M. DR. TALUAGK
The Eminent New York Divine's Saa
day Sermon.
Subject: Tlie All Seeing.
Text! "Hn that formed the eye, shall Ho
not see?,l-rsaliii xeiv., 9.
The imperial organ of the human system
Is the eye. All up and down the Bible God
honors it, extols it, illustrates it or arraigns
it. Fire hundred and thirty-four times it is
mentioned in the Bible. Omnipresence
'the eyes of the Lord are in every place.'
Divine care "as the apple of the eye." The
clouds "the eyelids of the morning." Ir
reverence "the eve that moeketh at its
father." Pride "Oh. how l'ofty are their
eyes!" Inattention "the fool's eye in the
ends of the earth " Divine inspection
"wheels full of eyes." Suddenness "in the
twinkling of an eye at the last trump." Ol
ivette sermon "the light of the body is the
eye." Thi3 morning's text: "He that formed
the eyeshall He not see?" The surgeons, the
doctors, the anatomists and the physiolo
gists understand much of the glories of tho
two great lights of the human face, but the
vast multitudes go on from cradle to grave
"Without any appreciation of the two great
masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty. If
God bad lacked anything of infinite wisdom,
He would have failed in creating the human
eye. We wander through, the earth trying
to see wonderful sights, but the most won
derful sight that we ever see is not' so won
derful as the instruments through which we
see it
It has been a strange thing to me for forty
years that some scientist with enough elo
quence and magnetism did not go through
tho country with illustrated lectures on can
vas thirty feet square to startle and thrill and
overwhelm Christendom witbthe marvels of
the human eye. We want the eye taken from
all its technicalities, and someone who shall
lay aside all talk about the pterygomaxillary
fissures, and the sclerotica, and the chiasma
of the optic nerve, and in common parlance
which you and I and everybody can under
stand present the subject. We have learned
men who have been telling us what our ori
gin is and what we were. Oh, if some one
Bhould come forth from the dissecting table
and from the classroom of the university and "
take platform, and asking the help of the
Creator, demonstrate the wonders of what
we ar!
If I refer to the physiological facts sug
gested by the former part of my text it is
only to bring out in a plainer way tho theo
logical lessons at the latter part of my text,
"He that formed the eye. shall He not see?"
1 suppose my text referred to the human eye.
since it excels all others in structure and iri
adaptation. The eyes of fish and reptiles an i
moles and bats are very simple things, be
cause they have not much to do. There
are insects with 100 eyes, but the 103
eyes have less faculty than the human eyes.
The black beetle swimming the summer
pond has two eyes under water and twoeye3
above the water, but the four insectile are
not equal to the two human. Man, placed
at the head of all living creatures, must have
supreme equipment, while the blind fish in
tbe 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 get into the
sunlight, might be developed into positive
eyesight. In the first chapter of Genesis we
find that God. without any consultation,
created the light, created the trees, created
the fish, created the fowl, but when he was
about to make man he called a convention of
divinity, as though to imply that all the
powers of Godhead were to be enlisted in the
achievement. "Lt us make man.'' Put a
whole ton of emphasis on that word "us."
"Let us make man." And if God called a
called a convention of divinity to create man
I think the two great questions in that con
ference were how to create a soul and how
to make an appropriate window for that em
peror to look out of.
See how God honored the eye before He
created it. He cried, until chaos was irradi
ated with the utterance, "Let there be
light!" In other words, before He intro
duced man into this temple of the world He
illuminated it, prepared it for the eyesight.
And so. after the last human eye has been
destroyed in the final demolition of the
world, stars are to fall, and the sun is to
cease its shining, and the moon is to turn
into blood. In other words, after the hu
man eyes are no more to be profited by their
shining, the chandeliers of heaven are to be
turned out. God, to educate and to bless
and to help the human eye. set in the mantel
of heaven two lamps a - gold lamp ftnd a
silver lamp -the one for the day and the
other for the night. To show how God hon
ors the eye, look at the two halls built for
the residence of the eyes, seven bones mak
ing the wall for each eye. the seven bones
curiously wrought together. Kingly palace
of ivory is considered rich, but the halls for
the residence of the human eye are richer by
so much as human bone is more sacred than
elephantine tusk. See how God honored
the eyes when He made a root for them. 8 5
that the sweat of toil should not smart them
and the rain dashing against tha forehead
should not drip Into them. The eyebrows
not bending over the eye, but reaching to
the right and to the left, so that the rain and
the sweat should be compelled to drop upon
the cheek, instead of falling into this divine
ly protected human eyesight. See how God
honored the eye in the fact presented by
anatomists and physiologists that there are
80J contrivances in every eye. For window
shutters, the eyelids opening and closing
33 00 times a day. The eyelashes so con
structed that they have, their selection as to
ffhat shall be admitted, saying to the dux.
"Stay out," and saying to the light, "Comd
feu" For inside curtains the iris, or pupil of
the eye, according as the light is greater or
less, contracting or dilating.
The eye of the owl is blind in the day
time, the eyes of some creatures are blind at
night, but the human eye so inarvelously
constructed can see both by day and by
night. Many of the other creatures of God
can move. the eye only from side to side,
but the human eye so inarvelously con
structed has one muscle to lift tho eye, and
another muscle to lower the eye, and an
other muscle to roll it to the right, and an
other muscle to roll it to the left, and an
other muscle passing through a pulley to
turn it round and round an elaborate gear
ing of six muscles as perfect as God could
make them. There also is the retina,
gathering the rays of light and passing the
visual impression along ' the optic nerve,
about the thickness of the lampwick--pass-ing
the visual impression on to tho senorism
and on into the soul. What a delicate lens,
what an exquisite screen, what soft cushions,
what wonderful chemistry of the human
eye! The eye, washed by a slow stream of
moisture whether we sleep or wake, rolling
imperceptibly over the pebble of the eye and
emptying into a bone of the nostril. A eon
trivance so wonderful that it can see the
sun, 95,000,000 miles away, and the point of
a pin. Telescope and microscope in the
same contrivance. The astronomer swings
and moves this way and that and adjusts and
readjusts the telescope until he gets it to the
right focus. The microscopist moves this
way and that and adjusts and readjusts the
magnifying glass until it is prepared to do
its work, but the human eye, without a
touch, beholds the star and the smallest in
sect. The traveler among the Alps, with ne
glance taking in Mout Blanc and the face of
his watch to see whether he has time to
climb it.
Oh, this wonderful camera obscura which
you and I carry about with us, so to-day we
can take in our friends, so from the too of
Mount Washington we can take in New Eng
land, so at night we can sweep into our vis
ion the constellations from horizon to hor
izon. So delicate, so semi-infinite, and yet
the light coming 95,000,000 of miles at tho
rate of 200,000 miles a second is obliged to
halt at the gate of the eye, waiting for ad
mission until the portcullis be lifted. Some
thing hurled 95,000,000 of miles and strik
idg an instrument which has not the agita
tion of even winking under the power of
tho stroke! There also is tho merciful ar
rangement of the tear gland, by which the
eye is washed, and from whioh 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 sor
row, but the breaking up of the arctic of
frozen grief in the warm gulf stream of con
solation. Incapacity to ween is madness or
death. Thank God for the tear glands, and
that the crystal gates are so easily opened.
Oh, tho wonderful hydraulic apparatus of
the human eye! Divinely constructed vis
ion! Two lighthouses at the harbor of the
immortal soul, under the shining of which
the world sails in and drops anchor! What
an anthem of praise to God is the human
eye! The tongue is speechless and a olumsy
instrument of expression as compared with
it. Have you not seen it flash with indigna
tion, or kindle with enthusiasm, or expand
with devotion. Or melt with sympatfty. oi
stare with fright, or leer with villainy, or
droop with sadness, or pale with envy t or
fire with revenge, or twinkle with mirth, oi
beam with love? It is tragedy and comedy
and pastoral arid lyric in turn. Have you
not seen its uplifed brow of surprise, or its
frown of wrath, or its contraction of pain?
If the eye say one thing and the lips say an
other thing, you believe the eye rather than
the lips.
The eyes of Archibald Alexander and
Charles G. Finney were the mightiest part
of their sermon. George Whitefleld en
thralled great assemblages with his eyes,
though they were crippled with strabismus.
Many a military chieftain has with a look
hurled a regiment to victory or to death.
Martin Luther turned his great eye on an as
sassin who came to take his life, and the vil
lain fled. Under the! glance of the human
eyethetiger, with five times a man's strength,
snarls back into the Atrtcan jungle, isut
those best appreciate the value of the eye
who have lost it. The Emperor Adrian by
accident put out the eye of his servant, and
he said to his servant: "What shall I pay
you in, money or in lands? Anything you
ask me. I am so sorry I put your eye out."
But the servant refused to put any financial
estimate on the value of the eye, and when
the Emperor urge3 and urged again the mat
ter he said, "Oh. Emperor, I want nothing
but my lost eye!" Alas for those for whom
a thick and impenetrable veilis drawn across
the face of the heavens and the face of one s
own kindred. That was a pathetic scene
when a blind man 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't see?" "Ah," said he,
'I can't see, but I carry this torch that others
may -see me and pity my helplessness,
and not run me down." Samcon, the
giant, with his eyes put out by the Phil
istines, is more helpless than the smallest
dwarf with vision undamaged. All the
sympathies of .Christ were stirred when
He saw Bartimeus with t darkened
retina, and the only salve He ever made that
-we read of was a mixture of dust and saliva
and a prayer, with which He cured the eyes
of a man blind from his nativity. The value
of the eye is shown much by its catastro
phe as by its healthful action. Ask the man
who for twenty years has not seen the sun
rise. Ask the man who for half a century
has not seen the face of a friend. Ask in the
hospital the victim of ophthalmia. Ask the
man whose eyesight perished in a powder
blast. Ask the Bartimens who never met a
Christ or the man born b'ind who is to die
blind. Ask him.
This morning, in my imperfect tray, I
have only hinted at the splendors, the glo
ries, the wonders, the dmne revelations, tne
apocalypses of the human eye, and I stagger
back from the awful portals of the physiol
ogical miracle which must ;havo taxed the
ingenuity of a God, to cryxmt In your .ears
the words of my text. "He that formed the
eye, shall He not see?" Snail Herschel not
know as much .as his telescope? Shall
Fraunhofer not know aa much as his spec
troscope? Shall Swammerdau not know as
much as his microscope? Shall Dr. Hooke
not know as much as his micrometer? Shall
the thing formed know more than its mas
ter? "He that formed the eye, shall He not
see?" i
The recoil of this question i3 tremendous.
We stand at tho center of a va3t circumfer
ence 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 habitants of other worlds,
but perhaps they may be able to see us. We
have not optical instruments enough to
descry them; perhaps they have optical in
struments strong enough to descry us. The
mole cannot see the eagle mid sky, but the
eagle mid sky can see the mole mid grass.'
We are able to see mountains and caverns of
another world, but perhaps the inhabitants
of other worlds can see the towers of our
cities, the flash of our seas, the marehing of
our processions, the white rpbes of our wed
dings, the black scarfs of Our obsequies.
It passes out from the guess into the posi
tive when we are told in the Bible that the
inhabitants of other worlds do come as con
voy to this. Are they not all ministering
spirits sent forth to minister to those who
shall be heirs of salvation? L But human in
spection, and angelic inspection, and stellar
inspection, and lunar inspection, and solar
inspection ' are tame compared with the
thought of divine inspection. "You con
verted me twenty years ago," said a black
man to my father. "How so?" said my
father. "Twenty years ago!," said the other,
"ih the old schOolhouse prayer meeting at
Bound Brook you said in ;your prayer,
Thou, God, seest me,' and 1 1 ha I no peace
under the eye of God until 1 became a Chris
tian." Hear it. "Xhe eyes of the Lord are
in every place." "His eyelids try the chil
dren of men." ''His eyes were as a flame of
fire." "I will guide thee with Mine eye.'
Oh, the eye of God, so full of pity, so full of
power, so lull of love, so
tion. so full of compassion,
full of indigna-
so full of
mercy:
How it peers through the darkness! How it
outshines the day! How it glares upon the
offender! How it beams on the penitent
soul! Talk about the human eye as being
indescribably wonderful! How much more
wonderful tbe great, searching, overwhelm
ing eye of God! All eternity past and all
eternity to come on that retina.
The eyes with whioh we look into eash
other's face to-day suggest it. It stands
written twice on your face and twice on
mine, unless through casualty one or both
have been obliterated. "He that formed the
eye, shall Ha not see?" Oh, the eye of Go.ll
It sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees
our perplexities to disentangle them, sees
our wants to sympathize with them, it we
fight Him back, the eye of Hn antagonist. If
we ask His graee, the eye of an everlasting
friend. You often find in a book or manu
script a star calling your attention to a foot
note or explanation. That star the printer
calls an asterisk. But all the stars of-the
night are asterisks calling your attention to,
God an all observing Go J. Our every
nerve a dmne Handwriting. Uur every
muscle a pulley divinely swung. Our every
bone sculptured with divine suggestion. Our
every eye a reflection of the divine eve. God
above us, and God beneath! us. and God be
fore us, and God behind ui, aud God within
us.
What a stupendous thing to live! What a
stupendous thing to die! No such thing as
hidden trangression. A dramatic advocate
a courtroom, per-
his client charged
of the witness
in olden times, at night in
suaded of the innocence of
with murder and of the guilt
who was trying to swear the poor man's life
away tnat advocate took up two bright
lamps and thrust them close up to the face of
the witness and cried, "May it please -the
court and gentlemen of the jury, behold the
murderer!" and the man, ) practically under
that awful glare, confessed that he was the
criminal instead of the man arraigned at the
bar. Oh, my friends, our most hidden
sin is under a brighter ! light than that.
It is under the burning eye of God. He is
not a blind giant stumbling through the
heavens. He is not a blind monarch feeling?
Are you wronged?
He sees it. Have
in svmnathv he kissed bar
eleshe saw everytuing. Bat it is not a
when I tell you that all the blind eie
Christian dead under the kiss of the
rectioa morn shall gloriously oben nN
what a day that will be for tao33 Jl
gropingthrough this world under pern,,
obscuration, or were dependent on the hM
of a friend, or with an uncertain staff'' iS
their way, and for the aged of dim sX
about whom it may be said that "ther whi'
look out of the windows are darkened"
elernal daybreak comes in! What a bean?
ful epitaph that was for a tombstone in .
European cemetery: "Here reposes in Go
Hatrina, a saint, eighty-live years ot ae
blind. The light was restored to h? vT
10. 180." j Cr
TEMPEUaNCE.
THE VOICE OF TEilPEBAXCE.
Hear the voicej of Temperance caUia
In her clearest, sweetest ton 3
Clear as sparkling waters falling
Overflowers an i precous stcnei
ChorusJ
Like some holy inspiratjon.
Sweeping down the heavenly plains
Temperance comes to save the Nation!
Free her slaves, and break their cnuiLa,
Everywhere her armies rally.
Everywhere poor victims wait
Thronging avenue and alley.
Hovel door, and palace gate.
Chorus.
List! the holy inspiration
Sweeping down the heavenly plain"!,
Temperance comes to salve the Nation,
Free her slaves and break their chains.
Men and women, youth land maiden
In the tempter's toils ire found,
Weak aud helpless, sorrow-laden,
Demon-led and horror-ound.
Chora.
List! Jhe holy inspiration.
" Sweeping down the heavenly plain,
Temperance comes to save the Nation,
Free her slaves and break their chains.
, , . .
See God's image, scarred, degrade
Reeling through the templed street,
'Neath the sabred spires paraded
Where the dens of misery rook.
Chora-.
Listf the holy 'inspiration,
Sweeping down the heavenly plains,
Temperance comes to sive the Nation.
Free her slaves and break their chains.
for the step of His chariot
He sees it. Are you poor?
you domestic perturbation of which the
world knows nothing? He sees it. "Oh
you say, "my affairs are so insignificant' 1
can't realize that God sees me and sees mj
affairs." Can you see the point of a pin?
Can you see the eye of a needle? Cau you
see a mote in the sunbeam? And has God
given you that power of minute observation,
and does He not possess! it Himself? tSIe
that formed the eye, shall He not see?"
But you say: "God is in one world and I
am in another world. He seems so far off
from me I don't really thiink He see3 what is
going on in my life." Can you S3e the sun
95,000,03 1 miles away, and do you not think
God has as prolongoi vision? But you say
"There are phases of my! life and there are
colors shades of color in my annoyances
and my vexations that I don't think God can
understand." 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 shado in your lifo He has not
gathered up in His own heart? Besides that I
want to tea you it will soon all ba over, this
titrtmrla Thnt ait.. ! ...i . . .
cjo mi j uurs, so exquisitely
ana hinged and
be clrWR'l in tho
slumber. . Lovin2 hands? will cm -iK
down the silken fringes. I So He giveth His
beloved sleep. A legend bt St. Frotobert is
that his moih jr-was blind. at-l h wo
iy p;uiui lor misforl
Soui of manhood! heart
With the Christ-love
Cast this hydra-headed
Oat of man, and break
of woman!
which constrains,
demon
his chains.
Chorus!
List! th holv insni ration.
Sweeping down the heaventy plain?,
Temperance comes to save the Nation.
Free her slaves and bj-eak their chains.
THE BESUET Oi'lx DBIXK.
A crowd of men recently went into a
paloon at Shamokin. Penn., with Joseph
Swartz, to see him drink1 ,a quart of whisky
for a wager, and they lemerged in a little
while bearing his corpsej It was a tradition
that Swartz could drink two quarts of the
reddest liquor at one time,. and the question
arose as to whether ho k could swallow the
quart. Joe shrugge 1 his' shoulders con
temptuously. Without ceremony he ordered
the Here liquid. Down j his throat coursed
the stuff and his eyes sparkled, Finally the
last drop was down land Joe cast a
triumphant glace at his companions. Then
he sang a song and danced a jig. His brain
had been turned, and he said his nerves
tingled as . though a thousand needles wero
pricking him. Faster went his feet, until he
suddenly threw his arms"; in the air ami ffreff
deathly pale. He groaned, dropped to the
floor, and the merry shouts of his comrades
died into "exclamations! of alarm. 'They
rushed to his side, and he seeing 1 in awful
agony, out unaoie to speaK. n-i
senseless in a few minutes, and then died.
ITE3dPEEASCE NEWS AND XOTES.
If fewer fathere were
moderate drinker,
struggle.
xasmoned and strung
roofed, will b3fore long
last
fewer sons would become lmmoaeraio
drunkards.
The twin villages of' Plymouth and 'ferry
ville, Conn., have had "bo license" f -jr run
teen years. j -
More than three millions of dollars v&
daily into the coffers .of ihe liquor traffl: oi
this country. j
Statistics show that the entire results of
the labor of the people for one day in eerj
nine go to support the liquor traffic
Danbury, N. Y., has a Society of 4W young
women who are pledged; to marry no ma?
who driDks. It is knowh.a3 the St. i
Ladies' Temperance Socfety.
The Norweigan Children's Temperg
Association was founded April 17, 1
object is to train boys and. girls to keep w
the principles of total abstinence.
The French Parliament has
pas
sorely
Ltuie th.it ens day
prohibiting the manufacture or .
liquors or spirits which the Academy JjT
ieine may declare dangerous. This ai
ure is aimed chiefly at absinthe.
Some railroad men lot Kansas , uv2,r"
Eressed their appreciation of the W. -.
y saying that W. C. T. jtj. women were u
only ones that ever visited them when
a railroad man" was hurt or killed.
Asa matter of protection agaiaat PjJ '
murder, girls should refuse to have anyJ
to do wtth men who get! drunk. This
icvutu vi juuu; numeu nuv w-
tiered i f drunken lovers is appalling.