The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-04-20

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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 of the
Creation" performed, he was carried
out to die, but leaving as his legacy to
the world 11s symphonies, 1853 pieces for
the baritone, Is masses, 8 oratorios, AZ
German and Italian songs, SO canons,
S65 English and Scotch songs with ac-
compartment, and I, 1886 pages of libret-
ii. All that to capture the gate of the
body that swings in from the tympanum
to the "snail she'll" lying on the beach
of the ocean of the immortal soul.
To conquer the ear, Handel struggled
on from the time when his father would
not let him go to school lest he learn
the gamut and become musician, and
from the time when he was allowed in
the organ loft just to play after the
audience had left, to the time when he
left to all nations his unparalleled ora
torios of Esther" Deborah" "Sam-
son, "Jephthah," Judas Maccabeus,"
Israel in Egypt" and "The Messiah"
the soul of the great German composer
still weeping in the Dead March of our
great obsequies and triumphing in the
raptures of every Easter morn.
To conquer the ear and take this gate
of the immortal soul, Schubert COM
posed his great "Serenade," writing
the slaves of the music on the bill of
fare in restaurant, and went on until
he could leave as a legacy to the world
over a thousand magnificent compost
tions in music. To conquer the ear and
take this gate of the souls castle, Mo
zart struggled on through poverty un-
til he came to pauper's grave, and
one chilly, wet afternoon the body of
him who gave to the world the IRE
QUEEN" and the "G-minor Symphony"
was crunched in on the top of two
other paupers into grave which to
this day is epitaphless
For the ear everything mellifuous,
from the birth hour when our earth
was wrapped in swaddling clothes of
light and serenaded by other worlds,
from the time when Jubal thrummed
the first harp and pressed a key of the
first organ down to the music of this
Sabbath day. Yea, for the ear the com
ing overtures of Heaven, for whatever
part of the body may be left in the
dust, the ear, we know, is to come to
celestial life; otherwise, why the char
pers harping with their harps?" For
the ear, carol of lark and whistle of
quail, and chirp of cricket, and dash of
cascade, and roar of tides oceanic, and
doxology of worshipful assembly and
minstrelsy, cherubic, seraphic and
archangelic. For the ear all Pandean
pipes, all flutes all clarionets, all haut-
boys, all bassoons, all bells, and
all organs-LuzeI and Westmin-
ster Abbey. and Freyburg, and Ber-
lin, and all the organ pipes set across
Christendom, the great giants cause
way for the monarchs of music to pass
over. For the ear, all chimes, all tick
lings of chronometers, all anthems, all
dirges, all glees, all choruses, all lula
bies, all orchestration. Oh, the ear,
the God-honored ear, grooved with di-
vine sculpture and poised with divine
gracefulness and upholstered with cur.
tains of divine embroidery, and corri-
dored by divine carpentry, and pillared
with divine architecture, and chiseled
in bone and divine masonry, and con-
quered by professions of divine mar
shaling. The ear! A perpetual point
of Interrogation, asking How? a per-
petual point of apostrophe appealing
to God. None but God could plan it,
None but God could build it. None
but God could work it. None but God
could keep it. None but God could un-
derstandit. 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 or un-
cleanness step into that holy of holies.
The Bible says that in the ancient tenn
pie the priest was set apart by the
putting of the blood of a 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 ordi-
nation 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 tym-
panic cavity of the ear, and on every
thing from the outside rim of the out
side ear clear in to the point where
sound steps off the auditory nerve and
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depths of the immortal soul. The
Bible speaks of dull ears" and of
''uncircumcised ears" and of etching
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 a finger of the right hand into the
orifice of the left ear of the patient,
and put finger of the left hand into
the orfce of the right ear of the pa
tient, and agitated the tympanum, and
startled the bonelets, and with voice
that rang clear through into the mans
soul, cried: "Ephphathaw and the
polyphoid growths gave way, and the
infamed 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 apostle Peter got mad and
with one slash of his sword dronned