The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-08-03

| GrOOp Win SaIfe5S. or I!a'e WIFI t!!FF. "l
fire with revenge. or twinkle with mirth. or
beam with love? 1t IS tragedy and comedy
| aui pastoral and lyric in turn. II I'VE you
not seen its uplifed brow Of surprise. or its
frown of wrath, or its contraction Of pain?
# the eve say one thing and the lips say au-
other thing, you believe the eye rather than
| the lips.
The eyes Of Archibald Alexander and
Charles G. Finney were the mightiest part
of their sermon. George Whitefeld en-
thralled great assenblages with his eyes,
though they were crippled with strao!smus.
Many military chieftain has with look
hurled regiment to victory or to death.
| Martin Luther turned his great eye on al as
sassin who came to take his life, and the vii
lain fed. Under the glance Of the human
eyatnetIgar, with five times 4 man sStr"n":r.
! Snaris back into tho African iun-!". Bat
! thos" best appreciate the valun cI III" CIV
who have lost il. Tie Emperor Adr;aH hy
accident put out the eye Of his servant. anI
he said to his servant "What shall ] pa"
YOU in. money or in lands? Anything r3I
ask me. am 50 sorry put YOUR eve oHi.
But the servant refused to put any financial
estimate OH the value Of the eye, ani whrn
the Emperor urged and urSal again the mat
ter he said. ooh. Emncror. J want nothing
but nv lost eve." Alas for thoSo for whom
n thick and impenetrable veiis drawn a"r2ss
the face Of the heavens and the facn o! ones
own kindred. That was u pathetic s'enn
when n blind man lighted Il torch at night
and was found passing along the hiSiwly.
and some one said. "Why do YOU carry :ha:
torch. when you can't see?' "Ab." said h".
81 can't see. but carry this torch that Others
may SEQ mo and pity my helplessness.
and not run me down" Samson. the
giant. with his eyes put ont by the Phil
istines, is more helpless than the smallest
dwarf with vision undamagel. All the
SvmpatheS Of Christ were stirred wheT
He saw Bartimeus with darknaei
retina. and the only salve he ever made that
we read of was q mixture OF dust and saliva
and Il prayer. with which He cured the ewes
Of q man blind from his nativity. The value
OF the eye is shown rs much by its catastro
phe as by its healthful action. Ask the man
who for twenty years has not seen the sun
rise Ask tho mau who for half II century
has not seen the face Of a friend. Ask inthe
hospital tho victim OF ophthalmia. Ask tho
mau whose eyosight perished in a powlar
blast. Ask the Bartimeus who never met y
Christ or the man born bind who i; to dis
blind. Ask him.
This morning, in my imperfect way.
have only hintei at tho splendorS, the glo-
r;es. the wonders. tho divine revelations, the
apocaypSeS OF the human eye. and I stagSer
back from the awful portals OF the physiol-
ogical miracle which must have taxed the
ingenuity OF a God. to cry out in your ear;
the words OF my text, Gle that formed the
eve, shall He not see?' Snail Herschel not
know as much as his telescope? SHALL
Frauahofer not know as much as his spec
troscope? Shall Swammerdan not know as
much us his microscope? SHALL DR.. Hoo&e
moi know as much as his micrometer? Shall
the thing formed know moro than its mas
ter? 'Ho that formed the eye, shall Ho not
see?'
The recoiI of this question is tremendous.
We stand at tho center of a vast clrcumfer-
encc OF observation. No privacy. On us.
cyes Of cherubim, eyes of seraphinl, eyes OF
archaageI, eyes of God. Wo may not be
able to SEE tho habitants Of other worlds,
but perhaps they may be able to see US. We
have not optical instruments enough to
dcscry them; perhaps they have optical in
struments strong enough to descry us. The
mole cannot see the eagle mid sky, but tho
eagle mid sky can see the mole mid grass.
We are able to see mountains and caverns Of
another world. but perhaps the inhabitants
Of other worlds can see the towers OF our
cities, the flash Of our seas, the marching OF
our professions, the white robes Of our we'd
dings, the black scarfs of our obsequies.
1t passes out from the guess into the posi-
tive when we are told in the Bible that the
inhabitants of other worlds do come as con-
voy to this. Are they not all ministering
spirits sent forth to minister to those who
snail be heirs of salvation? But human in
spection, and angelic inspection, and stellar
Inspection, and lunar inspection, and solar
inspection are tame compared with the
thought of divine inspection. 'You con-
vertea me twenty years ago." said black
man to my father. Chow so?" said my
father. Twenty years ago" said the other,
'.in the old schoolhouse prayer meeting at
Bound Brook you said in your prayer,
Thou, God, seest me- and hal no peace
under the eye OF God until became Chris
tian.' Hear it. The eyes of the Lord are
in every place His eyelids tr- the chill
dren Of men" ''Nis eyes were as a flame Of
fire. Il will guide thee with Mine eye."
On, the eye Of God, so full of pity, 50 full CT
power, so full Of love, 50 iull of indigna-
ton. so full Of compassion, so full of mercy!
How it peers through the darkness. How it
outshines the day! How it glares upon the
offender! How it beams on the penitent
sou! Talk about the human eye rs being
indescrlbably wonderful! How much more
wonderful the great, searching, overwhelm-
ing eye Of God! All eternity past and all
eternity to come on thar retina.
Tho eyes with which We look into each
others lace to-,lay suggest it. 1t stands
written twice on your lace and twice on
mine, unless through casualty one or both
have Deem obliterated. "ae that formedtho
eye shall H. not see?" On, the eye Of Coll
1t sees our sorrow5 to assuage them, sees
oar perpleXities to disentangle them, sees
our wants to sympatEizs with them. Ii we
light Him back, the eye of an antagonist. II
We asa His grace, the eye OF an everlasting
friend. You often find in a book or manu-
script star calling your attention to foot
note o. explanation. That star the printer
calls an lsterisk. But all the stars OF the
night are asterisks calling your attention to
God-an all observing God. Our every
nerve divine handwriting. Our every
muscle pulley dirine!y swung. Our every
bone sculptured with divine suggestion. Our
every eye q reflection Of tho divine eye. God
above us, and God beneath us, and Goa be-
fore us, and God behind us, and God within
us.
What a stupendous thing to livei What a
stupendous thing to diei No such thing as
hidden trangression. A dramatic advocate
in olden times, at night in courtroom, per-
suadeG 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
away--that advocate took up two bright
lamps and thrust them close upto the face Of
the witness ana crleQ, May IL please the
court and gentlemen OF tn" ''rry, behold the
murderer" and the man, practically under
that awful glare. confessed that he was the
criminal instead of the man arraigned at tho
bar Oh. ny friends, our most hidden
sin is under \ brighter light than that.
II is under the burning eye Of God. He is
not blind giant stumbling through the
heavens. He is not a blind monarch feeling
for the step Of His chariot. Are you wronged?
He sees it. Are you poor? He sees it. Haye
you domestic perturbation Of which the
world knows nothing? He secs it. "Oh,"
you say, my affairs are 50 insignificant I
can't realize that God sees mo and sees my
affairs" Can you see the point OF L pin?
Can YOU SEQ the eye of u needle? Can you