The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-22

layers. IN JnHJ ear tuuSlchl bJdu, lines,
spaces, bar and rest. A bridge leading
from the outside natural world to the
inside spiritual world; we seeing the
abutment at this end of the bridge,
but the fog of an unified mystery
hiding the abutment on the other end
of the bridge. Whispering gallery of
the soul. The human voice is Gods
eulogy the ear. That voice capable of
producing seventeen trillion, FIVE hun.
dred and eighty-siN million. forty-four
thousand, four hundred and fifteen
sounds, and all that variety made, not
for the replacement of beast or bird,
but for the human ear.
About Is years ago, in Venice, lay
down in death one whom many con-
sidered the greatest musical composer
of the century. Struggling on up from
six years of age when he was left
fatherless, Wagner rose through the
obloquy of the world and ofttimes all
nations seemingly against him, until
he gained the favor of king, and won
the enthusiasm of the opera houses of
Europe and America. Struggling all
the way on to 20 years of age, to con-
quer the worlds ear. In that same at
tempt to master the human ear and gain
supremacy over this gate of the immor-
tai soul, great battles were fought by
Mozart, Gluck and Weber, and by
Beethoven and Meyerbeer, by Rossini
and all the roll of German and Ital-
ians and French composers, some of
them in the battle leaving their blood
on the keynotes and the musical
scores. Great battle fought for the
ear-fought with baton, with organ
pipe, with trumpet, with cornet-a-
piston, with all ivory and brazen and
silver and golden weapons of the or
chestra; royal theater and cathedral
and academy of music the fortresses
for the contest for the ear. England
and Egypt fought for the supremacy
of the Suez canal, and the Spartans
and the Persians fought for the defile
at Thermopyiae, but the musicians of
all ages have fought for the mastery
of the auditory canal and the defile of
the immortal soul and the Thermopy-
lac of struggling cadences
For the ear everything mellihuous,
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 key of the
first organ down to the music of this
Sabbath day. Yea, for the ear the
coming overtures of Heaven, for what
ever other part of the body may be
left in the dust, the ear, we know, is
to come to celestial life; otherwise,
why the "harpers harping with their
harps?" For the ear, carol of lark,
and whistle of quail, the chirp
of cricket, and dash of cascade,
and roar of tides oceanic, and
doxology of worshipful assembly
and minstrelsy, cherubic seraphio
and archaugelic. For the ear all Pan
dean pipes, all flutes, all clarinets, all
hautboys, all bassoons, and all organs
-LuZerene and Westminster Abbey,
and Freyburg, and Berlin, and all the
organ pipes set across Christendom,
the great Giants Causeway for the
monarchs of music to pass over. For
the ear, all chimes, all tickings of
chronometers, all anthems, all dirges,
all glees all choruses, all lullabies, all
orchestration. Oh, the ear, God
NiC HlpONth WIN
divine sculpture and poised with
divine gracefulness and uphol-
stored with curtains of divine en-
broidery, and corridored by divine car
pentry, and pillared with divine archi-
lecture, and chiselled in bone of divine
masonry, and conquered by professions
of divine marshalling. The ear! A
perpetual point of Interrogation, ask.
ing How? a perpetual point of apos.
trophe appe aling 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 understand it.
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 holes.
The Bible says that in the ancient
temple 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 al
of us to have the sacred touch or 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 tympanic cavity o.
the ear, and on everything 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 depth of the immor
tai soul The Bible speaks of "dul
ears" and of "uncircumsized ears,
and of Itching ears" and of l''rebell
ious ears" and of "open ears" and o.
those who have all the organs of hear
ing and yet who seem to be deaf, tol
it cries to them: HE that hath ears u
hear, let him hear
To show how much Christ thought
of the human ear, He one day met 4
man who was deaf, came up to him
and put finger of the right hand into
the orifice of the right ear of the pa
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