The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-08-02
THE AkL SEEING EYE.
VISION, SAYS THE REV. DR.. TALMAGE,
IS THE CREATORS MASTERPIECE.

Is THE CREATORS MASTERPIECE.
but the Eye Of God Is More Indescribably
Wonderful, Searching and Overwhelm.
ing-An Extremely Eloquent and In.
structfve Discourse Sight Restored.
NEW YORK, July 2S.-Rev. Dr. Tai
mage, who is still absent on his sum-
mer preaching tour in the west and
southwest, has prepared for today SER
mon ON "The All Seeing" the text Sc
lected being Psalm xciv. 8, "He that
formed the eye, shall he not see2'
The imperial organ Of the human sys-
tenn is the eye. All up and down the
Bible God honors it, extols it, illustrates
It or arraigns it. Five hundred and thir-
ty-four times it is mentioned in the
Bible. Omnipresence- the eyes of the
Lord are in every place" Divine care
cas- the apple of the eye" The clouds
-"the eyelids Of the morning" Irrev-
erence-"the eye that mocketh at its
father. Pride-"Oh, how lofty are
their eyesr' Inattention-"the FOOLS
eye in the ends Of the earth" Divine
nspection-"wheelsf full Of eyes" Sud
denness-''in the twinkling Of an eye at
the last trump" Olivetic sermon-"the
light Of the body is the eye" This
mornings TEXTILE that formed the
eye, shall he not see?' The surgeons,
the doctors, the anatomists and the
Psychologists understand much of the
glories Of the two great lights Of the hu-
man face, but the vast multitudes go
ON from cradle to grave without any ap-
probation 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 try
ing 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 strange thing to me for
40 years that some scientist with enough
eloquence and magnetism did not go
through the country with illustrated
lectures on canvas 80 feet square to
startle and thrill and overwhelm Chris
tendon with the marvels 1.-THE human
eye. We want the eye taken from all
its technicalities, and some one who
shall lay aside all talk about the ptery-
gomaxillary assures, and the sclerotica,
and the chiasma Of the optic nerve, and
in common parlanoe which you and I
and everybody can understand present
the subject We have learned men who
have been telling us what our origin is
and what we were. Oh, if some one
should come forth from the dissecting
table and from the classroom of the
university and take the platform, and
asking the help of the Creator, demon
strate the wonders of what we are!
If 1 refer to the physiological facts
suggested by the former part of my text
it is only to bring out in palmer way
the theological lessons at the latter part
of my text, "He that formed the eye,
shall he not see?" suppose my text re-
ferred to the human eye, since it excels
all others in structure and in adapta-
ton. 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 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
and two eyes above the water, but the
four insectile are not equal to the two
human. Man, placed at 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 apol-
ogy for the eye, which, if through some
crevice of the mountain they should get
into the sunlight, might be developed
into positive eyesight In the first chap
ter of Genesis we find that God, with
out any consultation, created the light,
created the trees, created the fish, Great
ed the fowl, but when he was about to
make man he called convention of di-
vinity, as though TO imply that all the
powers of Godhead were to be enlisted
in the achievement "Let us make
man." Put whole ton of emphasis on
that word "us "Let us make man"
And if God called convention Of di-
vinity to create man think the two
great questions in that conference were
how to create soul and how to make
an appropriate window for that emperor
to look out of.
Structure of the Eye.
See how God honored the eye before
he created it. He cried, until chaos was
irradiated with the utterance, "Let
there be hghtr' In other words, before
he introduced man into this temple of
the world he Illuminated 1t, prepared 1t
for the eyesight And 30, after the last
human eye has been destroyed in the
final demolition of the world, stars are
10 fall, and the sun is to cease its shin
ing, and the moon is to turn into blood
In other words, after the human eyes
are no more to be profted by their shin
ing, 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 of heaven two lamps gold
lamp and 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 for the residence of
the eyes, seven bones making the wall
for each eye, the seven bones curiously
wrought together. Kingly palace of ivory