The Eye

How wonderful is the human eye! It automatically adjusts itself to objects at varying distances, and spontaneously adapts itself to all conditions and degrees of light. Any scene that we gaze upon is reflected on to the mirror, the retina, and every detail of the picture is telegraphed, by a marvellous chain of nerves, to the brain, so that we are able to appreciate the whole scene. The retina is exceedingly thin, yet has ten layers, and in the ninth of these there are three million cones. How wonderful! Who but God could have formed the eye?

This should teach us to use our eyes rightly. All we look at is transferred to, and makes an impression, on the brain. Let us look for all the lovely things in life, so that our minds may be stored with lovely memories. We should always look for all the good we can in others, and endeavor to keep good memories of them. Let us look for and gaze upon the things God wants us to see.

It is a very good thing to see in our "mind's eye" something that we ought not to forget—the print of the nails in the hands and feet of our Lord, and the wound in His side. This will remind us that He died for us, that we might have full forgiveness, and an entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

May all the readers of this book so truly love and serve their Lord that one day they may see with their eyes "the King in all His beauty."