St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-02-17

RkOrleS, the WONDERS, the U1v1uc feve.
lations, the apocalypses Of the human
eye. and I stagger back from the swful
portals Of the physiological miracle
which must have taxed the ingenuity
Of a God to cry out in your ears the
words Of my text HE that formed the
eye, shall He not seer' Shall Herschel
not know as much rs his telescope
Shall Fraunhofer not know as much rs
his spectroscope? Shall Swammerdam
not know as much as his microscope
Shall DR.. Hooke not know rs much rs
his micrometer? Shall the thing
formed know more than it's maker?
HE that formed the eye, shall He not
see?"
The recoil Of this question II trc-
nendous. We stand at the center of
vast circumference of observation.
No privacy. On us eyes Of cherubim,
eyes of seraphim, eyes Of archangel,
eyes Of God. We may not be able to
see the inhabitants of other worlds,
but perhaps they may be able to see
us. We have not optical instruments
strong enough to descry them. Per
haps they have optical instruments
strong enough to descry us. The mole
cannot see the eagle midair, but the
eagle midsky can see the mole mid
grass. We are able to see mountains
and caverns of another world, but per-
haps the inhabitants of other worlds
can see the towers of our cities, the
flash of our seas, the marching Of our
professions, the white robes Of our
weddings, the black scarfs of our OBJ
sequies. 1t passes out from the guess
into the positive when we are told
in the Bible that the Inhabitants of
other worlds do come to this. Are
they net all ministering spirits sent
forth to minister to those who shall
be heirs of salvation?
But human inspection and angelic
inspection and stellar inspection arc
tame rs compared with the thought Of
Divine inspection. "You converted me
20 years ago." said q colored man TO
my father. "How SOP" said my faith
er. Twenty years ago." said the 9TH
er, sin the old schoolhouse prayer
meeting at Bound Brook you said in
your prayer: Thou God seest me-
and had no peace under the eye Of
God until I became Christian" Hear
it: 1.-The eyes of the Lord are in every
place." 'His eyelids try the children
of men" His eyes were as flame Of
fire." 81 will guide thee with Mine
eye" Oh, the eye of God, SO full Of
rity. so full Of power, so full of love,
so full of indignation, so full Of COM
passion, so full of mercy! How ii
peers through the darkness! How Il
outshines the day! How it glares up
OIL the offender! How it beams on the
penitent soul! Talk about the human
eye as being indescribably wonderful
how much more wonderful the great,
searching, overwhelming eye Of God!
All eternity past and all eternity 20
come on that retina. The eyes with
which we look into each Others face
to-day suggest it. 1t stands written
twice on your face and mine. unless
through casualty one or both have
been obliterated. "He that formed the
eye, shall He not see?" Oh, the eye OF
God! It sees our sorrows to assuage
them, sees our perplexities to olsen
tangle them, sees our wants to sympa-
thize with them. II we fight Him
back, the eye of an antagonist. If We
ask His grace, the eye of an everlast.
ing friend.
You often find in a book Of manu-
script star calling your attention L.
a footnote or explanation. That stan
the printer calls an astsrisk. But all
the stars Of the night heavens are as
terisks calling your attention to God,
an all-observing God. Our every nerve
a Divine handwriting. Our every mus
Gle pulley Divincly swung. Our
every bone sculptured with Divine sug
Our every eye a reflec-
ton of the Divine eye. God above rs
and God beneath us and God before us
and GOD behind us and God within us.
What stupendous thing to i've!
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 of his client charged
with murder and of the guilt of the
witness who was trying to swear the
poor mans life away-that advocate
took up two bright lamps and thrust
them close up to the face Of the wit
ness and cried: MAY it please the
court and gentlemen Of the jury. be-
hold the murderer" and the man
under that awful glare con-
ressed that he was the criminal instead
Of the man arraigned at the bar. Oh,
my friends, our most hidden sin j.
brighter light than that! 1t is under
The burning eye of God.
He is not blind giant stumbling
the Heavens. He is not .
blind monarch feeling for the step OF
his chariot. Are you wronged? He
sees it. Are you poor? He sees it.
Have you domestic perturbation of
Which the world knows nothing? He
sees it. "Oh," you say, my affairs are
50 insignificant can't realize that God
sees me and sees my affairs!" Can
YOU see the point OF pin? Can you
see the point of a needle? Can you see
4 mote in the sunbeam? And has God
given you that power of minute obser-
ration and does He not possess 1t
Himself? "He that formed the eye.
shall He not see?"
But you say: "God is in one world
md am in another world. He seems
50 far off from me don't really think
He sees what is going on in my life"
Can You see the sun 95,000,000 miles
away, and do you not think God has
IS prolonged vision? But you say:
There are phases Of my life and there
ire colors, shades Of color in my an
,cyances and my vexations thr: !
don't think God can understai l."
Does not God gather up all the colors
md all the shades of color in the rain
,cw? And do you suppose there IS
my phase or any shade in your life
hat He has not gathered up in His
,wn heart?
Besides that. l want to tell you il
will soon all be over, this struggle.
That eye of yours, so eNquisitely fash
>ged and strung and hinged and