The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-01-24

;hiS Tay aud that anu az Asls auU Eau
insfs the magnifying glass until 1t is
nrnrsreG to DO It's work, but the human
eve S7,r;theut touch beholds the star
s18 the smallest insect. The traveller
aioag the Alps with one glance taking
IN Mont Blanc and the face of his
watch 10 see whether he has time to
cIi,n5 i. Oh, this wonderful camera
abscGra which you and l carry about
wiki Us SO from the top Of Mount
Washington We can take in New Eng
land, 50 at night We can sweep into one
! vision the consultations from horizon
70 hcrizeu. So delicate, SO semi-iah-
nirc, AMI &c, the light coming 80, vvy, ~ :
U00 os miles at the rate Of 2Oe, e,UoV
miles second is obliged to halt at the
gate oe the eye, waiting until the port,
! cullis be lifted. Something hurled
! . 600 0G9 Of miles and striking an ln-
,,rr,rent which has not the agitation
/ If even viking under the power OF the
stroke. 30,
Tbsrc also IS the merciful arrange
De2y of the tear gland By which the
( eve is WASHED and through which rolls
/ the tide which brings relief that comes
! in tears when some bereavnent or great
! loss strikes US. The tear not an aug
mentation Of sorrow, but the breaking
up Of the arctic of frozen grief in the
warm gulf stream of consolation. In
capacity to weep is madness or death.
Thank God for the tear glands and that
the crystal gates are so easily opened.
Oh, the wonderful hydraulic apparatus
Of the human eye. Divinely construct
cd vision Two lighthouses at the har-
Dor Of the immortal soul under the
shining Of which the world sails in and
drops anchor.
What an anthem Of praise to God is
the human eye! The tongue is speech
less aad clumsy instrument of expires.
sion as compared with it. Have you
not seen the eye fash with indignation,
or kindle with enthusiasm, or expand
with devotion, or melt with sympathy,
or stare with fright, or leer with villainy
or droop with sadness, or pale with
envy, or FIRE with revenge, or twinkle
with mirth, or beam with Il 3? 1t is
tragedy and comedy and pastoral and
| lyric in turn. Have you not seen its
uplifted brow Of surprise, or its froWn
/ of wrath, or it's contraction Of pain? If
the eye say one thing and the lips say
another thing, you believe the eye
rather than the lips. The eyes Of
Archibald Alexander and Charles G.
Flnuey were the mightier part of their
sermons. George Wbitefeld enthralled
great assemblages with his eyes, though
they were crippled with strabismus.
Many military chieftain has with a
look hurled regiment to victory or to
death. Martin Luther turned his great
eye on an assassin who came to take
his life, aud the villain fed. Under
the glance Of the human eye the tiger,
with FIVE times mans strenth, snarls
back into the African jungle.
How it adds to John Millions sublim'
iyy Of charactea when we find him al
the call of duty sacrificing his eyesight.
Through studying at late hours and
.ryiDg al kinds Of medicsnent to pre-.
serre his sight he had for u year:
been coming toward blindness, anc
after awhile one eye was entirely gone,
| His physician warned him that If be
continued reading and writing he would
lose the ether eye. But he kept OH hi:
work aud said after sitting in total
darkness: The choice lay be me
between derelictioa Of supreme duty
and loss of eyesight. In such case
could not listen to the physician, not
i -Esculaplus himself had spoken from
his sanctuary. I could rot but obey that
inward monitor. l know not what
spoke 10 me from heaven" Who of Us
would have grace enough to sacrifice
our eyes at the call Of duty?
! But. thank God, some have beer
enabled to see without very good eyes,
General Havelock, the son Of the more
famous General Harelock, told me thi:
concerning his father: In India, while
his father aud himself, with the army,
we're cncamped one evening time after
long march, General HaVelock called
up his soldiers and addressed them,
saying IN words as near as I can recol
iect:: "Solliers, there are two or three
hundred women, children and men al
Cawnpur at the mercy Of Mana Sahit
and bis butchers These poor people
may any hour be sacrificed. How
man, ofyou s,il 90 with me for the res
cue Of those women and children?
know you are all worn out, and 50 am I
but all those who will march with me
to save those women and children holc
up your hand" Then Havelock said
1T is almost dark, and my eye-sight is
very poor, and / cannot see your raised
hands, but I know they are all up
Farvard to Cawnpur." That hero's
eyes, though almost extinguished II
the service Of God and his country
could see across India and across the
centuries. But let anybody who has
one good eye be thankful, and all who
have two good eyes be twice as thank
ful. Take care Of your eyes and thank
God every morning when you open
them for capacity to see the light.
do not wonder atthe behavior of poo,
man il France. He had been borr
blind, but was skillful groom in the
stables.
The Earl of Bird gewaser, in his last
will aud Testament, bequeathed $40, ,00(
for essays to be written on the powe,
aud wisdom and goodness of God as
manifested ia creation. and Sir Charles
Bell, the British sur. fresh from Coruns
anG Waterloo, where he had been tend
ing the wounded and studying the for,
nation of the human body amid The
anputatiag horrors of the battlefield
accepted the invitation to write one Of