_ A good congregation gathered at the Congregational 
-ehureh, Manchester, last Sunday morning notwithstand- 
ing the threatening weather to hear Mr. Ruge upon the 
above subject and the sermon brought forth the most 
eulogistic comments. The text chosen was from the 
-121st Psalm and the Ist verse: ‘‘I will lift up mine 
eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help.’’ 
_ A synopsis of the sermon follows. Mr. Ruge began 
a saying : 
A woman went to consult an oculist about her eyes. 
Upon careful examination he said—‘‘There is nothing 
the matter with your eyes except that they are tired 
and worn with too close an application to your work, 
you must rest them.’’ 
_ But the poor woman told him that she had so much 
to do, so much sewing for the household, so much mend- 
ing for the children, so much cooking and baking and 
washing and ironing and that she had no time to rest 
her eyes or any other part of her tired body. 
The oculist thought a moment and then asked: ‘‘Have 
you any far views from your window?”’ 
_ Oh, yes,’’ she replied, ‘‘there is a range of moun- 
tains on one side, peaks on peaks in the distance, and 
great stretches of plains with rivers and lakes and 
_ forests on the other side, beautiful views all around the 
4 house.”’ 
he was told, ‘‘take ten or twenty minutes at times 
and take the far look, it will rest and strengthen your 
tired eyes.”’ 
_ She had beautiful views all oround her, but she sel- 
dem saw them because her eyes were constantly upon 
’ other things. So there are beautiful visions all around 
the soul, but we tire the poor immortal eyes into blind- 
ness by fastening all our thoughts and aims upon mate- 
rial things. 
_ You get so tired, discouraged, fretful and hopeless at 
times on account of straining the eyes of the soul. When 
you tire and strain the eyes, headaches, indigestion, 
_ nervousness and other ailments result. And so the poor 
soul gets sick unto death by too close an application to 
_ worldly affairs and it needs the far look to the celestial 
hills to rest and strengthen it. As the far look rests 
, the eyes so the far look rests the soul. 
F I once met a lonely wife and mother in her far-off 
_ prairie home ten miles from the town and railroad. She 
- had come from the east and her eyes were always 
- turned toward it. She dreamed of the old homestead 
at night and there only she saw the faves of kindreds 
and friends. She followed daily the thin line of smoke 
on the distant horizon that told her of the east-bound 
express. She unfolded to me her sacred plan of a trip 
east. Her dreams failed to come true. Her hopes de- 
: ceived her often. If this year the crops should be unusu- 
ally good she would take that trip home, but a drought 
would come. When the children were a little older so 
- she could leave them in the care of the father and the 
eldest girl; but another baby would come to tie her more 
firmly to the lonely ranch on the plains. If her little 
store of savings should accumulate to a certain amount, 
_ then—but sickness and unforeseen misfortunes would 
~ eome and it would all disappear again. I don’t know if 
-,; 
me eT 
cals. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 17 
“The Far Look For Tired Eyes.” 
?. Memorial Sermon Presented in a Graphic Style that Makes a Deep Impression. 
BY REV. LOUIS H. RUGE. 
this poor woman ever came east, but it was the far look 
for her tired eyes that kept her from going insane. 
Great libraries are fine things, and hero funds, but I 
wonder some multi-millionaire does not found some na- 
tional travel fund for such poor women as this one. 
Here is an industrious family with fine tastes living 
in some crowded city that are constantly planning and 
hoping for an artistic home of their own in-the suburbs 
or among the sweet smelling grasses and field daisies. 
lit is the far look for tired eyes. 
A sick man is tossing on a bed of suffering. He hears 
the feet of the crowd as they pass under his window on 
the street below. He hears the distant train as it whirls 
‘its multitude into the very heart of the world’s busy life 
that he loves so well. He looks forward to the day. of 
recovery; but it is a far look from that sick bed to the 
office. The fogs may settle over the hills soon and the 
shadows of a night that will never lift fall upon him, 
but the far look rested his suffering soul for the time 
being. 
A father watching his boys in the knickerbocker 
and play-day period looks forward to the day 
when they will graduate with honors, when they are 
honorable men of the community and country. It is his 
far look. 
A mother sees her daughter safely married to some 
cood man, the center of a happy home surrounded with 
more comforts than she has, while yet the daughter is a 
prattling child at her knees. It is the mother’s look for 
tired eyes. 
Young men and maidens have their far visions at 
their school tasks and it rests and refreshes the souls of 
the young. 
Far out at sea I see a ship. Your ship, my ship, sail- 
ing toward our port of entry. Do you not see it?—too 
far away? Look again, look long, keep on looking. I 
cnow it is a far look, but it will rest your eyes to look 
for it. 
All great men take the far look Newton and Kepler 
took wide sweeps of an infinite horizon. The astronomer 
trains his telescope under the stars, spreads‘ under it his 
sensitized plates and there comes to him, down through 
the eternal midnights and untold aeons, the story of 
creation, 
The visions of the scientists and inventors lie far 
beyond the acids, retorts, furnaces, and paraphanalia of 
the laboratories. Strange lights shine there that do not 
come from furnace tlames nor the combination of ehemi- 
They have views of world power and glory to in- 
spire them. 
The great Bible and church characters had far views. 
Joseph’s dreams are an illustration. Between the 
shepherd’s tent and Egypt’s throne of imperial power 
was a far look. Between these points lay the pit into 
which his envious brothers threw him, lay the slavery and 
the imprisonment. But there were the hills of imperial 
power toward which the youth looked until he reached 
them. 
Moses saw the day of Christ and it was counted to 
him for righteousness. John had his far visions beyond 
the foam-lashed waters of the Euxine Sea. Paul saw 
