Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-24
SERMON
Rev. DR.. CaInage
Subject: Lights OF the Face-The Marvels
Of the Human Eye Prove the Infinite
Wisdom Of the Creator-Divinely Con
structed Lighthouses of tho Soul.

Subject: Lights OF the Face-The Marvels
Of the Human Eye Prove the Infinite
Wisdom of the Creator-Divinely Con
structed Lighthouses of the Soul.
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1901
WAsHISsroN, d. C.-In this discourse D..
Talmage, In his own way. calls attention
to that part Of the human body never
challenges US all to the study OF omnis-
cience. Text, Psalm xciv., 9, "He that
formed the eye, shall He not see?"
The imperial organ OF the human system
is the eye. All up and down the Bible God
honors it, extols it, illustrates 1t or ar
raigns it. Five hundred and thirty-four
times Is 1t mentioned in the Bible. Omni-
presence-"the eyes Of the Lord are in
every place." Divine care-"as the apple
of the eye" The clouds-''the eyelids of
the morning." Irreverence-''the eye that
mocketh at its Father" Pride-''oh, how
fools eye In the ends OF the earth" Divine
inspection-"wheels full of eyes," Sud-
dennsss-''in the twinkling of an eve at
the last trump" Oivetic sermon-"the
light OF the body is the eye." This morn
ing's text, "He that formed the eve, shall
He not seef''
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
mutitudes go on from cradle to grave
without any appreciation of the two great
masterpieces OF the Lord God Almighty.
II God had lacked anything Of infinite
wisdom. He would have failed in creating
the human eye. We wander through the
earth trying to see wonderful sights, but
the most wonderful sight we ever see is
not so wonderful! as the instruments
through which we see 1t.
Ii has been strange thing to me for
thirty years that some scientist with
enough eloquence and magnetism did not
go through the country with illustrated
lecture on canvas thirty feet square to
startle and thrill and Overwhelm Christen-
dom with the marvels of the human eye.
We want the eye taken from all its tech.
nicalities and some one who shall lay aside
all talk about the pterygomaxilary fls-
sures, the sclerotica and the chiasm8 of
the optic nerve and In plain, common par
lance 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,
II some one should come forth from the
dissecting table and from the classroom
OF the university and take the platform
and asking the help OF the Creator
demonstrate the wonders of what we arei
II l refer to the physiological facts sug-
gested by the former part OF my text, 1t is
only to bring out in palmer way the
theological lessons OF the latter part of
my text, "He that formed the eye, shall
He not see?"
suppose my text referred to the human
eye since it excels all Others in structure
and adaptation. The eyes of fish and rep
tiles and moles and bats are very simple
things because they have not much to do.
There are insects with hundred eyes, but
the hundred eyes have less faculty than the
two human eyes. The black beetle swim
ming the summer pond has two eyes under
the water and two eyes above the water,
but the four insectile are not equal to the
two human. Man plac< SHE head Ql
oil, living. natures mus