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

DR.. Talmage took for his subject yester.
day the wonders OF vision, ,dilaiing upon the
marvels Of the human eye as an evidence
or Gods omnipotence and omniscierce IN
perfecting such a masterpiece, and pro-
ceeding TO reflections upon the watchful-
ness Of the Almighty In caring for human
ity and in noting the good and evil Of the
life or each man. He concluded with an
apostrOphe TO the beauties that shall bs
unfolded to the sight OF man when heaven
breaks upon the gaze OF those who are
saved For his text d.. Talmage took
Psalms. xciv-S: He that formed the eve
shall He not see?' DR.. Talmage spoke as
follows:
The imperial organ of the human sys-
TEN is the eye. All up and down the Bible
God hOnors it, extols 1t, illustrates it, or
arraisns It. Five hundred and thirty-four
times is it mentioned In the Bible Omni-
presence-'the eyes Of the Lord are in
every place Divine care-'as the apple OF
the eye The clouds-'the eyelids OF the
morning. Irreverence-'the eye that mock
eth at It's father Pride-'oh. how lofty
are their eyes Inattention-'the fools eye
in the ends Of the earth Divine inspec-
tion-'wheels full Of eyes Suddeuness-Fn
y.
Olivetic sermCn-'the light of the body is
the eye. And our text: He that formed
the eye. shall He not seer
The surgeons. the doctors. the anatom-
lists, and the Psychologists understand
much Of the glories OF the two great
lights Of the human face; but the vast
mulutudes go on from cradle to grave
without any appreciation of the two great
masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty.
II God had lacked anything of infinite wis
dom he would have failed in creating the
human eye. We wander through the earth
trying 10 see wonderful sights, but the
most wonderful sight We ever see, Is not
so wonderful as the instruments through
which we see 1t.
GlOrics of the Eye.
1T has been strange thing to me for
thirty years that some scientist with
enough eloquence and magnetism did not
go through the country with illustrated
lectures on canvas thirty feet square, to
s;artle and thrill and overwhelm Christen-
dom with the marvels of the human eye
We want the eye taken from all its tech
nicalities, and some one who shall lay aside
all talk about the pterygomaxillary fis-
the optic nerve, and in plain, common par
lance which you and l 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 classroom
Of the university and take the platform,
and asking the help Of the Creator, dem
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want some one in popular lecture to do for
the structure Of the eye that which Boyn-
ton on the platform did for the rocks, and
Mitchell and Proctor did for the stars. If
refer 10 the physiological facts suggest
ed by the former part of my text, it is
only TO bring cut in palmer way the theo-
logical lessons of the latter part of my
text He that formed the eye, shall He
not see?
Il suppose my text referred to the hu-
man eye, since ii excels all others In struc-
ture and adaptation. The eyes Of fish and
reptiles and moles and bats are very sim
pie things because they have not much to
do There are insects with a hundred
eyes, but the hundred eyes have less fac
ulty than the two human eyes. The black
beetle swimming the summer pond has
two eyes under the water and two eyes
above the water, nut the four insectile are
not equal 10 the two human. Man placed
at the head or all living creatures must
have supreme equipment, while the blind
fish in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky
have only an undeveloped organ of sight
an apology for the eye, which if through
some crevice of the mountain they should
90 into sunlight might be developed into
positive eyesieht.
I'm the first chapter of Genesis We find
that God without any consultation cre-
ated the light created the trees. created
the fish, created the fowl, but when He
was about TO make man He called a con-
ventiOn OF divinity, as though to imply
that all the powers of Godhead were to
be enlisted in the achievement. Let US
make man Put a whole ton of empha-
sis on that word us Let US make man =
And If God called a convention of divinity
10 create man, l think the two great
questions in that conference were how to
create soul and how 10 make apprO-
pirate windows for that emperor to look
out of.
God Hon0rs II.
'See how God honored the eve before
He created il. He cried until chaos was
lrradiated with the Utterance: Let there
be lightp In other words, before He in
troduced man into this temple of the
world, He illumined it, prepared it for
The eyesight. And so after the last hui
man eye has been destroyed in the final
demolition of the world, stars are to fail
ana the sun Is TO cease its shining. and
the moon Is 10 turn into blood In other
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