The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-01-19
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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-
dOws of the soul.
copyright, 1900. by Louis Kiopsch.l

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.
niscience. 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 it, extols it, illus.
trates it or arraigDs it. Five hundred
and thirty-four times it is mentioned
in the Bible. COMPREHENSIVE 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" lrreverence-"the eye that
mocketh at its father" Pride-"oh,
how lofty are their eyes" lnattention
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 go 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 in
creating the human eye. We wander
through the earth trying TO see wonder
full sights, but the most wonderful sight
we ever see is not so wonderful as the
instruments through which we see IL.
II has been strange thing to me for
80 years that some scientist with
enough eloquence and magnetism did
not go through the country with illus
trated lectures on canvas 30 feet square
to startle and thrill and overwhem
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 | and verybody 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 class.
room of the university and take the
platform, and, asking the help of the
Creator, demonstrate the wonders OF
what we are! II ! refer to the physio-
logical facts suggested by the former
part Of my text, it 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 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 dc There are in
sects 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 I'M
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
nave HllNuI' ''lIl IllllNhls Nlllt lut
blind fish in the Mammoth cave of Ken
lucky have only an uudevcloped organ
of sight, an apology for the eye, which
If 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
was about TO make man He called u con-
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 convention
of divinity 10 create man, ! think the
two great questions in thar conference
were how TO create a soul and how to
make an appropriate window for that
emperor TO look out Of
See how God honored the eye before
He created it. He cried until chaos was
irradiated with the utterance: let
there be light" In other words, be-
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 mantel 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. Kngly pal.
ace of ivory is considered rich, but the
halls for the residence of the human