The Cecil Whig., 1883-03-10

DR.. TALMAGE DESCRIBES THE WHISPER
ING GALLERIES, CANALS AND LIQUID
SEAS THROUGH WHICH THE Music OF
THE TABERNACLE ORGAN MAKES ITS
WAY To HIS CoNGREGATIoN.
'More wonderful than any arch that
architect ever elevated" said DR.. Tai
mage yesterday, or any trapsept win
dow he ever illuminated. or any Corin-
THAN column he ever crowned, or any
Gothic eloister he ever elaborated, is the
human ear"
g | am told on all sides that God gave
His blessing to- the sermon preached last
Sunday morning on the other half Of the
verse which makes my text this morn
ing. lie that planted the ear shall He
not hear? and He that formed the eye,
shall he not see?' | am expecting that
God will give His blessings this morning
while speak to you of the ear.
Among the most skillful and assidu-
Gus psychologists of our time have been
those who have given their time to the
examination of the ear and the study of
its wards, its fioor its canal, its aque-
| duets, its galleries, is intricacies, its
convolutionS, its divine mechanism. And
yet it viii take another thousand years
before the world comes to any adequate
appreciation of what God did when He
/! planned and executed the infinite and
| overmastering architecture of the human
| ear. The most of it is invisible, and the
microscope breaks down in the attempt
at exploration. The cartilage which we
temple clear down out of sight. next door
to the Immortal soul. There are three
ears on each side of the head-the extcr-
nal ear, the middle ear and the internal
ear-but all connected by wonderful
system of telegraphy. A stroke of the
key of our church organ sets the air vi
brating. and the outer ear catches the
undulations aud passes them on through
the bonelets of the middle ear to the i'll
ternal ear, which is filled with liquid.
That liquid again vibrates until the j, 900
hbTes of the braih take up the vibration
and roll the sound ON unto the soul The
hidden machinery of the ear is called by
physiologists by,,names Of things familiar
to us-as the hammer, the anvil, the stir
rup tie drum.
"The middle ear is filled with air, the
medium of sound. AS the sound passes
muscle contracts if the noise is too loud,
just as the pupil of the eye contracts
when tho light is too glaring. The inter-
nal ear is imbedded in what is by far the
hardest bone of the human system-a
very rock of strength and defiance. The
ear is 50 strong a contrivance that. by
an estimate Of one learned man, it can
gather -, 900 vibrations in second
"The outer ear takes in all kinds oi
sound, whether the crash Of an avalanche
or the hum OF the bee. The sound passes
eir and halts until another divine me-
chaniSm passes it on into the inner ear,
and then it swims in liquid until it comes
to the real contact OF the brain branchIet,
and rolls on and on to sensation. There
the curtain drops and the hundred gates
shut. The voice Cf God seems to say tc
all human expectation: Thus far and
no further How many kings of thought
and of medicine and physiology, after
having done penance Of lifelong study
have got no further than this vcstlbule
the mysterious home of reverberatiol
and echo, headquarters to which there
come quick dispatches by the way of air
by the way of cartilage, by the Way o
bone and water and nerve. The slowes
despatch plunges into the ear at a spect
of 900 feet Il second, On this small in
strument, the ear drum, is playing all the
music you ever hear, from the grandes
of God 5 thunder storms to the softes
breathing of the flute. 1t is small in
strument, only a quarter Of an inch il
circumference, and with thinnesss of
| tiiiu iillltlL ptll VI dl
iuch. Musical strains, with lines, pace.
and rests are there; the bridge leadin.
from the outside natural world to the in
side spiritual world; the whispering gal
lery OF the soul. The human voice il
Gods eulogy to the ear. That voice, ca
pable of producing 1872, 1S6, ,0l0, Al;
sounds, and of all variety, is made not TO
the regalemenU of bird or beast, but fo
the resalement of the human ear.
You would better be careful how yor
) let in sound OF blasphemy or let unclean
ness enter that holy of holies. | viii
show you how much Christ thought o
the human ear. He went to see MAJ
who was deaf, and came up to him, an,
put the finger oil His right hand into tn
oritice of the right ear of tie patient
and agitated the tympanum, and startlet
the bonelets by crying out in a lou,
voice SO that the false growth gave wa,
and the man who had not heard a sount
for many years heard the wash of tn
waves of Galilee. And when Peter will
one slash of his sword caused the ear o
: the offender to fall into the dust, Chris
| created an external ear, correspondent!
with the internal ear, that no sworc
could clip away. And to show what Go,
thinks of the ear, We are informed tha
on that milleuial June which shall maxi
rOseate all the earth, the ears of the dea
Shall be unstopped.
+ Jupiter OF Crete was always repre-
sented in statuary and painting as with
out ears, suggesting the idea that he Iii,
not want to be bothered with the affair
of the world. But our God has ear
5 psalm xxxiy., 10: His ears are opel
, unto their cry The Bible intimate
7 that if workmen on Saturday night d.
hot get their wages their complaint in
: stantly strikes the ear of God. Las
night poor girl threw herself upon
T prison bunk in Il city dungeon and crieC
God have mercy" Do you really thinl
} God could hear her just as easily as whe!
4 child, sick with scarlet fever, she aske,
her mother for drink of water? Whel
the soul prays, God does not sit bolt up
right and wait until the sound travel
through immensity and reaches his ear
!, The Bible says He bends clear over you
t Isaiah says : He bowed down His ear.
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