The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-08-08

New York, Special.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage, who is still absent on his sum-
mer preaching tour in the West aud
Southwest, has prepared for to-day a
sermon on '"rhe Al-Seeing," the text
selected being Psalm $40, Gle that
formed the eye, shall he not sce?'
The imperial organ OF the human
system is the eye. All up and down
the Bible God honors it, eXtols 1T, IL
Illustrates it, or arraigns it. Five hun
dred and thirty-four times it is men-
toned in the Bible. Omnipresence-
1.-The eyes Of the Lord are in every
place. Divine care-!'as the apple Of
the eye" The clouds-"the eyelids OF
the morning" IrrcVerence-"the eye
that mocketh at it's father Pride
"Oh, how lofty are their eyes!' In
attention-"the fools eye in the ends
of the EARTH" Divine inspection
''wheels full of eyes, Suddenness-
lin the twinkling of an eye at the last
trump" Olivetic sermon-"the light
of the body is the eye This morn
ings TEXTILE that formed the eye,
shall he not see?' The surgeons, the
doctors. the ANTAGONISTS and physiolo-
gists understand much Of the glorles
of the two great lights of the human
face; but the vast multitudes so on
from cradle to grave without any ap-
probation of the two great master
pieces Of the Lord God Almighty. II
God had lacked anything of infinite
wisdom lie would have failed in Gre
ating the human eye. We wander
through the earth trying to see Won
derful sights, but the most wonderful
sight that we ever see is not so Won
derful as the Instruments through
which we see it. 1t has been strange
thing to me for forty years that some
scientist. with enough eloQuence and
magnetism, did not go through the
country with illustrated lectures on
canvas thirty feet square to startle,
and thrill, and oyerwhelm Christen-
dom with the marveds of the human
eye. We want the eye taken from all
it's technicalitieS, and some one who
shall lay aside all talk about the
DterygomaNillary assures, and the
sclerotica, and the chiasma of the OPP
tic nerve, and in common parlance,
which you and l and everybody can
understand, present the subject. We
have learned men who have been tell
ing us what our origin is and what we
were. Oh. if some one should come
forth from the dissecting table and
from the class room Of the university
and take to the platform, and, ask
ing the help of the Creator, demon
strate the wonders Of what we are!
If I 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, t'He that form
ed the eye. shall he not see?' sup
pose my text referred to the human
eve, since it excels all others in struct-
ure and in adaptation. The eyes of
fish. and reptiles, and moles, srnd bats
are very simple things, because they
have not much to do. There ;are in
sects with a hundred eyes, but the
hundred eyes have less faculty than
the human eye. The black beetle
swimming the summer pond has two
eyes under water and two eyes above
the waters, but the four insectile are
not equal to the two human. Man,
placed at the head of all living Great
ures, must have the supreme equip
lnent, while the blind fish in the Mann
moth cave of Kentucky have only an
lndeveloped organ of sight, an apOl-
some crevice of the mountain they
should get into the sunlight might be
developed into positive 'eyesight. In
the first chapter OF Genesis we find
that God, without amy consultation,
created the Tight, created the trees,
created the fish, created the fowl, but
when he was abLlrt to make man he
called a convention of divinity, as
trough to ;impty that AL the powers
of Ciodhead were to be enlisted in the
achievement. 'Iet lis make man.
Put Il Whole ton of emphasis ON the
word us "Tttt us make man. And
if Cod called a convention Of divinity
to creaue man, think the two great
questions in that conference were how
to create "a soul and how to make an
appropriate window for that emperor
to look out or.
See how God honoped the eye ibefore
he created lit. G1e cliied until 'chaos
was irrsnfiated with the utterance
"Iet there he light:" In other words
before he introduced man into this
temple Of the world he Illuminated 1T
prepared it for the eyeSight. And so
after the last human eye has been
destroyed in the final demolition CT the
world stars are to fail, and the SUN il
to cease it's shining, and the mo9n is
to turn into blood. In other words
after the human eyes are no more tc
be profited by their shining, the chan
deliers of heaven are to be turned out
God, to educate and to bless and tic
help the human eye, set i'm the man
tie of heaven two lamps-a gold lamp
and a silver lamp-the one for the day
and the other for the night TO show
how God ho2ors the eye, look at the
two halls built for the residence OF
the eyes, seven bones making the wal
for each eye, the seven bones curious
ly 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 a roof for them, SO thai
the sweat of toll should not smart
them; and the rain dashing against
the forehead should rot drip into
chem; the eyebrows not bending over
sac eye, but reaching to the right and
to the left, 50 that the rain and The
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