The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-01-20
IMPERIAL ORGAN
DR.. Talmage Discourses on the
Wonders of the Eye.
The Two Great Lights of the Humnn
Fsce-Iiow They Are Iionorcd
Throughout the Bibie-Win-
dOws of the Soul.
copyright. 1900. by louis KlopschI

own way, calls attention TO that part
of the human body never perhaps dis.
coursed upon In the pulpit and chal-
ienges US all 10 the study of ON
nisclencc. Text. Psalm o4:y: "Ile that
formed the eye. shall lie not see?"
The imperial organ Of the human sys-
TEN is the eye. All up and down the
. Bible God honors it, eXtols il, illus.
tratcs il or arraigns il. Five hundred
and thirty-four times IL is mentioned
In the Bible. Omniprescnce-'the eyes
of the Lord are in every place" Di-
vine care-"as the apple Of the eye"
The clouds-"the eyelids OF the morn
ing" lrreyerence-"the eye that
mockeih at its father" Pride-"oh,
how lofty are their eyes" lnattention
the fools eye in the ends Of the
earth" Divine inspection wheels
full of eyes," Suddenness-"in the
twinkling of an eye at the last trump"
Olivetic sermon-"the light of the
body is the eye" This mornings text,
-IIe that formed the eye. shall He not
see?" j..
The surgeons, the doctors, the anato-
inists and the psychologists understand
much of the glories OF the two great
lights OF the human race, but the vast
muititudcs go on from cradle ograve
without any appreciation OF the two
great masterpieces OF the Lord God AL
mighty. II God had lacked anything Of
Infinite wisdom. lie would have failed in
creating the human eye. We wander
through the earth trying to see wonder
full sights, but the most wonderful sight
we ever see is not so wonderful as the
instruments through which we see il.
II has been a strange thing 10 me for
30 years that some scientist with
enough eloquence and magnetism did
not go through the country with Illus
trated lectures on canvas 80 feet square
to startlc and thrill and rwhelm
'Chris,endom 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 scierotic
and the chasma of the optic nerve and
In plain, common parlancc which you
and and cveryb body can understand
present the subject. We have learned
men who have been telling us what our
origin is and what we were. Oh, II
some one should come forth from the
,disseciing table and from the class.
room Of the university and take the
platform, and, asking the help of the
Creator, demonstrate the wonders OF
what we are! II refer to the physio-
logical facts suggested by the former
part Of my text, il is only TO bring out
in palmer way the theological lessons
of the latter part Of my text: "1le that
formed the eye, shall IIenot seq"
I 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
arc very simple things because they
have not much to do. There are in
sccis with n hundred eyes, bit the hun
dred eyes have less faculty than the two
human eyes. The black beetle swim
ming The summer pond has two eyes I'M
der the water and two eyes above the
water, but the four insectiIe are not
equal TO the two human. Man placed
at the head of all living creatures must
have supreme equipment, while the
blind fish in the Mammoth cave of Ken
lucky have only an undcYcIOped organ
OF sight, an apology for the eye, which
if through some crevice Of the mountain
they should go into the sunlight might
bc developed into positive cyesight
In the first chapter of Genesis we find
that God without any consultation Gre
ated the light, created the trees, created
the tish. created the fowl, but when He
was about to make man lie called a con
jventiOn of divinity, as though 10 imply
= that all the powers Of GodhCad were to
be enlisted in the achicccmcnt. Let us
make man" Put a whole ton OF cmpha-
sis on that word "us." "Lct 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 a soul and how to
make an appropriate window, for that
emperor to look out OF.
See how God honorcd the eye before
He created it. lie cried until chaos was
irradia,ed with the uttcrance: "let
there be light" In other words be-
fore lie introduced man into this tenn
pie of the world He illumined II, pre-
pared il for the eycsght. And so after
the last human eye has been destroyed
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 10 be proiiied Ivy their
shining the chandeliers of Heaven are
10 be turned out. God. TO educate and
TO bless and to help the human eye. set
on the mautel Of Heaven two lamps
gold lamp and a silver lamp-the one
for the day and the other for the night
To show how God honors the eye, look
At the two halls built for the residence
of the eyes. Seven bones making tb,
wall for each eye. The seven bones Gu
riousiy wrought together. KingIy pal
ace OF ivory is considered rich. but the
halls for the residence OF the human
eyes are richer by so much as human
bone is more sacred than elephaniiDt
rusk. See how God bonorcd the. eyes
vhrn He made roof for them. so that
the sweat Of toll should not smart them
aId the rain dashiDg against the fore
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