The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-04-18
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ear, shall he not bearf"
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| Gods Wonderful Power,
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 bis ear, by which come to be-
lieve that God puts bis ear SO closely down
to your lips that he can hear your faintest
whisper. 1t is not God away off up yon.
der; 1t Is God away down here, close I'D,
SO close up that when you pray to him 1t
is not more a whisper than kiss. Alb,
yes, no hears the captiye's sigh and the
plash of the orphans tear, and the dying
syllables Of the shipwrecked sailor driven
on the skerries, and the infants "Now l
lay me down to sleep" as distinctly as he
hears the fortissimO Of brazen bands In
the Dusseldorf festival, as easily as he
hears the salvo of artillery when the IS
squares Of English troops open all their
batteries at once at Waterloo. He that
planted the car can hear.
Just as sometimes an enhancing strain
Of music will linger in your ears for days
after you have hoard 1t, and just as sharp
cry Of pain once heard while passing
through Bellevue hospital olung tv my ear
for weeks, and just as horrid blasphemy
In the street sometimes haunts ones ears
for days, 80 God not only hears but holds
tho songs, the prayers, the groans. tho
worship, the blnsphemy. 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
the very words you now utter and tho very
tone Of your voice will be reproduced.
Amazing monograph But more won
derful Is Gods power to hold, to retain.
All, what delightful encouragement for
our prayers! What an awful fright for
our hard speechesl What assurance Of
warm hearted sympathy for all our griefsi
He that planted the ear, shall he not
hearp'
Better take that organ away from all
I'm. Better put 1t under the best sound.
Better take 1t away from all gossip, from
III Islander, from ull innuendo from all
,ad influence Of evil association. Better
,ut 1t to school, to church, to philhar.
oShFe' ASNeovA put Vuhb OdE uuutT tuo
blessed touch of Christian hymnology.
Better oOnsecrate IL for time and eternity
o him who planted the ear. Rousseau,
he infdel, fell asleep amid his skeptical
lying nil around the room,
nd in his dream he entered heaven and
card the song Of the worshipers, and 1t
vas SO sweet he asked an angel what 1t
neant The angel said, "This Is the par
disc Of God, and the song you hear is the
nthem Of the redeemed Under another
oil Of the celestial music Rousseau wax
ned and got up In the midnight and, as
'ell as he could, wrote down the strains
the music that he had heard In the
tune called 1.-THE Songs of the
'edeemed. God grant that it may not
0 to you and to mo an infldel dream, but
glorious reality. When we come to the
light Of death and We lie down to our last
eep, may our ears really be Weakened by
,e canticles of tho heavenly temple, and
,e songs and the anthems and the carols
nd the doxologies that shall climb the
usical ladder Of that heavenly gamut.