The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-30

| To show how much Christ thought OF
the human ear, He one day met man
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 finger of the left hand into
the right ear of the patient, and agi-
tated the tympanum, and started the
bonelets, and with a voi.,e that rang
clear through the mana soul cried:
"Ephphatha!" and the polyphoid
growths gave way and the inhamed
auricle cooled off, and that man, who
had not heard sound for many years,
that night heard the wash of the waves
of Galilee against the limestone shelv-
ing. 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 created a new ex-
ternal ear for Malchus corresponding
with the middle ear and the internal
ear that no sword could clip away.
Oh, yes, my friends, we have been
looking for God too far away instead of
looking for Him close by and in our
own organism. We go up into the OBJ
servatory and look through the tel
escope and see God in Jupiter, and God
in Saturn, and God in Mars, but we
could see more of Him through the
microscope of an aurist. 80 king is
satisfied with only one residence,
and in France it has been
st. Cloud and Versailles and the
Tuileries, and in Great Britain it has
been Windsor and Balmoral and 05-
borne A ruler does not always prefer
the larger. The King of earth and
Heaven may have larger castles and
greater palaces, but l do not think
there is any one more curiously
wrought than\ the human ear. The
Heaven of Ilehvens can not contain
Him, and yet-He says He finds room to
dwell in a contrite heart, and 1 think
in Christian ear.
We have been looking for God in the
infnite-let us look for Him in the in
finitesimal. God walking in the corri-
dor of the ear, God sitting in the gal
lery of the human ear, God speaking
along the auditory nerve of the ear,
God dwelling in the ear to hear that
which comes from the outside, and so
near the brain and the soul He can hear
all that transpires there. The Lord of
hosts ehcamping under the curtains of
the membrane. Palace of the Almighty
in the human ear. The rider on the
white horse of the Apocalypse thrust
ing His foot into the loop of bone which
the Psychologist has been pleased to
call the stirrup of the ear.
| When a soul prays. God does not sit
bolt upright until the prayer travels
immensely and climbs to His ear. The
Bible says He bends clear over In
more than one place Isaiah said He
bowed down His ear. In more than
one place the Psalmist said He inclined
His ear, by which l come to believe
that God puts His ear so close down to
your lips that He can hear your faint
est whisper. 1t is not God away off up
yonder, it is God away down
here, close up, so close up that
when you pray to Him, it is not
more a whisper than a kiss. All! yes,
He hears the captive's sigh and the
plash of the orphans tear, and the dy-
ing syllables of the shipwrecked sailor
driven on the Skerries, and the in
fant's, Now | lay me down to Sleep"
as distinctly as He hears the fortissimo
of brazen bands in the Dusseldorf fes
tival, as easily as He hears the salvo OF
artillery when the 10 squares of En-.
! glish troops open all their batteries a,
once at Waterloo. He that planted the
ear can hear.
Just as sometimes an enhancing
strain of music will linger in your ear.
for days after you have heard it, ant
just as a sharp cry of pain once heard
while passing through Bellevue spi-
, tai chung to my ear for weeks, and just
as a horrid blasphemy in the street
sometimes haunts ones ears for days
so God not only hears, but holds the
songs, the prayers, the groans, the wor
ship, the blasphemy. How we have all
wondered at the phonograph, which
holds not only the words you utter, but
the very tones of your voice, SO that a
hundred years from now, that instru
ment turned, the very words you now
. utter and the very tone of your voice
will be reproduced. Amazing phono
graph! But more wonderful is Gods
power to hold, to retain. All! what
delightful encouragement for our pray.
ers. What an awful fright for our
hard speeches. What assurance OF
warm-hearted sympathy for all our
griefs. HE that planted the ear, shall
, He not hear?"
, Better take that organ away from all
sin. Better put it under the best sound.
Better take it away from all gossip,
from all SANDER, from all innuendo,
from all bad influence of evil associa-
, ton. Better put 1t to school, to church,
) to philharmonic. Better put that ear
under the blessed touch of Christian
hymnology. Better consecrate it for
time and eternity to Him who planted
! the ear. Rousseau, the inhdel, 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
J 30 sweet he asked an angel what 1t
meant. The angel said: "This is the
| Paradise of God, and the song you
hear is the anthem of the re-
: deemed" Under another roll OF
the celestial music Rousseau wax
ened and got up in the mid
night and, as we'll as he could, wrote