Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-09

| frOWn of wrath or its contraction OF palns
| If the eye say one thing and the lips say au-
other thing, you believe the eye rather tnan
! the lips.
The eyes of Archibald Alexander and
| Charles G. Finney were the mightleSt part
| of their sermon. George Whltefleld en-
| thralled great assemblages with his eyes,
| though they were crippled with straDisnu3.
| Many military chieftain has with a look
| hurled regiment 10 victory or to deatn'
| Martin Luther turned his great eye on an rs
| sassin who came to take his life, and the VII
| lain fed. Under the glance OF the human
eyethetiger, with five times a mans strength;
snarls back into the African jungle. But
those best appreciate the value OF tho eye
who have lost it, The Emperor Adrian by
accident put out the eye of his servant. ana
he said to his servant: what shall pay
you in, money or in lands? Anything you
ask me. am so sorry put your eye OUT.
But the servant refused to put any financial
estimate on the value of the eye, and when
the Emperor urged and urged again the mat
ter he said, ooh. Emperor, l want nothing
but my lost eye Alas for those for whom
II thick and impenetrable veilis drawn across
the face of the heavens and the face OF ones
own kindred. That was pathetic scene
when blind man lighted torch at night
and was found passing along the highway,
torch, when you can't see2" "Ah, said he,
II can't sec, but Icarry this torch that Others
may see mo and pity my helplessness,
and not run me down" Samson, the
! giant, with his eyes put out by the Phi
lstines, is more helpless than the smallest
| dwarf with vision unchanged. All the
svmpathies of Christ were stirred when
| H. saw Blrtimeus with darkencd
retina, and the only salve He ever made that
oofT Duct nd
| and PRAYER. with which He cured the eyes
/ of man blind from his nativity. The value
| of the eye is shown rs much by its catastro-
phe as by its healthful action. Ask the man
| who for twenty years has not seen the sun
| rise. Ask the man who for half Il century
has not seen the face of friend. Ask in the
| hospital the victim of ophthalmia. Ask the
man whose eyesght persisted in a powder
blast. Ask the Bartimens who never met
| Christ or tho man born bind who Is to die
| blind. Ask him.
This morning, in my imperfect way
have only hinte at the splendors, the glo-
ries, the wonders. the divine revelations, tho
apocalypses of the human eye, and l stagSer
| back from the awful port ais of the physiol
ogical miracle which must have taxed the
ingenuity of God, to Cry out In your ears
| The words of my text. CHE that formed the
eye. shall Hs not seeY' Shall Hersche not
| know as much as his telescope? Shall
| Fraunhofer not know as much as his spec
| troscope? Shall Swanmerlan not know as
much as his microscope? Shall DR.. Hooke
not know az much as his micrometer3 Shall
the thing forme know more than its mas
ter? "He that formed the eye, shall He not
see?'
The recoil of this question is tremendous.
We stand at the center of a vast clrcumfer-
ence Of observation. No privacy. On us,
eyes OF cherubim, eyes Of seraphim, eyes OF
! archangel, eyes Of God. We may not be
! able to see the habitants of other worlds,
| but perhaps they may be able to see us. We
have not optical instruments enough to
descry Them perhaps they have optical in
struments strong enough to descry us. The
mole cannot see the eagle mid sky, but the
| eagle mid sky eau see the mole mid grass.
| We are able to see mountains and caverns OF
another world, but perhaps the inhabitants
of other worlds can see the towers OF our
cities, the fash Of our seas, the marching OF
our PROFESSIONS, the white robes Of our we'd
dings the black scarfs Of our obsequies.
4 1t passes out from the guess into the posi-
! tive when we are told in the Bible that the
| inhabitants of other worlds do come as coll
yoy to this. Are they not all ministering
spirits sent forth to minister 10 those who
shall be- heirs Of salvation2 But human in
spection. and angelic inspection, and stellar
inspection, and lunar inspection, and solar
! inspection are tame compared with the
! thought of divine inspection. "You con-
! verified me twenty years ago." said black
man to my father "How sof" said my
/ father "Twenty years ago." said the other,
Gin the old schoOhouse prayer meeting at
Bound Brook you said in your prayer,
Thou, God, seest me, and l ha no peace
under the eye of God until became Chris
n Lon
in every place" 'His eyelids try the chill
dren of men," "His eyes were as flame OF
I fire." 81 will guide thee with Mine eye. !"
Oh, tbs eye of God, 80 full of pity, so full OF
power. 50 full of love, 80 full of indigna-
ton. 50 full of compassion, so full of mercy!
How it peers through the darkness How 1t
outshines the day How it glares upon the
ofrender How it beams on the penitent
! soul Talk about the human eye as being
in lescribably wonderful! How much mora
wonderful the great, searching, overwhelm-
ing eye of God! All eternity past and all
eternity to come on that retina.
The eyes with which we LOOK into each
others face to-day suggest it. Ii stands
i written twice on your lace AMI twice Oh
lnlne, unless through casualty one or both
have Deen obliterated. "He that formed the
eye. shall III not see?' o., the eye Of Go (!
| 1t sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees
our perplexities TO disentangle them, sees
our wants to sympathize with them. Ii We
| fight Him back, the eye of an antagonist. Ii
we ask Ills grace the eye of an everlasting
! friend. You often find In book or manu-
SCRIPT star calling your attention to loot
note or explanation. That star the printer
calls an asterisk. But all the stars OF the
night are asterisks calling your attention to
/ GOd-au all Observing CD !. Our every
nerve divine handwriting. Our every
! muscle pulley diyineIy swung Oar every
/ bone sculpture with divine suggestion. Our
every eye Il reflection Of the divine eye. Col
above us. aud God beneath us, and Go be-
fore us, t&ni GoI benin US, anl Go1 within
us.
What stupendous thing to live! What \
stupendous thing to diel No such thing as
hidden trangression. A dramatic advocate
in olden times, at night in courtroom, per-
suaded of the innocence of his client charged
with murder and of the guilt of the witness
who was trying to swear the poor mans life
away-that advocate took up two bright
lamps and thrust them close upto the face OF
the witness and cried, MAY it please the
court and gentlemen of the jury, behold the
murderer" and the man, practically under
that awful glare, confessed that he was the
criminal instead OF the man arraigned at the
bar. Oh, my friends, our most hidden
sin is under u brighter light than that =.
1t is under the burning eye of God. He is
not blind giant stumbling through the
heavens. He is not blind monarch feeling
for the step of His chariot. Are you wronged2
He sees it. Are you poor2 He sees it. Have
you domestic perturbation OF which the
world knows nothing2 He secs it. "Ob, ="
you say, my affairs are so Insignificant l
can't realize that God sees me and sees my
| affairs" Can you see the point Of pin?
Can you see the eye OF u needle3 Can you
see q mote in the sunbeam? And has God
e.;..o,, ,,Ar Tint nnu.nr of mir lte nhsaryation