Columbus chronicle., 1900-01-27
REV. DIR, TALMAGE.
DISCOURSE BY THE EMINENT DIVINE
LAST SUNDAY.
Subject kikhts OF the Face-The Marvels
Of the Human Eye Prove the Infinite
Wisdom of the Creator-Dfvlnely Con-
structed Lighthouses of the Soul.

ANboA Va Nh0 0OuAs
Copyright Louis Klopsch. 1901
WASHINGTON, D. Gin this discourse Dr..
Talmage, in his own way, calls attention
to that part of the human body never
perhaps dtsconrsed upon In the pulpit and
challenges Us ali to the study bi 6mnis-
clence. Text, Psalm xtiT., 9, "He that
formed the eye, shall He not see?"
The imperial organ OF the human system
Is the eye. All up and down the Bible God
honors 1t, extols 1t, illustrates it or ar
raigns it. Five hundred and thirty-four
times Is 1t mentioned in the Bible. Omni-
presence-"the eyes OF the LORD are In
every place." Divine care-.aa"as tie apple
OF the eye." The eloAdsz-tthe eyeIids OF
the morning. Ifreverence-"thee eye that
mocketh at It's Father" Pride-"oh, how
lofty are their eyes," Inattention-'the
FOOLS eye in the ends of the earth" Divine
inspection-"wheels full of eyes," Sud-
denness-"in the twlnkling of an eve at
the last trump" Oivetic sermon-''the
light of the body is the eye." This morn
ing's text, "He that formed the eye, shall
He not seer"
The surgeons, the doctors, the anato-
mists and the Psychologists understand
much of the glorles 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
lhuoLOl plOCCS VI tEb GOEu 0Ou AImlRuIY.
II God had lacked anything of Infinite
wisdom, He would lave failed in creating
the human eye, We wander through the
earth trying to see wonderful sights, but
the most wonderful sight We ever SEQ is
not so wonderful as the instruments
through which we see 1t.
1T has been strange thing to me FOR
thirty years that some scientist with
enough eloquenee and magnetism did not
fhrnhOh kn nit fa1
lecture on canvas thirty feet square to
startle and thrill and overwhelm Christen-
dom with the marvels Of the human eye.
We want the eye taken from all its tech
nicalities and some one who shall lay aside
all talk about the pterygomaxillary fls-
sures, the sclerotica and the chiasma of
the optic nerve and in plain, common par
lance which you and I and everybody can
understand present the subject. We have
learned men who have been telling US
what our origin Is and what we were. Oh,
II some one should come forth from the
dissecting table and from the classroom
Of the university and take the platform
and asking the help OF the Creator
demonstrate the wonders of what we are!
II l refer to the physiological facts sug-
gested by the former part of my text, 1t 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?"
suppose my text referred to the human
eye since 1t excels all others In structure
and adaptation. The eyes OF fish and rep
tiles 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 swim
ming 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 creatures must have supreme
| equipment, while the blind fish in the Nam
moth cave OF Kentucky have only an un-
| developed organ OF sight, an apology for
| the eye, which IL through some crevice OF
| the mountain they should go into the SUM-
light might be developed into positive eye
sight. --~s'---
| In the frst chapter Of Genesis We find
that God without any consultation created
the light, created the trees, created the fish
created the fowl, but when He was about
| to make man He called convention Of di-
| vinity, 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 emphasis on that word
"us." "Let us make man." And II God
called a convention of divinity to create
| man think the two great Questions in that
how to make an appropriate window fol
that emperor to look out Of.
See how God honored the eye before he
created it. He cried until chaos was irrad-
lated with the utterance, "Let there be
| light" In other words, before He intro
duced man into this temple of the world
| He illumined 1t, prepared Ii 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 SUI
| is to cease its shining, and the moon Is tC
| turn into blood. In other words, after the
| human eyes are no more to be profited b!
their shining the chandeliers OF heaven arr
to be turned out. God to educate and t
bless aud to help the human eye set on thu
mantel Of heaven two lamps-a gold lamI
and silver lamp-the one for the day anC
'he other for the night.
To show how God honOrs the eye look a
| the two halls built for the residence OF th'
| eyes. Seven bones making the wall TO
each eye, the seven bones curiously wrough
together. Kingly palace of ivory IS consld
| cred rich, but the halls for the residence o
the human eyes are richer by so much n
| human bone is more sacred than elephan
tine tusk. See how God honored the eye
| when He made roof for them, so that tht
sweat of toll should not smart them ant
the rain dashing against the forehead mig h
not drip into them; the eyebrows not bend
ing over the eye, but reaching to the righ
and TO the left, so that the rain and tn
sweat should be compelled to drop upol
the cheek instead of falling into this di
vlnely protected human eyesight.
See how God honored the eye In the fac
| presented by anatomists and psychologist:
| that there are 800 contrlvances in every
eye. For window shutters, the eyelid
opening and closing 80, 900 times day, tht
eyelashes so constructed that they hav,
their selection as to what shall be admitted
saying to the dust, "Stay ont" and saying
| to the light, "Come in" For inside cur
tain the iris or pupil Of the eye, according
| as the light Is greater or less, contracting
or dIlatng. The eye of the owl is blind ii
the day time, the eyes OF some creatures
are blind at night, but the human eye 81
| maryelously constructed it can see both By
day and by night.
Many of the other creatures OF God cal
move the eye only from side to side, but th
| human eye, so marveIously constructed
has one muscle to lift the eye, and another
muscle 10 lower the eye, and another mus
Gle to roll it to the right, and another mus
Gle to roll it to the left, and another mus
Gle passing through q pulley to turn
round and round, an elabOrats gearing o
six muscles as perfect rs God could max
them.
There is also the retina gathering tn
rays c. light and passing the visual i'm
| preston along the optic nerve about The
| thickness of the lampwlck, passing thu
visualimpression on to the sensorium ant
on luto the soul. What delicate lens
what an exquisite screen, what sof
cushions, what wonderful chemistry OF th
| human eye. The eye washed by n SLOW
| stream Of moisture whether we sleep o