Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-05-27

gone, all reformation of the listening
organ cured corrected, changed.
Every being ON earth will have hear.
ing apparatus 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 accompani-
ment, nations of earth and empires of
Heaven mingling their voices together
with the deep bass of the sea and the
alto of the woods and the tenor of the
winds, and the baritone of the thunder.
"Alleluiah!" surging up, meeting the
"Allelui ah" descending.
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 go up into the ob.
servatory and look through the tel.
escope and see 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
Tuileries, and in Great Britain it has
been Windsor and Balmoral and Os-
borne 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 curiouslv
wrought than the human ear Tho
Heaven of Heavens can not contain
Him, and yet He says He finds room to
dwell in contrite heart, and | think,
in Christian ear.
Are you now ready for the question
of my text? Have you the endurance
to bear its overwhelming suggestive
ness? viii you take hold of some pill
lar and balance yourself under the
semi-omnipotent stroke? ale that
planted the ear, shall He not hear?"
Shall the God who gives us the appa-
ratus with which we hear the sounds
OF the world, Himself not be able
to catch up song and groan and
blasphemy and worship? Doe S
lie give us a faculty which lie
has not himself? Doctors Wild and
Gruber and Toynbee invented the
acoumeter and other Instruments bv
which to measure ami examine the
ear, and do these instruments know
more than the doctors who made them?
He that planted the ear, shall He not
hear?' Jupiter of Crede was always
represented in statuary and painting
as without ears, suggesting the idea
that he did not want to be bothered
with the affairs of the world. But our
God has ears Ills ears are open to
their cry The Bible intimatas that
two workmen on Saturday night do
not get their wages Their complaint
instantly strikes the ear of God. The
cry of those that reaped hath entered
the ears of the Lord of Sabbaoth." 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, Is years
ago, she was sick with scarlet fever,
and her mother heard her when at
midnight she asked for drink of
water. He that planted the ear, shall
He not hear?"
When Il soul prays, God does not sit
bolt upright until the prayer travels
immensely and climbs to His ear. The
Bible says He bends clear over. In
more than one place Isaiah said lie
bowed down His ear In more than
one place the Psalmist said He inclined
His ear, by which | come to believe
that God puts His ear so close down to
your lips that He can hear your faint
est whisper. 1t is not God away off up
yonder, it is God away down
here, close up, SO close up that
when you pray to Him, it is not
more whisper than kiss. All. yes,
He hears the captive's sigh and the
plash of the orphans tear, and the dy-
ing syllablcs of the shipwreclSed sailor
driven on the Skerries, and the in
fants, Now | lay me down to sleep,
as distinctly as He hears the fortissimo
of brazen bands in the Dusseldorf fes-
tival, as easily as lie hears the salvo of
artillery when the 10 squares of En-
gllsh troops open all their batteries at
once at Waterloo lie that planted the
ear can hear.
Just as sometimes an enhancing
strain of music will linger in your ears
for days after you have heard it, and
just as a sharp cry of pain once heard
while passing through Bellevue hospi-
tai chung to my ear for weeks, and Just
as a horrid blasphemy in the street
sometimes haunts ones cars 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 photograph, which
holds not only the words you utter, but
the very tones OF your voice, so that a
hundred years from now, that instru-
ment turned, the very words you now
utter and the very tone of your voice
will be reproduce J. Amazing phono-
graph! But more wonderful is Gods
power to hold, TO retain. All! what
delightful encouragement for our pray
ers. What an awful fright for our
hard speeches. What assurance of
warm-heartcd sympathy for all our
griefs He that planted the ear shall
lie not hear?'
Better take that organ away from all
sin. Better put it under the best sound.
Better take it away from all gossip,
from all SANDER, from all innuendo.
from all bad influence of evil associa-
ton. Better put it to school, to church,
TO philharmonic. Better put that ear
under the,blessed touch of Christian
hymnology. Better consecrate it for
time and eternity to Him who planted
the ear. Rousseau, the inadel, fell
asleep amid his skeptical manuscripts
lying all arouaj the room, and in his
dream he entered Heaven and heard
the song of the worshipers, and it was
SO sweet he asked an anun1 what ~