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OUR LISTENING GOD.
tDR. TALmAaE TELLS US HOW GOD
HEARS PRAYERS

j 1eAltS PRAYERS.
Tho Human Ear tho Snorcd ycstibule OF
tho Faiaco of the Soul God In Our
solvcs-Ho That Planted tho Ear, Shnll
81, ITO Not uoar2
tcopyrisht' 1S9s BY American Press Asso-
WASHINGTON, April 17.-In this dis
course DR.. Talmago sets forth tho
goodness and wisdom of God in tho con-
struotion of tho human ear and oxtols
music and encourages prayer; toxt,
Psalms xciy, 0, "Ho that planted tho car,
shall he not honr?"
Architecture is ono of tho most fasoi-
mating arts, and the study &C ESSynt!am,
Groclan, EtruScnn, Roman, Byzantine,
Moorish, ,-Ronaissanco styles of buildiuaL
has boon to many n 3AAan~ sul}4i1mo life
work. Lincoln and York cathGdrals st.
Pauls and st. Peters and arch of Ii
tu5 and ThobRn temple and A!hamhra
and Parthenon arc tho monuments to
tho genius Of those who built thcm.
But moro wonderful than any arch thoy
ovor lifted, or any transcpt window
they ever illuminod, or any Corinthinn
column thoy over crowned, or any Goth
10 cloistcr they over elaborated is tho
human car
Among tho most skillful and assilu-
GUS psychologists OF our timu huvu been
those who havo givcn thoir timo to the
examination of tho ear and tho study of
its arches, its walls, it's floors, it's ca.
nails, it's aquoducts, it's galleries. it's i'll
tricacios, it's convolutions, It's divino
machinery, and yet it will take another
thousand years before tho world comes
to any adequate appreciation of what
God did when ho planned and executed
tho infinite and ovormastoring architeo-
turo of tho human car. Tho most of il is
invisible, and tho microscope breaks
down in tho .ttompt at exploration.
Tho cartilage which wo call tho car is
only tho storm door of tho great tomplo
clear down out Of sight, noxt door to
tho immortal soul.
Such scientists as Uelmholtz and
Contc and De Blainvillo and Rank and
Buck havo attempted to walk tho Ap-
plan way Of tho human car, but tho
mysterious pathway has never been full
ly troddon but by two foct-tho foot Of
sound and tho foot of God. Three ears
on each side the hGad--tho external car,
tho middle oar, tho informal car-but all
connected by most wonderful tolog-
raphy.
Wonders of tho Ear.
Tho oXtornal car, in all ages adorned
by precious stones or precious metals.
Tho tcmplo Of Jorusolom partly built by
tho contribution Of earrings, and Honor,
in tho "lliad, speaks of Hora, "the
throo bright drops, her glittoring goms
suspended from tho car - and many of
tho adolnmonts Of modern times woro
only copies OF hcr ear jowols found in
PompCllan museum and EtruSCan vase.
But, Whilo tho outer ear may be adOrn-
od by human art, tho middle and the in
formal car aro adorned and garnishod
only by tho hand Of tho Lord AlmiRhty.
Tho stroke Of key Of yondcr organ sots
tho air vibrating, and tho external Our
catches tho undulating sound and passes
H. on through tho bOnclGtS Of tho middle
en- to tho informal onr and tho 5000
fbcr6 Of tho human brain talto up tho
vibration and roll the sound on into tho
soul. Tho hidden machinery of tho car,
by psychologists called by tnC names Of
things familiar TO us, ike tho Eammor,
something to strike, like tho anvil,
something TO be sn. itcn; liko tho stirrup
OF tho saddle with which Wo mount tho
stcGd; like the drum, beaten in tho
march; liko tho harpAtrings, to be swopt
with music; coilod liko "snail sholl,"
by which ono Of tho innermost passages
Of tho ear Is actually called; like stair
way, tho sound to ascend; lilso bont
tubo OF heating apparatus, taking that
which ontGrs round and round; lifo
labyrinth with wonderful passages, into
which tho thought ontors only to bo lost
in boWildcrmont; ~ muscle contracting
whom tho nOiso is too loud, just as the
pupil Of tho oyc contracts when tho light
is too glaring. Tho external car is do
9ondod by wax which with its bttor-
ness dscnuragna inanotilo invasion. Tho
internal car imbeddod in by what is far
the hardest bono Of tho human systou,,
worry rock Of strength and dolianco.
Tho ear SO strange contriynnco that
by tho estimate OF ono scientist it can
catch tho sound OF 70, 700 vibrations in
~ second, tho outer rar taking iii all
kinds Of sound, whothor tho crash of an
avalanche On tho hun Of boo. Tho
sound passing to tho inner door of tho
outside car halts until another mochai-
ism, divine mechanism, passes it on by
tho bonolots Of tho middle ear and com
ing to tho inner door Of that second car,
"''S "''i''' '-H'o iio Ip"tl w COIIb luIlnbf
until another divinu mechanism passos
1t OH through iuiu tho innu, ti,,, aud
then tho sound comes to tho rail track
Of tho brain branOhlot and rolls on and
on until 1t comes to sensation, and thoro
tho curtain drops, and n hundred gates
shut, and tho voico of God scoms to say
to all human inspection, "Thus far and
no farther.
Vestibulo of tho Soul.
In this Ycstibulo Of tho palace Of tho
soul how many l.ngs of Thought, Of
medicine, Of physiology, havO done pom
anoc Of lifelong study and got no far
thor than tho vostibulo? Mysterious
homo Of rovorboration and eohd,, Grand
Central depot Of sound. Headquarters
10 which thoro come quick dispAtohos,
,Sart tho way by oRrtilagos, pnEt tho