The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-18

| constructed vision. Two lighthouses at the
harbor OF the immortal soul under the
| shining OF which the world sails Ia and
| drops anchor.
What an anthem OF praise to God Is tho
human eyel The tongue is speechless aud
| n clumsy instrument OF expression AS COM
| pared with 1t. Have you not seen tho eye
flash with lndig g1ation. or kindlo with en-
thuslasm, or expand with devotion, or melt
| with sympathy, or stare with fright, OF
leer with vlllalny, or droop with sadness.
| or pale with envy, or ire with revenge, or
| twinkle with mrth, or benin with love2 1t
Is tragedy and comedy and pastoral and
lyric In turn. Have you not seen its up.
| lifted brow OF SURPRISE or its frown OF
wrath, or its contraction OF pain? II tho
| eye saw one thing and the lips said an 9TH
| or thing, you would believe the eye rather
| than the lips. The eyes OF Archibald Alex.
| nnder and Charles G.. finney were the
| mlghtiest part OF their sermons. George
! Whlteleld enthralled great assemblages
with his eyes, though they were crippled
| with strabismus. Many military chief.
tain has with a look hurled roglmont to
victory or to death. Martin Luther turned
| his great eye on an assassin who came to
take his life and the villain fed. Under
| the glance OF tho human eye tho tiger,
| with five times mans strength, snHrls
bnck into the African Jungle.
But those best appreciate tho value OF
the eye who have lost It. The Emperor
| huTlhu ny httiutnk put out Ino tyN OF his
| servant, and he said to his servant "What
shall pay you, In money or In lunds-any-
| thing you ask me2 l am so sorry put
your eye out" But the servant refused 10
put any financial estimate on tEo value OF
the eye, and when tho emperor urged and
| urged again the matter he said: ooh, em-
| peror, want nothing but my lost oyel"
| Alas for those for whom thick al I'm
| penetrable veil is drawn across the face OF
| the heavens and the face OF ones own
| kindred.
That was n pathetic scene when blind
man lighted n torch mt night and was
| found passing along the highway and some
one said why do you carry that torch
| when you can see2' "Ah," said he, ~
can see, but carry this torch that others
may see me and pity my helplessness and
not run mo down" Samson, the giant.
with his eyes put out by the Philistines,
Is more helpless than the smallest dwarf
with vision undamaged. All tho sym
| pathles OF Christ were stirred when He
saw Bartimeus with darkened retina, and
| the only salve Ho ever made that we read
| OF was mixture OF dust and saliva and
prayer with which He cured the eyes of u
blind man from His nativity. The value
| OF the eye shows as much by its catas-
trophe as by its healthful action. Ask the
man who for twenty years has not seen the
| sun rise. Ask the man who for half IA century
| has not seen the face OF Il friend. Ask In
| the hospital the Victim of ophthalmla.
Ask the mnn whose eyesight perished in
powder blast. Ask the Bartmeus who
never met Christ or the man born blind
who is to die blind. Ask him.
How 1t adds to John Millions subimity
! OF character when we find him at tho call
OF duty sacrificing his eyesight. Through
studying at late hours aud trying all kinds
| OF medicnmont to preserve his sight ho
had for twelve years been coming toward
blindness, and after awhile one eye was
entirely gone. His physician warned him
| that IL he continued reading and writing
he would lose the other eye. But he kept
on with his work and said after sitting In
total darkness: "The choice lay before mo
between derellctlon OF supreme duty and
loss OF eyesight. In such II case could not
listen to the physicians, not IL Esculapius
| himself had spoken from his sanctuary. L
could not but obey that inward monitor. I
know not what spoke to me from heaven"
| Who OF US would have grace enough to sac
rilce our eyes Mt the call of duty?
But, thank God, some have been enabled
to SEQ without very good eyes. General
Havelock, tho son OF tho more famous
General Havelock, told me this concern
Ing his father; In India, while his father
and himself with the army were encamped
one evening time after long march, Cen
eral Havelock called up his soldiers and
addressed them, saying In words as near
rs l can recollect: soldiers are their 200 or
800 women, children and men at Chwnpur
at the mercy OF Mana Sahib, and his
butchers. Those poor people may any hour
be sacrificed. How many OF you will go
with me for the rescue OF those women and
children? know you are all worn out
and so am l. But all those who will march
with me to save those women and children
hold up your hand" Then Havelock
said: 1T Is almost dark, and my eyesight
Is very poor, and cannot SEQ your raised
hands, but l know they are nll up.
Forward to Cawnpurl" That hero's eyes,
though almost extingulshed In the service
OF God and his country, could see across
India and across the centuries. But let
any body who has one good eye be thank.
full and NIL who have two good eyes be
twice rs thankful. Take care OF your eyes
and THINK God every morning when you
open them for capacity to see the light.
do not wonder at the behavior OF a poor
man 10 France. He had been born blind,
but was n skillful groom In the stables.
The recoil OF this question is tremen.
dous. We stan at the centre OF vast cir
cumfereuce OF observation. No privacy.
On us, eyes OF cherublm, eyes OF seraphim,
eyes OF archangel, eyes OF God. We may
not be able to see the Inhabitants OF other
worlds, but perhaps they may be able to
SEQ 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 midsky can
| SOC tue mole mtuRrhSS. we are aOio TO SEQ
mountains and cayerns OF another world,
but perhaps the inhabitants OF other worlds
can see the towers OF our cities, the fash
OF our seas, tho marching OF our process
sions, the white robes OF our weddings, the
black scarfs OF our obsequies 1t passes
out from the guess into the positive when
we are told In the Bible that the inbablt-
ants OF other worlds do come to this.
Are they not NIL ministering spirits sent
forth to minister to those who shall be
heirs OF salvation?
But human inspection and angelic In
spection and stellar inspection and lunar
inspection ana solar inspection are tame
rs compared with the thought OF divine
inspection. "You converted mo twenty
years ago" said colored man to my
father. How so2" said my father.
Twenty years ago." said tho other, sin
the old school-house prRyer-meeting at
Bound Brook you said In your prayer,
Thou, God, seest me- aud had no peace
under tho eye OF God until l became
II Christian" Hear It; 1.-The eyes OF the
Lord are In every place" "Hls eyellds try
the children OF hre" His eyes were as q
flame OF flre." II will guide thee with Mine
eye" oh, the eye OF God, so full of pity.
20 full OF power, so full OF love- so full OF
indignation. so full OF compassion, so full
OF mercsI How 1t peers through the dark
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WOOD PULP FOR SURGEONS.
A hospital steward at the League is
IL In a