The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-02-22
THE IMPERIAL ORGAN
b. ,Talmage Discourses on the
Wonders Of the Eye
ruo Great Lights Of the Human
r..e-How They Are HOnOred
rAroughout the Bible-Win-
dOws of the Soul.
srcnvrteat, 1900. by Louis klopsch.l
Washington,

81 IRE human body never perhaps dls-
.oursed !. upon in the pulpit and chal-
/ ,..ges Il us all to the study of om-
] .i.e;ence. Text, Psalm 94:9: "He that
formed the eye, shall He not see?"
The imperial organ of the human sys-
.,.m Is the eye. All up and down the
p;ble God honors it, extols it, illus
t,.tes it or arraigns it. Five hundred
"a thirty-four times it is mentioned
Il the Bible. Omnipresence-"the eyes
q the Lord are in every place." Di-
Vine care-sas the apple of the eye" !"
n clouds -"the eyelids of the morn
~ Irreyerence-"the eye that
~ s-oocketh at its father" Pride-''oh,
N lofty are their eyes" Inattention
sthe FOOLS eye in the ends of the
Aa.rth." Divine inspection - wheels
iii Of eyes" Suddenness-''in the
stpinkIing Of an eye at the last trump"
0liyetic sermon-"the light of the
tody Is the eye" This mornings text,
sHe that formed the eye, shall He not
seer
The surgeons, the doctors, the anato-
mists and the PSYCHOLOGISTS understand
] much Of the glories of the two great
Irhts OF the human race, but the vast
uultitudes 60 on from cradle to grave
Without any appreciation of the two
neat masterpieces of the Lord God Al
mighty. II God had lacked anything of
snfnite wisdom, He would have failed in
Grating the human eye. We wander
thrcugh the earth trying to see wonder
Ill nights, but the most wonderful sight
Ne ever see is not so wonderful as the
instruments through which we see it.
Il has been strange thing to me for
D Jears that some scientist with
enosgh eloquence and magnetism did
~ 80 through the country with illus
tsled lectures on canvas 30 feet square
n ssartle and thrill and overwhelm
ssistendom with the marvels of the
s1slnan eye. We want the eye taken
I nm all its technicalities. and some one
Nho shall lay aside all talk about the
leIy gomaxillary fissures, the sclerotic
aaad the chiasma of the optic nerve and
I plain, common parlance which you
80 ! and everybody can understand
resent the subject. We have learned
IN who have been telling us what our
el1sin is and what we were. Oh, il
ecne one should come forth from the
aaeeting table and from the class.
teom Of the university and take the
Uniform, and, asking the help of the
Ateator, demonstrate the wonders OF
MAat xe are! If I refer to the physio.
gical facts suggested by the former
ut Of my text, it is only to bring out
palmer way the theological LESSONS
q the latter part Of my text: "He that
I 1armed the eye. shall He not see?''
suppose my text referred to the hu
nan eye, since it excels all others in
structure and adaptation. The eyes o1
- and reptiles and moles and bat:
- very simple things because they
sse not much to do. There are in
ssess with hundred eyes, but the hun
slsd eyes have less faculty than the two
ealnan eyes. The black beetle swim
las me summer pond has two eyes un
st The water and two eyes above til.
teFt but the four insectile are moi
~ 70 the two human. Man placed
3 'ne head Of all living creatures mus
4 ~, 80 supreme equipment, while thu
snad ilsh in the Mammoth cave Of Ken
~. nave only an undeveloped orga1
81. s'gat' an apology for the eye, which
sarough some crevice of the mountain
snonid go into the sunlight nigh
q sseioped into positive eyesight.
= ne first chapter of Genesis we fint
q eod without any consultation ere
~ .ne hight, created the trees, created
asn, created the fowl, but when H,
-. ]. soout to make man He called a con
oa o. divinity, as though to impl,
y tne powers Of Godhead were t,
nsted in the achievement. aLet u.
. man.. Put whole ton of empha
g that word .us.'' "Let us max,
And, if God called conyentio;
s'sinasy to create man. I think th,
leat questions in that conference
II aoW to create soul and how t,
"a appropriate window for tha
efor to look out Of.
low God honored the eve befor
ned It. He cried until chaos wa
.sea with the utterance: lie
g iightls In other words. be
1e introduced man into this tenn
sne world He illumined il. pre-
y Tor the eyesight. And so afte
human eye has been destroye,
nnal demolition Of the worls
..e 70 fall and the sun is to ceas
ng and the moon is to turn int
e other words, after the humal
~ g more to be profted by thei
sne chandeliers of Heaven ar
Aed ont. God. to educate an
~ snd TO help the human eve, Sc
anfel Of Heaven two lamps
and silver lamp-the on
"a and the other for the nigh
how God honors the eye, loo
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