The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-18

| ers. some of them in the battle leaving
| their blood ON the keynotes and the mus
| cal scores. Great battle fought for the ear
fought with baton, with organ-piDe. with
! trumpet with cornet-piston, with all
| ivory and brazen and silver and golden
| weapons of the orchestra; royal theater
and cathedral and academy of music the
| fortresses for the contest for the ear. Eng
land and Egypt fought for the supremacy
| of the Suez Canal, and the Spartans and
| the Pcrsians fought for the defile at Their
! mopylae. but the musicians of all ages
| have fought for the mastery of the audi
tory canal and the detile of the immortal
soul and the Thermopylae of struggling
| cadences.
| For the conquest of the ear Hadyn strug-
| gied on up from the garnet where he had
neither fire nor food, on and on until UNI
| der the too great nervous strain of hear
ing his own oratorio of the Creation" per-
formed he was carried out to die, but leav-
ing as his legacy to the world 1lS sympho-
MES, 1863 pieces for the baritone, 10 masses,
oratorios, ~ German and Italian songs,
SO canons, 365 English and Scotch songs
with accompaniment, and ,536 pages OF IL
bretti. All that TO capture the gate of the
body that swings in from the tympanum
to the snail SHELF lying on the beach of
the ocean of the immortal soul.
To conquer the ear. Handel struggled on
from the time when has father would
not let him go to school lest he learn the
gamut and become a musician, and from
the time when he' was allowed in the or
gan loft just to play after the audience
had left, TO the time when he left to all
nations his unparalleled oratorios of
Esther" Deborah" Sampson" "Jeph-
thah,' Judas Maccabeus, 'Israel in
Egypt, "and the Messiah" the soul of the
great German composer still weeping in
the Dead March of our great obsequies
and triumphing in the raptures of every
Easter morn.
To conquer the ear and take this gate
of the immortal soul, Schubert composed
his great "Serenade writing the slaves
of the music on the bill of fare in a res
taurant, and went on until he could leave
as a legacy to the world over a thousand
magnificent compositions in music. To con
quer the ear and take this gate of the
souls castle Mozart struggled on through
poverty until he came to pauper's grave,
and one chilly, wet afternoon the body of
him who gave to the world the Requiem
and the "G-minor Symphony" was crunch
ed In on the top of two other paupers into
a grave which to this day is epitaphless.
For the ear everything mellifiuous, from
the birth hour when our earth
was wrapped in swaddling clothes
of Light and serenaded by
other worlds, from the time when
Jubal thrummed the first harp and press
ed a key of the first organ down TO the
music of this Sabbath day. Yea. for the
ear the coming overtures of heaven. for
whatever other part of the body may he
left in the dust, the ear, we know is to
come to celestial life; otherwise why the
'harpers harping with their harps?" For
the ear, carol Of lark and whistle of quail,
and chirp of cricket, and ashd of cas-
cade, and roar of tides oceanic, and dox-
ology of worshpful assembly and minis
trelsy, cherubic. seraphic, and archangelic.
For the ear all Pandean pipes, all flutes.
all clarionets, all hautboys, all bassoons,
all bells, and all organs-Luzerne and
Westminster Abbey and F'reyburg and
Berlin, and all the organ pipes set across
Christendom. the great Giants Causeway.
for the monarchs of music to pass over.
For the ear, all chimes. all tickings of
chronometers, all anthems, all dirges. all
glees, all chorusses, all lullabie all orches-
tration. Oh. the ear the God honored ear.
grooved with divine sculpture and poised
with divine gracefulness and upholstered
with curtains of divine embroidery. and
eorrfdored by divine carpentry. and pil-
Jared with divine architecture, and CHS
elled In bone of divine masonry, and con-
quered by professions of divine marshall
ing. The ear! A perpetual point of in
point Of apostrophe appealing to God.
None but God could plan it. None bnt
Goa could build it, None but God could
work IL. None but God could keep II.
None but God could understand It. None
out God could explain it, Oh the won
ders of the human ear
How surprisingly sacred the human ear
You had better be careful how Won Iat
the sound of blasphemy or uncleannAss
step into that holy of holes The Bible
says that in the ancient temple the priest
was set apart by the putting of the MOOD
OF a ram on the tip of the ear, the right
ear or the priest But, my friends we
need all of us to have the sacred touch
OF ordination on the hanging lobe OF both
ears, ana on the arches of the ears, en-
the Eustachian tube of the ear on the
mastoid cells OF the ear. on the tvmnanic
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 an
dltory nerve and rolls on down into the
unfathomable depths of the immortal soul
me Bible speaks of dull ears" and of
uncircumcised ears" and of Itching
ears, and of 'rebellious ears" and of
open ears, and of those who have all
the organs of hearing and yet who seem
to be deaf for 1t cries to them: ''FIe that
hath ears to hear LEI him hear"
TO show how much Christ thought of
the human ear he one day met a man
who was deaf, came up to him and put a
nnger of the right hand into the orihce
OF the left ear of the patient and put a
finger of the left hand into the orifice of
the right ear of the patient and agitared
the tympanum, and startled the bonelets
and with voice that rang clear through
into the mans soul, cried: "Ephphathar'
and the polyphoid growths gave way. and
the lniiamed auricle cooled off, and that
man, who had not heard a sound for
many years, that night heard the wash
of the waves of Galilee{ against the lime
stone shelving. 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 external ear for Malchus correspond
ing with the middle ear and the internal
ear that no sword could clip away
And to show what God thinks of n @
ear we are informed of the fact that in
the millennial June which shall roseate
all the earth, the ears of the deaf will be
unstopped, all the vascular growths gone
-all reformation of the listening organ
cured, corrected, changed Every being
on earth Will have hearing apparatus as