The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-04-18

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let him 60 to school lest he learn the eamu
and become a musician, and from th
time when be was allowed In the orga
loft just to play after the audience had lei
to the time when he left to all nations hi
unparalleled oratorios of " Esther, I" Del
orah," "Samson, "Jephthah, "Juda
Maccabseus, +" Israel In Egypt" and tn
Messiah" the soul of the great Germa
composer still weeping In the dead marc
of our great obsequies and triumphing Il
the raptures of every Easter morn.
To conquer the ear and take this gate O
tho immortal soul Schubert composed hi
great "Serenade," writing the slaves O
the music on the bill Of fare in rostau
rant, and went on until he could leave a
legacy to the world over thousand mag
nificent compositions in music. To con
quer the car and take this gate Of tn
souls castle Mozart struggled on through
poverty until he came to pauper's grave
and ono chilly, wet afternoon the body O
him who gave to the world the Requiem
and the &c Minor Symphony wal
crunched In on the top Of two other pau
pers into a grave which to this day II
epitaphless.
Gods Haudiwork.
For the ear everything mellifluous, from
the birth hour when our earth was wrap.
| ped in swaddling clothes of light and sere.
naded 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 oyertures of
heaven, for whatever other part of the
body may be left in the dust, tho ear, we
know, is to come to celestial life; other
wise, why the "harpers harping with their
harps9" For the ear carol of lark and
whistle of quail and chirp Of cricket and
dash of cascade and roar Of tides oceanic
and doxoiogy of worshipful assembly and
minstrelsy, cherubic, seraphic and arch
angelic. For the ear all Pandean pipes,
all flutes, all clarinets, all hautboys, all
bassoons, all bells and all organs-Luzerne
and Westminster abbey and Freiburg and
Berlin and all the organ pipes set across
Christendom, the great Giants Causeway
for the monarchs of music to pass over.
For the ear all chimes, all tiokings Of
thermometers, NIL anthems, all dirges. all
glees, all choruses, all lullabies, all orches-
tration. Oh, the ear, the God honored
ear, grooved with divine sculpture and
poised with divine gracefulness and up
holstered with curtains of divine embroid-
cry and corridored by divine carpentry and
pillared with divine architecture and CHS
eled in bone of divine masonry and con-
quered by professions of divine marshal
ing. Tho earl A perpetual point of in
terrogation, asking Howl A perpetual
point of apostrophe appealing to God.
None but God could plan 1t. None but
God could build it. None but God could |
work it. None but God could keep it.
None but God could understand it. None
but God could explain it. Oh, the won
ders of the human ear!
BY Galilee's Waves.
How surprisingly sacred the human ear
You had better be careful how you let the
sound of blasphemy or unoleanness step
into that holy of HOLES. The Bible says
that in the ancient temple the priest was
set apart by the putting of the blood Of
ram OH the tip of the ear, the right car of
tho priest. But, my friends, we need all
of us to have the sacred touch of Ordina-
tion on the hanging lobe Of both ears, and
on the arches of the ears on the eustachi-
an tube Of the ear, on the mastoid cells of
the car, on the tympanio cavity of the ear,
and on everything from the outside rim of
the outside ear clear in to the point where
sound steps off the auditory nerve and
rolls on down into the unfathomable
depths of the immortal soul. The Bible
speaks of "dull ears, and Of "unoirculn-
cised ears" and of :'itohing ears, and of
"rebellious ears" and of "open ears"
and Of those who have all the organs of
hearing and yet who seem to be deaf, for {
it cries to them, ''He that hath ears to
hear, let him hear
To show how much Christ thought of
the human ear, he one day met man
who was deaf, came up to him and put
finger of the right hand into the orifce Of
the left ear Of the patient and put finger
Of the left hand into the orifce of the
right ear of the patient, and agitated the [
tympanum, and startled the bonelets, and
with voice that rang clear through into [
the mans soul cried, "Ephthathap and !
the polypboid growths gave way, and the
lnflamed auricle cooled off, and that man t
who had not heard sound for many i
years that night heard the wash of tho /
waves of Galilee against the limestone n
shelving. To show how much Christ t
thought of the human ear, when tho apos- 4
10 Peter got mad and with one slash of b
lis sword dropped the ear of Malchus into u
Tho dust Christ created a new external v
ar for Malchus corresponding with the 81
middle car and tho internal ear that no Il
word could clip away. t,
And to show what God thinks of the O
'ar we are informed Of the fact that in the fl
nillennial June which shall rosoate all
i, l, st. l,o. I'LL 10,
topped, all tho vascular growvhs gone, all Ii
Of the listening organ cured, "
directed, changed. Every being on earth II
will have a hearing apparatus as perfect 81
S God knows how to mako it, and all the pl
ars will be ready for that great symphony q
u which all the musical instruments of at
be earth shall play the accompaniment, 10
ations of earth and empires of heaven OF
lngling their voices together with the W
cep bass of the sea and the alto of tho W
FOODS, and the tenor of winds, and the th
aritone OF the THUNDER, "Hallcluiahr' ms
lrging up meeting the "Halleluiah" do.
ending.
Where to Look For God.
Oh, yes, my friends, we have been look. 81
g for God too far away instead of look o.
y for him close by and in our own or. BIO
'nism! We go up into the observatory rel
I'd look through the telescope and see wi
I'd In Jupiter and God in Saturn and bo
I'd in Mars, but we could see more OF rel
III through the microscope Of an aurist. wi
0 king is satisfied with only one resi-. Gil
nee, and in France 1t has been St. Cloud art
i'd Versailles and tho Tuileries, and In eat
-eat Britain it has been Windsor and Toe
,lmoral and Osborne. A ruler does not
ways prefer the larger. The King of by
nth and heaven may have larger castles mi
d greater palaces, but do not think bio
ere is any one more curiously wrought am
an the human ear. The heaven of heav- Inn
S cannot contain him, and yet no says pull
finds room to dwell In contrite heart, lat
d, think, in a Christian ear. as
We have been looking for God in the in. sire
ite-let us look for him in the infinitesi- and
II. God walking the corridor of the An
:, God sitting in tho gallery of the hu. CHI
IN car, God speaking along the auditory
rye Of the car, God dwelling in tho ear =,
hear that which comes from tho outside,
i so near the brain and the soul he can was
II all that transpires there. Tho Lord hfei
hosts encamping under the curtains of TO X
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