The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-18

cence. and in France it has been ST Cloud
and Versailles and the Tuileries. and in
Great Britain IL has been Windsor and
Balmoral and Osborne. A ruler does not
always prefer the larger. The King of
earth and heaven may have larger castles
I and greater palaces but I do not think
there IS any one more curiously wrought
than the human ear. The heaven OF heav-
ems cannot contain him. and yet he says
he finds room TO dwell in a contrite heart,
and, think, in n Christian ear.
We have been looking for God in the
infinite-let us look for him In the inhnl-
testimal God walking in the corridor of
the ear, God sitting in the gallery of the
human ear, God speaking along the audi
| tory nerve of the ear, God dwelling in the
ear TO hear that which comes from the
outside, and so near the brain and the
soul he can hear all that transpires there.
The Lord of hosts encamping under the
curtains of membrane Palace of the
! Almighty in the human ear. The rider on
the white horse of the Apocalypse thrust
Ing his foot into the loop of the 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?
win you take hold of some pillar and
balance yourself under the sem-omni-
| potent stroke? He that planted the ear,
shall he not hear?" Shall the God who
gives us the 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
| a faculty which he has not himself? Drs.
] Wild and Bruber and Toynbee invented
| the acoumeter and other instruments by
! which to measure and examine the ear,
| and do these instruments know more
than the doctors who made them? He
/ that planted the ear, shall he not hear?"
| Jupiter of Crede was always represented
! In statuary and painting as without ears
! suggesting the idea that he did not want
| to be bothered with the affairs of the
world But our God has ears. His ears
/ are open to their cry" The Bible intl-
| mates that two workmen on Saturday
night do not get their wages. Their com
| plant Instantly strikes the ear of Cod
1.-THE cry of those that reaped hath en-
| tered the ears of the Lord of Sabbaoth
/ Did God hear that poor girl last night as
! she threw herself on the prison bunk in
| the clay dungeon and cried in the mid
night: God have mercy?' Do you re-
ally think God could hear her? Yes, just
as easily as when fifteen years ago she
was sick with scarlet fever, and her
mother heard her when at midnight she
asked for drink of water He that
| planted the ear. shall he not hear?"
| When a soul prays, God does not sit
| bolt upright until the prayer travels i'm
| mensity 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 his ear by which I 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. 1t is not more whisper than
| kiss. All! yes, he hears the captive's sigh
| and the plash of the orphans tear, and
/ the dying syllables of the shipwrecked
| sailor driven on the Skerries and the in
! fant's, Now I 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 thirteen squares of English
| troops open all their batteries al once at
| Waterloo. He that planted the ear can
| hear.
| Just as sometimes an enhancing strain
Of music will linger in your ears for days
/ after you have heard 1t, and Just as a
| sharp cry of pain l once heard while pass
ing through Bellevue Hospital chung to my
| ear for weeks, and just a horrid bias
| phemy In the street sometimes haunts
! ones ears for days, so God not only hears,
! but holds the songs the prayers. the
\ groans, the worship 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
| a hundred years from now that instru-
/ ment turned, the very words YOU now ut
! ter and the very tone of your voice will
| be reproduced. Amazing monograph! But
! more wonderful Is Gods power to hold, to
! retain. All! what delightful encourage
ment for our prayers. What an awful
fright for our hard speeches. What as
! surance of warm-hearted sympathy for
| all our griefs HE that planted the ear
| shall he not hear?"
Better take that organ away from all
| sin. Better put it under the best sound
| Better take ii away from all gossip from
| all SANDER from all innuendo from all
| bad influence of evil association. Better
| put IT to school, to church, to philhar-
monte. Better put that ear under the
| blessed touch of Christian hymnology
Better eonsecrate it for time and eternity
| to him who planted the ear Rousseau.
| the infidel, fell asleep amid his sceptical
| manuscripts lying all around the room.
/ and In his dream he entered heaven and
heard the song of the worshippers, and Il
was so sweet he asked an angel what II
meant. The angel said: This is the
| Paradise of God, and the song YOU hear
| Is the anthem of the. redeemed Under
another roll of the celestial music Rous-
| seau Weakened and got up in the midnight
! and, as well as he could, wrote down the
| strains of the music that he had heard
in the wonderful tune called THE Songs
of the Redeemed" God grant that 1t NAV
not be to you and to me an infdel dream
but glorious reality. When we come to
the night of death and we lie down to our
last sleep, may our ears really be Weakened
by the canticles of the heavenly temple.
and the songs and the anthems and the
carols and the doxologies that shall climb
the musical ladder of that heavenly
gamut.