Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-08-07
NO. 81.

torch, when you can't see?'' "Ah," said he,
II can't see, but carry this torch that Others
and not run me down" Samson, the
giant. with his eyes put out by the Phil
lstines, is more helpless than the smallest
dwarf with vision undamaged. ALI the
.ympathfes of Christ were stirred when
He saw Bartimeus with darkened
| retina, anil the only salve He ever made that
| we read OF was a mixture of dust and saliva
And prayer. with which He cured the eyes
of man blind from his nativity. The value
| oI the eye is shown rs much by its catastrO-
phe as by its healthful action. Ask the man
| who Tor twenty years has not seen the sun
| rise. Ask the man who for half a century
has not seen the face of friend. Ask in the
hospital the victim of ophthalmia. Ask the
| man whose eyesight perished in a powder
| blast. Ask the Bartimens who never met a
| Christ or the man born b ind who Is to die
blind. Ask him.
This morning. in my imperfect way,
| nave only hinted at the splendors, the glo-
| ries. the wonders. the divine revelations, the
apocalypses of the human eye, and stagyer
| back from the awful portals of the physiol-
| oSical miracle which must have taxed the
| ingenuity OF a God, to cry out In your ears
the words Of my text. che tina, formed tho
sye, shall He not see?" Shall Herschel not
know as much as his telescope? Shall
traunhofer not know as much as his spec
.roScope! Shall Swammerlan not know as
much as his microscope! Shall DIR. Hooke
not know as much as his micrometer? Shall
| ;he thing formed know more than its mas
:er3 HE that formed the eye, shall He not
lee?''
The recoito this question is tremendous.
Ne stand at the center of n vast circumfer-
| ence OF observation. No privacy. On US,
eyes OF cherubim, eyes of seraphim, eyes OF
archangel, eyes of God. We NAV not be-
able to see the habitants of other worlds.
but perhaps they may be able to see u.s. We
have not optical Instruments enough to
1escry them perhaps they have optical in
'truments strong enough to descry us. The
mole cannot See the eagle mid sky but the
Eagle mid sky can see the mole mid grass
we are able To see mountains and cavernS OF
another world, but perhaps the inhabitants
IL other worlds can see the towers OF our
titles, the flash OF our seas the marching OF
our professions, the white robes of our we'd
ings, the black scarfs of our obsequies
IL passes out from the guess into the posi-
i've when we are told in the Bible that the
inhabitants of other worlds do come as con-
roy to this Are they not all ministeriny
Ipirits sent forth to minister to those who
'hall be heirs of salvation? But human in
'pection. and angelic inspection. and stellar
Inspection, and lunar inspection and solar
Inspection are tame compared with the
hought OF divine inspection. .'You con-
ferted me twenty years ago." said black
nan to my father. '.How soi" said my
| ather. Twenty years ago" said the other,
In the old schoolhouse prayer meeting nj
Sound Brook you said in your PRAYER.
Thou, God, seest me, and 1 ha no peace
inder the eye of God until became a Chris
IAN" Hear il. "The eyes of the Lord are
every place" His eyelids try the chill
iren of men," His eyes were as n flame OF
tre.' Il will guide thee with Mine eve"
Oh, the eye of God, so full OF pity, so full OF
,ower. so full of love. 50 full of indignn-
lon. so full of compassion, full of mercy!
How 1t peers through the darkness, How IL
'utshines the day! How it glares upon the
,hender! How it beams on the penitent
oul! Talk about the human eve as being
ndescribably wonderful. How much more
wonderful the great, searching. overwhelm-
ng eye OF God! All eternity past and al
ternity to come on that retina.
The eyes with which We LOOK into ca n
ther's face to-day suggest it, 1t stands
written twice on your face and twic, on
nine, unless through casualty one or both
lave been obliterated. ''He that formed the
,ye, shall He not see?' On. the eye Of Coll
sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees
'ur perplexities to disentangle them, sees
,ur wants to sympathize with them. II We
light Him back, the eye of an antagonist. II
ye ask His grace the eye of An everlasting
dend. You often find in a book or manu-
cr1pt star calling your attention to a foot
tote or explanation. That star the printer
nlls an asterisk. But all the stars OF the
hight are asterisks calling your attention to
iod-an all observing God. Our every
lerve a divine handwriting Our every
MUSCLE pulley divinely swung Our every
bone sculptured with divine suggestion. Our
very eye a reflection of the divine eve God
Lbove us, and God beneath u.s. and God be-
ore us, and God behind us, aud God within
-.
What stupendous thing to live! What a
tupendous thing to diel No such thing "a
hidden trangression. A dramatic advocate
n olden times, at night in a courtroom, per-
maded of the innocence of his client charged
With murder and of the guilt OF the witness
Who was trying to swear the poor mans life
Iway-that advocate took up two bright
amps and thrust them close up 20 the face OF
he witness and cried, MAY 1t please the
,ourt and gentlemen of the jury, behold the
nurdereri" and the man, practically under
hat awful glare, confessed that he was the
criminal instead of the man arraigned at tho
BAR. Oh. my friends, our most hidden
i'm is under H brighter light than that
L Is under the burning eye of God He Is
lot blind giant stumbling through the
leavens. He is not a blind monarch feeling
or the step of His chariot. Are you wrongedi
He sees it. Are you poor! He sees it. Have
Fou domestic perturbation OF which the
world knows nothing? He sees 1t. "Oh,"
you say, my affairs are insignificant
.an't realize that God sees me and sees nv
Affairs" Can you see the point OF pin?
Can you see the eye of needle? Can YOU
given you that power of minute observation,
and does He not possess it HIMSELF "He
hat formed the eye, shall He not see?'
But you say: "God is in one world and
I'm in another world. He seems so far OF
rom me don't really think He sees what Is
going on in my life" Can you see the sun
d, ,000, 90 miles away, and do you not think
1.NIh h,,.a .rNI. D,,k
There are phases of my life and there arc
:olors-shades of color-in my annoyances
and my veXations that don't think God can
understand" Does not God gather up all
The colors and all the shades of color in the
rainbow And do you suppose there is any
phase or any shade in your life He has not
gathered up in His own heart? Besides that
want to tell you it will soon all be over, this
struggle. That eye of yours, 50 exquisitely
faShioned and strung. and hinged and
rooted, will before long be closed in the
last slumber. Loving hands will smooth
down the silken fringes. So He giveth His
beloved sleep. A legend Of st. Frotobert is
that his mother was blind, and he was so
sorely pitiful for the misfortune that one day
in sympathy he kissed her eyes, and by mira
cleshe saw everything. But it is not legend
when tell you that all the blind eyes OF the
Christian dead under the kiss of the resur.
rection morn shall gloriously open. Oh.
what day that will be for those who went
cropping through this world under perpetual
observation, or were dependent on the hand
of a friend, or with uncertain staff felt
their way. and for the aged of dim sight
about whom it may be said that "they which
look out of the windows are darkened" when
eternal daybreak comes in! What a beauti.
full epitaph that was for a tombstone in a
European cemetery: Here reposes in God,
Katrina, a saint, eIghty-five years OF age and
blind. Ihe light was restored to her May
10, 1910.
Put into circulation as much truth