The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-01-20
Sc. how God honored the eye in the


a day. The eyelashes so constructed
that they have their selection as to
what shall be admitted, saying TO the
dust: Stay out" and saying to the
light: Come H." 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 marvelously constructed
it can see both by Gay and by night.
Many of the other creatures of God
can move the eye only from side 10 side,
but the human eye. SO marvelously con-
structed, has one muscle to lift the eye
and another muscle to lower the eye
and another muscle to roll 1t to the
right and another muscle to roll it to
the left and another muscle passing
through a pulley to turn it round and
round, an elaborate gearing of six mus
cles as perfect as God could make them.
There is also the retina gathering the
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 a 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
all n ao,t-,v n en- u-crdarfr TINT IL
can see the sun $4,000, 900 OF miles away
and the point of a pin. Telescope and
microscope in the same co%ntrivance
The astronomer swings and moves this
way and that and adjusts and readjusts
the telescope until he gets it to
the right focus. The microscopic
moves this way and that and adjusts
and readjusts the magnifying glass I'M
til it 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 it. 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.
so at night we can sweep into our vision
the consultations from horizon to hori-
zon. So delicate. so semi-infinite. and
yet the light coming $4,000, 900 of miles
at the rate of 200, 900 miles a second
is obliged to halt at the gate of the
eye, waiting until the portcullis be lift
ed. Something hurled 95.000,0oo 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 teal
glands and that the crystal gates are
so easily opened. Oh, the wonderful
hydraulic apparatus of the human eye!
t Divinely constructed vision. Two light
houses at the harbor of the inmorta
7 soul under the shining of which the
world sails in and drops anchor.
What an anthem of praise to God i!
the human eye! The tongue is speech
less and a clumsy instrument of ex
preston as compared with it. Hav'
{ you not seen the eye fash with indigna
I ton, or kindle with enthusiasm, or ex
d pand with devotion, or melt with sym
l pathy, or stare with fright, or lee
t with villainy, or droop with sadness
or pale with envy, or fire with revenge
Il or twinkle with mirth, OF beam wit
Il love? 1t is tragedy and comedy an
u pastoral and lyric in turn. Have 20
~ not seen it's uplifted brow of surprise
or its frown of wrath, or its contrat
u ton of pain? If the eye say one thin
and the lips say another thing, you b,
- lieve the eye rather than the lips. Tn
&c eyes of Archibald Alexander an
y Charles G. Finney were the mighties
. part of their sermons. George Whit
field enthralled great assemblages wit
10 his eyes, though they were cripple
d with strabismus. Many a military che
N tain has with a look hurled a regimen
IL to victory or TO death. Martin Luth'
=. turned his great eye ON an assassi
=. who came TO take his life, and the Vi
=, lain fed. Under the glance of the h
man eye the tiger, with five times
mans strength, snarls back into Il
N African jungle.
How it adds to John Millions sublir
ity of character when we find him
the call of duty sacrificing his eyesigt
- Through studying at late hours al
- trying all kinds of medicament to pr
serve his sight he had for ~ years be-
IA coming toward blindness. and aft
awhile one eye was entirely gone. L
- physician warned him that If he CO
tinued reading and writing he won
Div lose the other eye. But he kept
No with his work and said after sitti
"a in total darkness: "Ybe choice lay
20, fore me between dereliction of a s
:. preme duty and loss Of eyesight.