"REV. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY’S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE, Subject: ‘* The All Seeing.” Text: “Ho that formed the eye, shall He | not see?" Psalm xeiv,, 0. The imperial organ of the human system fs the eye. Allup and down the Bible God honors it, extols it, illustrates it or arraigns it. Five hundred and thirty-four times it is mentioned in the Bible, Ownipresence— “the eyes of the Lord are in every place” Divino care—*‘as the apple of the eye.” The clouds—‘‘the eyelids of the morning.” Ir- reverence—‘'the eye that mocketh at its father.” Pride—*‘Oh, how lofty are their eyes!” ends of the earth Divine inspection- “wheels full of eves.” Suddenness twinkling of an eye at {he last trump.” ivetio sermon —*‘the light of eye.” This morning's text: the eye shall He not see?” The surge doctors, the anatom and the gists understand mm of the glories o two great lights of the human face, but vast multitudes go on fr oradle to grave without any appreciation of the two great masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty, God had lacked anything of He would have failed in creating the human eye. We wander through the earth trying to sea wonderful sights, but derful sight that we ever se derful as the instrumer sde it. ol 1 Ol ats the the the most won- 80 wWon- which we some seientist with enough nd magnetism did not go thr ugh country with illustrated lectures on can- vas thirty feet square to startleand thrilland m Christendom with the marvels of the human eve. We want the eye taken from all ftstechhniealities, and n 10 shall lay aside all talk abe axillary fissures, and the selero hisnsma of the optie nerve, and pariance which vou and I and ybady ean under- stand present the subject. We have learned men who have be tel ns what our ori- gin is a at v ere. Oh, {if should ¢ m the and fr f the take pl Creator, « we are! If I refer to gested by the | only to bring elo- BOM me forth fr Lssocti create 1 il and how ate windov for that em- treated it, ated with light!” In pad i Ek Laid until chaos was irradi utterance, be word Te Mie @ erie the other fllumins And so, afte destroyed world, oease its into bl man skining, the ch turned ot eyes are no 1 sot in the mante i id lamp and a silver lamp—the one other for the night, ° the residence } ing the wall for each eurjously wrought ronsidere £0 much as hum elephantine tusk. Ses the eyes when He ma that the sweat of tofl and the rain should not d not bending the right and the sweat sh the cheek, ly protec hono anat 800 ntrivancs shutters, the ey 33,000 times ¢ structed that | what shall be admitted, say Stay out," and saying tot} in. For {inside rtains the iri the eve. & Ying jess, « The time, the ey pight, but eonstructed night, Many Can move the but the f ‘ ely structed has y muscle to lift the ey another lower the other muse il it to the right, and other muscle to roli it to the left, and other muscle passing through a pulls turn it round and round-—an elaborate gear. ing of six muscles as perfect as God iid make them. There also is the retina, gathering the rays of light and passing the visual fmpression slong the nerve, about tho thickness of the lampwiek ol ing the visual impression on to the senorism and on into the « What a delicate Jona, what an exomsite sereen, what soft cushions, what wonderful istry of the human eye! The eye, washed by a slow stream of moisture whether we sleep or wake, rolling Hm perceptibly over the pebble of the eye and pmptying into a bone of the nostril, A eon yance so wonderful that it can see the un, 15,000,000 miles away, and the point of pin. Telescops and microscope in The astronomer swings ilating is 1! ove tha narvel 1 an. Aan- Ale y to eye, AL optio cher sme contrivance, nd moves this way and thet and adjusts and pad justs the telescope until he gots it to the ght focus, The microscoplst moves this ay and that and adjusts and readjucts the magnifying glass until it is prepared to do is work, but the human eye, without a puch, beholda the star and the smallest in. i. The traveler among the Alps, with one oo taking in Mont Blane and the face of his watch to soe whether he has mb it, The eyes of Archibald Charles G. Finney were the mightiest part pf their sermon. George Whitefleld en hralled great assemblages with his eyes, hough they were crippled with strablemus, By 4 military chieftain has with a look ried a regiment to victory or to death, in Luther turned his great sye on an ns- who came to take his life, and the vil. fied. Under the glance of the human ho tiger, with five times a man's strength, back into the African jungle, Bat best appreciate the valus ef the eye have lost it, The Emperor Adrian by | istines, is more helpless than | sympathies ¢ ] | He Inattention—*the fool's eye in the “in the | the body is the | ‘Ho that formed | the | 10- | rige If | infinite wisdom, | tingenuity « the | | last slumber, | down the gilken | beloved sleep, { that his mother { parely pitiful for the misfortune that one day | in sympathy he kissed hor eyes, avd by mira. | cleshe saw everytuing, time to | Alexander and | | what a day that will bs for those accident put out the eye of his servant, and he sald to his servant; “What shall I pay you in, money or in lands? Anything you nsk me. I am so sorry I put vour eye out,” But the servant refused to put any financial estimate on the value of the eye, and when the Emperor urged and urged again the mat- tor ho suid, “Oh, Emperor, I want nothing but my lost eye!” Alas for those for whom a thick and impenetrable veil is 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 toreh at night and was found passing along the highway, | and some onesaid, “Why do you carry that torch, when you can't see?” “Ah. sald he, *'I ean't see, but I carry this torch that others may seo me and pity my helplessness, and not run 8 down." Bamson, the giant, with his eyes put out by the Phil- the smallest vision undamaged, All the f Christ were stirred when saw Bartin with 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 48 much by its catastro- phe as by {ts healthful action. Ask the man who for twenty years has not seen the sun Ask the man who for half a has not seen the face of a friend. As hospital the vietim «of ophthalmis. man whose eyesight perished in a Ww blast. Ask the Bartimens who never m Christ or the man born blind who is to blind. Ask him, This morning, in my imperfect way, ¥ have only hinted at the splendors, the glow dwarf with as century kK inthe Ask the die ses of the human eve, and I stagger m the awful portals of the physiol. racle which must have taxed the ff & God, to ery out in your ears he words of my text, “He that formed the hall He not see?’ Shail Herschel not much as his telescope? Bhali er not know as much as his spec Shall Swammerdan not know as Shall Dr. Hooks lerometer? Shall re than its ma » that formed the eye, shall He not How ft ginres upon the Ww ms on the penitent Yat theeen oro ws bein bly wonderful! How much * great, searching @ All eternity r explanat AD Asterisk, night are ast an all erving God, livine handwriting, illey divinely swun with » a reflect ptured divine s {the div "and the that awful glare, eriminal instead irderer It is u tat affairs.” Can you see th I Can you see the eye of a need) seo a mote In the sunbeam An given you that power of minute ervation, and He not possess it Himse “He that formed the eye, shall He not see?” But you say “God is in one world and 1 m in another world, Ho seems so far off vn me I don’t really think He seos what fs rolag on in my Hie.” Can you see the sun 95,000,001 miles away, and do you not think God has as prolonged vision? But you AAY, ‘There are phases of my life and thers are wlors—ahades of color—in my annovanoes and my vexations that I do=’t think God ean inderstand.” Does not God gather up all the colors and all the shades olor in the does | rainbow? And do you suppose thers fa any phase or any shade in your life He has not gathered up in His own heart? Besides that 1 want to tell you it will soon all be over, this struggle, That eye of yours, 80 exquisitely fashioned and strung, and hinged and roofed, will before long be closed in the Loving hands will smooth fringes. So He giveth His A legend of Bt. Frotobert fe was blind, and he was so But it isn when I tell you that all the blind ‘hristiag dead under the kiss of rection morn shall gloriously ¢ a legend oa of the mM resuar “n, Oh, ho went groping through this world under wrpetual obscuration, or were dependent on the hand | of afriond, or with an uncertain staff felt thelr way, and for the aged of dim sight about whom it may be sald that “they which look out of the windows are darkened” when eternal daybreak comes in! What a beaut). ful epitaph that was for a tombstone in a European cemetery: ‘Hore reposes in God Katrina, a saint, eighty-five years of age and blind. The light was restored to ber May 10, 1540." wonders, the divine revelations, the | (Uren. xvi, | Weary SABBATH SCHOOL ~ |, INTERNATIONAL LESSON AUGUST 11, Lesson Text: “The Brazen Ser- pent,” Num. xxl., 4-9-—-Golden Text: John iii., 14-~ Commentary. FOR 4. “And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to compnss the land of Edom, aud the soul of the people was much discournged because of the way." Edom was Esau, Jacob's brother. 80 the FEdomites were near kinsmen of Israel, ncoording to the flesh. Yet they refused to allow Israel to pass through their lan 1, al- though Israel offered to pay for the water they might use while passing through (xx. . 18-21). In the previous chapter we have also an account of the Mirinm In the first month. ana the death of Aare in the fifth month of the fortieth vear Soe chapter xxxiil, 98, We f Israel in n about where we ss m in the Inst lesson, but it is thirty-eight vears Inter Hundreds of thous » wilderney § grown up, 3 wanderings Sen reely death of this leas th nds have new genera & thirty-eight of their un y anvihing, Thev p, and it was lost time thirteen yoam of we know nothing and of the lost time ofthe Nazarite (Num. vi, 12). When we are t of fell whip with God through unbe- of or worldliness, the time {s lost. We are reminded that the journey of life is often a one tothe flesh, but if we are {n Christ who 18 ‘the way" (. iv., 8), and will rontinually “consi and “look unt Him" (Heb, , we will greatly helped and od and will not be couraged, turn agnl th wre remin Abram's life of 18 which xvii, 1 bes hn Xxxvi., 18) 7. “Therefore the people dd sald, We haw with God 8 “And the Lord sald unto Moses thee a flery serpent and set it upon _§ it shall come to pass that every bitten whea he looketh upor How strange the remedy, which slew them! Lord Jesus, wh ness, the ome life and 7: Gal {11.13 Though all bat iethe wn the per load ut's t on # bite, if but the giazing oy brazen sorpant “And Moses ir ® A serpent put It upon a pole, and it came t if a serpent had bitten a: beheld the se a, John iil, 14, tion of this wid y means you, and the beliey- who died for v i, in the Wiki surely bring H Np “on, now resting pasasd from death to life by a k, in obedience to Isa xlv., 22. you do the same if you will, The atonement has heen made: the work of providing redemp- ton has been fnished., Christ died for our sins, according to the Seriptures; vou from who honestly receives Him i= instant] Justi fled from ali things and mage accepted in the Beloved (I Cor. xv., 3; Rom. iv,, 85; Eph, kL, 6, 7: Acta xiii, 8%, 39) Lesson Helper, BROKE THE NAVAL RECORDS, | The Olympls Takes the Palm as the Lest American Man-of-War, The sabetance of the report of the Naval Board which inspected the cruiser Olympia and put her through a four-hours' trial trip in Bauocelito Channel, California, just made public by Beeretary Herbert, shows, for one thing, that the Olympia has broken the record of American men-of-war, and that no ship in Atlantic waters can equal her spoed under natural draft The report {a mado by Capt. Frank Wilde, President of the Board, who save that all the evolutions and exercises prescribed by the order creating the Board were carried out, Tho ship underwent a mill speed natural draft steam trial of four hours’ duration, Bhe developed 190.6 knots speed. During this trial every gun, both of the main and the secondary batteries, was fired, The trial at pea was smooth, with wind light from the southwest. The minor deficiencies and de foots found, with the recommendations of the Board in each case, are noted on blank forms, They are unimportant and generally of such character that they may be corrested by the ship's artifioers, a general condi tion of the ship as to cleanliness was found to be axocellent. It is said at the Navy I riment that the hip fs sown to be ready to it out almost Immediately for service in Chinese waters, can | He was de- | livered for our offenses and raised again for | our justification, and now the penitent sinner Re oy Miss Helen Gould is very partial to golf, and is a good player. Agnes Booth says she did not see two pretty women in London. The women of Cincinnati have or- ganized a street cleaning brigade. A woman auctioneer has made her appearance in Loudon, the first of the Bpecies, A woman is employed by a Topeks (Kan.) church to whistle sacred music every Sunday, | Queen Victoria is reported as angry at having the of | savings made public. amount Beatrice Harraden, the novelist, is so littie and her figure is so slight that | she looks like a child. * The mayor of Ouchanga, New Zealand, is said to have made a great success of her first year, Mrs. John Scott, a sister of the late { Profe sor Huxley, has be enn re side nt | of Nashville, Tenn., for The women of St. Paul, Minn., have | cleared the sum of £10,000 by editing entirely one issue of the St, Paul Dis | patch, The Baroness Burdette Coutts, eighty-two years of age, is still the most prominent society lenders of | London. woman MANY VEeArs, nt f one of Marie Caroline Felix Carvalho, 1 lied recently at Paris, of the r Marguerite “Faust,” t is repo has ha i hi 4 hange the was the iden yel bly of their al of Basan B. Anthony hav raised fynds to prov pi fe i la her an ann { of 8800 & Year, ] woman's suffrage well all she had. Mra, Le Grand of Holles Mich., preached Ie sermon church service husband and use to point a moral, AAS given to pre Wuy at ¢ The number of the Universit) ly on the increase. twenty-five per cent. number of students, Atlanta society girls have just ac quired the bicycle craze, but are still too modest to appear in public in bloomers. They ride at night in dark nd unfrequented places, Melba continues to surprise her friends by the carcless use of her glori ous voice, She goes out freely in all sorts of weather and talks and tains on days when she has to sing The American Educational add Art Institute has been New York, with the lishing and maintainir 1 institution for the promo among American women. vy 4 enter AnD art At a recent wedding Eng- land the family physician presented the bride with a bottle of quinine tab- lets, telling her to take two whenever she folt inclined to scold Lor husband as that fee maiaria, » ONg was a su sign ol Black lace capes over color are seen, but are not thought as pretty and stylish ad those entirely lined with black. Brocaded capes with deep lace flouncing are daicty, and some of them have the figures outlined in em- broidery or jet. The up-to-date women of the Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church in Tow son, Md, are raising money with which to buy a bieycle for the rector of the ehureb, which he is to use in making pastoral visits and in attend. ing to other dnties, Mrs, Marie Robinson-Wright, the Mexican traveler and writer, reseived the highest price ever paid for a nows- paper article ~820,000 in gold, paid to her by the Metioan Government for an illustrésted article on Mexico in the New York World. The poor ex-Empress of Mexico, who recently celebrated her fifty-Afth birthday near Brussels, is said to re- tain all her stately beauty and to look ten years younger than she really is She is quite 1hsane, however ; believes Maximilian still living and holds long imaginary conversations with him. Notwithstanding the persistent of. soams down over tho shoulders, Lut little progress appears to be made in this direction. 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