The Eye
T. DeWitt Talmage
Psalm, 94: 9: "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?"
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. Five hundred and thirty- four times is it 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." Irreverence-"the eye that mocketh at its father." Pride-"oh, how lofty 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." Olivetic sermon-"the light of the body is the eye." This morning's text: "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?"
The surgeons, the doctors, the anatomists, and the physiologists understand much of the glories of the two great lights of the human face; but the vast multi- tudes go on from cradle to grave without any appre- ciation of the two great masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty. If God had lacked anything of infinite wisdom he would have failed in creating the human eye. We wander through the earth trying to see won- derful sights, but the most wonderful sight that we ever see is not so wonderful as the instruments through which we see it.
It has been a strange thing to me for thirty years that some scientist with enough eloquence and mag- netism did not go through the country with illustrated lecture on canvas thirty feet square, to startle and thrill and overwhelm Christendom with the marvels of the human eye. Putting it on the worldly and the lowest ground, there is a fortune awaiting any such competent demonstrator. We want the eye taken from all its technicalities and some one who shall lay aside all talk about the pterygomaxillary fissures, the sclerotica, and the chiasma of the optic nerve, and in plain, common parlance which you and I and every- body can understand, present the su ...
T. DeWitt Talmage
Psalm, 94: 9: "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?"
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. Five hundred and thirty- four times is it 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." Irreverence-"the eye that mocketh at its father." Pride-"oh, how lofty 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." Olivetic sermon-"the light of the body is the eye." This morning's text: "He that formed the eye, shall he not see?"
The surgeons, the doctors, the anatomists, and the physiologists understand much of the glories of the two great lights of the human face; but the vast multi- tudes go on from cradle to grave without any appre- ciation of the two great masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty. If God had lacked anything of infinite wisdom he would have failed in creating the human eye. We wander through the earth trying to see won- derful sights, but the most wonderful sight that we ever see is not so wonderful as the instruments through which we see it.
It has been a strange thing to me for thirty years that some scientist with enough eloquence and mag- netism did not go through the country with illustrated lecture on canvas thirty feet square, to startle and thrill and overwhelm Christendom with the marvels of the human eye. Putting it on the worldly and the lowest ground, there is a fortune awaiting any such competent demonstrator. We want the eye taken from all its technicalities and some one who shall lay aside all talk about the pterygomaxillary fissures, the sclerotica, and the chiasma of the optic nerve, and in plain, common parlance which you and I and every- body can understand, present the su ...
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