Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-04-18

every thing 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 unfathomable
depths Of the immortal soul. The Bible
speaks Of 'sdull ears and of ouncir-
cumcised ears'' and of etching ears''
and of 'srebellious ears and of "open
ears'' and of those who have all the or
gans 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 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 a
finger of the left hand into the orifice of
the right ear of the patient and agitated
the tympanum and startled the bonelets
and, with voice that rang clear through
into the mans soul, cried, sEphpha-
tha'' and the polypoid 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 Galllee 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 dropped the
ear of Malchus into the dust Christ Gre
ated new external ear for Malchus COR
responding 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 growths
gone-all reformation of the listening
organ cured, corrected, changed. Every
being on earth will have hearing APP
paratus 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 ea~th
shall play the accompaniment, nations
of earth and empires of heaven min
Cling their voices together with the
deep bass of the sea, and the alto Of the
woods, and the tenor of winds, and
the baritone of the thunder. "Hallelu-
iah!" surging up meeting the "Hallelu-
iah!' descending.
God In Ourselves.
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 60 up into the observa-
tory and look through the telescope 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 TUT
leries, and in Great Britain it has been
Windsor and BalmoraI and Osborne. A
ruler does not always prefer the larger.
The King of earth and heaven may have
larger castles and greater palaces but
do not think there is any one more curl
ously wrought than the human ear.
The heaven of heavens cannot contain
him, and yet he says he finds room to
dwell in contrite heart, and think in
a Christian ear.
We have been looking for God in the
infinite; let us look for him in the inf
Intestinal. God walking the corridor of
the ear, God sitting in the gallery of the
human ear, God speaking along the au-
ditory nerve of the ear, God dwelling
from the outside, and SO near the brain
and the soul he can hear all that tran
spires there. The Lord of hosts encamp-
ing under the curtains of membrane.
Palace of the Almighty in the human
ear. The rider on the white horse of
the Apocalypse thrusting his foot into
the loop of 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 it's overwhelming suggestiveness?
Will you take hold of some pillar and
balance yourself under the semiomnipo-
tent 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 faculty which he has not him
self? Drs. Wild and Grnber and Toyn-
bee invented the acoumeter and other
instruments by which to measure and
examine the ear, and do these instru-
IN ents 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 bother
ed with the affairs of the world. But
our God has ears. Ellis ears are open to
their cry" The Bible intimates that
two workmen on Saturday night do not
get their wages Their complaint in
stantly strikes the ear Of God, 1.-THE cry
of those that reaped hath entered the
ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.' Did God
hear that poor 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