Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-02-19
LISTEN.
Beware What Sounds Escape Your
Lips,
'For He that Planted the Ear Hears the
Fainiest Whisper, and will Re-
member II in that
Great Day,
WHEN THE EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY.
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Sbecinl 10 the Register.
BROOKLYN, February 1S-Dr. Talmage
discoursed to his congregation in Brooklyn
Tabernacle with his usual power, to-day.
Before the sermon Dr. Talmage read and
expounded the 10th chapter of Matthew.
Opening hymn:
"He leadeth me! oh, blessed thought!
Oh, words with heavenly comfort fraugnt'
Subject: THE Ear"
Text: Psalm xciv:9. He that planted
the ear shall he not hear?"
Architecture is one of the most fascinat-
ing arts and the study of Egyptian, Grecian,
Etruscan, Roman Byzantine, Moorish, re-
naissance and modern styles Of building
has been to many sublime life work. Lin
coin and York cathedrals and st. Pauls and
st. Peters and arch OF Titus and Theban
temple and Alhambra and parthenon are
monuments of the genius that created
them. But more wonderful than any arch
that ever sprung or any transept windsw
that ever illumed, or any Corinthian column
that ever crowned or any gothic cloiSter
that ever elaborated is the human ear. AL
though the most skillful and assiduouS
psychologists Of the age have been busy in
the study of its arches, its rotVnd da, its
floors, It's canals, its aqueducts, its
vibrations, its convolutions, its intricacies,
lis resonance, it will take another thou.
sand years for the world to find what God
did when he planned and executed the
oyermastering and infinite architecture OF
the human ear, The most of it is invisi.
BILE TO the human eye, and the microscope
breaks down in its attempt at explanation.
The cartilage which we call the ear is only
the storm door of the temple, away down,
hidden at the seat next door to the immor-
tai soul. With all styles of ear-specula, or
magnifyng glass or reflector scientists,
such as Helmholtz, and Carti, and De
Blainville, and Hensen, and Ranke and
Buck, have tried to walk the Appian way
of the ear, but only two feet have ever
traversed the mysterious pathway-the foot
of sound and the foot of God. Three ears
on each side the head-external ear, mid
die ear, internal ear-but all connected by
Wonderful TeIegraphy.
The outside ear for all the ages adorned by
precious metal and precious stones, so that
the ancient temple was partly built by the
contribution of ear rings, and Home. in his
lliad says of Hera:
I'm three bright drops her glittering gems
Suspended from her ear"
And many of the ear jewels OF to-day are
only copies of these found in Pompeiiau
museum or Elruscan vase; but the middle
ear and the internal ear are alarmed only
by the skillful hand Of the Omniscient.
The stroke of this organ key before me
vibrates the air and the outside ear gathers
up the undulatipg sound and passes 1T
along the ossicies or benelets OF the middle
ear to the internal ear and that IS filed by
q liquid which vibrates against the 1900
fibres of the brain which catch the vibra-
tions and pass them in to the soul.
The hidden instruments Of the ear have
been called by psychologists by the names
Of things which they resemble; like a
hammer made TO strike, like an anvil made
to be struck, like the stirrup OF the saddle,
by which We mount a steed, like tambou-
riue to be played on, like e drum to be
sounded in the march, like the strings OF
harp TO be swept bv the hand, like stair
way to ascend, curiosity and exquisitely
curved like snail shell-after which part
of it is named, like the tubes OF great
heating apparatus sending round and round
that which enters, like labyrinth
with winding passages in which yorr
thoughts may enter only to be lost in be-
wilderment. The air that fills the middle
ear, medium for the sound to pass
through into the liquid that fills the inter
nal ear. Then there is muscle which by
contracting defends the ear against too loud
noise as the pupil of tie eye contracts
against too great light. The outer ear is
defended by wax which with its bitterness
discOurages inSectile entrance. The inside
ear is lmbedded in the hardest bone of the
human system, a very rock OF strength and
defiance. The organ is capable Of catching
according to one scientist a sound of 73, 200
(seyenty-threee thousand seven hundred)
vibrations in second. The outside ear
wide open TO catch all sounds, whether
clash OF avalanche or hum of bee, but the
door at the other side of the ear shut
against all intrusion and henceforth COM
municatiOn must go by
Divine Machinery.
The sound admitted to the middle finds
the further door of that second apartment
closed and can only advance by more di-
vine mechanism. Having passed into the
third ear and swan the liquid it takes the
fine rail. track of brain branches and passes
on into sensation and there the curtain
drops and the gates comes shut aud the
voice of God seems to say to all human in
spection: Thus far and no farther
Great whispering gallery OF the immor-
tai soul, The human voice is eulosy OF
the wonderful organ of the human ear.
That voice it is estimated can produce H.
592 1876, ,O44 il5 sounds. All this variety OF
human tone, created not for the regale-
ment of instruction or arrest OF bird or
beast, but to play on the human ear. Last
Tuesday in Venice laid down his head in
death one whom many choose to call the
creates st musical composer of the century.
Fatherless at six years OF age and strug'
Cling 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 20 years of age 10 conquer the world s
ear! The same battle was fought by Gluck,
by Weber, by Mszart, by Beethoven, by
Mendelsshon, by Meyerbeer, by Rossini and
by a long roll Of German, French and ltal-
ian composers, some OF whom left their
blood on their key notes and tuning forks
and musical scores; battle fought with
baton and flute and organ pipe and trumpet
and corneta piston, and all the brazen and
ivory and silver and golden implements Of
orchestra, the academies OF music in the
royal theatres and the opera houses end the
churches the great fortresses of the contest
England and Egy pit fought for the Suez
Canal, and Spal tans and Persians fought
for the defle of Thermopyle, but the mu
sicians of all ages have fought for the in
tricate passage of the human ear, for the
acoustic nerve, for the auditory canal, for
the Tbermopyla OF
Struggling Cad
To capture this one gate of the soul Hayden
struggled on from the garrett without stove
and IRON the BARRIERS shop where he dress
ed wigs. till unable to endure the nervous
strain of hearing the execution OF his own
creation" he was carried home TO die,
having composed lis Symphonies, l65
pieces for the barton, Is masses, oratori-
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