The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-01-16

will and testament, bslueathed $1,000 10
essays to be written on the power ant
wisdom and goodness OF God as mani
{ tested in creation, and Sir Charles Bell
the British surgeon. fresh from CorHnG,
ard Waterloo, where, he had been tend
ing the wounded and studying the fOrma
ton Of the human body amid the amputat
ing horrors OF the battlefield. aCCeptet
the invitation 10 write one OF thos'
Bridgewater treatises, and he wrote nj
book on the human hand-a book thA
viii live as long az the world lives To
dEy | have only hintsd at the spienaoTs
the Eiories. the wonders. the divine revel
attOns. the spOcalypsss OF he human
eye. and ! stagger back from the awiu
portals OF the physiological miracle whicl
must have taxed the ingenuity or a god
10 cry out in your ears the words OF u, z,
, text He that formed the eye, shall H'
not sec% Shall Herschel aot know .:
much as his telescope Shall Fraunhote'
not know as much a. his spectrcScopc'
shall Swammerdam not know as much a.
bis Eicroscope2 Shall DR. HO0ke no
know as much as his micrometer2 Shall
the thing formed know more than *:
makeT9 He that formed the eye, shall
He not see2'
Watched by the Eye of God.
''The recoil Of this question Is tremen.
dOus We stand at the center OF a vast
I circumference Of observation No privacy
On US. eyes Of cher'.Sim. eyes of seraph.
| i'm. eyes Of archange,. eyes OF God We
may not be able 10 sse The inhabitants OF
other worlds. but perhaps they may be
able 10 see US. W. have not optical in
| struments strong enough to descry them
perhaps they have optical instruments
| strong enough to descry us The mole
/ cannot see the eagle midair, but the eagle
! midsky can see the mole rnidgrass We
| are able to see mountains and cayerns Of
another world: but perhaps the inha5i-
I tants 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 obsequies. 1t passes out from the
/ guess into the positive, when We are told
| in the Bible that the inhabitants of other
! worlds do come 10 this. Are they not all
ministering spirits sent forth 10 minister
| to those who shall be heirs of salvation?
| But human inspection and angelic in
/ spection and stellar inspection and lunar
I inspection and solar inspection are tame
/ as compared with the thought of divine
4 inspection. You converted me twenty
| years ago. said a man to my father.
/ How so? said my father. Twenty years 5
ago. said the other. in the old school,
I house prayer-meeting at Bound Brook
/ you said In your prayer Thou God sees5
me-" and l had no peace under the eye OF
God until ! became Christian Hear Il:
/ The eyes of the Lord are in every place
| His eyelids try the children of men,
His eyes we're as a flame of fire. 4 will
guide thee with mine eye Oh, the eye
Of God, so full OF pity, so full of power,
so full of love, so full of Indignation. SO
full of compassion, so full of mercy How
| 1t peers through the darkness. How II
Outshines the day. How il glaTes upon
I the offender! How il beams on the peni-
tent soul! Talk about the human eye as
being tndescribably wOnderful-how much
more wonderful the great, searching,
overwhelming eye of God! All eternity
past and all eternity to come on that
retln9- The eve with which We look into
each others face to-day suggest 1t. IL
/ stands written twice or your face and
| twice on mine, unless through casualty
| enc or both have been oblitcrated. He
that formed the eve. shall He not seeg'
| On, the eye of GodI 1t sees our sorrows
70 assuage them, gees our pcrplexities to
disentanSle them, sees our wants to SYM
pathize with them. If We fight Him back.
the eye OF an antagonist. II We ask His
grace, the eye OF an everlasting Friend.
Cur sorrows Are Plain TO Him.
you often find in a book or manuscript
a star calling your attention to a footnote
or explanation. That star the printer
calls an asterisk. But all the stars of the
night heavens are astersks calling your
attention to God, an all observing God.
our every nerve a divine handwriting.
Our every muscle pulley diynely swung.
Our every bone scuIptured with divine
suggestiveness. Our every eye a reflec-
tlon OF the divine eye God above US.
and God beneath US, and God before US,
and God behind Us. and God within US.
What stupendous thing TO live. What
stupendous thing to die! No such thing
as hidden transgression.
"A dramatic advocate in olden times al
night In a courtroom, persuaded of the
innocence or his client, charged with
murder. and of the guilt of the witness
VINO was trying TO swear the poor mans
life away-that advocate took lid two
bright lamps and thrust them close up 10
the face of the witness and cried: MAY
II please the court and gentlemen of the
jury, behold the murderer and the man
practically under that awful glare con-
fessed that he was the criminal instead
or the man arraisned at the bar on INV
friends, our most hidden sin is under a
brighter light than that; il is under tha
burning eye of God.
-, He is not a blind giant stumbling
through the heavens. He is NOT - IiiI55 Siii,,5
monarch feeling for the step of his cbarICt
Are you wronged? He sees II. Are Won
poor? He sees it. Have you domestic
perturbation OF which the world knows
affairs are so Insignificant 1 can't reaIiza
that God sees me ana sees my aRairs.'
Can you see the point OF a min? Can y0I
see the eye OF a needle? Can You see a
mote IN the sunbeam? And has God given
you that power of minute observation AMI
does He not possess it Himself? He that
formed the eye, shall He not seer
lie sees All.
But you say, God is I'm one world and
am in another world; He seems so far of
from me that | don't really think He sees
what is going on in my life Can you see
the sun ninety-five million miles away?
And do you not think God has as pro-
longed vision? But you say, There are
phases Of my life and there are colors.
shades of color in my annOyanCes ana nv
yexations that | don't think God can IN
derstand.' Does not God gather up all the
colors and all the shades of color In the
rainbow? And do you suppose there IS any
phase or any shade IN your life tEat He |
has not gathered up IN His own heart?
Besides that, / want to tell you it will |
soon all be over, this struggle That eye /
OF yours. so e1puisitely fashioned ana
strung and hinged and rooted, will before /
long close in the last siumber. Loving |
hands will smooth down the silken fringes |
SO He giveih His beloved sleep.
"a legend OF 81. FrotObert is that hIs |
mother vas blind and he was 90 gnr@Iv |
pitiful for the misfortune that one dsv in |
sympathy he kissed her eyes and by Mira
Gle she saw every thing. But Il Is NOT /. 1
legaId when I tell you that all the blind /
eyes OF the Christian dead under the kiss !
of the resurrection morn shall gloriouslv (
open. Oh. what day that will be for 4
those who went gIOplng through this
world under perpetual ohscuratioD. or
were dependent on the hand OF a friend 4
or with an uncertain staff felt the nav l
and for the aged CT dim sight, about wh0ri (
IL might b said that they which look o-If 4
OF the windows be daTkened,' Wnen eternal /
daybreak comes in What a BEAUTIFUL !,
epitaph that was FOR q tombstone In a !
European cemetery: Here reposes IN God |
Katrina, a saint, eighty-aVe years OF age. /
aud blind the light vas restored TO her 1
May 70, ls40.'
WheH Oar Eyes shall Behold Him. 1