Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-04-22

sound FOR mauy cars that niglt hearl
the wash Of tLo waves Of Gaiieo against
the limestone shelving. 10 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 cre'
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 a hearing ap-
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 earth
shall play the accompaniment, nations
Of earth aud 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-
ian 4" 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
gee 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 Iui-
leries, and in Great Britain it has been
Windsor and Balmoral 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 be says he finds room to
dwell in a contrite heart, aud 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
in the ear to hear that which comes
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 Tho 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 NY text? Have you the endurance to
bear its overwhelming suggestlyeness!
VIII 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 VINO
gives Us the apparatus With which we
hear the sounds OF the world himself
not be able to catch up song and efoan
aud blaspheuy and worship: Does be
give US faculty which be has not HIM
self: Drs Wild and GTuber and Ioyn-
bee invented the acoumeter and other
instruments by which TO measure aud
examine the ear, and do these instru-
ments know more than the doctors who
made thems "He that planted the ear,
shall he not hear?" Jupiter Of Crede
was always represented in statuary aud
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. "His ears are open to
their cry. " The Bible intimates that
two workmen on Saturday night do net
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
think God could hear her; Yes, just as
easily as when 10 years ago she was sick
with scarlet fever and her mother heard
her when at midnight she asked for a
drink of water. HE that planted the
ear, shall be not hear!'
How God Hears Prayers.
When a soul prays, God does not sit
bolt upright until the prayer travels i'm
mensity and climbs TO his ear. The BIZ
BILE saws he bends clear over. In more
than one place Isaiah said be bowed
down his ear. In more than one place
the psalmist said he inclined his ear, by
which | come 70 believe that God puts
his ear so closely down TO your lips that
he can hear your faintest whisper. 1t Is
not God away off up yonder. 1t Is God
away down here, close up SO close up
that when you pray to him it is not
more whisper than kiss. Alb, yes, he
hears the captiye's sigh and the plash Of
the orphans tear and the dying sylla-
bles of the shipwrecked sailor driven on
the skerries and the infants Now l
lay rae down to sleep" as distinctly as
be hears the fortissimo of brazen bands
N the Dusseldorf festival, as easily as
be hears the saIvo Of artillery when the
IS squares Of English troops open all
theif batteries at once at Waterloo lie
that planted the ear can hear.
Just as sometimes an enhancing
strain Of music will linger in your cars
for days after you have heard it, aud
Just as sharp cry Of pain once heard
while passing through Bellevue hospi-
tai clung 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 wor-
ship, the blasphemy. How we have all
wondered at the phonograpn. which
holds not only the words you utter, but
the very tones of your voice, 50 that
100 years from now, that instrument
turned, the very words you now utter
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