The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-04-18
THE WONDROUS EAR,
GODS WISDOM DISPLAYED IN ITS
CONSTRUCTION. ..ss=

Contribution. ,,4.saSse:---5=;
Rev. DR.. Talmage Says the Sense Of Hea,
ing Is Gods Greatest Gift-The Gatewa
to the Soul - Symphony of the Milleu
NAL June.
Copyright. 1893, by American Press Asso
citation.
WASHINGTON, April FIN this dis
course Dr. Talmage sets forth the goodnes
and wisdom Of God In the construction O
the human ear and extols music and en-
courages prayer; text, Psalms xciy, 8. "H
that planted the ear, shall he not heart"
Architecture Is one of the most fasoinat
ing arts, and the study of Egyptian, Gre
clan, Etruscan, Roman, byzantine, Moor
ish, Renaissance styles Of building hal
been to many a man sublime life work
Lincoln and York cathedrals, St. Paul.
and st. Peters and arch of Titus anG
Theban temple and Alhambra and Par
tbenon are tho monuments to the genius
of those who built them. But more won
derful than any arch they ever lifted OF
any transept window they ever illumined
or any Corinthian column they ever crown.
cd or any Gothic cloister they ever elab.
grated is tho human ear.
Among tho most skillful and assiduous
psychologists Of our time have been those
who have given their time to the examina-
ton of the ear and the study of its arches,
Its walls, its floor, its canals, it aquod ucts,
its galleries, Its intr;oacies, its convolu-
lions, its divine machinery, and yot it
will take another thousand yenrs before
the world comes to any adequate apprecia.
ton of what God did when he planned and
executed the infinite and oyermastering
architecture Of the human ear. The most
of 1t is invisible, and the microscope breaks
down in the attempt at exploration. The
cartilage which we call the ear is only the
storm door of the great temple clear down
out Of sight, next door to the immortal
soul.
Such scientists as Helmholtz and Conte
and De Blainville and Rank and Buck
have attempted to walk the Appian way
of the human car, but the mysterious path
way has never been fully trodden but by
two feet-tho foot Of sound and the foot
OF God. Three ears on each side the head
tho external car, the middle ear, the in
ternal csr-but all connected by most won.
derfhl telegraphy.
A Rock Of Strength.
The external ear In all ages adorned by
precious stones or precious metals. The
temple of Jerusalem partly built by the
contribution of earrings, and Homer In the
"lliad" speaks of Hera, "the three bright
drops, her glittering gems suspended from
the ear, and many of the adornments of
modern times were only copies of her ear
jewels found in Pompeiian museum and
Etruscan vase. But while tho outer ear
may DO adorned by human art, the middle
aud the internal car arc adorned and gar
nished only by the hand of the Lord AL
mighty. The stroke of a key of yonder
organ sets tho air vibrating, and the OK
ternal car catches the undulating sound
and passes it OH through tho bonelets of
the middle ear to tho internal car, and the
8, 900 fibers of tho human brain take up
the vibration and roll the sound Oh into
the soul. Tho hidden machinery of the
car by psychologists called by the names
of things familiar to us, like the hammer
to strike; like the anvil. somo-
thing to DO smitten; like tho strrup of
tho saddle with which We mount the
steod; like the drum, beaten in the march;
like tho harpstrings. to DO swept with mu-
sic. Coiled like snail SHE'LL" by which
ono OF the innermost passages of the ear
Is actually called; like a stairway, the
sound to ascend; like bent tube of
heating apparatus, taking that which en-
ters round and round; like labyrinth
with wonderful passages into which the
hfI h ant ,lyyt tn
ment. muscle contracting when the
noise is too loud, just as tho pupil of the
,yo contracts when the light is too glar-
ng. Tho external car is defended by wax
which with Its bitterness discourages in
SETTLE invasion. The internal ear imbed-
led in by what is far the hardest bone of
The human system, very rock of strength
md defiance.
Tho car 60 strange q CONTINUANCE that by |
ho estimate of ono scientist it can catch
he sound Of 70, 700 vibrations in a second.
Tho outer car taking in all kinds of sound,
thethor thu crash of an avalanche or tho
lum Of beo. The sound passing to the
nner door of tho outside car halts until
nothor mechanism, divine mechanism,
asses 1t on by tho bonelets of the middle
ar, and, coming to the inner door of that
econd ear, the sound has no power to
ONO farther until another divine mechan-
SIN passes it on through into the inner
ar, and then the sound comes to the rail
rack Of the brain branchlet and rolls on
nj on until it comes to sensation, and
hero tho curtain drops, and hundred
atos shut, and tho voice of God seems to
ny to al! human inspection, "Thus far
nd no farther"
ycstibule of the Soul.
In this yestihule Of tho palace of tho
,ul how many kings of thought, of med
inc, of physiology, have done penance of
felony study and got no farther than The
,stiDulo! Mysterious home of rcverbera-
on and echo. Grand Central depot of
'und. Headquarters to which there come
uick dispatches, part the way by carti-
gcs, part tho way by air. part tho way
: bone, part the way by nerve-the slow
t dispatch plunging into the ear at the
iced of 1000 feet second. Small in
rument of music on which is played all
e music you ever heard, from the gran
urs of an August thunderstorm to the
fest breathngs of u flute. Small in
of music only a quarter Of an
oh of surface and tho tbinness of one
70 hundred and iftieth part of an inch
ID that thinncss divided into three lay
$. In that car musical staff, lines,
aces, bar and rest. A bridge leading
in the outside natural world to tho in I
10 spiritual world; VIC seeing tho abut-
ont at this end tho bridge, but the fog
an unified mystery hiding the abut-
ant OIL the other end tho hriduo Whis-