The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-01-20
THE IMPERIAL ORGAN
DR.. Talmage Discourses on the
Wonders of the Eye
The Two Great Lights of the Human
Eace-HOw They Are Honored
Throughout the Bible-Win-
dOws of the Soul.
copyright, 1900. by Louis K~lopsch-'
Washinptop

lSOpyElSUt, iyVs ~ s%odiS HiOpSSh-'
Washington.
In this discourse DR.. Talmage, In his
own way, calls attention to that part
of the human body never perhaps dis
coursed upon in the pulpit and chal-
lenges us all to the study of ON
niscience. Text. Psalm 94:9: HE that
formed the eye. shall He not see?"
The imperial organ of the human sys-
TEN is the eye. All up and down the
Bible God honors it. extols it, illus
trates it or arraigns it. Five hundred
and thirty-four times it is mentioned
in the Bible. COMPREHENSIVE eyes
of the Lord are in every place." Di-
vine care-"as the apple of the eye"
The clouds-"the eyelids of the morn
ing" Irreverence-'the eve that
mocketh at its father" Pride-"oh,
how lofty are their eyes" Inattention
the FOOLS eye in the ends of the
earth" Divine inspection -"wheels
full of eyes," Suddenness-"in the
twinkling of an eye at the last trump"
Olivetic sermon-"the light of the
body is the eye" This mornings text,
HE that formed the eye. shall He not
see?"
The surgeons, the doctors, the anato-
mists and the psychologists understand
much of the glories of the two great
lights of the human race, but the vast
multitudes 90 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
Ct. l~-. II r@,,l lova Go LODI ~
creating the human eye. We wander
through the earth trying to see wonder
full sights, but the most wonderful sight
we ever see is not SO wonderful as the
instruments through which we see il.
It has been a strange thing to me Cor
80 years that some scientist with
enough eloquence and magnetism did
not 90 through the country with illus
trated lectures on canvas 30 feet square
TO startle and thrill and overwhelm
Christendom with the marvels of the
human eve. We want the eye taken
from all it's technicalities, and some one
who shall lay aside all talk about the
pterygomaxillary assures, the sclerotic
and the chiasma of the optic nerve and
in plain, common parlance which you
and 1 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, 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 l refer TO the physio-
logical 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?"
Isuppose my text referred to the hu
mar eve, since it eXcels all others III
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 in
Rects with a hundred eyes, but the hun
bred eyes have less faculty than the twt
human eyes. The black beetle swim
ming the summer pond has two eyes un
der the water and two eyes above tn
water, but the four insectile are no
equal to the two human. Man place
at the head of all living creatures mus
have supreme equipment, while tn
blind fish in the Mammoth cav of Ken
lucky have only an undeveloped orga'
of sight, an apology for the eye. whic
if through some ~crevice of the mountai
they should 60 into the sunlight nigh
be developed into positive eyesight.
- c.. Go-Arte y-a g.
that God without any consultation cr'
ated the light. created the trees, create
the fish, created the fowl, but when ID
was about to make man He called a col
v~ention of divinity, as though to impl
that all the powers of Godhead were
be enlisted in the achievement. Let
make man." Put a whole ton OF emphi
sis on that word us" let US NAL
man" And, if God called a conventio
of divinity to create man, think II
two great.questions in that conferen'
were how to create a soul and how
make an appropriate window for tn
emperor to look out of.
See how God honored the eye befo
He created it. He cried until chaos w
,rradiated with the utterance: 81
there be light" In other words, /
fore He introduced man into this tel
pie of the world He illumined it, pr
pared it for the eyesight. And so aft
the last human eye has been destroy
in the final demolition of the wor
stars are to fall and the sun is 10 cea
its shining and the moon is to turni in
blood. In other words, after the hum
eyes are no more to be protited by th'
shining the chandeliers of Heaven a
10 be turned out. God, TO educate a
10 bless and to help the human eye.
on the mantel of Heaven two lamps
gold lamp and a silver lamp-the G
for the day and the other for the mig
10 show how God honors the eye, 10
at the two halls built for the resider
of the eyes. Seven bones making
wall for each eye. the seven bones
riously wrought together. Kjngly
ace oil ivory is considered rich, but
balts for the residence of the hun