Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-04-28
DIR. TALMAGE DISCouRSEs IN A
NOVEL STRAIN.
THE ORGANS OF HEARING
Gods Wisdom as Exemplified in the
Architecture of the Human Ear
A Most Wonderful Construction
Valuable Lessons That May be
Drawn From it.

The text is:
He that planted the ear, shall he not hcar'--
Psalms KEW. o.
Architecture Is one of the most fas-
cinating arts, and the study of Egyp-
tian, Grecian. Etruscan, Roman, BY
zantine, Moorish, Renaissance styles of
building has been to many man a
sublime life work. Lincoln and York
cathedrals, st. Paul's and st. Peters
and Arch of Titus, and Thehan temple
ALEXANDRIA and Parthcnon are the mon
uments to the genius of those who
built them. But more wonderful than
any arch they ever lifted, or any tran
sept window they ever illumlncd, or
any Corinthian column they ever
crowned, or any Gothic cloister they
ever elaborated, is the human ear.
Among the most skillful and assidu-
Gus Psychologists of our time have been
those who given their time to an ex-
animation of the ear and the study of
its arches. it's walls, it's floor, its canals,
its aqueducts, it's galleries, its intrica-
cies, it's convolutions, it's Divine ma
chiuery, and yet, it will take another
thousand years before the world comes
to any adequate appreciation of what
God did when He planned and executed
the infinite and overmastering archi-
lecture of the human ear. The most
OF it is invisible and the microscope
breaks down in the attempt at eXplora-
ton. 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 APP
plan way of the human ear, but the
mysterious pathway has never been
fully trodden but by two fcet-the foot
OF sound and the foot of God. Three
ears on each side the head-the ex-
ternal ear, the middle ear, the internal
ear. but all connected by most wonder
full telegraphy.
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 suspended from the ear;' and
many of the adornments of modern
times were only copies of her ear jew
els found in Pompeiian museum and
Etruscan vase. But while the outer
ear may be adorned. by human art, the
middle and internal ear are adorned
and garnished only by the hand of the
Lord Almighty. The stroke of a key
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and the external ear catches the undu-
lating sound and passes it on through
the bonelets of the middle car to
the internal ear, and the 5000
tibers of the human brain take
up the vibration and roll the sound
on into the soul The hidden ma
chinery of the ear by psychologists
called by the names of things familiar
to us, like the hammer, something to
strike-like the anvil to be
smitten-like the stirrup of the saddle
with which we mount the steed-like
the drum, beaten in the march-like
the harp strings, to be SWEPT with
music Coiled like a ''snail shell, by
which one of the innermost passages
of the ear is actually called-like
stairway, the sound to ascend-like
bent tube of a heating apparatus, talk
Ing that which enters round and round
like 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 when the light is too glar-
ing The external ear is defended by
wax which with it's bitterness discour-
ages insectile invasion. The internal
ear embedded in by what is far the
hardest bone of the human system, a
very rock of strength and defiance.
The ear is 50 strange coptrivance
that by the estimate of one scientist it
can catch the sound of 70, 700 vibrations
in second. The outer ear taking in
all kinds of sound, whether the crash
of an avalanche or the hum of a bee.
The sound passing to the inner door of
the outside ear halts until another mech.
anism. Divine mechanism. pa sses 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
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anism passes it on through into the
inner ear, and then the sound comes to
the rail track of the brain branchlet,
and rolls on and on until it comes to
sensation, and there the curtain drops,
and hundred gates shut, aud the voice
of God seems to say to all human in
spection: Thus far and no farther"
In this vestibule of the palace of the
soul, how many kings of thought, of
medicine, of physiology, have done
penance of lifelong study and got no
further than the vestibule. Mysterious
home of reverberation and echo Grand
central depot of sound Headquarters
to which there come quick dispatches,
part the way by cartillages, part the
way by air, part the way by bone, part
the way by nerve-the slowest dispatch
plunging into the ear at the speed of
l,o90 feet a second. Small instrument
of music on which is played all the
music you ever heard, from the gran
denrs Of an August thunderstorm to the
softest brgathinps OF a flute. Small in