitation Of even wink
/ ing under the power of the stroke There,
also, is the merciful arrangement Of the
] tear gland, by which tho eye is washed and
from which rolls the tide which brings the
relief that comes in tears when some be-
reayement or great loss strikes us. The
tear is not an Ruginenhteion Of sorrow but
the breaking a. OF tlla arctic of frozen
grief in the warm gulf stream Of consola.
ton. Incapacity to weep is madness or
death. Thank God for the tear glands,
and that the crystal gates are so easily
opened. Oh, the wonderful hydraulic ap-
paratus Of the human eye. Divinely con
structed visiunl Two lighthouses at the
harbOr Of tho immortal soul, under the
shining OF which the world sails in and |
drops anchor. What an anthem Of praise |
to God Is the human eyel The tongue is |
speeehless Fld clumsy instrument Of ex-
preston rs compared with it, Have you |
not seen it flash with indignation, or kin /
die with enthusiasm or expand with devo-
tion, or melt with sympathy, or stare with
fright, or lcer with yillainy. or droop with
sadness, or pale with envy, or fire with re-
yenge, or twinkle with mirth, Or beam with
love? 1t is tragedy and comedy and pas
toral and lyric in turn. Have you not seen
its uplifted brow Of surprise, or its frown
of wrath, or its contraction Of painf II
the eye say one thing and tho lips say an
other thing, you believe the eye rather than
the lips.
Tho eyes Of Archibald Alexander and
Charles G. Finney were the mightiest part
of their sermon. George Whitefeld en-
thralled great assomblages with his eyes,
though they were crippled with strabismus.
Many a military chieftain has with look
hurled a regiment to victory or to death.
Martin Luther turned his great eye on an
villain fed. Under tho glance Of the hui
man eye the tiger. with five times a mans
snars back into the African
jungle. But those best appreciate the (
value of the eye who have lost it, The !
Emperor Adrian by accident put out the
BYE Of his servant and he said to his serv- !
ant: "What shall pay you in, money "
In lands? Anything you ask me. am so '
sorry put your eye out" But tho servant l
refused to put any financial estimate on {
ihe value of the eye, and when the emperor t
lrged and urged again the matter he said @
ooh, emperor, I want nothing but my lost {
,ye," Alas for those for whom q thick q
md impenetrable vail is drawn across the G
ace of the heavens and the face of ones Y
,wn kindred That was pathetic scene t
when blind man lighted a torch at night s.
md was found passing along the highway, v
md some one said, "Why do you carry
hat torch when you can't seer" "Ahl"
aid he, Il can't see, but I carry this torch
hat others may sec me and pity my help. d
essness and not run me down" Samson, b
he giant, with his eyes put out by the "
is moro helpless than the d,
mallest dwarf with vision unchanged -
III tho sympathics Of Christ were stirred L,
then no saw Bartimeus with darkenod
hat we read of was a mixture of dust and
aliva and a prayer, with which he cured
ne eyes Of man blind from his nativity -,
he value Of the eye Is shown as much by =
s catastrophe as by its healthful action,
SIX the man who for 30 years has not NJ
zen the sun rise. Ask the man who for
alf a century has not seen the face Of a
lend. Ask In the hospital the victim Of
lhthalmia. Ask the man whose eyesight
3rished in powder blast. Ask tho Bar III
meus who never met a Christ or the man
Urn blind who is to die blind Ask him.
This morning, in my imperfect way, 1 NJ
I'VE only limited at the splendors, the Z
cries, the wonders, the divine revela- a
)ns, the apocalypse If the human eye, j
ID stagger back from the awful portals I
the physiological miracle which must 60,
we taxed the ingenuity of a God to cry
It in your ears the words of my text, "He
at formed the eye, shall no not seef'' Z
all Hersehel not know as much as his NJ,
escopef Shall FraunhofeP not know as 2
lch as his speotrosoope? Shall Swami M
8rdan not know as much as his micro
)pe9 Shall DR.. Hooke not know as much
his miorometerY Shall the thing formed rs
Ow moro than its master? HE that O..
med the eye shall he not see?" a
The Eyes of God. Nv,
TNho rooofI Of tT,f- 1,,o-ts.,, l. "