The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-18
GODS EAR OPEN TO PRAYER.
HE THAT PLANTED THE EAR,
SHALL HE NOT HEAR.

cesses-MystcriOus Home of ReNer'
beration and Echo Called the
Grand Central Depot OF sound.
Washington April lin his dis
course DR.. Talmage sets forth the good
ness and wisdom of God in The construc-
zion of the human ear and extols music
and encourages prayer. Text Psalms
$40: He that planted the ear, shall he
not bear?"
Architecture is one of the most fasoi-
mating arts, and the study of Egyptian
Grecjan. Etruscan. Roman, Byzantine
Moorish. Renaissance styles of building
has been 10 many man sublime life
work. Lincoln and York cathedrals,. St
Paurs and St. Peters, and Arch of Titus.
and Theban Temple and Alhambra and
Parthenon are the monuments TO the
genius of those who built them. But
more wonderful than any arch they ever
lifted. or any transept window they ever
illumined, or any Corinthian column
they ever crowned, or any Gothic cloister
they ever elaborated, is the human ear.
Among the most skillful and assiduous
psychologists of our time have been those
who have given their time to the exam
ination of the ear and the study
of its arches its walls, its floor, its canals,
its aqueducts, its galleries, its intricacies,
it's convolutions, its divine machinery, and
yet it win take another thousand years
before the world comes to any adequate
appreciation Of what God did when he
nit
overmastering architecture of the human
ear. The most of il is invisible, and the
microscope breaks down in the attempt at
exploration. The cartilage which we call
the ear is only the storm door of the
great temple clear down out of sight,
next door to the immortal soul.
Such scientists as Helmholtz and Conte
and De Blainville and Rank and Buck
have attempted to walk the Appian Way
of the human ear. but the mysterious
pathway has never been fully trodden but
by two feet-the foot of sound and the
foot of God. Three ears on each side the
head-the external ear, the middle ear,
the internal ear, but all connected by
most wonderful biography.
The external ear in all ages adorned by
precious stones or precious metals. The
Temple of Jerusalem partly built by the
contribution of earrings, and Homer in
the Had speaks of Hera, the three
bright drops, her glittering gems sus-
pended from the ear" and many of the
adornments of modern times were only
copies of her ear jewels found in Pom
peiian museum and Etruscan vase. Buc
while the outer ear may be adorned BY
human art the middle and the internal
ear are adorned and garnished only by the
hand of the Lord Almighty. The stroke
of a key of yonder organ sets the air VI
brating, and the external ear catches the
undulating sound and passes it on
through the bonelets of the middle ear 10
The internal ear, and the three Thousand
fibers of the human brain take up the VI
bration end roll the sound on into the
soul. The hidden machinery of the ear
by Psychologists called by the names
of things familiar to us, like the hammer,
something TO strike-like the anvil-some-
thing to be smitten-like the stirrup of the
saddle with which we mount the steed-
like the drum, beaten in the march-like
the harpstrings, to be swept with music.
Coiled like a snail SHE'LL" by which one
of the innermost passages of the ear IS
actually cslled-like a stairway, the sound
10 ascend-like a bent tube of a heating
apparatus, taking that which enters round
and round-like a labyrinth with wonderful
passages into which the thought enters
only to be lost in bewilderment. A muscle
contracting when the noise is too loud,
just as the pupil of the eye contracts wnen
the light is too glaring. The external cal
is defended by wax which with its bitter
ness discourages insectile invasion. This
internal ear imbedded in by what is far
the hardest bone of the human system,
very rock of strength and defiance
The ear so strange a contrivance that
by the estimate of one scientist, 1t can
catch the sound of 73.700 vibrations in
second. The outer ear taking in ALI kinds
of sound. whether the crash OF annava-
lanche, or the hum of a bee. The sound
passing to the inner door Of the outside
ear halts until another mechanism, divine
mechanism, passes it on by the bonelets
of the middle ear, and coming to the inner
door of that second ear, the sound has no
power to come further until another divine
mechanism passes 1t on through into the
inner ear, and then the sound comes 10
the rail track OF the brain branchlet, and
rolls on and on until it comes to sensation
end there the curtain drops, and a hundred
gates shut, and the voice of God seems to
say to all human inspection: THUS far
and no farther"
In this vestibule of the palace of he
soul, how many kings of thought, of medi-
cine, of physiology. have done penance
of lifelong study and got no further than
the vestibule. Mysterious home of rever-
beration and echo. Grand Central depot
of sound. Headquarters to which there
come quick dispatches, part the way by
cartilages. part the way by air, part the
way by bone, part the way by nerve-the
slowest dispatch plunging into the ear az
the speed of 1.09O feet a second. Small
instrument of music on which is played all
the music you ever heard from the gran
deurs of an August thunderstorm TO the
softest breathings of a flute. Small instru-
ment of music, only quarter of an incn
of surface and the thinness of one two
Observation-Disclosures part of an inch, and
that thinness divided into three layers. In
that ear musical staff lines. spaces. bar
and rest. A bridge leading from the out
side natural world to the inside spiritual
world; we seeing the abutment at this end
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 eulo-
gy the ear. That voice capable OF pro
ducing seventeen trillion, five hundred and
ninety-two billion, one hundred and eighty
six million, forty-four thousand, four hun
dred and fifteen sounds, and all that varie-
made not for the papa element Of ho, 3