The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-01-19
THE IMPERIAL ORGAN
Dr.. Talmage Discourses on the
Wonders of the Eye.
The Two Great Lights of the Human
Face-How They Are HOnOred
Throughout the BIbIe-win-
dova of the soul.
Copyright. 1890. by Louis Rlopsch1
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own way. calls attention TO that part
OF the human body never perhaps dis
coursed upon in the pulpit and chal-
lenges Us all TO the study of ON
niscieuce. Text, Psalm 94:g: "He that
formed the eye, shall He not see?"
The imperial organ Of the human sys-
tenn is the eye. All up and down the
Bible God honors il, extols it, illus
trates il or arraigns it. Five hundred
and thiTty-fOur times it is mentioned
in the Bible. Omnipresence-"the eyes
OF the Lord are in every place" Di-
vine care-"as the apple of the eye"
The clouds-"the eyelids of the morn
ing" Irreverence-''the eye that
mocketh at its father" Pride-"oh,
how lofty are their eyes" Inattention
the fools eye in the ends of the
earth" Divine inspection wheels
full of eyes" Suddenness-''in the
twinkling of an eye at the last trump"
Olivetic sermOn-"the light of the
body is the eye" This mornings text,
He that formed the eye, shall He not
see?"
The surgeons, the doctors, the anatO-
mists and the PSYCHOLOGISTS understand
much of the glories of the two great
lights of the human race, but the vast
multitudes 90 on from cradle TO grave
without any appreciation of the two
great masterpieces of the Lord God AL
mighty. If God had lacked anything of
infinite wisdom, He would have failed u
creating the human eye. We wander
through the earth trying TO see wonder
ful sights, but the most wonderful sight
we ever see is not so wonderful as the
instruments through which we see l..
II has been a strange thing TO me Cor
so years that some scientist with
enough eloquence and magnetism did
not go through the country with illus
trated lectures on canvas 80 feet square
TO startle and thrill and overwhelm
Christendom with the marvels of the
human eye. We want the eye taken
from all its technicalities, and some one
who shall lay aside all talk about the
pterygOmaXillary assures, the sclerOtic
and the chiasma of the optic nerve and
in plain, common Parlance which you
and l 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, if
some one should come forth from the
dissecting table and from the class
room of the university and take the
platform, and, asking the help of the
Creator, demonstrate the wonders of
what we are! If refer 20 the physio-
logical facts suggested by the former
part of my text, il is only 10 bring out
in palmer way the theological lessons
of the latter part of my text: "He that
formed the eye, shall He not see?"
I suppose my text referred TO the hu-
man eye, since il eXcels all others in
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
>ects with hundred eyes, but the hun
dred eyes have less faculty than the two
human eyes. The black beetle swim
ming the summer pond has two eyes IN
der the water and two eyes above the
water, but the four insectile are not
equal to the two human. Man placed
at the head of all living creatures must
have supreme equipment, while the
blind fish in the Mammoth cave of Ken
lucky have only an undeveloped organ
OF sight. an apology for the eye, which
II through some crevice of the mountain
they should go into the sunlight might
be developed into positive eyesight.
In the first chapter of Genesis we find
that God without any consultation Gre
ated the light, created the trees, created
The fish. created the fowl, but when He
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vention of divinity, as though TO imply
that all the powers of GOdhead were to
be enlisted in the achievement. Let US
make man." Put a whole ton Of empha-
sis on that word "us." let US make
man." And, if God called a convention
Of divinity TO create man, l think the
two great. t.questions in that conference
were how TO create a soul and how TO
make an appropriate window for that
emperor 10 look out Of.
See how God hOnored the eye before
he created it. He cried until chaos was
Irradiated with the utterance: let
fore He introduced man into this tenn
pie Of the world He illumined it, pre-
pared it for the eyesight. And so after
the last human eye has been destroyed |
in the final demolition of the world, |
stars are TO fall and the sun is to cease |
its shining and the moon is to turn into |
blood. In other words, after the human |
eyes are no more TO be profited by their |
shining the chandeliers of Heaven are |
TO be turned out. God, TO educate and |
TO bless and TO help the human eye, set !
on the mautel of Heaven two lamps-a |
gold lamp and a silver lamp-the one |
for the day and the other for the night. |
To show how God honors the eye, look |
at the two halls built for the residence |
of the eyes. Seven bones making the |
wall for each eye, the seven bones Gu
riously wrought together. Kingly pal |
ace of ivory is considered rich, but the
halls for the residence of the human /
eyes are richer by so much as human |
bone is more sacred than elephantine |
Iusk. See how God honored the eyes |
when He made a roof for them, so that /
the sweat of toll should not smart them |
and the rain dashing against the fore
head might not drip into them; the eye
brows not bending over the eye. but
reaching TO the right and to the left so
that the rain and the sweat should be
TO drop upon the cheek in
stead of falling into this divinely pro-
Iected human eyesiRht.