The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1900-01-19
THE MPERIALORGAN
Dr.. Talmage Discourses on the
Wonders Of the Eye.
The Two Great Lights of the Human
ace-Ho They Are Honorrd
Throughout the BibIe-Ni
lows Of the Soul.
copyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l
WASHINGTON

coursed upon in the pulpit and chal-
lenges US all to the study of ON
niscience. Text, Psalm $3.50: HE that
formed the eye, shall He not see?"
The imperial organ Of the human sys-
tenn is the eye. All up and down the
Bible God honors it, extols it. illus
trates 1t or arraigns it. Five hundred
and thlrty-four times it is mentioned
III the Bible. Omniprescnce-"the ewes
OF the Lord are in every place" Di-
vine care-"as the apple of the eve"
The clouds-"the eyeIids of the morn
ing" lrreverence-"the eye that
mocketh at its father pride-"oh,
how lofty are their eyes" Inattention
the fools eye in the ends of the
earth" Divine inspection heels
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,
"He that formed the eye, shall He not
see?"
The surgeons, the doctors, the anato-
mists and the psychologists understand
much Of he glories 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 Al
mighty. If God had lacked anything of
infinite wisdom, He would have failed in
creating the human eye. We wander
through the earth tryiugt to see wonder
ful sights, but the most wonderful sight
we ever see is not SO wonderful as the
instruments through which we see it.
1t has been a strange thing to me for
80 years that some scientist with
enough eIoquence and magnetism did
no go through the country with illus
trated lectures on nya 80 feet square
to startle and thrill and oyerwhelm
Christendom with the maryels of the
human eye. We want the eye taken
from all its technicalitics. and some one
who shall lay aside all talk about the
pterygomaNillary assures. the sclerotic
and the chiasma of the optic nerve and
III pain, common parlance which YOU
and ! and everybody can understand
present the subject. We have learned
men who have been telling us what our
origin is and what we were. Oh, if
some one should come forth from the
dissecting table and from the class
of the university and take the
platform, and, asking the help of the
Creator, demonstrate the wonders of
what we are. If | refer to the physio-
InUipu1 fpRtc s,trnoCtaI lt. ,1n F,r,,,, |
part of my text, it is only to bring out
in palmer way the theological lessons |
of the latter part Of my text: lie that
formed the eye, shall He not seq"
suppose my text referred to the hui
man eye, since il eXceis all others in
structure and adaptation. The eyes of
fish and reptiles and molcs and bats
are very simple things because they
have not much TO do. There are in
sects with a hundred eyes, but 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 insectile 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 undevcloped organ
of sight, an apology for the eye, which
if through some ~creyice of the mountain
they should 60 into the sunlight might
be developed into positive eyesight.
In the first chapter of Genesis We find
that God without any consultation ere
ated the light, created the trees, created
the fish. created the fowl. but when lie
was about to make man He called a con- =
~venti0n of divinity. as though to imply ,
that all the powers of Godhead were to .
be enlisted IN the achievement. "Let us ,
make man" Put a whole ton of cmpha- -
sis on that word "us.' Let us make :,
man And. if God called a convention d,
of divinity to create man, I think the i
two great questions in that conference =,
were how to create a soul and how to +
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