The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Wonders Of the Eye, the Imperial
Human Organ.
The Ey . In the BibIe-An Organ Honorcd
Before 1t WAS Created-The Eye
of Tod which Seeth
All Things.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage selects the
following sermon for publication this
week. Its subject: 1.-The All-Seelng'
is based on the text:
He that for med the eye, shall He not seef-
Psalm kew. D.
The imperial organ of the human
system is the eye. All up and down
the Bible God honors it, extols it. Illus
tratcs it, or arraigns it. Five hun
dred and thirty-four times 1T is men
toned in the Bible. Omnipresence-
ssthe ewes of the Lord are in every
place" Divine care-''as the apple OF
the eve" The clouds--"the eyelids of
the morning" 1rreverence-"the eye
that mocketh at its father" Pride
'Oh, how lofty are their eyes" Inat-
tention--'the fools eye In the ends Of
the earth" Divine inspection
.wheels full of eyes," Suddenness-
in the twinkling of an eye at the last
trump" Olivetic sermon-"the light
of the body in the eye." This morn
inp's textile that formed the eye,
shall he not see?" The surgeons, the
doctors. the ANTAGONISTS and physiolo-
gists understand much of the glories
of the two great lights of the human
face; 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.
| We wander through the earth trying
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 go
through the country with illustrated
lectures on canvas thirty feet square,
to startle, and thrill, and overwhelm
Christendom with the marvels of the
human eve. We want the eye taken
from all it's technicalities, 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 l
and every body can understand, pre-
sent the subject. We have learned
men 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!
If 1 refer to the physiological facts
suggested by the former part of my
text, it is only to bring out in plain
er way the theological lessons OF the
latter part of my text, He that
formed the eye, shall he not see?
suppose my text referred to the human
eve, since it excels all others in struc-
ture and adaptation 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 hundred eyes, but the hundred
eyes have less faculty than the human
| eve. The black beetle swimming the
] summer pond has two eyes under wa
ter and two eyes above the waters, but
the four insectile are not equal to the
: two human. Man, placed at the heat
of all living creatures, must have the
supreme equipment, while the blint
fish in the Mammoth cave o.
Kentucky have only an undevelopet
organ of sight, an apology for the eye
which, If through some crevice of the
mountain they should get into the
sunlight, might be developed into posi-
tive eyesight. In the first chapter o
Genesis we find that God, without an,
consultation, created the light, ere
ated the trees, created the fish, creates
the fowl, but when He was about t
make man He called convention o
divinity, as though to imply that al
the powers of Godhead were to be On
listed in the achievement. Let n
make man" Put whole ton of en-
phasis on the word s'us." Let u
make man." And if God called cor
vention of divinity to create man,
think the two great questions in tina
conference were how to create sou
and how to make an appropriate wiz
dow for that emperor to look out OF.
a See how God honored the eye befor
& He created it. He cried, until chao
l. was irradiated with the utteranc'
4 LET there be lightr' In other word
before He introduced man into tn
temple of the world He Illuminated /
:, pre- pared it for the eyesight. And 81
= after the last human eye has been d.
- stroyed in the final demolition of tt
world, stars are to fail, and the sun
to cease its shining, and the moon is
turn into blood. In other words, aft
!. the human eyes are no more to
" profited by their shining, the chal
= deliers of Heaven are to be turne
n out. God, to educate and to bless ar
% to help the human eye, set in tt
). mantle of heaven two lamps go
10 lamp and q silver lamp-the one #
n the day and the other for II
a night. To show how God homo
n the eye, look at the two halls hui
- for the residence of the eyes, sevt
a. bones making the wall for each ey
- the seven bones curiously wrought t
Is gether. Kingly palace of ivory is co
n sidered rich, but the halls for the rel
" dence of the human eye are richer
4 SO much as human bone is more sacr
T. than elephantine tusk. See how 81
"A honored the eyes when he made 70
N for them, so that the sweat of Il
~ should not smart them; and the ra
~ dashing against the forehead shou
~ not drip into them; the eyebrows n
% bending over the eye, but reaching
- the right and to the left, so that t