The Penn's Grove record., 1900-01-19
Oh. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BYTHE NOTED
DIVINE.

sul5sef: Liehss of The Fscs-The Marvels
Of the Hul1An Eye Prove the In1inite
Wlsdom ofithe Creator-Divlne1y Don.
structed Lighthouses Of the sou1.
Copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1901
WASHINGTON, D. C.-In this discourse Dr..
Talmage, In hts own way. calls attention
perhaps d~iscoursed upon 1nthe pulpit and
challenges MS all to the study Of omnis-
cience. Text. Psalm xciv., 8, HE that
formed the eye, shall he not seer"
The imperial organ Of the human system
Is the eye. Aifup and down the Bible God
honors It, ext0ls 1t, illustrates It or ar
raigns 1t. Five hundred and thirty-four
presence-ssthe eyes OF the Lord are 10
every place." Divine care-aas the apple
OF the eye" The ~cIouds-.sthe eyelids OF
the morning." Irreverence-"the eye that
mocketh at its. Father" Pride-ssoh. how
lofty are their eyes," Inattention--"the
FOOLS eye In the end of the EARTH" Divine
lnspectlon-swheels full of eyes," Sud-
denness-'ln the twlnkling Of an eve at
the last trump" Otivetic sermon-sthe
ing's text, "He that formed the eye, shall
He not seer"
Tho surgeons, the doctors, the anato-
mists and the psychologists understand
much OF the glcries 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.
II God had lacked anything Of infinite
wisdom. He would have failed In creating
the human eye. We wander through the
earth trying to zee wonderful sights; but
the most wonderful sight We ever see Is
not 81 wonderful as the instruments
through which We see It.
It has been q strange thing to me for
thirty years that some scientist with
enough e~loquence and magnetism did not
60 through the country with illustrated
lecture on canyas thirty feet square to
startle and thrill and overwhelm Christen-
dom with the marvsls OF the human eye.
We want the eye taken from all Its tech
nicalittes n some n who shall lay aside
all talk about the pterygomaxlllary ls-
sures, the sclerotica and the chiasma OF
the optic nerve and In plain, common par
lance which you and ! and everybody can
understand present the subject. We have
learned men who have been telling us
what our origin Is aud what We were. Oh,
II some n shunld come forth from the
dfssecting tnble and from the classroom
OF the university and take the platform
and asking the help OF the Creator
demonstrate the wonders OF what We arel
II I refer to the physiological facts sug-
gested by the former part OF my text, IL Is
only to bring out In palmer way the
theological lessons OF tho latter part OF
my text, HE that formed the eye, shall
He not seer"
I suppose my text rererred to the human
eye since It excels all others In structure
and adaptation. The eyes of ish and rep
tiles and moles a bats are very simple
things because they have not much to do.
There are insects with Q hundred eyes, but
the hundred eyes have less faculty than the
two human eyes. The black beetle swim
ming the summer pond has two eyes under
the water and two eyes above the water,
but the four insecttle 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 Nam
moth cave Of Kentucky have only an un-
developed organ Of sight, an apology for
the BYE, which II through some crevice of
the mountain they should go into the sun-
light might be developed into positive eye
sight.
In the first chapter Of Genesis ws find
that God without any consultation created
the light, created the trees, created the fish,
created the fowl. but when He was about
to makem man He called a convention of d.
vinity, as though to imply that all the
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the achievement. "Let us make man"
Put a whole ton Of emphasis on that word
ssus." 'Let US make man." And II God
called q convention OF divinity to create
man / think the two great questions in that
conference we're how to create . soul and
how to maxi an appropriate window for
that emperor to look out of.
See how God honored the eye before He
created 1t. He cried until chaos was irrad-
{ofod with tho ufkopnnoo SGT Of fho~o la
lightr' In other words, before He intro
duced man into this temple OF the world
He illumiDed 1t, prepared 1t for the eye
sight. And SO after the last human eye
has been destroyed In the flnal demolition
Of the world stars are to fail, and the sun
Is to cease lite shining, n the moon Is to
turn into blood. In other words, after the
human eyes are no moro to be -profted by
their shining the chandeliers OF heaven are
to be turned out. God to educate and to
bless and to help the human eye set ON the
mantel OF heaven two lamps-a 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
Dyes. Seven bones making the wall for
each eye, the seven bones curiously wrought
together. Ktngly palace Of ivory Is eonsid-
cred rich, but the halls for the residence OF
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human zone Is more sacred than elephant
tine tusk. See how God honored the eyes
when he made o root for them, 80 that the
sweat OF toll should not smart them and
the rain dashing against the forehead might
not drip into them; the eyebrows not bend
ing over the eye, but reaching to the right
and to the left, 30 that the rain and the
sweat should be compelled to drop upon
the cheek instead Of falling into this d.
vinely protected human eyesight.
See how God honored the eye In the fact
presented by ANTAGONISTS aud Psychologists
that there are 800 co~ntrivanees In every
eye. For window shutters. the eyelids
opening and closing so, 600 times a day, the
eyelashes SO constructed that they have
their selection as to what shall be admitted.
saying to the dust, "Stay ont" and saving
to the lioht. "Come in.S For inside eur.
tain the iris or pupil Of the eve. aecordine
as the lirhf Il greater or less. contractinc
Or dilating. The ave Of the owl il hind n
the day time. the eves & some creature