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ever elaborated, is the human ear.
Among the most shillful and assidu-
GUS psychologists of our time have been
those who given their time to an eX'
animation of the ear and the study OF
its arches its walls, its floor, its canals,
its aqueducts, its galleries, its intrica'
cies, its convolutions, its Divine ma
chinery, and yet, it will 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 archi-
lecture of the human ear. The most
of it is invisible and the microscope
breaks down in the attempt at eXplora-
ton. The cartilage which we call the
ear is only the storm door of the great
temple clear down out of sight, next
door to the immortal soul.
Such scientists as Helmholtz and
Conte and Dc Bainville and Rank and
Buck have attempted to walk the APP
plan way Of the human ear, but the
mysterious pathway has never been
fully trolden bat by two feet-the foot
of sound and the foot of God. Three
ears on eIcl side the head-the ex-
ternal ear, the middle ear, the internal
ear, but all connected by most wonder
full telegraphy.
The exta;lll ear in all ages adorned
by precious stoles or precious. metals.
The Temple OF Jerusalem, partly built
by the contribution OF earrings, and
Ii )m,r in tae Had speaks of Herd,
"thc three bright drops, her glitterng
gems suspended from the car and
many of the lornments of modern
times were only copies of her ear jew
els found in Pompeiian museum and
Etruscan vase. But while the outer
car may be adorned by human art, the
middle and internal ear are adorned
and garnisA ii only by the hand of the
Lord Almighty. The stroke of key
OF yonder organ sets the air vibrating
AM the external ear catches the undu-
lating sound and passes it on through
the bonelets OF the middle ear to
the internal car, and the 3,0J)
tiberS of the human brain take
up the vibration and roll the sound
on into the soul The hidden ma
chinery OF the ear by Psychologists
called by the names of things familiar
| to us, like the hammer. something to
strilse-like the anv,l-something to be
smitten-lil<e the stirrup of the saddle
with which we mount the steed-lilke
the drum, beaten in the march-likc
The harp strings, to be swept with
music. Coilel like snail she'll" by
which one % the inncrmost paSSa
of the car is actually called-like u
stairway, the sound to ascen1-lilse "a
bent tube OF Il heating apparatus, talk
ing that which enters round and round
like labyrinth with wonderful
passages into watch the thought enters
only to b. lost in bewiliermcnt. A
muscle cJItricsin wlcn tlc noise is
to- lou |, JUS aj the pIpil of the eye
contracts whsn the ligIt is too glar-
ing. Tie external ear is defended by
wax which with its bitterness discour-
ages insectile invasion The internal
ear embodied in by what is far the
hardest bone of the human system, "a
very rock of strength AM defiance.
The ear is SO strange continuance
that by the estimate of one scientist it
can catch the sound of rs, 100 vibrations
in a second. Tlc outer ear taking in
all kinds OF sound, whether the crash
of an avalanche or the hum OF bee.
The sound passing to thc inner door of
the outside ear hats until another mech
anism, Divine mechanism, pas SEES it
on by the bonclcts of the middle ear
and coming to the inner door of that
second ear the sound has no power to
come. further until another Divine mech
anism passes it on through into the
inner ear, and then the sound comes to
the rail track of the brain branchlet,
and rolls on and on until it comes to
sensation, and there the curtain drops,
and hundred gates shut, and the voice
of God seems TO say to all human in
spection: Thus far and no farther"
In this vestibulc of the palace of the
soul, how many kings of thought, of
medicine, of physiology, have done
penance of lifelong study and got no
further than the vestibule Mysterious
home of reverberation and echo. Grand
central depot of sound. Headquarters
to which there come quick dispatches,
part the way by cartillages, part the
way by air, part the way by bone, part
the way by nerve-the slowest dispatch
plunging into the ear at the speed of
/ 900 feet a second. Small instrument
Of music on which is played all the
music you ever heard, from the gran
deurs of an August thunderstorm to the
softest breathings of flute. Small in
strument of music, only quarter of an
inch of surface and the thinness of one
two hundred ana fiftieth part of an
inch and that thinness divided into
three layers. In that ear musical staff,
lines, spaces, bar and rest A bridge
leading from the outside natural world
to the inside spiritual world; we see
ing the abutment at this end OF the
bridge, but the fog of an unified mys-
terry hiding the abItment on the other
end of the bridge. Whispering gallery
of the soul. The human voice is Gods
eulogy the ear That voice capable of
producing 7,59a 1856 Oi4, AS sounds, and
all that variety made, not for the re-
galement OF beast or bird bat for the
human ear.
About Is years ago, in Venice, lay
down in death one whom many con-
sidered the greatest musical composer
of the century. Struggling on up from
six years of age when he was left faith
erless, Wagner rose through the oblo-
guy of the world, and ofttimes all ma
tions seemingly against him, until he
gained the favor of a king, and won
the enthusiasm Of the opera houses of