Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-18

Forward TO Cawnpur!" That hero's
eyes, though almost extinguishcd 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 thankful. Take care OF
your eyes and thank God every morning
when YOU open them for capacity to see
the light ] do not wonder at the beha-
vior of poor man in France. He bad
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 travelling sur
gcon went to the stables and found the
groom still at work upon the horses, and
the grateful and sympathetic surgeon re-
solved In the morning to reward the blind
groom with money. But in the night the
surgeon bcthought himself that perhaps
he could give the groom something better
than money. In the morning be said to
the blind groom, step out into the sun
shine You are 40 years OF age. | could
surely have cured your blindness IL ! had
seen you sooner. but come to Paris, and
| will give you sight if you do not die I'M
der 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 sur
geon, 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 omnipotent
blessing of eyesight.
The All Seeing Eye.
The Earl of Bridgcwater, in his last
will and testament, bcqueathed $4,000
for essays to he written on the power and
wisdom and goodness of God as manifest
ed in creation, and Sir Charles Bell. the
British surgeon, fresh from Cornno and
Waterloo, where he had been tending the
wounded aud studying the formation OF
the human body amid the amputating
horrors of the battlefield, accepted the
invitation TO write one OF those Bridge
water treatses, and he wrote his book on
the human hand. book that will live as
long as the world lives. Today | have
only limited at the splendors, the glories,
the wonders. the divine revelations, the
apocalypscs. of the human eye. and
SldEktI Duth lIOIH lUt awful pbItdlS VI
the physiological miracle which must
have taxed the ingenuity of n God to cry
out in your ears the words OF my text,
"He TINT formed the eye, shall he not
see?" Shall Herschel not know as much
as his telescope? Shall Fraunhofer not
know as much as his spcctroscope? Shall
Swammerdnm not know as much as his
microscope? Shall DR.. Hooke not know
go, a,
thing formed know more than its maker ?
"He that formed the eye, shall he not
see?'
The recoil OF this question is tremen-
dous. We stand at the center OF vast
circumference Of observation. No priva-
cy. On us eyes OF cherubim eyes of sera-
phim, 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 see MS. We have not optical in
struments 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 see the mole midgrass. We
are able to see mountains and cavcrns of
another world, but perhaps the inha bit
ants of other worlds can see the towers
of our cities, the flash of our seas. the
marching OF our professions, the white
robes Of our weddings, the black scarfs
of our obsenues 1t passes out from the
guess into the positive when we are told
in the Bible that the habitants of other
worlds do come to this. Are they not all
ministering spirits sent forth to minister
to those who shall be heirs of salvation?
The Eye of God.
But human inspection and angelic In
spection and stellar inspection aud 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 so?" said my father. Twenty
years ago" said the other. "in the old
schoolhousc prayer meeting at Bound
Brook you said in your prayer Thou
God seest me- and had no peace under
the eye Of God until became a Chris
tian." Hear it: The eyes of the Lord
are in every place" His eyelids try the
children of men" His eyes were as a
flame of fire." II 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,
y
the darkness, How it outshines the day
How it glares upon the offender, How it
beams on the pentent soul! Talk about
the human eye as being indescrihably
wonderful-how much more wonderful
the great, searching, overwhelming eye
of God. All eternity past and all eterni.
ty to come on that retina. The eyes with
which we look into each others face to.
day suggest it. 1t stands written twice
on your face and twice on mine, unless
through casualty one or both have been
oblterated. HE that formed the eye
shall he not seey' Oh, the eye of God,
1t sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees
our perplexities to dsentangle them
sees our wants to sympathize with them.
II we fight him back, the eye of an an
tagonist. If we ask his grace, the eye Of
an everlasting friend,
You often find in a book OF manuscript
a 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 divine handwriting
Our every muscle pulley divinely swung.
Our every bone sculptured with divine
suggestiyeness. Our every eye a retlec-
ton Of the divine eye. God above us and
God beneath US and God before us and
God behind us and God within us. What
stupendous thing to live, What n stu
pendous thing to die! No such thing as
hidden transgression.
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