The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-04-28
WISDOM OF con.
eourse BY Rev. Or. Talmage On
the Human Ear.


Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage, in the faI-
wing sermon d-iseourses Instructive
on mans organ Of hearing 1t Is
sed on the text.
Hs mat plin5ed the ear shan he hot heart
salms Ecig q
Architecture Is one OF the most fas.
mating arts, and the study Of Eggp-
an. Greeian, Etrusean, Roman, By
ntine, Moorish, Renaissance STYLES Of
aiding has been to many a man a
ablime lite work Lincoln and York
~athedrals, So, paufs and III. Peters,
nd Arch Of Titus, and Theban temple
IIhambra and Parthenon are the mon
ments to the genius Of those who
built them But more wonderful than
ny arch they ever lifted. or any tram
ept window they ever nlumined, 81
Inv G|orinthian column they ever
rowned, or any Gothic c]loister they
ver elaborated, is the human ear.
Among the most skillful and assidu-
bus Psychologists Of our time have been
hose who given their time TO an ex-
mination Of the ear and the study Of
d arches, its walls, its floor, its canals,
IS aqueducts, its galleries, its iutrica-
eies. its c-onvoluti0ns, its Divine ma
ehinery, and yet, it viii take another
thousand years before the world comes
10 any adequate appreciation Of what
God did when He planned and executed
the infinite and overmastering arehi-
lecture of the human ear. The most
pf it is invisible and the microscope
breaks down in the attempt at eXplora-
Jon. 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 feet--the foot
Df sound and the foot Of God Three
ears on each side the head-the ex-
ternal ear, the middle ear, the internal
ear, but an connected by most wonder
ful~ teIegraphy.
The external ear in all ages adorned
BY precious stones or precious metals
The Temple Of Jerusalem, partly built
By the contribution Of earrings, aud
Homer In the Iliad 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 a jew
els found ina pompeiian museum and
Etrusean 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
~ yonder organ sets the air vibrating.
and the external ear catches the undn-
lating sound and passes it on through
the bonelets Of the middle ear to
the internal ear, and the 5000
fbers 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 MS, like the hammer, something to
strike like the anvil-something to be
smitten-like the stirrup of the saddle
hAGtE WlAIAA. VIC AllALlAb. bAag 0lNNH -AAAE
the drum, beaten in the march like
the harp strings, to be swept with
music. Coiled like 8 snail shell, by
which one of the innermost passages
Of the ear is actually called-like a
stairway, the sound to ascend-like a
bent tube Of a heating apparatus, talk
ing that which enters round and round
Ifl-a % .Fur-safb. 4-rFkH 4arg4.1.-F Al
passages into which the thought enters
only to be lost in bewilderment. "A
muscle contracting when the noise is
too loud, just as tine pupil Of the eye
contracts when the light is too gIar-
ing The external ear is defended by
wax which with its bitterness d%iseour-
ages insectile INVASION The internal
ear embedded ia by what is far the
hardest bone Of the human system, a
very rock Of strength and defiance.
The ear is So strange a contrivance
that BY the estimate of one scientist II
can catch the sound of 73,700 vibrations
ia q second The outer q 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
theo0tside ear halts until another mech-
anism, Divine mechanism, pas ses it
On BIZ the bonelets Of the middle ear,
and coming TO the inner door Of that
second ear the sound has no power to
comesfurther until another Divine mech-
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 70
sensation, and there the curtain drops,
and q hundred gates shut, and the voice
OF God seems to say to an human in