The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-05-26
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ing how? perpetual point of apos-
trophe appealing to God. None but
God could plan it. None but God could
build it. None but God could work 1T.
None but God could keep it. None but
God could understand it. None but
God could explain it, Oh, the wonders
of the human ear.
How surprisingly sacred the human
ear. You had better be careful how
you let the sound of blasphemy OF un-
cleanness step into that holy of holies.
The Bible says that in the ancient tenn
pie the priest was set apart by the put
ting of the blood of u 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 ordination
on the hanging lobe of both
ears, and on the arches of
the cars, 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 unfathonable depth of the immor-
tai soul. The Bible speaks of dull
ears, and Of ''uncircumcisel 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 it 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 of the right hand into the
orifice of the left ear of the patient,
and put finger of the left hand into
the right ear of the patient, and agi-
tated the tympanum, and started the
bonelets, and with voice that rang
clear through the mans soul cried:
''Ephphatha!' and the polyphoid
growths gave way and the infamed
auricle cooled off, and that man, who
had not heard sound for many years,
that night heard the wash of the waves
of Galilee against the limestone shelv-
ing. 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 ex-
ternal ear 70: Malchus corresponding
with the middle ear and the internal
ear that no sword could clip away.
And to show what God thinks of the
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 growth
gone, all reformation of the listening
organ cured, corrected, changed.
Every being on earth will have hear
ing apparatus as perfect as God knows
how to make it, AMI all the ears will
be ready for that great symphony in
which all the musical instruments OF
the earth shall play the accompani-
ment, nations of earth and empires OF
Heaven mingling their voices together
| with the deep bass of the sea and the
alto of the woods, and the tenor of the
winds, and the baritone Of the thunder:
'Alleluiah!" surging up, meeting the
"Alleluiah!" descending.
Just as sometimes an entrancing
strain of music will linger in your ears
for days after you have heard it, and
just as a sharp cry of pain once heard
while passing through bellevue hospi.
tai clung 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 phonograph, which
holds not only the words you utter, but
the very tones of your voice, SO that .
hundred years from now, that instru-
ment turned, the very words you now
utter and the very tone of your voice
will be reproduced. Amazing phono-
graph. But more wonderful is God's
power to hold, to retain. All! what
delightful encouragement for our pray
ers. What an awful fright for our
hard speeches What assurance OF
warm-hearted sympathy for all our
griefs. He that planted the ear, shall
lie not hear?"
Better take that organ away from oil
sin. Better put it under the best sound.
Better take it away from all gossip,
from all slander. from all innuendo
from all bad influence of evil associa.
ton. Better put it to school, to church,
to philharmonic. Better put that ear
under the blessed touch of Christian
hymnology. Better consecrate it fol
time and eternity to Him who planted
the ear. Rousseau, the inddel, fell
asleep amid his skeptical manuscripts
lying all around the room, and in his
dream he entered Heaven and heard
the song of the worshipers, and it was
so sweet he asked an angel what i
meant The angel said: This i, the
Paradise OF God, and the song you
hear is the anthem OF the re
deemed" Under another roll o
the celestial music Rousseau wax
ened and got up in the mid
l night and, as well as he could, wrot
down the strains Of TIL. music that h
had heard in the wonderful tune calle
: 1.-THE Songs of the Redeemed Go
grant that it may not be to you and T
;. me an infdel dream, but gioriou
I reality When we come to the nigh
!, of death and we lie down to our las