The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-01-20
IMPERIAL ORGAN
Image Discourses on the
Fonders of the Eye.
ID Great Lights of the Human
-IOw They Are HOnOred
foughOut the BIbIe-Win-
n dOyys of the Soul.

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Washington
this discourse DR.. Talmage, in his
Way, calls attention TO that part
Be human body never perhaps dis
sed upon in the pulpit and chal-
|et hs all to the study of ON
|'tnte. Text, Psalm 94:0: "He that
lea the eye, shall He not see?"
|ia imperial organ of the human sys-
ik HE eye. All up and down the
K God honors it, eXtols it, illus
n 81 or arraigns it. Five hundred
ihifty-four times it is mentioned
ne Bible. COMPREHENSIVE eyes
be Lord are in every place" Di-
chfe-"as the apple of the eye"
diohds-"the eyelids of the morn
Irreverence-"the eye that
|keih at its father" Pride-"oh,
lofty are their eyes" Inattention
bic FOOLS eye in the ends of the
|hf Divine inspection - wheels
of eyes" Suddenness-"in the
king of an eye at the last trump"
|Etic sermon-"the light of the
Is the eye" This mornings text,
Thai formed the eye, shall He not
be surgeons, the doctors, the anato-
. and the psychologists understand
n Of the glories of the two great
rs Of the human race, but the vast
Iitudes go on from cradle to grave
Tend any appreciation of the two
I masterpieces of the Lord God Al
|ty. If God had lacked anything of
| itewisdom, He would have failed in
ting the human eye. We wander
|jIgh the earth trying to see wonder
|iehts, but the most wonderful sight
|Yer see is not so wonderful as the
Eufnents through which we see it.
hNs been strange thing to me for
Fears that some scientist with
|Rh eloquence and magnetism did
|gp through the country with illus
Ia lectures on canvas 80 feet square
|iartle and thrill and overwhelm
Random with the marvels of the
|8N eye. We want the eye taken
/ aIl its technicalities. and some one
hall lay aside all talk about the
|ygomaXillary assures, the sclerotic
|the chiasma of the optic nerve and
lain, common parlance which you
Ind everybody can understand
lent the subject. We have learned
Who have been telling us what our
III is and what we were. Oh, if
1 me should come forth from the
|0ting table and from the class
Il 81 the university and take the
form, and, asking the help of the
|toE demonstrate the wonders of
4 We are! If l refer to the physio-
bal facts suggested by the former
81 my text, it is only to bring out
|Ininer way the theological lessons
e Iatter part of my text: HE that
Eed the eye, shall He not see?"
|uppose my text referred to the hui
eve, since it excels all others in
Eture and adaptation. The eyes of
and reptiles and moles and bats
Very simple things because they
NOT much to do. There are in
with hundred eyes, but the hun
eyes have less faculty than the two
TN eyes. The black beetle swim
K the summer pond has two eyes I'M
1.-THE 5water and two eyes above the
II, but the four insectile are not
L to the two human. Man placed
|e head of all living creatures must
Supreme equipment, while the
|i'hsh in the Mammoth cave of Ken
~ lave only an undeveloped organ
|Hht, an apology for the eye. which
ough some crevice of the mountain
Mould go into the sunlight might
|eyeloped into positive eyesight.
the first chapter of Genesis we find
God without any consultation Gre
me light, created the trees, created
|ieh, created the fowl. but when H9
|abDut to make man He called a con-
||on of divinity, as though to imply |
All the powers of Godhead were to
listed in the achievement. LET us
L man" Put whole ton of empha-
|n That word "us." 'Let us make |
And, if God called convention
|IIinity to create man, l think the
|1feat questions in that conference
Now to create a soul and how to
Z IN appropriate window for that
|tor to look out Of.
4 how God honored the eye before
|feated it. He cried until chaos was
| 'ated with the utterance: LET
| be light" In other words, be-
iXs introduced man into this tenn
III the world He Slammed it, pre-
L Il for the eyesight. And so after
last human eye has been destroyed |
he final demolition of the world,
are to fall and the sun is to cease |
LINING and the moon is to turn into
Il. In other words, after the human
|afe no more to be profited by their
Ing the chandeliers of Heaven are |
( armed out. God. to educate and |
|Rss and to help the human eye, set |
|e mantel of Heaven two lamps-a
lump and silver lamp-the one
|he day and the other for the night.
How how God honors the eye, look
1.-TWO halls built for the residence
|e|eyes. Seven bones making tho
tQr each eye, The seven bones GU
| |F wrought together. Kingly pal
| 4 ivory is considered rich, but the
{Dr the residence of the human
ne richer by so much as human
Is more sacred than elephantine
See how God honored the eyes
/ He made roof for them, so that
|Weat of toll should not smart them
"a rain dashing against the fore
hight not drip into them; the eye
not bending over the eye, but
'pg to the right and to the left so
be rain and the sweat should be
lied to drop upon the cheek in
of falling into this divinely pro-
Il human eyesight.
/ how Cod bouorad tho ara in fba |