Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-24

| Something hurled 95, 900 900 miles and
| striking an instrument which has not the
agitation OF even winking under the power
| OF the stroke.
There also Is the merciful arrangement
of the tear gland by which the eye is
! washed and through whi.h rolls the tide
which brings the relief that comes in tears
when some bereavement or great loss
/ strikes US. The tear not an augmentation
OF sorrow, but the breaking up Of the arc
tic OF frozen grief in the warm gulf stream
| Of consolation. Incapacity to weep is
madness or death. Thank God for the tear
glands and that the crystal gates are SO
easily opened. Oh, the wonderful hydr1u-
lie apparatus of the human eyeI Divinely
constructed vision. Two lighthouses at the
harbor OF the immortal soul under the
shining OF which the world sails In and
trops anchor.
What an anthem Of praise to God Is tn.
human eyei The tongue is speechless and
4 clumsy instrument of expression as COM
pared with It. Have you not seen the eye
Hash with indig nation, or kindle with en-
thusiasm, or expand with devotion, or melt
with sympathy, or stare with fright, or
ieer with vilIainy. or droop with sadness.
Or pale with envy, or fire with revenge, or
twinkle with mirth, or beam with love? 1t
Is tragedy and comedy and pastoral and
lyric In turn. Have you not seen its up
lifted brow Of surprise, or its frown OF
wrath, or its contraction of pain? II the
sye say one thing and the lips said moth
ar thing, you would believe the eye rather
than the lips. The eyes OF Archibald Alex
ander and Charles G. Finney were the
mghtiest part of their sermons. George
Whitefleld enthralled great assemblages
with his eyes, though they were crippled
with strabismus. Many a military chief
tain has with look hurled a regiment to
victory or to death. Martin Luther turned
his great eye on an assassin who came to
take his life, and the villain fed. Under
the glance of the human eye the tiger,
with five times mans strength, snarls
back into the African jungle.
But those best appreciate the value OF
the eye who have lost 1t. The Emperor
Adrian by accident put out the eye of his
servant, and he said to his servant: What
shall pay you, in money or In lands-any-
thing you ask me? l am so sorry put
your eye out" But the servant refused to
put any financial estimate on tie value of
the eye, and when the emperor urged and
urged again the matter he said: "Oh, en-
peror, l want nothing but my lost eye!''
Alas for those for whom thick al i'm
penetrable veil is drawn across the face of
The heavens and the face of ones own
kindred.
That was pathetic scene when a blind
nan lighted a torch at night and was
found passing along the highway and some
one said why do you carry that torch
when you can see2' "Ah," said he, 81
can see. but carry this torch that others
may see me and pity my helplessness and
not run me down." Samson, the giant,
with his eyes put out by the Philistines,
Is more helpless than the smallest dwarf
with vision undamaged. All the SYM
pathies of Christ were stirred when He
saw Bartimeus with darkened retina, and
the only salve He ever made that we read
OF was a mixture of dust and saliva and
prayer with which He cured the eyes of a
blind man from His nativity. The value
nf nc nv its m
trophe as by its healthful action. Ask the
man who for twenty years has not seen the
sun rise. Ask the man who for half century.
has not seen the face Of friend. Ask in
the hospital the victim of ophthamia
Ask the man whose eyesight perished in
powder blast. Ask the Bartimeus who
never met a Christ or the man born blind
who is to die blind. Ask him.
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