The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-01-17
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the owl is blind in the daytime, the eyes
of some creatures are blind at night, but
the human eye SO marvelOusly construct
ed it can see both by day and by night.
Many of the other creatures of God can
move the eye only from side to side, but
the human eye, so marvelously construct
ed, has one muscle to lift the eye and an
other muscle to lower the eye and anoth-
er muscle to roll it to the right and an
other muscle to roll it to the left and an
other muscle passing through pulley to
turn it round and round, an elaborate
gearing Of six muscles as perfect as God
could make them.
There is also ina 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 cuSh-
ions, what wonderful chemistry Of the hui
man eye! The eye washed by a slow
stream of moisture whether we sleep or
wake, rolling imperceptibly over the peb-
bic Of the eye and emptying into bone
Of the nostril, continuance so wonderful
that it can see the sun 05,OOO,0OO of miles
away and the point of a pin. Telescope
and microscope in the same contrlyance.
The astronomer swings and moves TINS
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 until it is prepared to
do it's work, but the human eye without a
touch beholds the star and the smallest
insect The traveller along the Alps with
one glance taking 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
Washington we can take in New Eng
land, so at night We can sweep into our
vision the consultations from horizon to
horizon. So delicate, so semi-ininite, and
yet the light coming So, 900 of miles
at the rate of 100000 miles second is
Obliged to halt at the gate Of the eye,
waiting until the portcullis be lifted.
Something hurled 95,0O0,000 of miles and
striking an instrument which has not the
agitation Of even winking under the
power of the stroke.
ss7 An Anthem of Praise.
There also is the >merciful arrangement
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 augmenta-
ton of sorrow, but the breaking up of the
arctic Of frozen grief in the warm gulf
stream of consolation. IncapacityI to
weep is naadness or death. Thank God
for the tear glands and that the crystal
gates are. SO easily opened. Oh, the won
derful hydraulic apparatus of the human
eye! Divinely> constructed vision. Two
lighthouses at the harbor of the immortal
soul under the shining of which the world
sails in and drops anchor.
What an anthem of praise to God is the
human eye! The tongue is speechless
and clumsy instrument of expression as
compared with it. Have you not seen the
eye flash with indignation, or kindle with
enthusiasm, or expand with devotion, or
melt with sympathy, or stare with fright,
or leer with villainy, or droop with sad
ness, or pale with envy, or fire with re-
venge, or twinkle with mirth, or beam
with love? 1t is tragedy and comedy and
pastoral and lyric in turn. Have you not
seen its uplifted brow of surprise, or it's
froWn of wrath, or its contraction Of
pain? If the eye say one thing and the
lips say another thing, you believe the
eye rather than the lips. The eye Of
Archibald Alexander and Charles q. Fin.
ney were the mightiest part of their ser
mons. George White6eld enthra!lcd great
assemblages with his eyes, though they
We're crippled with strabismus Many
military chieftain has with look hurled
a regiment to victory or to death. Martin
Luther turned his great eye OH an assas
sin who came to take his life and the VII
lain fled. Under the glance of the human
eye the tiger, with five times a mans
strength, snarls back into the African
jungle.
But those best appreciate the value of
the eye who have lost it. The Emperor
Adrian by accident put out the eye of his
servant, and he said to his servant,
What shall | pay you in money or in
lands-anything you ask me? / am so
sorry l put your eye out" But the SER
want refused to put any financial estimate
on the value of the eye, and when the
emperor urged and urged again the mat
ter he said, 20 emperor, [ want nothing
but my lost eye" Alas for those for
whom thick and impenetrable wall is
drawn across the face of the heavens and
the face Of ones own kindred That was
pathetic scene when blind man light
ed torch at night and was found pass
ing along the highway and some one said,
why do you carry that torch when YOU
can't see? "Ah," said he, II can't see,
but carry this torch that others may see
me and pity my helplessness and not run
me down" Samson, the giant, with his
eyes put out by the Philistines, is more
helpless than the smallest dwarf with Wis
ion unchanged. All the sympathies of
Christ We're stirred when he saw Barti-
meus with darkened retina, and the only
salve he ever made that we read Of was
a mixture of dust and saliva and PRAYER
with which he cured the eyes of man
blind from his nativity. The value Of the
eye shown as much by it's catastrophe as
by It's healthful action. Ask the man
who for twenty years has not seen the
sun rise. Ask the man who for half a
century has not seen the face of friend.
ASK IN the hospital the victim of ophthal-
mia. Ask the man whose eyesight perish
ed in powder blast. Ask the Barti
nleuS who never met Christ az tho ,oa,