Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-01-19


yineiy Constructed LiSashouses OF
the Soul.
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1901
WASHINGTON. Ian. lI.-In this dis
course DIR. Talmage. in his own way,
calls attention 20 that part of the hu-
man body never perhaps discOurSed
upon In the pulpit AMI challenges US
all TO the study OF omnlscicnce. Text
Psalm xciv. 8. HE that formed the
eye. shall &c not see?''
The imperial organ of the human
system Is the eye. All up and down
the Bible God honors ii. extols 1t, Illus
trates il or arraigns it. Five hundred
and thirty-four times is II mentioned
in the Bible. Omnipresence-"the eyes
OF the Lord are in every place" Divine
care-"as the apple OF the eye" The
clouds-"the eyclidS OF the morning."
Irreverence-"the eye that mocketh at
its father" Pride-"oh. how lofty are
their eyes" lnatteutiOp-"the fools
eye in the ends of the earth" Divine
inspectiou-"wheels full of eyes" Sud
depDess-"in the :winkling of an eye al
the last trump" Olvetic Sermon-''the
light of the body is the eye" This
mornings text. lie that formed the
eye, shall he not sce?''
The surgeons, the doctors. the anato-
mists and the psychologists understand
much of the Elories of the two great
lights OF the human race. 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 any
thing 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 we ever see is not so
wonderful as the Instruments through
which we see II.
1t has been a strange thing TO me for
30 years that some scientist with
enough eloquence and magnetism did
not go through the country with Illus
trated lecture on canvas 30 feet
square 10 startle and thrill aud over
whelm Christendom with the marvels
OF the human eye. We want the eye
taken from all its technlcalities and
some one who shall lay aside all talk
about the pterygomaxillary assures.
Nue bCleIOllSu anu lile CDl1Sllla or the
optic nerve and in plain. common par
lnDce which you and 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, II some one should
come forth from the dissccting table
and from the classroom OF the universi-
~ and take the platform and asking
the help OF the Creator demonstrate
the wonders Of what we are, If re-
fer 10 the physiological facts suggested
by the former part of my text. II is
only TO bring out in palmer way the
theological lessons OF the latter part
OF my text. "He that formed the eye.
shall he not see?'
ExccIs Az others.
] suppose my text referred to the hui
man eye since IL excels all others I'm
structure 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 In
scots with hundred eyes. but the
hundred eyes have less faculty than
the two human eyes. The black beetle
swimming the summer pond has two
eyes under the water and two eyes
above the water. but the four insectile
are not equal 10 the two human. Nan
placed ut the head of all living crea-
lures must have supreme equipment.
while the blind fish I'm the Mammoth
cave or Kentucky have only an IN
developed organ OF sight. an apology
for the eye. which II through some
crevice OF the mountain they should
go into tlse sunlight might he develop
cd into positive eyesight.
la 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 convention OF divinity. rs
though to imply that all the powers of
Godhcad were 10 he enlisted in the
achievement Let us make man."
Put whole ton of emphasis on that
word us. Let us make man." And
II God called convention OF divinity
TO create man | think tie two great
questions In that conference were how
TO create soul and how 10 make an
appropriate window FOR that emperor
20 look ont OF.
See how God honored the eve before
he created IL. lie cried until chaos
was irradiated with the utterance.
Let there he lightr' In other words.
before lie introduced man into this
temple OF the world he illumined II.
prepared II for the eyesight And so
after the last human eye has been de-
stroyed In the final demolition of the
world stars are to fall. and the sun Is
10 cease Its shining. and the moon is TO
turn Into blood. In other words. after
The human eyes are no more TO be
prohted by their shining the chan
deliers OF heaven are 10 be turned out.
God 10 educate and To bless and 10 help
the human eye set on the mantel of
heaven two lamps-a gold lamp and a
silver lnmp-the one for the dny and
the other Cor the night.
To show how God honors the eye
look nj the two halls built for the resi-
dencc of the eyes. Seven homes 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 eyes are richer by so much
ms human bone is more sacred than
"lephnntine tnsk. See how God Lon
ored the eyes when he made n roof for
'hem- so that the sweat OF toll should
nos Fm.rt them and the rain dashinp
sgs'nsf the forehead might not tlrip In
10 them; tie 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
TINS divinely protected human eye.
sight.
Honored by God.
See how God honored the eve In the
iact presented by anatomists and
physioiogists that there are 500 con-
triVances IN every eye. For window
shutters, the eyeiids onanino auI clos