St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-05-21

tempt u master the human car anu
gain supremacy over this gate of the
immortal soul, great battles were
fought by Mozart, Gluck and Weber,
and by Beethoven and Meyerbeer, by
Rossini and by all the roll of German
and Italian and French composers,
some of them in the battle leaving
their blood on the keynotes and the
musical scores. Great battle fought
for the car-fought with baton, with
organ-pipe, with trumpet, with cor
net-a-piston, with all ivory and brazen
and silver and golden weapons of the
orchestra; royal theater and cathedral
and academy of music the fortresses
for the contest for the ear. England
and Egypt fought for the supremacy OF
the Suez canal, and the Spartans and
the Persians fought for the defife of
Thermopylae; but the musicians of all
ages have fought for the mastery of the
auditory canal and the defile of the i'm
mortal soul and the Thermopylae of
struggling cadences.
For the conquest of the ear Haydn
struggled on up from the garret where
he had neither fire nor food, on and on
until under the too great nervous strain
of hearing his own oration of the
"Creation" performed, he was carried
out to die. but leaving as his legacy to
the world lis symphonies, l63 pieces
for the baritone, Is masses, 5 orato-
rios, ~ German and Italian songs, 80
canons, 365 English and Scotch songs
with accompaniment, and 1.536 pages
of libretti. All TIA. to capture the
gate of the body that swings in from
the tympanum to the snail SHELF ly-
ing on the beach of the ocean of the
immortal soul.
To conquer the ear, Handel strug-
gled ON from the time when his father
woald not let him go to school lest he
learn the gamut and become musician,
and from the time when he was allowed
in the organ loft just to play after the
audience had left, to the time when he
left to all nations his unparalleled ora
torios of Esther" Deborah, ''Samp-
son, ''Jephthah," Judas Maccabeus,"
Israel in Egypt" and the Messiah. :"
the soul of the great German composer
still weeping in the Dead March of our
great obsequies and triumphing in the
raptures of every Easter morn.
To conquerer the ear and take this
gate of the immortal soul, Schubert
composed his great ''Serenade," writ
ing the slaves of the music on the bill
of fare in a restaurant, and went on
until he could leave as legacy to the
world over 1000 magnificent compost
tions in music. To conquer the ear
and take this gate of the souls castle
Mozart struggled on through poverty
until he came to pauper's grave, and
one chilly, wet afternoon the body OF
him who gave to the world the Re
quicm" and the "G-minor Symphony
was crunched in on top of two other
paupers into a grave which to this day
is epitaphless.
For the ear everything mellitluous,
from the birth hour when our earth
was wrapped in swaddling clothes OF
light and serenaded by other worlds,
from the time when Jubal thrummed
the first harp and pressed key of the
first organ, down to the music of this
Sabbath day. Yea, for the ear the
coming overtures of Heaven. for what
ever other part of the body may be left
in the dust, the ear, we know, is to
come to celestial life; otherwise, why
the "harpers harping with their harps?
For the ear, carol of lark, and whistle
of quail. the chirp of cricket, AID dash
of cascade, and roar of tides oceanic,
and doxology of worshipful assem-
bly, and minstrelsy, cherubic, serapiic
and archangeiic. For the car all Pam
dean pipes, all flutes, all clarinets, all
hautboys, all bassoons, all bells, and
all organs-Luzcrene ana Westminster
abbey, and Freyburg, and Berlin, and
all the organ pipes set across Christen-
dom, the great Giants Causeway for
the monarchs of music to pass over.
For the car, all chimes, all ticklings OF
, chronometers, all anthems, all dirges
all glees, all choruses, all lullabies, al
| orchestration. Oh, the ear, God hon
ored the ear, grooved with Divine
sculpture and poised with Divine
gracefulness and upholstered with
curtains of Divine embroidery
and corridored by Divine car
pentry, and pillared with Divine archi
lecture, and chiselled in bone of Divin;
masonry. and conquered by professions
Of Divine marshalling. The ear! 4
perpetual point of interrogation, ask
ing how? perpetual point of apos
trophe appealing to God None bu
God could plan it. None but God coult
build it. None but God could work 1t
None but God could keep it. None bu
God could understand it. None bu
God could explain it. Oh, the wonder
of the human ear.
4 How surprisingly sacred the human
ear. You had better be careful how
you let the sound of blasphemy or un
cleanness step into that holy of holies
The Bible says that in the ancient TEN
pie the priest was set apart by the put
ting of the blood of a ram ON the tip o
the ear, the right ear of the priest
But, my friends, we need all of us +
have the sacred touch of ordination
on the hanging lobe of bot
ears, and on the arches G
the ears, ON the Eussachian tub
of the ear, on the massoid cell
of the ear, on the tympanic cavity Q
the ear, and OH everything from tn
outside rim of the outside ear clear i
to the point waa.e sound steps off tn
. auditory ne.ve and rolls on down int
the unfatho .na5le depth of the immol
tai soul. The Bible speaks OF 'du
/ ears, and of 'uncircuncisel ears, an
j of Itching ears" and of rebellion
ears and of ''open ears. aud of thos
who have all the organs of hearing an
: vet who seem to be deaf, for it cries t
them: He that hath ears to hear, Il
him hear"
. To show how much Christ thought {
the human ear, He one day met ma
, who was deaf. came up to him and pt
q finger of the right hand into tt
E orifice of the left ear OF the patien
! and put finger of the left hand ini
: the right ear OF the patient, and ag
. tated the tympanum. and started II
: bonelets, and with voice that ran
! clear through. the mans soul crie'
, ..Ephphatha.' and the polyphoi
5 growths gave way and the infiams
I auricle cooled OF, and that man. WI
had not heard sound for many year
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