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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1883.
VOM7.V.
CHOOSE YE THIS DAY WHOM
YE WILL SERVE.
A Hint to Those Whom the Pulpit
Cannot Reach,
by o. w. v.
“Choose ye”—to thee and thee alone
The choice is given, the power’s thine own,
’Tis thine without control;
Thine to decide with God to reign,
Thine to prefer perdition’s chain,
To save or lose your soul.
Choose ye—the God whom thou hast
spurned,
Whose love lias met witli hate returned,
Whose law thou hast defied,
Before thee as a suppliant stands ;
He lays the question in thy hands,
And prays thee to decide.
Choose ye—the Savior who came down
From heaven and glory, throne and crown,
Who suffered, bled and died,
Stands at tile portal of thy heart,
And knocks, reluctant to depart,
And prays thee to decide.
“Choose ye this day”—tempt not thy fate,
Nor trust the fiend whoso vain debate
Would lure thee from the right;
The question’s plain, and argument
But clouds the path of good intent,
Obscuring-truth and light.
Choose ye this day—trust not the dream
That bids thee wait to-morrow’s beam;
For ere that morrow’s dawn
Thy soul may wake where choice is past,
Thy doom irrevocably cast,
And hope forever gone.
Choose ye this day—God’s Church would
know
His friend avowed, His open foe;
And angels wait to tell
Thy name upon the record given .
Of those witli seats secured in heaven
Or beds prepared in hell.
Whom will ye serve—the God who made
And still preserves, without whose aid
Thou eould’st not live an hour?
Or him. thy foe, whose dread control,
Would curse thy life, foredoom thy soul,
Did hell possess the power?
Whom will ye serve—the righteous King,
Whose statutes loved, protection bring
And make Ilis people free?
Or that foul prince, whose laws unjust
Would grind his subjects in the dust
Of crime and slavery ?
Whom will ye serve -the generous Lord,
Who pays thee here with the rich reward
And heaven beyond the tomb?
Or him, the master hard and stern,
Who for thy service can return
But death and chains and gloom ?
Choose ye—but choose the patli of light;
Chouse ye this day— but choose the right,
Assured by wisdom’s voice;
Choose whom ye’ll serve—but choose for
God,
And all thy future will applaud.
Indorse and bless thy choice.
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No Reason Why I Should Be.
Father” Mct.iuire, of Pittsburg, was
many years ago, very popular, both in
his private and ministerial life, with all
classes and denominations. He was a
genial, warm-hearted old Irishman,
fond of a joke, and the following was
one of the several good ones on himself
which he relished very much in telling:
“He was riding out on the Butler road
one hot summer’s day, when he stop
ped at a house by the wayside to get a
drink of water and rest a while. While
in conversation with the woman of the
house, he picked up a Bible, and asked
her if she read it often.
“Yes” she replied, she had read it
through often.
“And do you understand all you read
in it, my good woman?” said his reve
rence.
“Yes I do!” said she.
“Well,” said be, “l have been read
ing and studying it all my life, and I
find a great deal in it which I cannot
understand.”
“Well” said she, “if you are a fool,
is that any reason that I should be?”
Sureenougli, what could Fathei Mc-
Guire say to that?
He had Forgotten His Arithmetic
Arkansaw Traveller,
An Arkansaw man, arraigned be
fore a justice of the peace, became in
dignant, and in reply to a statement
made by the magistrate, exclaimed:
“You are a liar, sir, you are a liar!”
“I’ll fine you fifty dollars,” said the
justice, “and if you don’t pay the
amount immediately, I’ll send you to
jail.”
“Judge, I do not possess fifty dol
lars.”
“Then take him to jail, Mr. Con
stable.”
“Hold on, judge,” said the man,
thoughtfully, “why am I to go to jail?”
“For calling me a liar.”
“I meant that you were not a liar,
I said twice that you were a liar, and
if two negatives make an affirmative,
two affirma ivesought to make one neg
ative. bo, you see, what I said was
really a compliment.”
“That’s a fact,” replied the judge.
“I used to bo good in arithmetic, but
have forgotten a great deal. Give me
your hand, sir. Mr. Clerk fine the
State ten dollars, and give the money
to this learhed gentleman.”
Georgia Maternity —A man’s wife
in Hart county has given birth to
twenty one children, and has been so
unfortunate as to raise every one of
them. We heard one of the neighbors
saj he was at their house when a storm
was coming up. The old lady blew
the t\bru for the children, and she stood
and counted them as they came in.
Somehow she made the number twenty
two. This mystified her, and she de
clared that she couldn’t remember hav
ing but twenty-one. In order to satisfy
herself she turned them all out in the
storm and let them in one at a time
She acted as teller while the visitor
kept the tally sheet. — Eartxoell ( Oa .)
/Sun.
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TABERN \CLE SERMONS.
BY KEV. T. DeHTFT TALMAIJE
[The Sermons of Dr. Talmace are publish
ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks,
48 Bible House, New York. A number
containing 26 Sermons is issued every
three months. Price 30 cents, 51 per an
num],
THE EYE.
He that formed the eye, shall He not see?
—Psalms, xciv., 9.
The imperial organ of the human
system is the eye. All up and down
the Bible God honors it, extols it, illus
trates it, or arraigns it. Five hundred
and thirty-four times is it mentioned in
the Bible. Omnipresence—“the eyes
ol 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 twink
ling of an eye at the last trump.”
Olivetic sermon—“light of the body is
the eye,” This morning’s text —“He
that formtd the eye, shall He not see?”
The surgeons, the doctors, the anato
mists and the physiologists understand
much of the glories of the two great
lights of the human face; but the vast
multitudes go on from cradle to grave
without any appreciation of the two
great masterpitces of the Lord God
Almighty. If God had lacked any
thing 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
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
magnetism, did not go through the
country with illustrated lectures on
canvas thirty feet square, to startle
and thrill and overwhelm Christendom
with the marvels of the human eye.
We want the eye taken from all its
technicalities, and someone who shall
lay aside all talk about the pterygora
axillary fissures, and the sclerotica,
aud the chiasma of the optic nerve, and
in common parlance, which you and
1 and everybody can understand, pres
ent the subject. We want learned men
who have been telling us what our ori
gin is and what we were. O! if some
one should come forth from the dissect
ing table and from the class room of
the university and take the platform,
and, asking the help of the Creator,
demonstrate the wonders of what we
are.
If I refer to the physiological facts
suggested by the former part of my
text, it is only to bring out iu plainer
way the theological lessons of the lat
ter part of my text. “He that formed
the eye, shall He not see?” I suppose
my text referred to the human eye,
since it excels all others in structure
-nd in adaptation. The eyes of fish
ami reptiles and moles and bats are very
simple things, bacause they have not
much to do. There are insects with a
hundred eyes, but the hundred eyes
have less faculty than the two human
eyes. The black beetle swimming the
summer pond has two eyes under water
and two eyes 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 the
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky have only
an undeveloped organ of sight, an apol
ogy for the eye, which, if though some
crevice of the mountain they should get
into the sunlight, might be developed
into positive eyesight. In the first chap
ter of Genesis we find that God, with
out any consultation, created the light,
created the trees, created the fish, creat
ed 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 en
listed in the achievment. “Let ns
make tnan.” Put a whole ton of em
phasis on that word “us.” Let ns make
man.” And if God called a conven
tion of divinity to create man, I think
the two great questions in that confer
ence were how'to create a soul and how
to make an appropriate window for that
emperor to look out of. See how God
honored the eye before He created it.
He cried until chaos was irradiated
with the utterance. “Let there be
light!” In other words, before He in
troduced 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 shin
ing, and the moon is to turn into blood.
In other words, after the human eyes
are no more to be profited by their
shining, the chandeliers of heaven are
to be turned out God, to educate and
to be and to help the human eye, set in
the mantel of heaven two lamps—a gold
lamp and a silver lamp—the one for the
day and the one for the night To
show how God honors the eve, look at
the two halls built for the residence of
the eyes, seven bones making the wall
for each eye, the seven bones curiously
wrought together. Kingly palace of
ivory is considered rioh, but the halls
foT the residence of the human eyes are
richer by so much aa human bone is
more sacred than elephantine tusk. See
how God honored the eyes when He
made a roof for them, so that the sweat
of toil should not smart them; and the
rain dashing against the forehead
should notdrip into them; the eyebrow's
not bending over the eye, but reach to
the right and the left, bo that the rain
and the sweat should be compelled to
drop upon the cheek instead of falling
into this divinely protected human eye
sight. See how God honored the eye
in the tact presented by anatomistb and
physiologists that there are 800 contri
vances in every eye. For window shut
ters, the eyelids opening and closing
30,000 times a day. The eyelashes so
constructed that they have their selec
tion as to what shall be admitted, say
ing to the dust, “Stay ont,” and saying
to the light “Come in.” For inside
curtain tUe iris, or pupil of the eye, ac
cording as the light is greater or less,
contracting dilating. The eye of the
owl is bliad in the daytime, the eyes of
some creatures are blind at night, but
the human eye so marvelously con
structed 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 marvel
ously constructed has one muscle to lift
the eye, and another muscle to lower
the eye, and another muscle to roll it
to the right, another muscle to roll
it to the left, and another muscle pass
ing through a pulley to turn it round
and round—an elaborate gearing of six
muscles as perfect as God could make
them. There also is the retina, gath
ering the rays of light and passing the
visual impression along the optic nerve,
about the thickness of the lampwick—
passing the visual impression on to the
sensorium, 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 slow steam of moisture
whether we sleep or wake, rolling ira
peiceptibly over the pebble of the eye
aud emptying into a bone of the nostril,
A contrivance so wonderful that it can
see the sun, ninety-five millions of
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 ad
justs and readjusts the telescope until
he gets it to the right focus; the rnicro
scopist 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 smallest insect.
The traveler among the Alps, with one
glance taking ; n Mount Blanc and the
face of his watch to see whether he has
time to climb it. O! this wonderful
camera obscura which you and I carry
about us, so to-day we can take in this
audisnee, so from the top of Mount
Washington we can take in New Eng
land, so at night we can sweep into our
vision the constellation from horizon to
horizon, So delicate, so semi-infinite
aud yet the light coming ninety-five
million of miles at the rate of two hun
dred thousand miles a second, is oblig
ed to halt at the gate of the eye waiting
for admission until the portcullis be
lifted. Something hurled ninety-five
million of miles aud striking an instru
ment which has not the agitation of
even winking under the power of the
stroke. There, also, is the merciful
arrangement of the tear gland by which
the eye is washed and from which 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 sorrow, but the
breaking up of the Arctic of frozen
grief in the warm gulf stream of conso
latiou. Incapacity to weep is madness
or death. Thank God lor the tear
glands and that the crystal gates are so
easily opened. O! the wonderful hy
draulic apparatus of human eye, Di
vinely constructed vision! Two light
houses at the harbor of the immortal
Roul, 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 clumsy instrument of expression
as compared with it. Have you not
seen it flash with indignation or kindle
with enthusiasm, or expand with devo
tion, or melt with sympathy, or stare
with faith,or leer with villany, or droop
with sadness, or pale wijh envy, or lire
with revenge, or twinkle with mirth,
or beam with love? It is tragedy and
comedy and pastoral and lyric in turn.
Have you not seen its unlifted brow of
surprise, or its frown of wrath, or ts
contraction of pain? If the eye say
one thing and the lips say another
thing you believe the eye rather than
the lips. The eye of Archibald Alex
ander aud Charles G. Finney were the
mightiest part of their sermon. George
Whitfield enthralled great assemblages
with his eyes, though they were crip
pled with strabismus. Many a military
chieftain has with a look hurled a regi
ment to victory or to death. Martin
Luther turned his great eye on an assas
sin who catoe to take his life, and the
villain fled. Under the glance of the
human eve the tiger, with five times a
man’s strength, snarls back into the
African jungle. But those best ap
preciate the value of the eye who have
lost it. The Emperor Adrian by acci
dent put out the eye of his servant, and
ho said to his servant: “What shall I
pay you in, money or in lands? Any
thing you ask me; I am so sorry I put
y our eye out.” But the servant refus
ed to put any financial estimate on the
value of the eye, and when the Emperor
urged and urged again the matter, he
said: “O, Emperor, 1 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 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 help
lessness and not run me down.” Sam
son, the giant, with his eye pnt out of
the Philistines, is more helpless than
the smallest dwarf with vision undam
aged. All the sympathies of Christ
were stirred He saw Bartimeus with
darkened retina, and the only salve He
ever made that we read of was a mix
ture 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 as much by its catas
trophe as by its healthful action. Ask
the man who has not for twenty years
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
'(ilast. Ask the Bartimeus who never
met a Christ, or the man horn blind
who is to die blind. Ask him. The
Earl of Bridgewater, in his last will
aud testament, bequeathed $40,000 for
essays to be written on the power and
wisdom and goodness of God as mani
fested in creation, and Sir Charles Bell,
the British surgeon,fresh from Corunna
and Waterloo, where he had been tend
ing the wounded and studying the for
mation of the human body amid the
amputating horrors of the battlefield,
accepted the invitation to write one of
those Bridgewater Treatises, and he
wrote his book on the human hand—a
book that will live as long as the world
lives. This morniug, in my imperfect
way, I have only hinted at the splen
dors, the glories, the wonders, the
divine revelations, the apocalypses of
the human eye.and I stagger back irom
the awful portals of the physiological
miracle which must have taxed the in
genuity of a God, to cry out in your ears
the words of my text, “He that formed
the eye, shall He not see?” Shall Iler
schel not know as much as his teles
cope? Shall Fraunhofer not know as
much as his telescope? Shall Swam
merdam not know as much as his mi
croscope? 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?” The recoil of this question
is tremendous. We stand at the centre
of a vast circumference 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 inhabitants of other worlds, but
perhaps they may be able to see us.
We have no optical instruments strong
enough to descry them; perhaps they
have optical instruments strong enough
to destroy us. The mole cannot see
the eagle mid sky, hut the eagle mid
sky can see the mole mid grass. We
are able to see mountains and caverns
of another world; but perhaps the in
habitants of other worlds can see the
towers of our cities, the flash of our
seas, the marching of our processions,
the white robes ot our weddings, the
black scarfs of our obsequies, it pas
ses out from the guess into the positive
when we are told in the Bible that the
inlrabitants of other worlds do come as
convey to 'his. Are they not all min
istering spirits sent forth to minister
to those who shall be heirs of salva
tion? But human inspection and an
gelic inspection and stellar inspection
and lunar inspection and solar inspec
tion are tame as compared with the
thought of divine inspection. “You
converted me twenty years ago.” said
a black man to my father, “How so?”
said my father. “Twenty years ago,”
said the other, “in the old school-house
prayer meeting at Bound Brook you
said in your prayer, ‘Thou, God,
seest me,’ and I had no place under
the eye of God until I became a Chris
tian.” Hear it. “The eyes of the Lord
are in every place.” “His eyelids try
the children of men.” “His eyes were
as a flame of fire.” “I will guide thee
with mine eye'” O! the eye of God,
so full of pity, so full of power, so full
of love, so full of indignation, so full
of compassion, 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 hu
man eye as being indescribably won
derful—how much more wonderful the
great, searching, overwhelming eye of
God? All eternity past and all eter
nity to come on that retina. The eyes
with which we look into each other’s
face to-day suggest it. It stands writ
ten twice on your face and twice on
mine, unless through casualty one or
both have been obliterated. “He that
formed the eye, shall He not see?” O!
the eye of God. It sees our sorrows to
assuage them, sees our perplexities to
disentangle them, sees our wants to
sympathize with them. If we fight
Him back, the eye of an antagonist. I
we ask his grace, the eye of an ever
lasting friend. You often find in a
book or manuscript a star calling your
attention to a foot-note, or explana
tion. That star the printer calls an
asterisk. But all the stars of the night
heavens are asterisks calling your at
tention to God, an all-observing God.
Our every nerve a divine handwriting.
Our every muscle a pulley divinely
swung. Our every bone sculptured with
divine suggestion. Our every eye a
reflection of the divine eye. God above
us, and God beneath us, and God be
fore us, and God behind us, and God
within ns. What a stupendous thing
to live! What a stupendous thing to
die. No such thing as hidden trans-
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gression. A dramatic advocate in ol
den times, at a court room, persuaded
of the innocence of his client charged
with murder, and of the guilt of the
witness who was trying to swear the
poor man’s life away—that 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 gentle
men of the jury, behold the murderer!”
and the man, particular under that
awful glare, confessed that he was the
criminal instead of the man arraigned
at the bar. O! 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 stumb
ling through the heavens. He is not a
blind monarch feeling for the step of
His chariot. Are you wronged? He
sees it. Are you poor? He sees it.
Have you domestic pertubation of
which the world knows nothing? He
sees it. “O!” you say, “my affairs are
so insignificant I can’t realize that God
sees me and sees my affairs.” Can you
see the point of a pin? Can you see
the eye of a needle? Can yon see a
mote in the sunbeam? And has God
given you that power of minute obser
vstion and does He not possess it Him
self? “He that formed the eye, shall
lie not see?” But you say, “God is in
one world and I am iu another world;
He seems so far off from me I don’t
really think He sees what is going on
in my life.” Can you see the sun
ninety-five million miles away, and do
you not think God has as prolonged
vision? But you say, “There are
phases ot my life, and there are colors
—shades of colors—'in my annoyances
and my exactions, 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 shade in your life that He has not
gathered up in His own heart 9 Beside
that, I want to tell you it will soon all
be over, this struggle. That eye of
yours so exquisitely fashioned and
strung and hinged add roofed will be
fore long close in the last slumber.
Loving hands will smooth down the
silken fringes. So he giveth his be
loved sleep. A legend of St. Frotobert
is that his mother was blind and he
was so sorely pitiful for the misfortune
that one day in sympathy he kissed her
eyes and by miracle she saw everything.
But it is not a legend when I tell you
that all the blind eyes of the Christian
dead under the kiss of the resurrection
morn shall gloriously open. O! what
a day that will be for those who tvent
groping through this world under per
petual obscuration, or were dependent
on the hand of a friend, or withjan un
certain staff felt their way; and for the
aged of dim sight, about whom it may
be said that “they which look out of
the windows are darkened,” when eter
nal daybreak comes in. What a beau
tiful epitaph that was for a tombstone
in a European cemetery: “Here re
poses in God, Katrina, a saint, 85
years of age and blind. The light was
restored to her May 10, 1840.”
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TEEVISII CONDUCT OF AN EXASPERATED
lIOSTON SALESMAN.
Boston Interview.
Not a very long time ago, in one of
our dry good stores, was a young fel
low waiting on customers, working
hard, standing on his feet all day, get
ting no thanks, and having altogether
a deuced hard time of it. One night,
about time for closing up, one of these
elderly, angular females I speak of
got hold of him. She was looking for
a piece of goods and could’ntfind what
she wanted under any consideration be
fore he had been showing her the stock
for five minutes. But she hung on and
persisted in looking at everything. It
was dark; everybody was going home
or was gone; the store was all shut up,
and still she wouldn’t go.
“Well” he says, “madam, I don't
think I can suit you anyway.”
“Well, you’re here to wait on folks,
ain’t you?” she says.
“O, yes,” he says, sarcastically,
“that’s what I’m hired for. I’ll wait
on you all night if you say so.”
“Can’t you show me a remnant of
that material?” she says.
“Oh, yes,” he says, “I can, but it’s
not what you want, I know.”
“How do you know it’s not what I
want? Perhaps lam a better judge of
what I want than you are. Perhaps I
am.”
“He got out the remnant and un
wound it from the board. She looked
at it and felt it and shook her head.
“No I don’t like that at all.”
That was more than the fellow could
stand. He caught up the board and
hit her a clip over the head with it.
“Well, how do you like that” he
says. Then of course there was the
deuce to pay. The elderly, angular
female went off in high dudgeon, and
the next morning complained at head
quarters of what she called the out
rageous conduct of the salesman. But
when the manager came to hear his
B’de of the story he said he thought he
should have done the same under the
same circumstances, and sent him back
to his desk. Now I like that.
Real foresight consists in reserving
our own forces. If we labor withanx- ,
iety about the future, we destroy that
strength which will enable us to meet
the future. If we take more in hand
now than we can do well, we break
up, and the work is broken up with
us. ‘
Leading Daily Papers for saleevey
day and Sunday too. AgnfpAycook
NO. 44.