Connecticut western news., 1900-01-18

very poor, and I cannot see your rals- ed hands, but l know they are all up. Forward to Cawnpur!' That hero's eyes, though almost extinguished in the service of God and his country, could see across India and across the
 centuries. But let anybody who has one good eye be thankful and all who
 have two good eyes be twice as thank
 full. Take care of your eyes and thank God every morning when you open
 them for capacity to see the light. l
 do not wonder at the behavior of a
 poor man in France. He had been born blind, but was a skillful groom in
 the stables.
 A surgeon riding up one evening
 gave his horses into the care of the
 blind groom. Late at night the tray
 cling surgeon went to the stables and
 found the groom still at work upon the
 horses, and the grateful and sympa-
 thetic surgeon resolved in the morn
 ing to reward the blind groom with
 money. But In the night the surgeon
 bethought himself that perhaps he
 Anuld give the groom something bet
 ter than money. In the morning he
 said to the blind groom: "Step out into
 the sunshine. You are 40 years of age.
 could surely have cured your blind
 ness if I had seen you sooner, but
 come to Paris and 1 will give you sight if you do not die under the operation"
 Paying the poor mans way to Paris, the operation was successful. For the
 first time the man saw his wife and
 children, and having taken a good look
 at them he turned and said, Let me
 look on my friend the surgeon, who
 has opened all this beautiful world to
 me and shown me my loved ones."
 Was not that glorious? Only those
 who have been restored from utter
 blindness can appreciate the omnip- otent blessing of eyesight.
 Wisdom of the Almighty.
 The Earl of Bridgewater in his last will and testament bequeathed S40,000
 for essays to be written on the power
 and wisdom and goodness of God as
 manifested in creation, and Sir Charles
 Bell, the British surgeon, fresh from Coruna and Waterloo, where he had i been tending the wounded and study ing the formation of the human body
 amid the amputating horrors of the
 battlefield, accepted the invitation to
 write one of those Bridgewater trea-
 tises, and he wrote his book on the hu-
 man hand, book that will live as long as the world lives. Today I have only hinted at the splendors, the glories, the wonders, the divine revelations, the apocalypses of the human eye, and 1 stagger back from the awful portals of the physiological miracle which must have taxed the ingenuity of a God to cry out in your ears the words of my text, He that formed the eye, shall he not see?'' Shall Herschel not know as much as his telescope? Shall Fraunhofer not know as much as his spectroscope? Shall Swammerdam not
 know as much as his microscope? Shall Dr. Hooke not know as much as his
 known more than it's maker? "He that formed the eye, shall he not see~
 The recoil of this question is tremen-
 dous. We stand at the center of a vast
 circumference of observation. No pri-
 vacy. On us, eyes of cherubim, eyes
 of seraphim, eyes of archangel, eyes
 of God. We may not be able to see the
 inhabitants of other worlds, but per
 haps they may be able to see us. We
 have not optical instruments strong
 enough to descry them; perhaps they have optical instruments strong enough to descry us. The mole cannot see the eagle midair, but the eagle mid sky can see the mole midgrass. We
 are able to see mountains and caverns of another world, but perhaps the in- habitants of other worlds can see the towers of our cities, the flash of our seas, the marching of OCT processions, the white robes of our weddings, the black scarfs of our obsequies. It pass es out from the guess into the positive when we are told in the Bible that the inhabitants of other worlds do come to
 this. Are they not all ministering spir-
 Its sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation?
 The Divine Inspection.
 But human inspection and angelic inspection and stellar inspection and lunar inspection and solar inspection are tame as compared with the thought of divine inspection. You converted me 20 years ago." said a colored man to my father. How sop said my fla
 ther. Twenty years ago." said the
 other, ''in the old schoolhouse prayer meeting at Bound Brook you said in your prayer, Thou God seest me- and I had no peace under the eye of God 1 until I became a Christian" Hear it: ''The eyes of the Lord are in every place." His eyelids try the children l of fire" 'His eyes were as flame of fire" 'I will guide thee with mine eye" Oh, the eye of God, so full of pity, so
 full of power, so full of love, so full of | Indignation, so full of compassion, so full of mercy! How it peers through | the darkness! How it outshines the day! How 1t glares upon the offender! How 1t beams on the penitent soul! Talk about the human eye as being in- | describably wonderful - how much | more wonderful the great, searching, overwhelming eye of God! All eternity | past and all eternity to come on that | retina. The eyes with which we look | Into each others face today suggest it. | It stands written twice on your face | and twice on mine unless through cas- | ualty one or both have been obliterat- ed. 'He that formed the eye, shall he | not see?' Oh, the eye of God! It
 sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees our perplexities to disentangle them,
 sees our wants to sympathize with
 them. If we fight him back, the eye
 of an antagonist. If we ask his grace,
 the eye of an everlasting friend.
 You often find in a book or manu-
 script star calling your attention to a
 footnote or explanation. That star the
 printer calls an asterisk. But all the
 stars of the night heavens are asterisks
 calling your attention to God, an all | observing God. Our every nerve a