' Christ evidently did not
apply this expression to the merely physical capability of sight,--
but to the moral and mental, or psychic vision. It matters nothing
really to the infinite forces around us, whether physically
speaking, we are able to see, or whether we are born blind; but
spiritually, it is the chief necessity of our lives that we should
be able to see straight morally. Yet that is what we can seldom or
never do. Modern education, particularly education in France,
provides us at once with a double psychic lens, and a side-squint
into the bargain! Seeing straight would be too primitive and simple
for us. But Christ says, 'If thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall
be full of darkness.' Now this word 'evil,' as set in juxtaposition
to the former term 'single,' evidently implies a double sight or
perverted vision. With this 'evil,' or double sight, our whole body
'shall be full of darkness.' Very well, my friends, if this be
true,--(and you surely must believe it true, otherwise you would not
support churches for the exposition of the truth as spoken by the
Founder of our Faith;--) then we are children of the dark indeed! I
doubt if one amongst us,--for I include myself with you,--can be
said to see clearly with a straight psychic vision.
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