Church Pioneers "telescope" analogy

The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken... Psalm 50:1

"I present you the gospel plan of salvation, revealed in the Holy

Scriptures, as a telescope, and the eye for it, Faith. 

The Promise made of God unto the fathers is the eye glass, small and apparently of little power. 

The Prophecies are the rectifying lenses, or the proper medium through which the eye of faith obtains a correct vision, in place of one inverted, and all things turned in it upside down. 

The Gospel is the capacious object glass, formed with skill divine; 

and the whole is an instrument of miraculous power."
HENRY DANA WARD