Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-08-09
REV. DR. TALMAGE
rhe Eminent New York Divines Sun
day Sermon.
Sub ect: "lhc All Seeing"

not see?'-Psalm KEW, 9.
The imperial organ of the human system
Is the eye All up and down the Bible God
honors it, extols it, illustrates it or arraigns
it. Five hundred and thirty-four times it is
mentioned in the Bible. Omnipresence-
"the eyes of the Lori are in every place"
Divine care-"as the apple OF the eye." The
clouds-''lhe eyelids of the morning. Ir-
reverence-"the eve that mocketh at its
father" Pridc-"Oh. how lofty are their
eyes," IDattention-'th FOOLS eye in the
ends of the earth Divine Inspection
"wheels full OF eyes" Suddeuness-"in the
ivetic sermon -"the light of the body is the
eye This mornings tex: HE that formed
the eye. shah He not see?' The surgeons, the
doctors, the anatomists and the physiolo-
gists understand much of the glories of the
two great lights of the human face, but the
vast mutitudes go on from cradle to grave
without any appreciation of the two great
masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty. II
God had lacked anything of infinite wisdom,
He would have failed in creating the human
eye We wander through The earth trying
10 see wonderful sights, but the most won
derful sight that we ever SEQ is not SO won
derful as the instruments through which we
see it
1T has been n strange thing to me for forty
years That some scientist with enough elO
uuence and magnetism did not go through
the country with illustrated lectures on can
vas thirty feet square 10 startle and thrill and
overwhelm Chrstendom with the marvels of
the human eye. We want the eye taken from
all its techhnicalties, and some one who shall
lay aside all talk about the pterygomaxillary
assures, and the sclerotca, and the chasma
of the optic nerve. aul in common parlance
which you and and everybody can UNDER
stand present the subject. We have learned
men who have been telling us what our ORR
gin is and what we were Oh. IL some one
should come forth from tho dissecting table
and from the classroom Of the university and
take platform. and ASKING the help OF the
Creator, demonstrate the wonders Of what
we arel
If refer to the physiological facts sug'
gested by the former part OF my text 1t IS
only TO bring out in palmer way the theO-
logical lessons mt the latter part of my text
"He that formed the eye. shall He not see?"
suppose nv text referred to the human eye
since it exceIs all others in structure and in
adaptation. The eyes OF fish and reptiles and
moles and bats are very simple things. be-
cause 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 AMI two eyes
above the water, but the four insectile are
not equal to the two human. Man, placed
Mt 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 apology
for the eye, which, ii through some crevlce
of the mountain they should get into the
night might be developed into positive
eyesight. Tn the first chapter Of Genesis we
find that God without any consultation,
created the light, created the trees created
the fish. created the fowl, but when he was
about to make man he called q convention OF
divinity, as though TO imply that all the
powers of Godhead were to be enlisted in the
achievement. "Let us make man." Put q
whole ton of emphasis on that wOrl Gus. ="
LET us make mhn.' And If God called u
called a convention of divinity to create man
think the two great questions in that con-
ference wera how to create soul and how
to make an appropriate window Tor that en-
peror to look out OF.
See how God honored the eye before He
created it, He cried, until chaos was irradi-
ated with the utterance. "Let there be
light" In other words, before He intro.
duced man into this temple Of the world He
illuminated it, prepared it for the eyesight.
And So after the last human eye has been
DESTROYED in the final demolition Of the
world, stars are to fall, and the sun is to
cease its shining, and the moon is to turn
into blood. In other words, after the hui
man eyes are no more to be prohted by their
shining. the chandeliers Of heaven are to be
turned out. God, to educate AID to bless
and to help the human eye, setin the mantel
of heaven two lamps---a gold lamp and
silver lamp---the one for the day and the
har for hap fDhf N N W
ors the eye, look at the two halls built for
the residence of the eyes, seven bones max
ing the wall for each eye. the seven bones
curiously wrought together Kingly palace
of ivory is considered rich, but the halls for
the residence of the human eye are richer by
so much as human bone is more sacred than
elephantine tusk. SEQ how God honored
the eyes when He made roof for them, Sd
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 10 the left, so that the rain and
the sweat should be compelled to drop upon
the cheek, instead of falling into this divine
ly protected human eyesight. See how God
honored the eye in the fact presented by
anatomists and psychologists that there are
800 contrivances in every eye. For window
shutters. the eyelids opening and closing
SO. 90 times day. The eyelashes 50 con-
structed that they have their selection as to
what shall be admitted, saying to the dust,
"Stay out, and saying to the light, Come
in" For inside curtains the iris, or pupil OF
the eye, according as the light is greater or
less. contracting or dilating.
The eye of the owl is blind in the day.
time, the eyes of some creatures are blind at
night, but the human eye 80 marvelousy
constructed can SEQ both by day and by
night. Many of the other creatures of God
can move the eye only from side to side,
but the human eye so marvelOusly con-
structed has one muscle to lift the eye, and
another muscle to lower the eye, and an.
other muscle to roll it to the right, and an
other muscle to roll it to. the left, and an
other muscle passing through pulley to
turn it round and roun1-an elaborate gear
ing of six muscles as perfect as God could
make them. There also is the retina,
gathering the rays Of light and passing the
visual impression along the optic nerve,
about the thickness of the lampwick-pass-
ing the visual impression on to the senorism
and on into the soul. What delicate lens,
what an exquisite screen, what soft cushions,
what wonderful chemistry OF the human
eye! The eye, washed by II slow stream OF
moisture whether we sleep or wake, rolling
imperceptbly over the pebble of the eye and
emptying into bore of the nostri. A con-
triyance so wonderful that it can see the
sun. 90 ,O00, 900 miles away, and the point OF
n pin. Telescope and microscope in the
same contrivance. The astronomer swings
and moves this way and that and adjusts and
readiusts the telescope until he gets ii to the
right focus. The microscopic moves this
way and that and adjusts and readjusts the
magnifying glass until it is prepared to do
its work. but the human eye, without a
touch, beholds the star and the smallest i'll
sect. The traveller among the Alps, with one
glance taking in Mout Blanc and the fac5 81
his watch 10 see whether he has time to
climb it.