Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-08-07
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "The All SEEING"

tvetic sermon-"the light Of the body Is the
sye." This mornings tex: ''He that formed
the eye, shall 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 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 won
derful sight that we ever see il not so won
ierful as the instruments through which we
zee it.
1t has been strange thing to me for forty
years that some scientist with enough elo-
luence and magnetism did not go through
he country with illustrated lectures on can
vas thirty feet square to startle and thrill and
overwhelm Christandom with the marves of
the human eye. We want the eye taken from
all its stechhnicalities, and some one who shall
ay aside all talk about the pterygomaxillary
assures, and the sclerotica, and the chasma
of the optic nerve, and in common parlance
which you and 1 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 the dissecting table
and from the classroom of the university and
take platform, and asking the help of the
Creator, demonstrate the wonders of what
ve areI
If refer to the physiological facts sus-
sested by the former part OF my text it is
pnly to bring out in a palmer way the theo-
logical lessons at the latter part OF my text,
'He that formed the eye shall He not see!''
I suppose my text referred to the human eve,
since 1t excels 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
eyes have less faculty than the human eyes
The black beetle swimming the summer
pond has two eyes under water and two eyes
above the water, but the four insectile are
not equal to the two human. Man, placed
1t the head OF all living creatures, must have
supreme equipment, while the blind fish in
The Mammoth Gave of Kentucky have only
an undeveloped organ Of sight, an apology
Tor the eye, which, II through some crevice
II the mountain they should get into the
sunlight. might be developed into positive
syesight. In the first chapter Of Genesis we
and 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 n convention of
1ivinity, as though to imply that all the
powers of Godhead were to be enlisted in the
achievement. "Let US make man." Put a
whole ton Of emphasis on that word ''us."
Let US make man." And If God called
sdicu a cohNoutlOu VI ~ CREATE man
think the two great questions in that con-
erence were how to create soul and how
% make an appropriate window for that en-
oeror to look out of.
See how God honored the eye before He
treated it. He cried, until chaos was irradi-
tied with the utterance, 'Let there be
ightn' In other words, before He intro
1uced 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
,ease its shining, and the moon is to turn
into blood. In other words, after the hu-
nan eyes are no more to be proflted by their
shining, the chandeliers Of heaven are to be
turned out. God. to educate and to bless
and to help the human eye, set in the mantel
IF heaven two lamps--a gold lamp and
ilver lamp--the one for the day and the
)ther for the night. To show how God hon
DIS the eye, look at the two halls built for
he residence OF the eyes, seven bones max
ng the wall for each eye, the seven bones
:uriously wrought together. Kingly palace
If ivory is considered rich, but the halls for
:he residence of the human eye are richer by
10 much as human bone Is more sacred than
,lephantine tusk. See how God honored
he eyes when He made a roof for them. so
hat the sweat Of toll should not smart them
and the rain dashing against tho forehead
,hould not drip into them. The eyebrows
lot bending over the eye. but reaching to
he 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 divine
y protected human eyesight. See how God
IGNORED the eye in the fact presented by
inatomists and psychologists that there are
800 contrivances in every eye. For window
shutters, the eyelids opening and closing
80, 90 times day. The eyelashes so con-
nructed that they have their selection as to
what shall be admitted, saying to the dust,
Stay out" and saying to the light, "Come
n.' For inside curtains the iris, or pupil OF
The eye. according rs the light Is greater or
ess, contracting or dilating.
The eye OF the owl is blind in the day
dime, the eyes of some creatures are blind at
night, but the human eye so rnarvelously
constructed can see both by day and by
night. Many of the other creatures of God
:an 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
,ther muscle to roll it to the left, and an
other muscle passing through a pulley to
turn it round and round-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 lsmpwick-pass-
ing the visual impression on to the senorism
and on into the soul. What a delicate lens,
what an exquisite screen, what soft cushions,
what wonderful chemistry OF the human
eye! The eye, washed by u slow stream Of
moisture whether we sleep or wake, rolling
over the pebble Of the eye and
emptying into q bone OF the nostrl. A con-
trivance so wonderful that 1t can see the
sun, 81, ,00O, 900 miles away, and the point of
q pin. Telescope and microscope in the
same contrivance. The astronomer swings
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readjusts the telescope until he gets ii to the
right focus. The microscopist 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 q
touch, beholds the star and the smallest In
sect. The traveller among the Alps, with one
glance taking in Mont Blanc and the face OF
his watch to see whether he has time tt
climb it.
The eyes of Archibald Alexander and
Charles G. Finney were the mightiest part
of their sermon. George Whitefield en-
thralled great assemblages with his eyes,
though they were crippled with strabismus.
Many military chieftain has with look
hurled regiment to victory or to death
Martin Luther turned his great eye on an as
sassin who came to take his life, and the vii.
lain fed. Under the glance of the human
eyethe tiger, with five times a mans strength,
snarls back into the African jungle. But
those best appreciate the value OF the eye
who have lost it. The Emperor Adrian BY
.,csurn, put out the eye servant. anu
le said to his servant: "What shall I pay
fou in, money or in lands? Anything you
ask me. am so sorry put your eye out"
But the servant refused to put any financial
estimate on the value OF the eye, and when
ihe Emperor urged and urged again the mat
ter he said. ''Oh. Emperor, I want nothing
but my lost eye!" A'as for those for whom
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