Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-15

ana TO the 1e1t, SO CnaC the ram anu
the sweat should be compelled to drop
upon the cheek instead of falling into
this divinely protected human eye
sight.
HOnored by God.
See how God honored the eye in the
fact presented by anatomists and
Psychologists that there are 800 con-
trivances in every eye. For window
shutters, the eyelids opening and clos
ing 10000 times a day, the eyelashes
SO constructed that they have their Sc
lection as to what shall be admitted,
saying to the dust, ''Stay out" and say
ing to the light, 'COme in For inside
curtain the iris or pupil of the eye, ac-
cording as the light is greater or less,
contracting or dilating. The eye of the
owl is blind in the daytime, the eyes Of
some creatures are blind at night, but
the human eye so marvelously con-
structed it can see 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 marvellous
ly constructed, has one muscle to lift
the eye, and another muscle to lower
the eye, and another muscle to roll it
to the right, and another muscle to roll
it to the left, and another muscle pass
ing through a pulley to turn it round
and round, an elaborate gearing of six
muscles as perfect as God could make
them.
There is also 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 SEN
SOrium 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 a slow stream Of moisture
whether we sleep or wake, rolling i'm
perceptibly over the pebble Of the eye
and emptying into a bone Of the nos
tril, a cOntriVance so wonderful that it
can see the sun 95,OOO,OOO of miles
away and the point of a pin. Telescope
and microscope in the same cOntri-
vance. The astronomer swings and
moves this way and that and adjusts
and readjusts the telescope until he
gets it to the right focus. The micro
scopist moves this way and that and
adjusts and readjusts the magnifying
glass until it is prepared to do it's
work, but the human eye without a
touch beholds the star and the small
est insect. The traveller along the Alps
with one glance taking in Mont Blanc
and the face of his watch to see wheth-
er he has time to climb it. Oh, this
wonderful camera Obscura which you
and l carry about with us, so from the
top Of Mount Washington we can take
in New England, so at night we can
sweep into our vision the conStella-
lions from horizon to horizon. So deli
cate, so semf-infnite, and yet the light
coming 95,OOO,OO0 miles at the rate Of
100000 miles a second is obliged to
halt at the gate of the eye, waiting
until the portcullis be lifted. Some
thing hurled 95, 100000 miles and strik-
ing an instrument which has not the
agitation of even winking under the
power of the stroke.
Divine Construction.
There also is the merciful arrange
ment of the tear gland by which the
eye is washed and through which rolls
the tide which brings the relief that
comes in tears when some bereave
ment or great loss strikes us. The tear
not an augmentation of sorrow, but the
breaking up of the arctic Of frozen
grief in the warm gulf stream of con-
ISOLATION. Incapacity to weep is mad
ness or death. Thank God for the tear
glands and that the crystal gates are
so easily opened. Oh, the wonderful
hydraulic apparatus of the human eye!
Divinely constructed vision. Two
lighthouses at the harbor of the i'm
mortal soul under the shining of which
the world sails in and drops anchor.
What an anthem of praise to God is
the human eye. The tongue is speech
less and a clumsy instrument of ex-
preston as compared with it. Have
you not seen the eye fash with indig-
nation, or kindle with enthusiasm, or
expand with devotion, or melt with
sympathy, or stare with fright or leer
with villainy, or droop with sadness,
or pale with envy, or fire with revenge,
or twinkle with mirth, or beam with
love? 1t is tragedy and comedy and
pastoral and lyric in turn. Have you
not seen it's uplifted brow of surprise,
or its frown Of wrath, or it's cOntrac-
ton of pain? If the eye say one thing
and the lips say another thing, you be-
lieve the eye rather than the lips. The
eyes of Archibald Alexander and
Charles G. Finney were the mightiest
part of their sermons. George White
field enthralled great assemblages with
his eyes, though they were crippled
with strabismus. Many a military
~ n ha cd
ment to victory or to death. Martin
Luther turned his great eye on an as
sassin who came to take his life, and
the villain fed. Under the glance of
the human eye the tiger, with five