The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-01-19

a 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 daytime, the eyes of some
creatures are blind at night, but the
human eye so marvelously constructed
il 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 eye
and another muscle to roll il TO the
right and another muscle to roll it to
the left and another muscle passing
through a 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 i'm
preston along the optic nerve about the
thickness of the lamp wick, passing the
visual impression OH to the sensorium
and on into the soul. What a delicate
lens, what an exquisite screen, what
soft cushions, what wonderful chem
istry of the human eye! The eye
washed by a slow stream of moisture
whether we sleep or wake, rolling i'm
perceptibly over the pebble of the eye
and emptying into a bone of the nos
tril, a cOntrivance so wonderful that it
can see the sun 95.OOO.OOO of miles away
and the point of a pin. Telescope and
microscope in the same contrivance.
The astronomer swings and moves this
way and that and adjusts and reaGjusts
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 il is prepared to do its work, but the
human eye without a 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
10 climb il. Oh, this wonderful camera
obscura which you and l carry about
with US so from the top of Mount Wash
ington we can take in New England,
so al night we can sweep into our vision
the consultations from horizon TO hori-
zon. So delicate, so semi-infnite, and
yet the light coming $4,000, 900 of miles
at the rate of 100000 miles a second
is obliged TO halt at the gate of the
eye, waiting until the portcuIlis be lift
ed. Something hurled 95.OOO,OOO of
miles and striking an instrument which
has not the agitation of even winking
under the power of the stroke.
There also is the merciful arrange
ment of the tear gland by which the
eye is washed and through which rolls
the tide which brings relief that comes
in tears when some bereavement or
great loss strikes US. The tear not an
of sorrow, but the
breaking up of the arctic of frozen
grief in the warm gulf stream of con-
ISOLATION. Incapacity to weep is mad
ness 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 constructed vision. Two light
houses at the harbor 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 and a clumsy instrument of eX-
preston as compared with it. Have
you not seen the eye flash with indigna-
ton, or kindle with enthusiasm. or eX-
Dand with devotion, or melt with sym
pathy, or stare with fright, or leer
with villainy, or droop with sadness,
1r pale with envy, or fire with revenge,
or twinkle with mirth, or beam with
owe? 1t is tragedy and comedy and
pastoral and lyric in turn. Have you
rot seen its uplifted brow Of surprise,
)r its frown of wrath, or its contrac-
ion of pain? If the eye say one thing
md the lips say another thing, you be-
ieve the eye rather than the lips The
yes of Archibald Alexander and
Charles G. Finney were the mightiest
part of their sermons. George White
field enthralled great assemblages with
his eyes, though they were crippled
with strabismus. Many military chief
ain has with look hurled a regiment
TO victory or to death. Martin Luther
turned his great eye on an assassin
who came TO take his life, and the viii
ain fed. Under the glance of the hu-
man eye the tiger. with five times a
mans strength, snarls back into tie
African jungle.
How it adds to John Millions sublim-
ty of character when we find him at
he call of duty sacrificing his eyesight. !
studying at late hours and !
trying all kinds of medicament 10 pre-
serve his sight he had for - years been
coming toward blindness, and after |
while one eye was entirely gone. His |
physician warned him that if he con- !
inued reading and writing he would |
ose the other eye. But he kept on
with his work and said after sitting |
n total darkness: The choice lay be- |
'ore me between dereliction of a su-
,reme duty and loss of eyesight. In |
uch a case l could not listen TO the |
physician, not if Aesculapius himself |
lai spoken from his sanctuary. could |
Tot but obey that inward monitor. | |
know not what spoke to me from Heav-
n" Who of US would have grace |
'nough TO sacrifice our eyes at the call
# duty?
But, thank God. some have been en-
bled 10 see without very good eyes.
len. Havelock, the son of the more ia |
nous Gen. Havelock, told me this con-
erning his father: In India, while his
ather and himself, with the army, |
we're encamped one evening time after
long march, Gen. Havelock called up
lis soldiers and addressed them, say
1g in words as near as l can recollect:
Soldiers, there are two or three hun
red women. children and men at Gavin
'ur at the mercy of Mana Sahib and bis