The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-01-17

own way, calls attention to that part
q of the human body never perhaps dls-
coursed upon in the pulpit and challenges
us all to the study of omnisclence; text
Psalm KEW, 8, He that formed the eye
shall he not see?'
The imperial organ of the human sys-
tom is the eve. All up and down the
Rible God honors it, extols 1T, Illustrates
It or arraigns it. Five hundred and thir-
four times is it mentioned in the blole.
0mninresence-''t eyes of the Loro
oro in everv Mace" Divine care-as the
annie Of the eve" The clouds-''the eye
lids Of the morning.. rreVereAce. 'n
eve that mocketh at its father: Iriuc
soh. how lofty are their eyes. 1na.teh-
tio.-'.the fools eye in the ends OF tne
earth" Divine inspection wheels luii
of ewes" Suddenness-"ln the tWlnkllns
of an eye at the last trump. OnVetlc
serrnon-''the light of the body IS the
eve This mornings text, lie that
formed the eye shall he not see!
The surgeons, the doctors, the anato-
nists and the psychologists understand
much of the glories of the two great
LIGHTS of the human race, but the vast
multitudes 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 falled III
creating the human eye. We WANDER
through the earth trying to see wonderful
sights. but the most wonderful. sight we
ever see is not so wonderful as the IN
struments through which we see 1t.
1T has been a strange thing to me for
thirty years that some scientist with
enough eloauence and magnetism did not
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lecture on canvas thirty feet square 70
astarfle and thrill and overwhelm CHRIS
tendon with the smarvels, OF the human
eve We want the eye taken from al us
stechnicalities and some one who shall lay
aside all talk about the pterygomaxll-
larry assures, the sclerotle and me chi
asma of the optic nerve and ID PLAIN,
common parlance which you and 1 and
eyerybodyt can understand present the
Subject. We have learned men who have
been telling us what our origin is and
what we were. Oh, if some one should
come forth from the dissecting table and
from the class room of the university and
take the platform and, asking the help
of the Creator, demonstrate the wonders
of what we are! If refer to the physi-I
sological facts suggested by the former.
part of my text, it is only to bring out
in palmer way the theological lessons
of the latter part of my text, He that
formed the eye, shall he not see!
+ The Window of the Soul.
! 7 suppose my text referred to the hui
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structure and adaptation. The eyes of
fish and reptiles and moles and bats are
very simple things because they have not
much to do. There are insects with a
hundred eyes, but the hundred eyes have
less faculty than the two human eyes.
The black beetle swimming the summer
pond has two eyes under the water and
two eyes above the water, but the four
'insectile are not equal to the two human.
Man placed at the head Of all living crea-
lures must have supreme equipment,
while the blind fish in the Mammoth
cave of Kentucky have only an undeyel-
oped organ Of sight. an apology for the
eye, which il through some crevice of the
mountain they. should go into the sun
light might be developed into positive
eyesight.
In the first chapter of Genesis we find
that God without any consultation ere.
ated the light, created the trees, created
the fish, created the fowl, but when he
was about to make man he called a con.
yention of divinity, as though to imply
that all the powers of Godhead were to
be enlisted in the achievement. ''Let us
make man. Put a whole ton of empha-
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man" And if God called convention of
divinity to create man, | think the two
great questions in that conference were
how to create a soul and how to make an
appropriate window for that emperor to
look out of.
See how God honored the eye before he
created it. He cried until chaos was IRA
dated with the utterance. LET there be
light!' In other words, before he intro
duced man into this temple of the world
he lllumlned it. prepared it for the eye
sight. And SO after the last human eye
has been destroyed in the final 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 to be profted by
their shining the chandeliers of heaven
are to be turned out. God, to educate and
to bless and to help the human eve, set
on the mantel of heaven two lamps-a
gold lamp and silver lamp--the one for
the day and the other for the night.
How God Honors the Eye.
To show how God honors the eye, look
at the two halls built for the residence of
the eyes. Seven bones making the wall
for each eye, the seven bones curiously
wrought together. Kingly palace 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 elephantine tusk. See how God hon
ored the eyes when he made a roof for
them, so that the sweat Of toll should not
smart them and the rain dashing 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
TO drop upon the cheek instead
of falling. into this divinely protected hui
man eyesight.
See how God honorcd the eye in the
fact presented by anatomists and physi-
ologists that there are 800 contriyances
IN every eye. For window shutters, the
eyelids opening and closing 10000 times
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