The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-02-24

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man ear. Last Tuesday In Venice laid
down his head la death one whom many
choose to call the greatest musical com
poser or the century. Fatherless at ak
years OF age and struggling on up
through OblOquy and all the world
against him, Wagner at last gained the
patronage Of king and won the high
est admiration of the opera houses of
Europe and America, all his struggles
until seventy years Of age to conquer
the worlds earl The same battle. was
fought by Gluek, by Weber, by Mozart,
by Beethoven, by MendelssOhn, by Meyer
beer, By Rossini, and by long roll Of
German, French and Italian composers,
some OF whom left their blood ON their
key notes and tuning forks and musical
scoret; battle fought with. baton. and
hute, and organ pipe and trumpet, and
eOrnet-a-pistOn and all the bTazen, and
ivory, and silver, and golden implements
OF orchestra, the academies of music
and the royal theaters and the opera
houses, and the churches, the great fort
resses OF the contest. England and
Egypt fought for the Suez Canal, and
Spartans and Persians fought for the
dehle OF ThermOpyl@. but the musicians
OF all ages have fought for the Intricate
passage OF the human ear, for the
eousttc nerve, for tue auditory cana, for
ees. To capture this one gate of the
soul Hayden struggled on from the gar.
ret without stove, and from the BARRIERS
shop where he dressed wigs till unable
TO endure the nervous strain of hearing
the execution Of his own "CreatiOn, "he
was carried home to die, having cOmpO-
sed llS symphonies. 1853 pieces for the
baritOnes is masses, OratOriOs, AZ Ger
man and Italian songs, 80 canOns, 1856
I'm aah nd kan.
paniments and 1885 pages Of librettO.
To capture that one gate Handel tOiled
on from the time when his father wO'd
not let him go to school lest he learn
the gamut, and when in an organ loft
he was permitted after service to play
q voluntary, and afterwards his enemies
spent $4,000 attempting to destroy his
reputation, until he had produced what
are still the unrivalled operas of the
church and the world, Esther, Deborah,
Messiah, Jeptha, Israel in Egypt, and
Jus Maeeab@us, the mighty genius of
the German composer, still sweeping in
the Dead March of Grand 0bsequies and
triumphing in the rapture of every Eas.
ter morn.
For the capture Of the ear Schubert
t0tled from the time he wrote his immOr-
tai Serenade, the slaves of which music
were written on the back of bill of
fare in restaurant, until he died, lea
wing 1000 compositions. For the cap
ture Of the ear, Mozart struggled on
through life, and came to a pauper's
grave. One wet and cold afternoon the
body or him who had written the i'm
mortal Requiem" and "a minor SYM
phOny"was crunched down into the same
grave with two other paupers, epitaph-
less. For the capture OF the ear, every
thing mellifuOus has been created, from
the birth hour, when our earth was first
wrapped In swaddling clothes of light,
and the other worlds serenaded it to the
time when Jubal thrummed the first
harp and pressed the key Of the first or
gan, down to the music of this Sabbath
mornings all sweet sounds to come In
the OVertures Of heaven, for whatever
portion Of the body may be left in the
dust, the ear will come up TO the life ee-
lestiRl. Otherwise, why the harDeFs
with their harps2 For the human ear,
carol OF lark, and whistle of quail, and
ehirTup Of cricket, and dash Of cascade,
and chant OF cathedral, and roar of tides
oceanic, and dOxOlOgy of wOrshipful as
sembiy, and minstrelsy, cherubie, sera-
arehangelie. For the ear all Pandean
pipes, and Vi0ltns, and cOfnets, and bas-
soOns, and flutes, and organs of West
minister Abbey and Lucerne, and Berlin
and krtbOurg, and all the great pipes of
sound set up across ChristendOm. For
the ear, all chimes, all ticking Of chrO-
nometers, all anthems, all dirges, all
glees, all ehoruses, all OrchestratiOn.
Oh. the earl The GOd-honOred ear, groO-
we'd with divine sculpture, and poised
with divine graeefulness, and uphOlster-
ed with curtains of divine embroidery.
and cOrridOred with divine carpentry,
and ptlfared with divine afehitectdfe,
and ehisseled in bone of divine mason
ry, captured by professions Of divine
marshalings. The earl Perpetual point
OF Interrogation, saying how and WhyP
A perpetual point apOstr0phe appealing
to God. None but God could plan 1t:
none but God could build II; none but
Sod could wear it; none but God could
understand 1t. SO overwhelmingly sa-
cred an organ, let no word blasphemOus
or unele8n ever step across It's holy of
holies. at the conservation Of the priests
or the temple, the blood of q lamb was
put upon the top Of che right ear, but we
all need the cOnsecrated touch of ordin-
alton on the hanging lobe OF both ears,
and on the upper arch of both ears, and
on the eustachian lube of the ear, and
on the mastOid cells of the ear, and on
the tympanic cavity Of the ear, and from
the rim OF the outside, in to where the
sounds steps Oh OF the auditory nerve,
and rolls far down into the bottomIess
soul.
The Bible speaks of 'dull ears" and
etching ears,' and heavy ears" and
''u1eircumcised ears" and "Open ears" I"
and implying that many have this or
gan but are deaf to duty, cries aloud:
''He that hath ears TO hear let him hear
To show how important the diVineChrist
thought the human ear, one time he
found man who was deaf, and he step
ped up to him, and putting the right
finger In the oriflce of the mans left
ear, and the left finger into the mans
right ear, he agitated the tympanum of
the bOnelets and the nerve of hearing.
and then uttered word which -yIbrated
back to the soul. "Ephpheta,Y "Be open
ed" and the Inflammation Of the auri-
Gle cooled on, or the atrOphy of the tym-
panum weakened, or the pOlyphoid
growth gave Way, and the man that
night, for the first time in years. heard
the wash of the waves of Gaiilee against
the limestone shelving. Still further,
| to show his idea of the importance Of
the ear, when Peter the Apostle got mad
and with slash Of his sword, dropped
the ear of Malehus In the dust, Christ
by an omnipotent touch gave him new
external ear to- correspond with the in
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