Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-08-03
THE ALL SEEING EYE.
VISION. SAYS THE REV. Or. TALMAeE,
is THE CREATORS MASTERPIECE.

VISION, SAYS THE REV. Or. TALMAGE,
is THE CREATORS MASTERPIECE.
hut the Eye of God Is Moro Indcscribabiy
Wonderful. Searching and ovcrwhelin-
ing--An Extremely Eloquent and In
structive Discourse--sight Restored.
New YORK, July 2S.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage, who is still absent on his sum-
mer preaching tour in The west and
southwest, has prepared for today u SER
mon on 1.-THE All Seeing. the text So
lected being Psalm kew. 9, "Ho that
formed the eye, shall he not see?"
The imperial organ of the human sys-
tenn is the eye. All up and down the
Bible God honors it. oxtols it, illustrates
! it or arrnicns it. Five hundred and thir-
ty-four times it is mentioned in the
( Bible. O,nnipresence-'th the eyes of the
Lord arc i'll every place. Divine care
''as the apple Of the eye. The clouds
tho eyel;ds of tho morning. Irrev-
erence--"tho eye that mocketh at its
father Pride-"Oh, how lofty arc
their eyesr' mattention-"thef fools
eye in the ends Of the earth. " Divine
inspection--"w wheels full of eyes. . Sud-
denness-''in the twinbling Of an eye at
the last trump" Oliyet;c sermon-''the
light CT the body is the eye" This
/ mornings TEXTILE that formed the
eye, shall lie not see:" The surgeons,
the doctors, the aratomists and the
/ Psychologists understand much Of the
1 glorics of the two great lights of the hui
man face, but tie vast multitudes go
on from cradle to grave without any APP
probation 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 We wander through the earth try
ing TO see wonderful sights, but the
most wonderful sight that VIC ever see
is not SO wonderful as the instruments
through which We see it.
1t has been 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 so 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,
and the chiasma of the optic nerve, and
in common parlance which you and |
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 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, demon
strate the wonders of what we arei
If l refer to the physiological facts
suggested By the former part Of my text
it is only to bring cut i'll a palmer way
the theological lessons at the latter part
of my text, "He that formed the eye,
shall he not see?" 1 suppose my text re-
ferred to the human eye, since it excels
all others IL structure and in adapta-
ton. 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 the 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 i'll the
Mammoth cave OF Kentucky have only
an undeyeloped 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 ally consultation, created the light,
created the trees, created the fish, Great
ed the fowl, but when he was about to
make man he called a convention Of di-
vinity, as though to imply that all the
powers of Godhead We're to be enlisted
in the achievement. "Let us make
man. " Put whole ton of emphasis ON
that word ''us. % "Let us make man "
And if God called a convention Of di-
vinity to create man | think the two
great questions in that conference We're
how to create q 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 uttcranee, LET
there be light!" 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 profited by their shin
ing, the chandeliers of heaven are to be
turned out. God, to educate and to bless
and to help the human eye, set in the
nlimtel Of heaven two lamps--a gold
lamp and q 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 human eye are richer by
50 much as human bone is more sacred
than elephantine tusk. See how God
honored the eyes when he made roof for
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
check instead of falling into this di-
vinely protected human eyesight. See
how God honored the eye in the fact
presented by anatonists and physiolo-
gisti that there are 500 contrivances in
every eve For window shutters, the
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