The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-01-20

into the sunshine! You are 40 years of
age. l could surely have cured your
blindness If | had seen you sooner, but
come to Paris, and will give You sight
If you do not die under the operation"
Paying the poor mans way to Paris,
the operation was successful. For the
first time the man saw his wife and
children, and having taken good look
at them he turned and said: Let me
look on my friend, the surgeon, who
has opened all this beautiful world to
me and shown me my loved ones"
Was not that glorious? Only those who
have been restored from utter blind
ness can appreciate the omnipotent
blessing of eyesight.
The earl of Bridgewater, in his last
will and testament, bequeathed $780,
600 for essays to be written on the
power and wisdom and goodness OF
God as manifested in creation, and Sir
Charles Bell, the British surgeon, fresh
from Coruna and Waterloo, where he
had been tending the wounded and
studying the formation of the human
body amid the amputating horrors of
the battlefield, accepted the invitation
to write one of those Bridgewater
treatises, and he wrote his book on
the human hand, book that will live
a. long as the world lives. To-day
have only limited at the splendors, the
glories, the wonders, the Divine revc-
lations, the apocalypses of the human
eye. and | stagger back from the awful
portals of the physiological miracle
which must have taxed the ingenuity
of God to cry out in your ears the
words of my text, "He that formed the
eye, shall He not see?" Shall Herschel
not know as much as his telescope?
Shall Fraunhofer not know as much as
his spectroscope? Shall Swammerdam
not know as much as his microscope?
Shall DR.. Hooke not know as much as
his micrometer? Shall the thing
formed know more than it's maker?
"He that formed the eye, shall He not
see?'
The recoil of this question is trc-
mendous. We stand at the center of
vast circumference of observation.
No privacy On us eyes of cherubim,
eyes of seraphim, eyes of archangel,
eyes of God. We may not be able to
see the inhabitants of other worlds,
but perhaps they may be able to see
us. We have not optical instruments
strong enough to descry them. Per-
haps they have optical instruments
strong enough to descry us. The mole
cannot see the eagle midair, but the
eagle midsky can see the mole mid
grass. We are able to see mountains
and caverns of another world, but per-
haps the inhabitants of other worlds
can see the towers of our cities, the
fash of our seas, the marching of our
professions, the white robes of our
weddings, the black scarfs of our OBJ
sequies. 1t passes out from the guess
into the positive when we are told
in the Bible that the inhabitants of
other worlds do come to this. Are
they not all ministering spirits sent
forth to minister to those who shall
be heirs of salvation?
But human inspection and angelic
inspection and stellar inspection arc
tame as compared with the thought of
Divine inspection. you converted me
90 years ago." said a colored man TO
my father. "How ao?" said my faith
err. Twenty years ago." said the 9th
err, Gin the old schoolhouse prayer
meeting at Bound Brook you said in
your prayer: Thou God seest me-
and had no peace under the eye of
God until / became a Christian" Hear
it: 1.-THE eyes of the Lord are in every
place" "His eyelids try the children
of men" "His eyes were as flame of
fire." 81 will guide thee with Mine
eye" Oh, the eye of God, so full Of
Fifty, so full of power, so full of love,
so full of indignation, so full of COM
passion, so full of mercy! How it
peers through the darkness! How it
outshines the day! How it glares up
OF. the offender! How it beams on the
penitent soul! Talk about the human
eye as being indescribably wonderful
how much more wonderful the great,
searching, overwhelming eye of God!
All eternity past and all eternity 10
come on that retina. The eyes with
which we look into each others face
to-day suggest it. 1t stands written
twice on your face and mine. unless
| through casualty one or both have
been obliterated. "He that formed the
eye, shall He not see?" Oh, the eye of
God! 1t sees our sorrows to assuage
them, sees our perpleXities to olsen
tangle them, sees our wants to Sympa-
thze with them. If we fight Him
back, the eye of an antagonist. If we
ask His grace, the eye of an everlast-
ing friend.
A dramatic advocate in olden times
at night in courtroom, persuaded of
the innocence of his client charged
with murder and of the guilt of the
witness who was trying to swear the
poor mans life away-that advocate
took up two bright lamps and thrust
them close up to the face of the wit
ness and cried: MAY it please the.
court and gentlemen of the jury, be-
hold the murderer" and the man
practically under that awful glare con-
fessed that he was the criminal instead
OF the man arraigned at the bar Oh,
my friends, our most hidden sin is a
brighter light than that! 1t is under
the burning eye of God.
He is not a blind giant stumbling
through the Heavens. He is not
blind monarch feeling for the step of
his chariot. Are you wronged? He
sees it. Are you poor? He sees it.
Have you domestic perturbation of
which the world knows nothing? He
sees it. "Oh," you say, my affairs are