The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-10
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Wonders OF the Eye, the Imperial
Human Organ.
rhs Eye In tho Bible-An Organ Honorsd
Before It was Created--The Eye
OF God Which sssth
All Things.

week. Its subject: 1.-The All-Seeing,
Is based on the text:
He that formed the eye. shall He not seei-
Psalm xciv..s.
The imperial organ of the human
system is the eye. All up and dowr
the Bible God honors it, extols il, illus
trates 1t, or arraigns it. Five hun
dred and thirty-iou times 1t 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." Irreverence-"thee 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-
I'm the twinkling of an eye at the last
trump" Olivetic sermon-"the light
of the body in the eye." This morn.
ing's TEXTILE that formed the eye,
shall he not seep" The surgeons, the
doctors, the anatomists and physiolo.
gists understand much of the glories
of the two great lights of tho human
face; but the vast multitudes 90 on
from cradle to grave without
any appreciation Of the two
great masterpieces of the Lord
God Almighty. II 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
30 wonderful as the instruments
through which we see it. 1t has been
q 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 its technicalities, and some
one who shall lay aside all talk about
the ptery assures, and the
chiasma of the optic nerve, and in
common parlance, which you and l
and everybody 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!
II refer to the physiological facts
suggested by the former part Of my
text, it is only to bring out in a 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
eye, 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
eye. 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 head
of all living creatures, must have the
supreme equipment, while the blind
fish in the Mammoth cave OF
Kentucky have only an undeveloped
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 OF
Genesis we find that God, without any
consultation, created the light, Gre
ated the trees, created the fish, created
the fowl. but when He was about to
make man He called a convention OF
divinity, as though to imply that all
the powers Of Godhead were to be en-
listed in the achievement. Let us
make man" Put whole ton of en-
phasis on the word "us." Let us
make man." And IL God called a con.
vention of divinity to create man,
think the two great questions in that
| conference were how to create q soul
and how to make an appropriate win.
dow for that emperor to look out Of Z
See how God honored the eye before
He created it. He cried, until chaos
was irradiated with the utterance
"Let there be lightv In other words
before He introduced man into this
temple OF the WORTH ne lllunludJeu IL,
prepared it for the eyesight. And so
after the last human eye has been de-
stroyed in the final demolition of the
world. stars are to fail, and the sun il
to cease its shining, and the moon is tc
turn into blood. In other words, after
the human eyes are no more to be
profited by their shining, the chan
deliers of Heaven are to be turned
out. God, to educate and to bless and
to help the human eye, set in the
mantle of heaven two lamps-a gold
lamp and a silver lamp-the one fol
the day and the other for the
night. To show how God honor.
the eye, look at the two halls BULL
for the residence Of the eyes, sever
bones making the wall for each eye
the seven bones curiously wrought to
gether. Kingly palace Of ivory is con
sidered rich, but the halls for the resi-
dence of the human eye are richer by
so much as human bone Ii more sacret
than elephantine tusk. See low Goo
honored the eyes when he made a roo
| for them, so that the sweat OF tot
should not smart them; and the rail-
dashing against the forehead shoul'
not drip into them; the eyebrows no