djusted like the eye? Which can be
adjusted more quickly? Where are telescopes kept?
Are your eyes kept in a little observatory? Why
has God given us two eyes instead of one? How many
souls has He given us? If the soul is lost, what
is the result? What causes so much blindness in
the country in which Jesus lived? Did Jesus open
the eyes of the blind and restore the sight of
people in Palestine? Are many people spiritually
blind? Does Jesus wish to give them spiritual
sight or vision?
[Illustration]
THE EYE
THE SMALLEST CAMERA, THE MOST VALUABLE PICTURES.
SUGGESTION:--The object used is a small camera of
any kind.
I AM going to address you again to-day as LITTLE MILLIONAIRES. Last week
I showed you how your eyes were more valuable than the most costly
telescopes, and to-day I want to show you how, in another way, you are
little millionaires.
Very wealthy people sometimes travel in different countries, and gather
very rare and beautiful paintings and pictures, oftentimes paying a
thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, and sometimes very much more for
a single painting. Then they bring these paintings all together in their
own homes and hang them on the walls, and as the result of the
expenditure of many thousands, and sometimes of hundreds of thousands of
dollars, they have a very beautiful and rare collection. But God has
made you and me the possessors of a vast number of pictures, more
beautiful, of greater variety, and infinitely more valuable, than all
the paintings that were ever hung upon the walls of any art gallery in
the world.
[Illustration: Camera.]
To illustrate my thought, I have to-day brought a camera. Sometimes such
a camera as this is called a Kodak or Snap-shot. As the finest
telescopes have been modeled after the human eye, so the camera is only
a very imperfect imitation of the human eye. As the spy-glass and
telescope have lenses, so does this camera have a lens, which you see
here in the front. Just back of this lens is the dark chamber in the
camera, and back of it is a ground glass, as you will see here. Now
whatever is directly in front of the camera is shown on the ground
glass, as you will observe, but in an inverted or up-side-down position.
So the eye has its various parts, and as the rays of light pass through
this lens and reflect the picture o
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