The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-01-17

me from heaven" Who of us would have
grace enough to sacrifice our eyes at the
call of duty?
But, thank God, some have been ena-
bled to see without very good eyes. Gen.
Havelock, the son of the more famous
Gen. Havelock, told me this concerning
his father: In India, while his father and
himself, with the army, were encamped
one evening time after a long march,
Gen. Havelock called up his soldiers and
addressed them, saying in words as near
as | can recollect: SOLDIERS, there are
two or three hundred women, children
and men at CawIpur at the mercy OF
Mana Sahib and his butchers. Those
poor people may any hour be sacrlhced
How many of you will go with me for
the rescue of those women and children!
[ know you are all worn out, and so am
l. but all those who will march with me
to save those women and children hold
UP your hand" Then Havelock said: 1T
is almost dark, and my eyesight is very
poor, and / cannot see your raised hands,
but / know they are all up. Forward to
Cawnpurp' That hero's eyes, though al
most extngushed in the service of God
and his country, could see across India
and across the centuries. But let any
body who has one good eye be thankful,
and all who have two good eyes be twice
as thankful. Take care of your eyes and
thank God every morning when you open
them for capacity to see the light. | do
not wonder at the behavior of poor man
in France He had been born blind, but
was skillful groom in the stables.
A surgeon, riding up one evening, gave
.e, l. ,,,4o rl> Of hn
groom. Late at night the travelling sur
geon went to the stables and found the
groom still at work upon the horses, and
the grateful and sympathetic surgeon re-
solved in the morning to reward the blind
groom with money. But in the night the
surgeon bethought himself that perhaps
he could give the groom something better
than money. In the morning he said to
the blind groom, -''Step out into the sun
shine! You are forty years of age. could
surely have cured your blindness if l had
seen you sooner, but come to Paris, and
| will give you sight if you do not die un-
der the operation" Paying the poor
mans way to Paris, the operation was
successful For the first time the man
saw his wife and children, and having
taken a good look at them he turned and
said, LET me look on my friend the sur
geon, who has opened all this beautiful
world to me and shown me my loved
ones" Was not that glorious! Only
those who have been restored from utter
blindness can appreciate the onlnipotent
blessing of eyesight.
Is The A11-Seeing Eye. Al
. The Earl of Bridgewater,I in his last
will and. testament, bequeathed $4,000.
for essays to be written on the power and
wisdom and goodness of God as manifest
ed in creation, and Sir Charles Bell the
British surgeon, fresh from Coruna and
Waterloo, where he had been tending the
wounded and studying the formation of
the human body amid the amputating
horrors of the battlefield, accepted the
invitation to write one of those Bridge
water treatises, and he wrote his book on.
the human hand, a book that will live as
long as the world lives. 70 day l have
only limited at the splendors, the glories,
the wonders, the divine revelations, the
apocalypses, Of the human eye, and /
stagger back from the awful portals of
the Psychologist miracle which must
have taxed the ingenuity of God to cry
out in your ears the words of my text,
He that formed the eye, shall he not
see% Shall Herschel not know as much
as his telescope? Shall Fraunhofer not
know as much as his spectroscope? Shall
Swammerdam not know as much as his
microscope? Shall DR.. Hooke not know
as much as his micrometer? Shall the
thing formed know more than its maker?
He that formed the eye, shall he not
see?"
The recoil of this question is tremen-
dous. We stand at the center of vast
circumference of observation. No priya-
cy. On us eyes Of cherubim, eyes of sera-
phim, eyes of archangel, eyes of God. We
may not be able to see the inhabitants of
other worlds, but perhaps they may be
able to see us. We have not optical in
struments strong enough 30 descry them.
Perhaps they have optical instruments
strong enough to descry us. The mole
cannot see the eagle mdair, but the eagle
midsky can see the mole midgrass. We
are able to see mountains and caverns of
another world, but perhaps the inhabit-
ants of other worlds can see the towers
Of our cities, the flash of our seas, the
marching Of our professions, the white
robes of our weddings, the black scarfs
guess into the positive when we are told
in the Bible that the inhabitants of other
worlds do come to this. Are they not all
ministering spirits sent forth to minister
to those who shall be heirs of salvation?
The Eye of God.
But human inspection and angelic in
spection and stellar inspection and lunar
inspection and solar inspection are tame
as compared with the thought of divine
inspection. ''The eyes of the Lord are
in every place. His eyelids try the
children Of men," His eyes were as a
flame of fire." 81 will guide thee with
mine eye" Oh, the eye Of God, SO full of
pity, SO full OF power, so full of love- so
full Of Indignation, so full of compassion,
so full Of mercy! How it peers through
the darkness! How it outshines the day!
How it glares upon the offender! How
it beams on the penitent soul! Talk
about the human eye as being indescrib-
ably wonderful-how much more wonder
full the great, searching, overwhelming
eye of God! All eternity past and all
eternity to come on that retina. Oh, my
friends our most hidden sin Is undar tho E