The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-01-20
See how God bonored the eye in the

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what shall be admitted. saying 10 the
dust: stay out" and saying TO the
light: Come in" For inside curtain
the iris or pupil OF the eye. according
as the light is greater or less. contract.
ing 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 marvelous!y constructed
IL can see both 10y day and by night.
Many OF the other creatures Of God
can move the eye only from side o side,
but the human eye, so marvelously con-
structed, has one muscle to lift the eye
and another muscle TO lower the eve
and another muscle to roll il 10 the
right and another muscle to roll il 10
the left and another muscle passing
through pulley to turn It round and
round. an elaborate gearing OF six mus
Giles as perfect as God could make them.
There is also the retna gathering he
rays OF light and passing the visual i'm
preston along the optic nerve about the
thickness Of the lamp wick, passing the
visual impression on to the sensorium
| and on into the soul. What delicate
lens, what an exquisite screen, what
soft cushions, what wonderful chem
istry 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 continuance so wonderful that il
can see the sun $4,000. 900 OF miles away
and the point OF pin. Telescope and
microscope in the same contrivance
| The astronomer swings and moves this
way and that and djusts and readjusts
the telescope until he gets it 10
the right focus. The microscopic
moves this way and that and adjusts
and readjusts the magnifying glass un-
| til il is prepared to do its work. but the
| human eye without a touch beholds
the star and the smallest insect. The
traveller along the Alps with one glance
takes in Mont Blanc and the face of
his watch to see whether he has time
! to climb il. Oh, this wonderful camera
| obscura which you and carry about
with us so from the top Of Mount Wash
ington we can take in New England,
! the consultations from horizon to hori-
| zon. SO delicate, so semi-infinite, and
| yet the light coming 0j,000,000 OF miles
at the rate of 100000 miles a second
is obliged TO halt at the gate of he
eye, waiting until the portcullis be lift
ed. Something hurled 05,000,000 of
miles and striking an instrument which
has not the agitation Of even winking
| under the power Of the stroke.
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 relief that comes
| in tears when some bereavement 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 light
houses AT the harbar OF the immortal
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 clumsy instrument of eX-
| preston as compared with il. Have
you not seen the eye flash with indigna-
ton, or kindle with enthusiasm, or en-
pand with devotion, or melt with sym
! paIhy, 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 Tvs uplifted brow of surprise,
| or It's frown Of wrath, or its contrac-
ton Of pain? II the eye say one thing
| and the lips say another thing, you be-
lieve the eye her than the lips The
eyes Of Archibald Alexander and
Charles G.. Finncy were the mighticst
par1 Of their sermons. George White
| field enthrallcd great n scmblages with
his eyes, though they were crippled
with sirabismus. Many a military chef
tain has with n look hurled Il regiment
10 victory or TO death. Martin Lut her
! turned his great eye on an assassin
! who came 10 take his life, and the viii
/ lain ncd. Under the glance of the hu-
man cye the Tiger, with five times n
man' s. strength. snarls back into the
African jungle.
How it adds 10 John Millions sublim-
J ity Of character when we find him ut
The call Of duty sacrificing his cyesight.
| Through studying at late hours and
trying all kinds Of medcament TO pre-
serve his sight he had for l2 years been
coming toward blindness, and after
awhile one eye was entirely gone. Ills
physician warned him tina, If he con-
tinued reading and writing he would
lose the other eye. But he kept on
with his work and said after sitting
in total darkness: THE choice lay be-
fore me between dereliction OF IA SUI
premc duty and loss OF cycsight. In
such II ease ! could not listen TO the
physician, not IL Aesculapius himself
had spoken from his sanctuary. could
not but obey that inward monitor.
know not what spoke TO me from lleav
en-" Who OF us would have grace
| cDOuuh TO sacrifice our eyes nj the en- 4