Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-04-23

/ when the apostle Heter BOC Mau auQ
with one slash of his sword dropped the
ear of Malchus into the dust Christ Gre
ated a new external ear for Malchus cor
responding with the middle ear and the
internal ear that no sword could clip
away
And to show what God thinks of the
ear we arc informed of the fact that i'll
the millennial June which shall roseate
all the earth, the ears of the deaf will
he unstopped, all the vascular growths
gone-all reformation of the listening
organ cured. corrected, changed. Every
being on Garth will have hearing ap-
paratus as perfect as God knows how to
make it, and all the ears will be ready
for that great symphony in which all
the musical instruments of the earth
shall play the accompaniment, nations
of earth and empires of heaven min
Cling their voices together with the
deep bass of the sea- and the alto of the
woods, and the tenor of winds, and
the baritone of the thunder. "Hallelu-
iah !" surging up meeting the "Hallelu-
iah l'' descending.
God In Ourselves.
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 90 up into the observa-
tory and look through the telescope and
see God in Jupiter. and God in Saturn,
and God in Mars, but we could see moro
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 TUT
lories, and in Great Britain it has been
Windsor and Balmoral and Osborne. \
ruler does not always prefer the larger.
The King of Garth and heaven may have
larger castles and greater palaces, but l
do not think there is any one more Curl
ously wrought than the human ear.
The heaven of heavens cannot contain
him, and yet he says he finds room to
dwell in contrite heart, and think III
a Christian ear.
We have been looking for God in tho
infinite; let US look for him in the inf
Intestinal God walking the corridor of
the ear, God sitting i'll the gallery of the
human ear, God speaking along the au-
ditory nerve of the ear, God dwelling
in the ear to hear that which comes
from the outside and so near tho brain
and the soul ho can hear all that tran
spires there. The Lord of hosts encamp-
ing under the curtains Of membrane.
Palace of the Almighty i'll the human
ear. The rider on the white horse of
the Apocalypse thrusting his foot into
the loop OF bone which the Psychologist
has been pleased to call the stirrup of
the ear.
Are you ready now for the question
of my text? Have you the endurance to
bear its overwhelming suggestiveness?
Will you take hold of some pillar and
balance yourself under the semiomnipo-
tent stroke? Flo that planted the ear,
shall he not hear?'' Shall the God who
gives Us TIC apparatus with which we
hear the sounds of the world himself
not be able to catch up song and groan
and blasphemy and worship? Does he
give us faculty which he has not him
self: Drs Wild and Gruber and Toyn-
bee invented the acoumeter and other
instruments Ey which to measure and
examine the ear, and do these instru-
ments know more than the doctors who
made them? "He that planted the ear,
shall he not hear?' Jupiter of Creole
was always represented in statuary and
painting as without ears, suggesting the
idea that he did not want to be bother
ed with the affairs Of the world. But
our God has ears. Ellis ears are open to
their cry. - The Bible intimates that
two workmen Oh Saturday night do not
got their wages. Their complaint in
stantly strikes the ear of God, 1.-THE cry
of those that reaped hath entered the
ears of the Lord of Sabaoth." Did God
hear that poor girl last night as she
threw herself on the prison bunk in the
city dungeon and cried in the midnight,
Good have mercy?" Do you really
think God could hear her? Yes, just as
easily as when 10 years ago she was sick
with scarlet fever and her mother heard
her when at midnight she asked for a
drink of water. "He that planted the
ear, shall he not hear?'
How God Hears Prayers.
When soul prays, God does not sit
bolt upright until tho prayer travels i'm
mensity and climbs to his ear. The BIZ
BILE says he bends clear over. In more
than one place Isaiah said be bowed
down his ear. In more than one place
the psalmist said he inclined his ear by
which come to believe that God puts
his ear SO closely down to your lips that
he can hear your faintest whisper. 1t is
not God away off up yonder. 1t is God
away down here, close up, so close up
that when you pray to him it is not
more whisper than kiss. Alb, yes, he
hears the captives sigh and the plash OF
+, the orphans tear and the dying sylla-
! bles of the shipwreclsed sailor driven on
The skerries and the infants "Now
ay me down to sleep" as distinctly as
Ae hears the fortissimo of brazen bands
IN the Dusseldorf festival. as easily as
ne hears the snlvo of artillery when the
IS squares of English troops open all
their batteries at once at Waterloo. lie
that planted the ear can hear.
Just as sometimes an enhancing
strain of music will linger in your cars
for days after you have heard it, and
just as sharp cry Of pain I 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,
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 monograph. which
holds not only the words you utter, but
the very tones of your voice, SO that
100 years from now, that instrument
turned, the very words you now utter
onJ tLo vary tome of vour yOir3 will be