Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-15
Copyright. Louis KIopsch. 1901


WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-In this dis
course Dr.. Talmage, in his own way,
calls attention to that part of the hui
man body never perhaps discoursed
upon in the pulpit and challenges US
all to the study of Omniscience. Text,
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, illus
trates it or arraigns it. Five hundred
and thirty-four times is it mentioned
in the Bible. Omnipresence-"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 lofty are
their eyes" Inattention-"the FOOLS
eye in the ends of the EARTH Divine
inspection-"wheels full of eyes" Sud
denness-"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, Snall lie uOl 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
Almighty. If God had lacked any
thing of infinite wisdom, be 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 it.
1t has been q strange thing to me for
30 years that some scientist with
enough eloquence and magnetism did
not go through the country with illus
trated lecture on canvas 80 feet
square to startle and thrill and over
whelm 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 Sclerotica and the chiasma of the
optic nerve and in plain, common par
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 classroom of the universe
ty and take the platform and asking
the help of the Creator demonstrate
the wonders Of what we are, If | re-
fer to the physiological 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?'
ExceIs All Others
suppose my text referred to the hui
man eye since it 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
sects with n hundred eyes. but the
hundred eyes have less faculty than
the two human eyes. The black beetle
swimming the summer pond has two
eyes under the water and two eyes
above the water. but the four insectile
placed at the head Of all living crea-
lures must have supreme equipment.
while the blind fish in the Mammoth
cave of Kentucky have only an I'M
developed organ of sight. an apology
for the eye, which if through some
crevice of the mountain they should
go into the sunlight might be develop
ed into positive eyesight.
In the first chapter of Genesis we
find that God without any consultation
created the light. created the trees.
created the fish, created the fowl. but
when he was about to make man he
called a convention 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 emphasis on that
word Gus LET US make man." And
If God called a convention of divinity
to create man / think the two great
questions in that conference were how
to create q 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 Hghtr' In other words
before he introduced man into this
temple of the world he illumined it.
prepared it for the eyesight. And so
after the last human eye has been de-
stroyed 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 chan
deliers of heaven are to be turned out
God to educate and to bless and to help
the human eye set on the mantel OF