The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-26

OF looking Tor him close by and I'm u
own organism. We go UP into the OBJ
~servatory and look through the tele-
scope and see God In Jupiter. and God
ia Saturn. and God In Mars. but We
could see more OF him through the MI
croscope of an aurist- No king Is sat
ished with only n residence. and In
France IL has beer ST. Cloud and Yer
sailles and the TuiIerfes. and in Great
Britain IL has been Windsor and Bal
moral and Osborne. A ruler does not
always prefer the larger. The king %
earth and HEAVIER may have larger cas-
ties and greater palaces. but / do not
think there Is any N more curiously
wrought than the human ear. The
heaven Of heavens cannot contain him.
and Yet he says he finds Don tn dwell
I'm n contrite heart. and I think In n
Christian ear.
We hav been looking for God In the
infinite; let us look for him in the inf
Intestinal. God walking in the corridor
OF the ear. God sitting In the gallery
OF the human ear. God speaking along
the auditory 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 encaupIng under the curtains OF
membrane. ala OF the Almighty In
the human ear. The rider on the white
horse OF the Apocalypse thrusting his
foot into the loop bone which the ply
siologist has been pleased to call stir
rup OF the ear.
Are you ready now for the question
OF my textT Have you the endurance
to bear Its overwhelming suggestive
ness? VIII you take hold OF some pill
lar ambulance you self under the SEM
iomnipotent stroker He that planted
the ear. shall he not hear" Shall the
God who gives us the apparatus with
which we hon tina on,rrg 80 49, u-a~1e
himself not be able TO catch up song
and groan and blasphemy and wor-
ship? Does he not give US a faculty
which he has not himself? Drs. wilf
and Gruber and Toynbee invented tho
acoumeter and other trum by
which to measure and examine the ear
and do these instruments know more
than the doctors who mad them? He
that planted the ear, shall he not hear
Jupiter OF Crede was always represent
ed in s~tatuary and painting as without
ears. suggesting the idea tina he did
not want TO be bothered with the af-
fairs OF the world. But our God has
ears. His ears are open TO their cry"
The Bible intimates that two workmen
on Saturday night do not get their
wages. Their complaint instantly
strikes the ear OF God. The cry OF
those that reaped hath entered the ears
OF the Lord OF Saboth." 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
think God could near her? Yes. just
as easily as when Is years & she was
sick with scarlet fever and her mother
heard her when at midnight she asked
for a drink OF water. He that .s,k
the ear. h he not hear?"
HOW GOD HEARS PRAYERS. 4
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 cleaf over. In
more than one place I',iah said he
bowed down his ear. IN more than
one place the psalmist said he inclined
his ear. by which : corne to believe
thai God puts his ear SO closely down
70 your Ups INIT .le can hear your
faintest whisper. 1t is not God away
off yonder. 1t IS God away down here
close up, so close up that When von
pray GO MN it is not more , whisnar
man d F,ss. All, yes. s..e hears the cap
MAJ. stsn ana me plash OF the or
tn year and the dying ~syllables OF
81 sr-.pwrecked sailor driven on the
Tries and the infants Now lay
me down to sleep as distinctly as he
hears the fortissimo OF brazen bands
in the Dusseldorf festival. as clearly
as he hears the salvo OF artillery when
the Is squares OF English 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 o have heard 1t, and
just as sharp a cry OF pain I once
heard while passing through Bellevue
hospital 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
worship. the blasphemX~ 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 100 years from now. that in
strument turned, the very words you
now utter h the very tone OF your
voice Will be reproduced. Amazing
monograph! But more wonderful IL
Gods power to hold, - retain. All.
what delightful encouragement for our
prayers! What an awful fright for our
hard speeches, What assurance OF
warm hearted sympathy for all our
griefs. He that planted the ear.
shall he not hear?"
Better TAX that organ away from all
sin. Better put 1t under the best sound
from all Islander, from all innuendo.
from all bad influence Of evil associa-
ton. Better put IL to school. to church
to philharmonic. Better put that ear
under the blessed touch Of Christian
~hymnology. Better consecrate II for
time and eternity for him who planted
the ear. Rousseau. the inhdei. 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 II was
80 sweet he asked an angel what IL
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 Rousseau Weakened and got UP
in the midnight, and as well as he
could wrote dow the strains Of music
that he had heard in the wonderful
time called THE Songs of the Redeem
ed" God grant that IL may not be
to you and to me an infdel dream. but
a glorious reality. When We come to
tho piUht ~ dootb and ua lie Anun xn