Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-04-28

of the ear, ON the mastoid cells
of the ear, on the tympanic cavity of
the ear, and ON everything from the
outside rim of the outside ear clear in
to the point where sound steps off the
auditory nerve and rolls ON down into
the unfathomable depth of the immor-
tai soul, The Bible speaks OF dull
ears, and of "uncircumcised ears, aud
- itching ears. and of "rebcllious
ears" and of ''opcn ears" and of those
who have all the organs Of hearing ana
yet who seem to be deaf, for it cries to
them: He that hath ears to hear, let
him hear"
To show how much Christ thought OF
the human ear, He one day met man
who was deaf, came up to him aud put
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
bonelcts, and with n voice that rang
clear through the mans soul cried:
"Ephphathal' and the polyphoid
growths gave way and the infamed
auriclc 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 new OK
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, No 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 Os-
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 Heavens can not contain
Him, and yet He says He finds room TO
dwell in a contrite heart. and think,
in a Christian ear.
We have been looking for God in the
infinitc-let us look for Him in the in
tinitcsimal. 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 50
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 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 car 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, 1t is not
more a whisper than kiss. All! yes,
He hears the captivc's sigh and the
plash of the orphans tear, and the dy.
ing syllables of the shipwrcclcd 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 lie hears the salvo OF
artillery when the 10 squares of En-
glish troops open all their batteries at
once at Waterloo. He that planted the
ear can hear.
Just as sometimes an enhancing
strain of music will linger in your ears
for days after you have heard it, and
just as sharp cry of pain once heard
while passing through Bellevue hospi-
tai chung to my ear for weeks, and just
as horrid blasphemy in the street
sometimes haunts ones ears for days
50 God not only hears, but holds the
songs, the prayers, the groans, the wor
ship the blasphemy. How we have all
wondered at the monograph, 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
wlll be reproduced. Amazing phone
graph But more wonderful is God 1
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