The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-08-02
THE ALL SEEING EYE.
VISION, SAYS THE REV. DR., TALMAGE,
IS THE CREATORS MASTERPIECE.

Hut tho Ego OF God Is More Indescribably
Wonderful. Searching and oyerwheim-
ing-An Extremely Eloquent and In
struotive Discourse-Sight Restored.
New YORK, July 2S.-Rev, Dr. Tai
mage, who is still absent ON his sum-
mer preaching tour in the west and
southwest, has prepared for today SCR
mop.Sn "The All Seeing" the text So
lected being Psalm xciv, 8, "He that
formed the eye, shall he not see?'
The imperial organ of the human sys-
tenn is tho DYE. All up and down the
Bible God honors it, extols it, illustrates
it or arraigns it. Five hundred and thir-
ty-four times 1t is mentioned in the
Bible. Omnipresence-"the eyes of the
Lord are in every place" Divine care
"as the apple Of the eye. The clouds
--"tho eyelids of the morning" Irrev-
erence-"the eye that rsJcketh at its
father Pride-"Oh, how lofty are
their eyesr Inattention-"the FOOLS
eye in the ends Of the earth" Divine
nspection--"w wheels full Of eyes. " Sud
aenness- in the twinkling Of an eye at
the last trump" Olivetic sermon--'the
light of the body is the eye. This
mornings text--"He that formed the
eye, shall he not see?" The surgeons,
the doctors, the anatomists and the
psychologists understand much Of the
glories of the two great lights of the hu
man face, but the vast multitudes go
on from cradle to grave without any APP
probation 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
BYE. We wander through the earth try
ing to sec 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
40 years that some scientist with enough
eioquence and magnetism did not go
through the country with illustrated
lectures on canvas 80 feet square to
Startle and thrill and overwlgolm Chris
tendon with the inarvels of the human
eye We want the eye taken from all
its technicalities, and some one who
shall lay aside all talk about the ptery.
gomaxillary assures, and the sclerotica,
and the chiasma Of the optic nerve, and
in common parlanee which you and 1
and everybody can understand present
the subject 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
university and take the platform, and
asking the help of the Creator, demon
strato the wonders Of what we arel
If 1 refer to the physiological facts
suggested by the former part of my text
It is only to bring out in palmer way
the theological lessons at the latter part
of my text, "He that formed the eye,
shall he not see?" l suppose my text re-
ferred to the human eye, since it excels
all others in structure and in adapta-
| ton, The eyes Of fish and reptiles and
m51hs and bats are very simple things,
because they have not much to do. There
are insects with 100 eyes, but the 100
eyes have 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 nos equal to the two
human Man, placed at the head of all
living creatures, must have supreme
equipment, while the blind fish in the
Mammoth cave Of Kentucky have only
| an undeveloped organ of sight, an apol-
| ogy for the eye, which, iHthrough some
crevice of'the mountain they should get
into the sunlight, might be developed
into positive eyesight. In the first chap
ter of Genesis we find that God, with
out any consultation, created the light,
created the trees, created the fish, crBat:
ed the fowl, but when he was about to
make man he called convention of di-
vinity, as though to imply that all the
| powers Of Godhead were to be enlisted
in the achievement. "tet Us make
man. " Put whole ton of emphasis oil
that word Gus " "Let US make man. "
And if God called convention Of di-
vinity to create man l think the two
great questions in that conference were
how to create soul and how to make
an appropriate window for that emperor
to look out Of
Structure of the Eye.