The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-21


ment at this end the bridge. but the1
fog Of an untitled mystery Hiding The
abutment on the other end and III
bridge. whispering gallery OF tn
soul. The human voice is Gods 'culofy
the ear. That voice capable Of pro-
ducing 1889. .lSe. .l16 sounds. and all
that variety made. not for the rceale-
ment Of beast or bird. but for tie hu.
man ear.
About fifteen years ago. in Verice.
lay down In death one whom many
considered the greatest musical com.
poser Of the century. Struggling on
up from six years Of age. when he was
left fatherless. Wagner rose through
the obloquy Of the world. and ofttimea
all nations seemingly against him. un-
til he gained the favor Of a king and
won the enthusiasm Of the opera
houses of Europe and America. Strug-
Cling all the way on to seventy years
of age to conquer the worlds ear. In
that same attempt to master the hu-
man ear and gain supremacy over this
gate of hte immortal soul, great bat
ties were fought by Mozart. Gluck and
Weber, and by Beethoven and Meyer
beer, by Rossini and by all the roll OF
German and italian and French COM
posers, some Of them in the battle
leaving their blood on the keynotes
and the musical scores. Great battle
fought for the ear-fought with baton.
with organ pipe, with trumpet. with
cornet "a piston, with all ivory and
brazen and silver and golden weapons
Of the orchestra; royal theatre and ca
thedral and academy Of music the for
tresses for the contest for the ear.
England and Egypt fought for the su-
premacy Of the Suez Canal, and the
Spartans and the Persians fought for
the defile at Thermopylae, but the mu-
sicians Of all ages have fought for the
mastery Of the auditory canal and the
defile Of the immortal soul and the
Thermopylae Of struggling cadences.
For the conquest of the ear Haydn
struggled on up from the garret where
he had neither fire nor food, on and on
until under the too great nervous
strain Of hearing his own oratorio or
the Creation" performed, he was car
ried out to die, but leaving as his
legacy to the world 11S symphonies.
1863 pieces for the baritone. Is masses,
5 oratorios, AZ German and Italian
songs 80 canons, 365 English and
Scotch songs with accompaniment and
1886 pages of libretti. All that to cap
ture 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 and take this
gate of the immortal soul Schubert
composed his great "Serenade," writ
ing the slaves of the music on the Dill
of fare in a restaurant, and went on
until he could leave as legacy to the
world over a thousand magnificent
compositions in music. To conquer the
ear and take this gate of the immortal
souls castle Mozart struggled on
through poverty until he came to a
pauper's grave, and one chilly, wet af-
ternoon the body Of him who gave to
the world the Requiem and the &c
Minor Symphony" was crunched in on
the top of two other paupers into a
grave which to this day is epitaphless.
How surprisingly sacred the human
ear! You had better be careful how
you let the sound of blasphemy or un-
cleanness step into that holy OF holes.
The Bible says that in the ancient
temple the priest was set apart by the
putting of the blood Of ram on the
tip of the ear, the right ear of the
priest. But, my friends. we need all
of us to have the sacred touch of or
dination on the hanging lobe of both
ears, and on the arches of the ears,
on the eustachian tube 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
depths of the immortal soul. The Bible
speaks of dull ears" and Of "uncir-
cumcised 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, He
that hath ears to hear, let 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
finger on the right hand Into the
orifce OF the left ear Of the patient and
put finger Of the left hand into the
orifce Of the right ear of the patient
and agitated the tympanum. and
startled the bonelets, and with voice
that rang clear through into the mans
soul cried, "Ephthatha" and the poly
hold growths gave way. and the in
famed 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 limestone
shelving. To show how much Christ
thought Of the human ear. when the