The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-01-24
THE HUMAN EYE.
Rev. Or. TaInage's Sermon or the
Systems Imperial Organ
HOW GOD HoNoRs TIE EYE,
The Two Great Lights Of me
Human Face. God MOI
Sind Giant Stumbling
Through Heaven.

II THIS C!sCOU!SS ~ ! !@4ANA~oe' 49, "
own way, calls attention to that part
Of the human BODY never perhaps dis
course6 upon in the pulpit and chai-
lenges US all to the study Of omUls-
cience; text, Psalm KEW, 8, he THAI
formed the eye, shall he rot see:
The imperial organ OF the human
system is the eye. All up and cowa
the Bible God Honors it, cx;otS 1t
illustrates 1t or arraigus 1t. tlTe
hundred and thirty. four times Is II
mentionedin the Bible Omnipresonee
the eyes of the Lord are II eEery
the eve. The clouds-''the eyellds OF
the morning. Irrevereuce-"the eye
that moeketh at his fauter." Pride
oh, how lofty are their eyes. lnat.
tentlon-"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 morn
ing's text, He that formed the eye,
shall he not see?
The surgeons, the doctors, the anto-
nists and the Psychologists understand
much Of the glories Of the two great
lights Of the human race, but the vast
multitu6es 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 trying to see
wonderful sights, but the most wonder
ful sight ne ever see IS not so wonder
ful as the instruments through which
We see 1t.
suppose my text referred to the
human eye, since it excels all others IN
structure and adaptation. The eyes Of
fish and reptiles and molcs and bats arc
very simple things because they have
not much to do. There are insects
with hundred eyes, but the hundred
eyes have less faculty than the two hu-
man eyes. The black beetle swim
ming the summer pond has two eyes
under the water and two eyes above
the water, but the four insectile are
not equal to the human. Man placed
at the head Of all living creatures must
have supreme equipments, while the
blind fish in the Mammoth cave Of
Kentucky have only an unde7elo2ed
organ Of sight an apology for the eye,
which if through some cse7ice OF the
mountain they should go into the sur
light might be developed icso pos;s;re
eyesight-
In the irss chspter Of Genesis We find
that God without any CONSULTATION ere
ated the light, created the trees, ere
gted the As, created the fowl, but
wheR ne was about to make man he
called a convention of divinity, as
IS though to imply that ali the powers
OF Go6head were to be eni;7t3G n the
achievement Let Us lake man.
Put whole toR Of emphasis on tkat
word ''us. Let Us make man.
And if God called convention Of
divinity to create man, | think the two
great questions IN that conference we're
how to create soul and how to make an
appropriate window for that emperor to
iouk out Of.
See how God honored the eye before
he created it. Ho cried until chasos
was irradiate6 with utterance Let
there be light lo other words,
before he introduced man into this
temple of the world be lllumined it,
prepared it for the eyesight. And SO
after the last human eye has been
destroyed in the 6oal 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 tc be
pro6ted BY their shining the chande-
hers Of heaven are 10 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
aud a silver lanp-the one for the day
and the other for the night.
To show how Goo ho4Ms 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 nails 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 for
them, so that the sweat Of toll should
not smart them and the rain daShlug
against the forehead might not drip
into 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
diviDely protected human eYesight.
See how God honore6 the eye iu the
fact presented By anatomists aud physi-
ologists that there are 500 contrivlnces
in every eye. For window shutters,
the eyelids opening and closing 30 600
times a Gay. The eyelashes so con-
structsd that they have their selection
as to what shall be admitted, saying to
the dust, Stay out, and saying to the
light, Come in" For inside curtain,
the iris or pupil Of the eye, according
as the light is greater Of less, con-
tracing or dilating. The eye of the
cwl IS blind in the daytime, the eyes
Of some creatures are blind at night,
but the human eye so marvelously con-
structe6 it can see both by day and BY
night.
Many OF the other creatures of God
can move the eye only from side to
side, but the human eye, so narre-
lousy constructed, has one muscle to
lift the eye and another muscle to
lower the eye and another muscle to