The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-04-29

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 a hear
ing apparatus as perfect as God knows
how to make it, and 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:
| ''Alleluiahi' surging up, meeting the
| 'Alleluiah!" descending.
! Oh, yes, my friends, we have been
| looking for God too far away instead of
looking for Him close by and in our
own organism. We go up into the OBJ
| servatory and look through the tel
escope and see God in Jupiter, and God
| in Saturn, and God in Mars, but we
could see more of Him through the
microscope of an aurist. No king is
satisfied with only one residence,
| and in France it has been
| st. Cloud and Versailles and the
! Tuileries, and in Great Britain it has
| been Windsor and Balmoral and Os-
: borne. A ruler does not always prefer
| the larger. The King of earth and
/ Heaven may have larger castles and
/ greater palaces, but l do not think
| there is any one more curiouSly
wrought than the human ear. The
| Heaven of Heavens can not contain
| Him, and yet He says He finds room to
| dwell in contrite heart, and l think,
in Christian ear.
| Are you now ready for the question
/ of my text? Have you the endurance
to bear its overwhelming suggestive
ness? VIII you take hold of some pill
lar and balance yourself under the
Semi-omnipotent stroke? He that
| planted the ear. shall He not hear?"
Shall the God who gives us the appa-
ratus with which we hear the Ounds
of the world, Himself not be able
to catch up song and groan and
blasphemy and worship? Doe s
He give us a faculty which He
has not himself? Doctors Wild and
| Gruber 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 Creole 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 cars. His ears are open to
their cry" The Bible intimates that
two workmen on Saturday night do
not get their wages Their com plant
instantly strikes the ear of God: THE
cry of those that reaped hath entered
the ears of the Lord of Sabbaoth." Did
God hear that p oOr girl last night as
she threw herself on the prison bunk
in the city dungeon and cried in the
midnight: God have mercy?" Do
you really think God could hear her?
Yes, just as easily as when, Is 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
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
His ear, by which | come to believe
that God puts His ear so close down to
your lips that He can hear your faint
est whisper. 1t is not God away off up
yonder, it is God away down
here, close up, SO close up that
when .you pray to Him, it is not
more a whisper than a kiss. All, yes,
lie hears the captive's sigh and the
plash of the orphans tear, and the dy-
ing syllables of the shipwreclzed sailor
driven on the Skerries, and the in
fant's, Now | lay me down to Sleep"
as distinctly as He hears the fortissimo
of brazen bands in the Dusseldorf fes-
tival, as easily as He hears the salvo of
artillery when the - squares of En-
glish troops open all their batteries at
once at Waterloo. He that planted the
ear can hear.
Just as sometimes an embracing
strain of music will linger in your ears
for days after you have heard it, and
just as a sharp cry of pain L once heard
while passing through Bellevue hospi-
tai chung 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 sll
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
utter and the very tone of your voice
will be reproduced. Amazing phono-
graph! But more wonderful is Gods
power to hold, to retain. All! what
delightful encouragement for our pray
crs. 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 all
sin. Better put it under the best sound
Better take it away from all gossip,
from all SANDER, from all innuendO,
from all bad intiu cnce 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 for
time and eternity to Him who planted
the ear. Rousseau, the inf1del, 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 it
meant. The angel said: This is the