THE CENTRE » DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1898 THE HUMAN EAR. Dr. Talmage Says Its Construction is Most Wonderful h—— — It Should be Kept Away from Sinful Sounds God's Ear Always Bowed Down to Hear the Prayers of the Penitent. In the following discourse Rev. T. De Witt Talmage calls attention to the goodness and wisdom of God in the construction of the ear, extols music and encourages prayer. His text is Psalms 44: 9: **He that planteth the ear, shall he not hear?” Architecture is one of tho cinating arts, ian, Grecian, Etruscan, Roman, Byzan tine, Moorish, of building has been to many a man a sublime life-work. Lincoln and York cathedrals, St. Paul's and St. Peter's, and Arch of Titus, and Theban Tem- ple, and Alhambra and Parthenon are the monuments to the genius of those wha built them. But more wonderful than any arch they ever lifted, or any transept window they ever illumined, or any Corinthian column they ever crowned, or any Gothie cloister they ever elaborated is the human ear. Among the most skillful and assidu- ous physiologists of our time have been those who have given their time tothe examination of the ear and the study of its arches, its its floor, its canals, its aqueducts, its galleries, its intricacies, its convolutions, its divine machinery, and yet, it take an- other thousand years before the most fos and the study of Egyit- Renaissance styles walls, will world comes to any adequate appreciation of what God did when He planned and | | tions in music. To conquer the ear and | and overmaster- human invisible executed the infinite ing The architecture of the most of it is and microscope breaks down the attempt | ion. TI which ear | nly tl at explori cartilage we call the storm door of the great temple clear sight, next d« Such down out or t immortal soul as Helmholtz Conte and De Blainville scientists and Rank and y pian f the hu ear, but the has mysterion never two feet internal ear, bu wonderful tele The external adorned by prec The temple of Jerusalem partly built by the contribution of Homer in the lliad ‘the three bright dr : 1 all ages ious stones or precious metals earrings, and the ps, her glittering the and adornments gems suspended from ear” many of the times were only her in I vase copies ‘ompeiian But wl jewels found apd Etruscan ile the r . outer ear may be adorned by human | internal ear ! the garnished only bj The mder organ sets the and the undulating and passes it on through the bonelets of the the lorned art, middle and are nl and he hand of the stroke of a key of AZ air vibrating, catches the Lord Almighty. external sound middle ear to the Internal ear, and the | 8,000 fibers of the human brain take up the vibration and roll the sound on into the soul. The hidden machinery of the by pl called by the names of things familiar to the hammer, something to strike—like the anvil—-something to be smitten 4 of ear, 10l0gists 1 Us, Ke like the the saddle which stirrup we mount the steed--like the in march harpstring, to be swept with music like a ‘‘snail by one of the innermost ear is actually ecalled--like way, the sound to ascend drum, beaten the shell.” Coiled the like a bent tube of a heating apparatus, taking | | derstand it. None but God could explain | IL enters | that which enters round and round like a labyrinth with wonderful pas sages the thought only into which to be lost ’ : ! muscle contracting when the noise is too loud, just as the pupil of the eye | the The external ear contracts when ing wax, which with its bitterness dl I'he light is too glar is defended by insectile im} courages invasion. ternal eal el the har stn pa hrough into t inner ar, and ther he sound comes to the f the and on and on until it comes 10 sensa | track « brain branchlet, rai rolls tion, and there the curtain drops, and and the voice of s hundred gates shut iy rox] seems to say to all human Thus far and no farther.” inspec ton 4 Ab down in death ut Venice, lay may be con- ei lered the greatest musical composer Struggling on up from six years of age when he was lett fath- eriess, Wagner rose through the oblo quy of the world, and ofttimes all na tions seemingly against him, until he gained the favor of a king, and won the enthusiasm of the opera houses of Europe and America. Struggling all the way on to 70 years of age, to con quer the world's ear. In that same at- tempt to master the human ear and gain supremacy over this gate of the immortal soul, great battles were fought by Mozart, Gluck, and Weber, and by Beethoven and Meyerbeer, by Rossini, and by all the roll of Ger: man and Italian and French pomposers, some of them in the battle leaving their blood on the key- potes and the musieal scores. Great battle fought for the enr—fought with baton, with organ pipe, with trumpet, with cornet-a-piston, with all ivory and brazen and silver and golden weapons of the orchestra, royal theater and ca thedral and academy of music the fort reeses for the contest for the ear. En- 15 years ago, in one whom wf the century. i Car. | the | of | 4 | was crunched in on the top of two and | other paupers into a grave which to | pers harping with their speaks of Hera, | modern | ear | museym | i | pipes, all flutes, « ear | tains of with | like the | which | passages of the | i stair. | | but God could work it. in bewilderment. A | | ple the i putt + glandand Egypt fous" “yt 1 acy of the Suez canul a, ua yas tans and the Persinns fourat defile at Thermopylae, but the musi- eciansof all ages have fought for the mas tery of the auditory canal and the de- file of tha immortal soul and the Ther- mopylee of struggling cadences, For the conquest of the ear Haydn struggled on up from the garret where he had neither fire nor food, on and on until under the too great nervous strain of of the “Creation” performed, he was carried put to die, but leaving as his legacy to the world 118 symphonies, 163 pieces for ior tao hearing his own oratorio the baritone, 15 { Italian 365 English and masses, 5H oratorios, 49 GU ennons, Seoteh songs with ae serman and BONIS, sompuniment, and 1,586 pages of libret- tei. All that to capture the gate of the body that swings in from the tympanum to the “snail shell” lying on the beach of the ocean of the immortal soul, To conquer the ear, Handel struggled on from the time when his father would not let him go to school lest the gamut and become a musician, and from the time when he was allowed in the organ loft just to play after the audience had left, to the time when he left to all nations his unparalleled ora- torios of “Esther,” “Deborah” *‘Sam- son,” ‘‘Jephthah,” “Judas Maccabeus,” “Israel in Egypt,” and "The Messiah,” the soul of the great German composer he learn raptures of every Easter morn. To conquer the ear and take this gate of the immortal soul, Schubert com posed his great “Serenade,” writing the of the music on the bill of fare in a restaurant, and went on until staves he could leave as a legacy to the world over a thousand magnificent composi- take this gate of the soul's castle, Mo- zart struggled on through poverty un- tii ho one came to a pauper's grave, and wet afternoon the body of world the “Re the “G-minor Symphony” chilly, him who gave to the and juiem this day is epitaphless. For the ear everything mellifluous, the birth pped in from hour when our earth swaddling clothes serenaded by other worlds, ime when Jubal thrummed 1 pressed a key of the to the music of this Yea, for the ear the com- | Heaven, for whatever wly may be left in , We Know, 1s 10 come otherwise, why the “har harps? of lark and whistle o quail, and chirp of cricket, and dash of and roar of tides oceanic, and the ear, carol cascade, doxology of worshl minstreisy, rchange cheru and boys, bass ster Abbey, and and lin, and all the ys the 3 urg, Organ pipes wet giant s cause r for the monarch over. For the ear, all cl lings of chronometers, anthems, all ~ dirges, all glees, all choruses, all lulla- | orchestration. Oh, the mored ear, ear, grooved with di bies, all the God-h vine sculpture and poised with divine gracefulness and upholstered with cur ne embroidery, and corri dored by divine carpentry, and pil : with divine architecture, and chiseled in bone and divine masonry, and con quered by processions of divine shaling. The nt of interrogation, asking How? a per ear! A perpetual poi petual point of apostrophe appealing 1 to God. None None but but God could plan | God eould build it None but God could keep it. None but God could un Oh, the wonders of the human ear How surpassingly sacred the human ear. You had you let the sound of blasphemy or un- to that holy of hol better be careful how cleanness step ir The Bible say i oa s that in the ancient tem sot pris At was Ing « { apart by the blood of a ram on the he right of the priest friends, we n 1 al of us to } ears ant s¢ who have al ig and yet who it eries to them He to let him hear To show how much Christ thought of the human ear, He one day met a man hath ears hear, who was deaf, came up to him, and put a finger of the right hand into the orifice of the left ear of the patient, and put a finger of the left hand into the orfice of the right ear of the pa tient, and agitated the tympanum, and startled the bonelets, and with a voice that rang clear through into the man's soul, “Ephphatha” and the polyphoid growths gave way, and the inflamed auricle cooled off, and that man who had not heard a sound for many years, that night heard the wash of the waves of Galilee against the limestone shelving. To show how much Christ thought of the human ear, when the apostle Peter got mad and with one slash of his sword dropped the ear of Malchus into the dust, Christ ereated a new external ear for Malehus corresponding with the middle ear and the internal ear that no sword could clip away. And to show what God thinks of the ear wo are informed of the fact that in the millennial June which shall roseate all the earth, the enrs of the deaf will be unstopped, all the vascular growths gene-all deformation of the listening organ cured, corrected, changed, Every being on earth will have a hearing ap- naratus as perfect as God knows how eried | it has and the Tuileries, and in Great Britain | it has been Windsor and Balmoral and { Osborne. ‘ : " | of my text? still weeping in the Dead March of our | a great obsequies and triumphing in the | of | For | music to pass | mes, all tick- | mar None | ! the | {t. and all the ears will be tiat great symphony in all the musical instruments of Cie curth shall play the accompani- ments, nations of earth and empires of or | Heaven mingling their voices, together { with the deep bass of the sea, and the | alto of the | winds, and the baritone of the thunder: | “Alleluiah!” surging up meeting the | “Alleluiah!” descending. woods, and the tenor of Oh, yes, my friends, we have been | looking for God too far away instead of | looking for | organism, | tory by and in our We go up into the observa and look through the and see God in Jupiter, and God in Saturn, and God in Mars: but we Him through the scope of ag aurist. No king is and in France Him close telescope conld see more of micro satisfied with only one residence, St. and Versailles been Cloud A ruler does not always pre- fer the larger. The King of earth and Heaven may lave larges castles and greater palaces, but I do not think there is anyone more curiously wrought than the human ear. The Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Him, and yet He says He finds room to dwell ina contrite heart, and I think in a Chris ian ear. Are you ready now for the questicn 1 Have you the to bear its overwhelming suggestive ness? Will you take hold of some pillar under the semi- endurance and balance yourself omnipotent stroke? “Ie that planted the ear, shall he not hear?” Shall the God who gives us the apparatus with which we hear the sounds of the world, Himself not be able to cate and groan and blasphemy and worship? Does He which He has not Himself? and Gru ber and Toynbee h up song, us a faculty Drs. Wild invented the acon give and other instruments by whic! the ear, and know meter to measure and examine do hes instruments the d that planted the ter of than wiors who “He not Ways hear? Jupl represen tuary and painting as wit that Suge sl her when at midnigh : He tha it hear? ink of water shall he ne When a soul prays God d bolt upright the prayer tras Says said Le more than psalmist sald Le inelined his ear, by which I come to Isaiah T than nore bowed down place that believe God puts his ear closely hear oot God to our lips that he oan down wr faintest off whisper it is is God away up that pray to him it is not more a Ab hears the captive's sigh and the plash of AWAY mder; it up ¥ down here, ciose up, s COR when isper than a kiss yes, he the orphan’s tear, and the dying syliable of the shipwrecked sailor driven on the Skerries, and the infant's, “Now | lay me down to sleep.” as distinctly as he brazen bands in the Dusseldorf festival, as easily as he hears the salvo of artillery when the 13 squares of English troops open all their batteries at once at Waterloo. He that planted the ear can hear. hears the fortissimo of Just as sometimes an strain of music will linger in your ears entrancing i for days after you have heard it, and just as a sharp cry of pain I once heard through Be for weeks, and just as a horrid blasphemy in the street while passing levue hos pital clung to my ear baunts one's ears for days, hears, but h the sometimes sa God not nly ids SONES Oans, the v iip. the biasphemsy w we have wondered holds ne the very hundred nent turne niter Ix graph power r our ee of our hard a Assy warm-hearted sympathy for all griefs, “He he not hear?™ hat planted the ear, shall Jetter takéd that organ away from all Better put it the best sound. Better take it away from all gossip, from all slander, from all innu- endo, from all bad influence of evil as sociation. church, to philharmonie. sin. under Better put . N le of | ys (M that ear under the blessed touch of | drens’ Clothing and we quote them Christian hymnology, Detter conse erate it for time and eternity to him who planted the ear. infidel, fell asleep amid his skeptical manuscripts lying all around the room, and in his dream he entered Heaven and heard the song of the worshipers, and it was so sweet he asked an angel what it meant. The angel sald “This is the paradise of God, and the song you hear is the anthem of the redeemed.” Under an- other roll of the celestial music Rous sean wakened and got up in the mid night snd, as well as he could, wrote down the strains of the musio that he had heard in the wonderful tune ealled “the Songs of the Redeemed.” God grant that it mi; not be to you and to me an infidel} dream but a glorious re ality. 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