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 heaven. Yet, let it be remembered, even as the bodily eye is only an instrument, so is the mental eye but an instrument. Without light, the material organ of sense would be useless. It perceives the effects of light, and communicates them to the mind, but it has no light in itself. It is the same with the spiritual organ; it too perceives the effects of light, that "light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world;" but in itself it has no light. It is but an instrument to receive truth. Dark itself, and only formed to receive sight from its great luminary, from Him who formed the eye, it is to the spirit what the eye is to the body, the medium through which every object made visible by the "Sun of righteousness," is revealed, and therefore made visible to the mind. This is forced upon us every day—every lesson taught by the scenes around us, is an impression upon the mental eye, of those truths which are to be learned even from natural things. There is not a shrub, there is not a tree, there is not a flower, not a wave that ripples, not a breeze that blows, but communicates some idea to the mind, which idea forms an image in the spirit; as the natural light reflected from a material object, forms an image by means of the natural organ through the sense of the body. O give glory to Him who formed the eye!