The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-07
WONDERS OF THE EYE.
REV. Or. TALMAGE breaches UPON
IT'S MARVELLOUS CONSTRUCTION.
lie Also Asks How Much More Over
,ri,rtmi,Ic i> the Irde>crihably Searching
Eyes OF God-Thc kiss "t the Sc>urrec-


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;i"u--Sight RESTORED
Mem YORK. July Is. Rev. DR.. Tai
mage. who is still absent on his sum-
n,er preaching tour in the west and
southwest, has prepared for today
sermon on The All Seeing" the text
selected being Psalm xciv, 9 He 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 it, IL
lustrates it, or arraigns it, Five hun
dred and thirty four times it is men
toned in the Bible Omnipresence-
the eyes Of the Lord are in every
place" Divine care as the apple Of
the eye The clouds eyelids of
the morning. Irreverence-'th eye
that mocketh at its 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
in the twinkling Of an eye at the last
trump Ohvetic sermon the light
Of the body is the eye" This morn
ins's text He that formed the eye.
shall he not see:' The surgeons, the
doctors. the anatou,istS and the physi
ologists understand much of the glo-
rics Of the two great lights of the hui
man race but the vast multitudeS go
on from cradle to grave without any
appreciation OF the two great master
pieces of the Lord God Almighty. If
God had lacked anything of infinite
wisdom, he 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
GertUl as the instruments through
| which we see it.
It has been a strange thing to me for
10 years that some scientist, with
enough eloquence and magnetism, did
not 80 through the country with illus
! trated lectures on canvas 80 feet
square to Startle and thrill and over
wkelm Christendom 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 pterygomaxillary fissures,
and the sclerotica, and the chiasma of
the optic nerve, and in common par
lance, which you and l and every
body can understand, present the sub
| iect. 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 univer-
sity and take the platform, and asking
the help of the Creator demonstrate
the wonders of what we are!
If 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 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 and bats
are very simple things, because they
have not much to do. There are in
sects with {. hundred eyes, but the
hundred eyes haye 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 living creatures,
must have 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
positive eyesight. In the first chapter
of Genesis we find that God, without
any consultation, created the light,
created the trees, created the fish, Gre
ated the fowl, but when he was about
to make man he called convention
of divinity, as though to imply that
all the powers of Godhead were to be
enlisted in the achievement. Let US
make man" Put whole ton of en-
phasis on that word ''us. Let US
make man" And if God called a
convention of divinity to create man
! think the two great questions in that
conference were how to create soul
and how to make an appropriate win
dow for that emperor to look out of,
See how God honored the eye be-
fore he created it. He cried, until
chaos was irradiated with the utter
ance, Let there be light In other
words, before he introduced man into
this temple of the world he illumina-
ted it, prepared it for the eyeslght.
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 shining, and the
moon is to turn into blood In other
words, after the human eyes are no
more to be profted by their shining,
the chandeliers Of heaven are to be
turned out. God, to educate and to
bless and TO help the human eye, set
in the mantel Of heaven two lamps-a
gold lamp and 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 sew
en- bones curiously wrought together.
kingly palace Of ivory is considered
rich, but the halls for the residence of
the human eye are richer by so much
us human bone IS more sacred than
elephant tusk. See how God honored
the eyes when ne made roof for
them, so that the sweat of toll should
not smart them and the rain dashing
against the forehead should not drip
into them, the eyebrows not bending
over the eye, but reaching to the right
and to the left, so that the rain and
sweat should be compelled to drop
upon the check, instead of falling into
this divinely protected human eye
sight. See how God honored the eye
in the fact presented by anatomists