The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-02-22
BENTON. LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 1900.

wall for each eye, the seven bones CD
riously wrought together. Kingly 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 eleplmntine
tusk. Zee how God honored the ewes
when He made roof for them, so that
the sweat of toll should not smart them
and the rain dashing against the fore
head might not drip into them; the eye
brows 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 in
stead OF falling into this diyinely pro-
tected human eyesight.
See how God honored the eye in the
fact presented by anatomists and physi-
ologists, that there are 500 contrivances
in every eye. For window shutters, the
eyelids opening and closing 10000 times
day. The eyelashes SO constructed
that they have their selection as to
what shall be admitted, saying 10 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 or less, contract.
ing or dilating. The eye of the owl is
blind in the day time, the eyes of some
creatures are blind at night, but the
human eye so marvelously constructed
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 marvelously con-
structed, has one muscle to lift the eye
| and another muscle to lower the eve
| and another muscle to roll it to the
right and another muscle to roll it to
the left and another muscle passing
through pulley to turn it round and
round, an elaborate gearing of six mus
cles as perfect as God could make them.
There is also the retina gathering the
rays of light and passing the visual inn
preston along the optic nerve about the
thickness of the lamp wick, passing the
visual impression on to the sensorium
| and on into the soul. What delicate
lens, what an exquisite screen, what
| soft cushions, what wonderful chem
istry of the human eye! The eye
washed by slow stream of moisture
whether we sleep or wake, rolling i'm
| perceptibly over the pebble of the eye
and emptying into bone of the nos
tril, contrivance so wonderful that ii
can see the sun o., ZOO, 900 of miles away
and the point of pin. Telescope and
microscope in the same contrivance
The astronomer swings and moves this
way and that and adjusts and readjusts
the telescope until he gets it to
the right focus. The microscopic
moves this way and that and adjusts
and readjusts the magnifying glass un.
til it is prepared to do its work, but the
human eye without touch beholds
| the star and the smallest insect. The
traveller along the Alps with one glance
| takes in Mont Blanc and the face OF
his watch to see whether he has time
/ to climb it. Oh, this wonderful camera
obscura which you and | carry about
with us SO from the top of Mount Wash
/ ington we can take in New England
so at night we can sweep into our vision
the consultations from horizon to hori
zon. So delicate, SO semi-infinite, anG
yet the light coming 95, 600, 900 of mile.
at the rate of 100000 miles second
is obliged to halt at the gate of tn.
eye, waiting until the portcullis be lift
ed. Something hurled 95,000,000 o.
miles and striking an instrument VIII 4
has not the agitation OF even winkine
under the power of the stroke.
There also is the merciful arrange
ment of the tear gland by which tn,
eye is washed and through which roll
the tide which brings relief that comes
in tears when some bereavement o.
great loss strikes us. The tear not al
augmentation of sorrow, but tn,
breaking up of the arctic of frozel
| grief in the warm gulf stream of con
ISOLATION. Incapacity to weep is mad
ness or death. Thank God for the tea
glands and that the crystal gates ar
SO easily opened. Oh, the wonderful
hydraulic apparatus of the human eye
Divinely constructed vision. Two light
houses at the harbor of the immorta
soul under the shining of which tn,
world sails in and drops anchor.
| What an anthem of praise to God i
the human eye! The tongue is speech
less and clumsy instrument of ex
preston as compared with it. Hav
you not seen the eye flash with indigna
ton, or kindle with enthusiasm, or ex
pand with devotion, or melt with sym
pathy, or stare with fright, or lee
with villainy, or droop with sadness
or pale with envy, or fire with revenge
ors twinkle with mirth, or beam wit
love? 1t is tragedy and comedy an,
pastoral and lyric in turn. Have yo1
not seen its uplifted brow of surprise
or its frown of wrath, or its contrae
tion of pain? II the eye say one thin
and the lips say another thing, you be
lieve the eye rather than the lips. TIL
eyes of Archibald Alexander an
Charles g. Finney were the mighties
, part of their sermons. George White
field enthralled great assemblages wit
his eyes. though they were cripple