Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-08-01


istry Of the human eyel The eye washed
by a slow stream Of moisture whether we
sleep or wake. rolling imperceptibly over
the pebble of tho eye and emptying into a
bono Of the nostril. A contriyance so won
derful that it can see the sun 95, 900, 900
miles away and the point Of pin. Tcie-
scope and microscope in the same contriv-
nnce. The astronomer swings and moves
this way and that and adjusts and read
justs the telescope until he gets it to the
right focus. The microscopist moves this
way and that and adjusts and readjusts
the magnifying glass until It is prepared
to do its work, but tho human eye, with
out touch, beholds the star and the
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 time to climb 1t.
The Tear Gland.
Oh, this wonderful camera obscura
which you and 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 %, 000,
000 Of miles at the rate Of 200, 900 miles
second is Obliged to halt at the gate of the
eye, waiting for admission until the port
cullis be lifted. Something hurled 95, 000,
900 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 the eye is washed and
from which rolls the tide which brings the
relief that comes in tears when some be-
reavement or great loss strikes us. The
tear is not an augmentation of sorrow, but
the breaking up of the arctic of frozen
grief in the warm gulf stream Of consola,
tion. 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. Diyinely con-
structed visionl Two lighthouses at the
harbor of the 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
speechless and clumsy instrument of ex-
preston as 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 leer with villainy. or droop with
sadness, or pale with envy, or fire with re-
venge, or twinkle with mirth, or beam with
love9 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 pain? II
the eye say one thing and the lips say an
other thing, you believe the eye rather than
the lips.
The eyes of Archibald Alexander and
| Charles 6. Finney were the mightiest part
| of their sermon. George Whitefield en-
thralled great assemblages with his eyes,
though they were crippled with strabismus.
Many military chieftain has with look
hurled regiment to victory or to death.
Martin Luther turned his great eye on an
assassin who came to take his life, and the
villain fled. Under the glance of the hu-
man eye the tiger, with five times man g
strength, snarls 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
eye of his servant, and he said to his serv-
ant: "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 matter he said,
"Oh, emperor, want nothing but my lost
eye.'' Alas for those for whom a thick
and impenetrable vail is drawn across the
face of the heavens and the face of ones
own kindredl That was a pathetic scene
when blind man lighted torch at night
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and some one said, "Why do you carry
that torch when you can't seer" "Ah!'
said he, 81 can't see, but carry this torch
that others may see me and pity my help
lessness and not run me down." Samson,
the giant with his eyes put out by the
Philistines, is more helpless than the
smallest dwarf with vision undamaged
All the sympathies of Christ were stirred
when he saw Bartimeus with darkened
retina, and the only salve he ever made
that we read Of was a mixture of dust and
saliva and a prayer, with which he cured
the eyes Of man blind from his nativity
Tho value of the eye is shown as much by
its catastrophe as by its healthful action
Ask the man who for 20 years has moi
seen the sun rise. Ask the man who fol
half century has not seen the face of q
friend. Ask In the hospital the victim ol
ophthalmia. Ask the man whose eyesight
perished in powder blast Ask the Bar
timeus who never met Christ or the mar
born blind who is to die blind. Ask him
This morning, in my imperfect way,
have only limited at the splendors, the
glories, the wonders, the divine revela
tions, the apocalypses of the human eye
and stagger back from the awful portals
of the physiological miracle which mus
have taxed the ingenuity of God to cry
out in your ears the words Of my text HE
that formed the eye, shall he not see?'
Shall Herschel not know as much as hi:
telescope? Shall Fraunhofer not know as
much as his spectroscope? Shall Swan
merdan not know as much as his micro
scopep Shall DR.. Hooke not know as muct
as his micrometer? Shall the thing formed
know more than it's masterP she that
formed the eye, shall he not seer"
The Eyes Of God.
The recoil of this question Is tremen
dous. We stand at the center of vast cir
cumference 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 inhabitants of othel
worlds, but perhaps they may be able tt
see us. We have not optical instruments
strong enough to descry them. Perhaps
they have optical instruments strong
enough to descry us. The mole cannot SET
the eagle midsky, but the eagle midsky
can see the mole midgrass. We are able tc
see mountains and caverns of another
world, but perhaps the inhabitants of othel
worlds can see the towers Of our cities, tht
fash of our seas, the marching of our pro
cessions, the white robes of our weddings
the black scarfs of our obsequies.
1t passes out from the guess into thu
positive when we are told in the BiblC
J that the inhabitants of other worlds dt
come as convoy to this. Are they not al
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