Connecticut western news., 1900-01-18
LIGHTS OF THE FACE.
OR. TAlMAGE CALLS ATTENTION TO
 THE HUMAN EYE.

Copyright, Louis Klopsch 1900.l
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-In this dis tourse Dr. Talmage, in his own way, calls attention to that part of the hu- man body never perhaps discoursed upon in the pulpit and challenges us all to the study of omniscience. Text, Psalm xciv, 9, "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?"
 The imperial organ of the human system Is the eye. All up and down the Bible God honors It, extols it, illus trates 1t or arraigns it. Five hundred and thirtyfour times is 1t mentioned in the Bible. Omnipresence-"the eyes of the Lord are in every place." Divine care-"as the apple of the eye" The clouds-''the eyelids of the morning." Irreverence-"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 nspection-"wheelsf full of eyes" Sud- denness-"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 seey'
 The surgeons, the doctors, the anato- mists and the physiologists understand much of the 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 Almighty. If God had lacked any thing of infinite wisdom, he would have failed in creating the human eye. We wander through the earth trying to see wonderful sights, but the most wonderful sight we ever see is not so wonderful as the instruments through which we see 1t. .
 It has been strange thing to me for 30 years that some scientist with enough eloquence and magnetism did not go through the country with illus trated lecture on canvas 30 feet square to startle and thrill and over whelm Christendom with the marvels of the human eye. We want the eye taken from all it's technicalities and some one who shall lay aside all talk about the pterygomaxillary Assures, the sclerotica and the chiasma of the optic nerve and in plain, common par lance which you and I 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 classroom of the universi- ty and take the platform and asking the help of the Creator demonstrate the wonders of what we arei If I re- fer to the physiological facts suggested by the former part of my text, it is only to bring out plainer way the theological lesso I the latter part of my text. "ue t..at formed the eye, shall he not see?'
 ExceIs All Others.
 I suppose my text referred to the hu- man eye since it excels all others in structure and adaptation. The eyes of fish and reptiles and moles and bats are very simple things because they have not much to do. There are in sects with a hundred eyes, but the hundred eyes have less faculty than the two human eyes. The black beetle swimming the summer pond has two eyes under 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 crea- lures must have supreme equipment, while the blind fish In the Mammoth cave of Kentucky have only an un- developed organ of sight, an apology for the eye, which if through some erevice of the mountain they should go into the sunlight might be develop ed into positive eyesight.
 In the first chapter of Genesis we find that God without any consultation created the light, created the trees, created the fish, created the fowl, but when be was about to make man he called a convention 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 emphasis on that word 'us." "Let us make man." And if God called a convention of divinity to create man I 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 honored the eye before he created it. He cried until chaos "Let there be lightp' In other words, before he introduced man into this temple of the world he ilumined 1t, prepared it for the eyesight. And so after the last human eye has been de stroyed 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 to be profited by their shining the chan deliers 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 resi-. dence of the eyes. Seven bones mak- ing the wall for each eye, the seven bones curiously wrought together Kingly palace 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 elephantine tusk. See how God hon ored the eyes when he made roof foI them, so that the sweat of toll should not smart them and the rain dashine against the forehead might not drip In to them; the eyebrows not bending over the eye, but reaching to the right and to the left, so that the rain and the sweat should be compelled to drop upon the cheek instead of falling into this divinaly protected human eye sight.
 Honored by God.
 See how God honored the eye In the