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

OI bno ages 9ndll play the Acc0mDanl-
ment of a song In which all the nations
OF the earth, and all the empires of hea-
ven shall join their voices with the deep
bass OF the sea and the alto of the wood
and the tenor OF the winds and the BARI
tone OF the thunder, allelnlia surging
up to meet alleluliR descending.
On, my friends, fear we have been
looking too far away for God when we
have him close by with us. We put up
great telescope, and from the 0bserva-
tory we see God In Jupiter and in Sat
urn and in Mercury, but think we may
see quite as much IL not more of him
through the microscope OF the speculum
or the aur1st. Kings and queens have
more than one residence at the same
time. In France 1t has been st. Cloud
and Versailles. and the Tuilleries. In
Great Britain 1t Is St. James and Bal
moral and Osborne; and 1t Is not always
the largest palace that Is the favored
place OF king or queen. So the King Of
heaven and earth has many palaces and
larger castles, but think no more curt
ously wrought one than the human ear.
Even the heavens cannot contain him,
yet he says he can dwell In the contrite
heart. II so he can live In the ear. God
is no more in the infinite than in the
inhnttesimal. He walks the corridors
of the ear. He sits In Its galleries. He
steps along the auditory nerves. He re-
cetVes their messages from the outside
world, and is near enough to hear all
that goes on in the brain and the soul.
Palace of the Almighty, the human ear?
Throne Of inflnityl He who rides the
white horse OF eternal victory in the
apocalypse puts his foot In that loop of
bone which Psychologists call the 'stir-
Are you ready now for the question
OF the textH Have you endurance to
bear Its overwhelming suggestion while
you take hold Of some pillar to balance
yourself under its semi-OmnipOtent
strOkep He that planned the ear shall
he not heaT2" Yes; 1t cannot be that
the God that fashioned the ear to gather
up the sounds is himself incapable Of
hearing the worship and the blasphemy.
Feeling 1t 80 important to make us able
to hear, he cannot be sdestitute of the
faculty he bestowed on others. Doctors
Wild, GeubeT and TOynbee invented ae-
Oumeters, specula, and other instru-
ments for the skillful examination OF
the ear, and shall they not know as much
as their instruments? "He that planned
the ear shall he not hearY Jupiter Of
Crete in statuary and painting was al
ways represented as having no ears, be-
cause he could not be bothered with the
small affairs Of the human race. But
our God has ears. Psalms 34:15: His
ears are open to their cry" IL on Sat-
urday night tired wOrkmen are COM
planning over the fact that they have
not got their wages, we are told that the
complaint strikes the divine tympanum
THE cries OF them that reaped have
entered the ears of the Lord of Sab
baOth." II man has prayer to make,
God does not sit bolt upright till the
prayer travels through immensity and
climbs up to his ear. No; the Bible in
dicates that he bends clear over. Isaiah
says ne bows down his ear. David says
he inclines his ears, by all Of which L
take 1t that he puts his ear close to your
lips and catches your faintest whisper.
Not God away of up yOndeT, but God
away down close by; so close that your
prayer Is not more whisper than 1t Is a
kiss. HE that planned the ear, shall
he not hear2" Yes, his ear is so acute
he hears the captiVe's sigh and the fall
or the orphans tear and the dying syl-
lables Of the shipwrecked sailor driven
driven on the skerries, and the child's,
Now lay me down to Sleep" and the
sob OF penttent as easily as the fOrtis-
simO Of all the brazen bands at Dus-
seldOrf festival, or the salyO of the ar
tillery when the thirteen squares of En-
glish troops open their batteries on the
French cuiTassiers at Waterloo.
Yea, as sometimes we seem to carry In
our ears for days after we heard it an
entrancing strain Of music or q sharp
cry OF pain, such as heard In Just pass
ing through Bellevue Hospital, 30 that
l could not get 1t out of my ear for days,
or q hOrrid profanity on the street that
seems to haunt ones ear for a long
while, so God not only hears but holds
the songs, the prayers, the grOans, the
blasphemies, the worship with power
auricular. The phOnOgrRph has been
Invented by which IL you speak into 1t
the words and the very tones of your
voice are kept and 80 accurately kept
that IL a hundred years from now the
machinery should be turned 1t would
unron the sound just as 1t is now re-
corded. Wonderful monograph As
now we may keep Of our beloved dead a
lock OF hair a photograph OF the features,
so we shall be able to keep the tones Of
their voice, and they, uttering in their
lifetime some words Of affection into
this instrument we shall long after
they are gone be ableI to unrOll the en-
dearing utterances, But more wonder
ful does Gods ear retain, and retain for
ever. How delightfully."- encouraging to
all our prayersI What an awful fright
for our wicked utterancesl What an
ASSURANCE OF Warm-noartoQ sympathy In
all our griefsl HE that planted the ear
shall he not hearp" Miss no opportun-
ity Of putting that ear under best Of
sounds. Take 1t away from all gossip,
and slRnder, and inuendo, and debasing
influence Of bad assOeiOtion, and put It
te school. at church, and philharmonic
take it where 1t can be blessed by the
touch Of Christian hymnology and re-
solve that on earth and In heaven It
shall be eonseerated to him who planted
the ear. Rousseau, the infldel, lay down
to sleep one night among his manu-
scripts piled all around him, and he
dreampt and thought he heard the Choir
us Of heavenly wOrshippers enraptur-
ing beyond anything he ever heard, and
in his dream he asked an angelic being
what 1t all meant, and the angel an
swered: "This Is the paradise of God,
and that anthem is the song of the re-
deemed" Under another roll of the
celestial music Rousseau awOke and
rose at midnight to write down the
sweet strains in the famous music en-
titled the Song of the Redeemed" God
grant that 1t may not be an infidel
dream to US, but glorious reality. When
we lay down to sleep In the night Of
death may our ear be really wakened by
the eanticles Of the Upper Temple and
the nrQfaaa and daxOloUfoo n0oonnfad