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.

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