The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-08-09
@THE ALL-SEEING. "
Rev. DR.. Talmage Discourses Upon
the Human Eye.
HE Imperial Organ of Mans Many Won
derfuI Partn-Divine In It's Con-
ceptIon and Wonderful In
Ita Construction.


is based on the text:
He that formed the eye, shall He not seel-
| Psalm xciv..e
The imperial organ Of the human
system is the eye. All up and down
the Bible God honors it, extols it, illus
trates 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 eve" The clouds-''the eyelids of
i the morning." Irreverence-"thee eye
that mocketh at its father" Pride
''Oh, how lofty are their eyesy' Inat-
tention--"the FOOLS eye in the ends of
the earth" Divine inspection
"wheels full of eyes" Suddenness-
Gin the twinlOliDg of an eye at the last
trump" Olivetic sermon-''the light
of the body in the eye" This morn
ings textile that formed the eye,
shall he not see?' The surgeons, the
doctors, the anatomists and physiolo-
gists understand much of the glories
of the two great lights of the human
face; but the vast multitudes go on
from cradle to grave without
any appreciation 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 eye.
/ We wander through the earth trying
to see 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 forty years
that some scientist, with enough elo-
| quence and magnetism, did not go
| through the country with illustrated
! lectures ON canvas thirty feet square,
/ to startle, and thrill, and overwhelm
| ChristendOm with the marvels of the
human eye. We want the eve taken
from all its technic6lities, and some
one who shall lay aside all talk about
the pteryomaxillary assures, and the
chiasma of the optic nerve, and in
common parlance, which you and
and every body can understand, pre-
sent the subject. We have learned
men who have been telling us what
we were. Oh! if some one should come
forth from the dissecting table and
from the classroom of the university
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help of the Creator, demonstrate the
wonders of what we are!
! If l refer to the physiological facts
suggested by the former part of my
text, it is only to bring out in plain
err way the theological lessons of the
latter part of my text, He that
formed the eye, shall he not see?"
suppose my text referred to the human
| eye, since it excels all others in struc-
ture and adaptation. The eyes of fish,
and reptiles. and moles, and bats are
very simple things, because they have
not much to do. There are insects
with hundred eyes, but the hundred
eyes have less faculty than the human
/ eye. The black beetle swimming the
summer pond has two eyes under wa
| ter and two eyes above the waters, but
! the four inscctile are not equal to the
| two human. Man, placed at the head
of all living creatures, must have the
supreme equipment, while the blind
! fish in the Mammoth cave of
Kentucky have only an undevelopcd
organ of sight, an =2ology for the eye,
which, if through so4ne crevice of the
mountain they should get into the
/
! tive eyesight. In the irsh chapter OF
Genesis we find that God, VI lthout any
| consultation, created the fight, Gre
ated the trees, created the fish, created
! the fowl, but when He was about to
make man He called a convention of
divinity, as though 20 imply that all
the powers of GOdhead were to be en-
| listed in the achievement. Let us
make man" Put whole ton of em-
| phasis on the word "ns." Let us
make man." And if God called con-
vention of divinity to create man, /
think the two great questions in that
| conference were how to create a soul
and how to make an appropriate win
dow for that emperor to look out of.
Sec how God honored the eye before
lie created it. He cried, until chaos
was irradiated with the utterance:
Let there be lightP' In other words,
before He introduced man into this
temple of the world He illuminated it,
prepared it for the eyesight. And so,
after the last human eye has been de-
stroyed in the final demolition of the
world. stars are to fail, and the sun is
20 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 chan
deliers of Heaven are to be turned
out. God, to educate and to bless and
to help the human eye, set in the
mantle of heaven two lamps-a gold
lamp and a 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
bones making the wall for each eye,
the seven bones curiously wrought to-
gether. Kingly palace of ivory is con-
sidered rich, but the halls for the resi-
dence of the human eye are richer by
so much as human bone is more sacred
than elephantine tusk. See how God
honOred the eyes when he made a 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 the sweat should be compelled
to drop upon the cheek. instead of
falling into this divinely pro-
tected human eyesight See how God
hOnoreG the eve in the fact presented
by anatomists and Psychologists that
there are eight hundred contrivances
in every eye. For window-shutters the
eyelids opening and closing thirty
thousand times day. The eyelashes
SO constructed that they have their Sc
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