The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-02

"NO
DE saw Bartimeus with darkenet
ietfna, and the only salve He ever made tina
We read OF was q mixture of dust and salivi
and a prayer. with which He cured the eye
81 q man blind from his nativity. The value
81 the eye Is shown IS much by Its catastro-
phe rs by its healthful action. Ask the mar
who for twenty years has not seen the sur
/ rise. Ask the man who for half a century
has not seen the face OF a friend. Ask in tht
hospital the victim OF ~ophthalmia. Ask the
man whose eyesight persisted In a powder
blast. Ask the Bartimens who never met 4
Christ or the man born bind who Is to die
Mind Asb ht-~
Ihis morning. In my imperfect way, ]
nave only limited at the splendors, the glo-
Ties, the wonders. the divine revelations, the
,pocalypses of the human aye, and 1 stagger
back from the awful portals Of the physiol-
ogical miracle which must have taxed the
Ingenuity Of a God, to cry out In your ears
the words OF my text, Il that formed the
Know as much as his t~elescope2 Shall
traunhofer not know as much as his spec
sroscope2 Shall Swammerian not know as
much as his microscopic Shall DR.. Hookc
not know as much as his micrometer2 Shall
he thing formed know more than its mas
Ter? ttHe that formed the ave shall He ne.
ee2"
Iho reeoil OF this question fs tremendous.
Ne stand at the center OF a vast circumfer-
snce OF observation. No privacy. On US,
eyes OF cherubim, eyes Of seraphim, eyes Of
~irchangel, eyes of God. We may not be
sblet to see the habitants of other worlds,
but perhaps they may be able to see US. We
have not optical instruments enough to
iescry them; perhaps they nave optical in.
aruments strong enough to descry us. Ths
mole cannot see the eagle mid sky, but the
8 mid sky can see the mole mid grass.
we are able to see mountains and cayerns OF
mother world, but perhaps the inhabitants
u other worlds can see the towers Of our
aties, the flash OF our seas, the marching Of
;ur professions, the white robes Of our we'd
iings, the black scarfs Of our obsequies.
II 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 ministering
ipirtts sent forth to minister to those who
hall be heirs OF salvation? But human in
tpectton, and angelic inspection, and stellar
Inspection, and lunar inspection, and solar
Inspection are tame compared with the
thought Of divine inspection, "You con-
nan to my father. "How SOP" said nv
Ather. .'Twenty years ago" said the other,
In the old schoolhouse prayer meeting al
Bound Brook you said In your prayer,
Thou, God, seest me- and I had no peace
Under the eye OF God until / became q Chris
ian" Hear 1t. 'The eyesot the Lord arc
n every place." 'Hls eyelids try the chill
lren OF men," His eyes we're as a flame of
ire." 81 will guide thee with Mine eye"
Oh, the eye Of God, SO full of pity, so full Of
tower. SO full Of love, so full Of indigna-
ion. so full of compassion, SO full Of mercyI
How 1t peers through the darkness! How it
|lntshines the dayi How 1t glares upon the
tRenderl How 1t beams on the penitent
pull Talk about the human eye as being
ndescribably wonderful! How much more
wonderful the great, searching, o~verwhelm-
ng eye OF Godl All eternity past and all
ternity to come on that retina.
The eyes with which we look into each
ther's face to-day suggest it. It stands
nine, unless through casualty one or both
rave Q obliterated. "He that formedths
we, shall He not see?" Oh, the eye OF Godi
1 sees our sorows to assuage them, sees
.yur p~erplexities to disentangle them, sees
tur wants to sympathize with them. If we
light Him back, the eye Of an antagonist. II
We ask His grace, the eye Of an everlasting
hend. You often find in q book or manu-
cript a star calling your attention to a foot
nlls an asterisk. But all the stars of the
night are asterisks calling your attention to
3od-an all observing God. Our every
nerve a divine handwriting. Our every
MUSCLE q pulley diyinely swung. Our every
Sone sculptured with divine suggestion. Our
very eye a reflection Of the divine eye. God
.bove us, and God beneath us, and God be-
ore US, and God behind us, and God within
"a. ~
What q stupendous thing to livel What a
tupendous thing to diel No suoh thing as
ltAHun fxrAuutnn A Arar,aA AIrAauko
n olden times, at night in q courtroom, per-
maded Of the innocence Of his client charged
With murder and of the guilt of the witness
Fho was trying to swear the poor mans life
tway-that advocate took up two bright
amps and thrust them close up to the faos OF
he witness and cried, MAY It please tho
,ourt and gentlemen Of the Jury, behold the
nurdererl' n the man, practically under
nat awful glare, confessed that he was the
criminal instead of the man arraigned at the
jar. Oh, my friends, our most hidden
I'm Is under Q brighter light than that.
L is under the burning eye OF God. He Is
not b blind giant stumbling through the
ieavens. He is not q blind monarch feeling
or the step of His chariot. Are you wrongedf
&c sees 1t. Are you poor? He sees 1t. Have
Tou domestic perturbation OF which the
world knows nothing2 He sees It. '0h,"
you say, tiny affairs are 80 insignificant !
,an't realize that God sees me and sees my
~lffairsL" Can you see the point OF a pin2
Can you see the eye OF q needle? Can you
Ice a mote in the sunbeam? And has God
Owen you that power OF minute observation,
md does He not possess 1t HIMSELF "He
hat formed the eye, shall He not seer"
But you say: "Goi is In ono world and I
u in another world. He seems SO far on
rom me I don't really think He sees what Is
Ppin0 nv itfs Gan you -
5000, oo] miles away, and do you not think
aod has as prolonged vision? But you say,
solors-shades Of color-in my s~nnoyances
md my vexations that I don't think God can
understand" Does not God gather up all
the colors and all the shades OF color In tho
rainbow And do you suppose there Is any
phase or any shade In your life He has not
gathered mp In His own hearth Besides thatl
want to tell you 1t will soon all be over, this
fashioned n strung, and hinged and
rooted, Will before long be closed In the
last slumber. Loving hands will smooth
down tho silken fdnges. 30 He giyeth His
beloved sleep. A legend OF st. Frotobert IL
his mother was blind, and he was so
Dorely pittful for the misfortune that n day
In sympathy he kissed her eyes, and by mira
cleshe saw everything. But II 10 not q legend
when / tell you that all the blind eyes OF the
Christian dead under the kiss Of the resur-
rsction morn shall ~gloriously open. Oh,
what Q day that will be for those who went
cropping through this world under perpetual
observation, or were dependent on the hAn
Of q friend, or with an uncertain stafr felt
their way, and for the aged Of dim sight
about whom 1t may bs saidthat 'they which
look out OF the windows are darkened" when
etarnal daybreak comes ini What a beauti.
full epitaph that was for q tombstone In e
European cemetery: Here reposes in God,
Katrina, q saint, e~ighty-Ave years OF age and
blind. The light was restored to her May
10, ls4o."
W. cannot do our best for q cause we