The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-04-21

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''HallelulaA!" descendlng.
Oh. yes. my friends. We have
looking for God too far away iru
OF looking for him slcse BY and =
own organism. We so rp into liz
sefvatory and look through the
scope and see God In Jupiter ari
In Saturn and God in Mars. bu,
could see more OF Him through IN
croscope Of an aursst. No <.
satisfied within only one rcsideace
In France 1t has been st. Cleud
Versailles and the Tuileries. and
Great Britain II has been Wincso,
Balmoral and Osborne. A ruler
not always prefer the larger
King of earth and heaven may
larger castles and greater palaces
do not think there IL any one N
curiously wrought than the hun
ear. The heaven Of heavens can,
contain Him. and yet He says He A,
room to dwell in a contrite heart !
think. in a Christian ear.
We have been looking for God I'M
infinite-let us look for him in tn,
finitesimal. God walking the corr
of the ear. God speaking along the
ditory nerve of the ear. God dwsl1
in the ear to hear that which ca
from the outside. and 80 near the
and the soul he can hear all that IN
pires there.
Are you ready now for the que,
Of my text? Have you the endur
to bear its overwhelming sugges
ness? Will you take hold Of some
lar and balance yourself under
planted the ear, shall he not he
Shall the God who gives us the an
atus with which we hear the souna
the world Himself not be able to I,
up song and groan and blasphemy
worship? Does he give us is.
which he has not himself? Drs.
and Gruber and Toynbee inventel
accumeter and other instrumena
which to measure and examine The
and do these instruments know
than the doctors who made
HE that planted the ear, shall b.
hear?" Jupiter of Crede was aid
represented in stutuary and paid
as without ears, suggesting the
that he did not want to be bothered
the affairs of the world. But ouf |
has ears. His ears are open to d
cry. The Bible intimates that
workmen on Saturday night do nd
their wages. Their complaint insu
: ly strikes the ear of God, "The a
those that reapeth hath entered
ears Of the Lord of Sabaoth"
God hear that poor girl last .,
as she threw herself on the nj
bunk in the city dungeon and eria
the midnight, God have mercyr
you really think God could hear
Yes, just as easily as when Is yeas
:. she was sick with scarlet fever
her mother heard her when at u
night she asked for a drink of waI
"He that planted the ear, shall he
hear?"
When soul prays, God does not
bolt upright until the prayer trI
immensely and climbs to his ear
Bible says he bends clear over
more than one place Isaiah sad
bowed down his ear. In more than
place the psalmist said he inclini
ear, by which I come to believe
God puts his ear SO close down to
: lips that he can hear your fal
whisper 1t is not God away up \
der; it is God away down here,
up, so close up that when you p1l
him it is not more a whisper thu
kiss. All, yes, he hear the capt.
sigh and the splash Of the orpa
tear, and the dying syllables q
shipwrecked sailor driven on the
ries, and the infants Now | lay
: down to sleep" as distinctly as
hears the fortissimo of brazen
, in the Dusseldorf festival, as eas
he hears the salvo of ARTILLERY
2 the 13 squares Of English troops
I all their batteries at once at Wats
He that planted the ear can hear
E Just as sometimes an entrau
l strain of music will linger in your
: for days after you have heard it.
2 just as sharp cry Of pain
: heard while passing through Ben
hospital clung to my ear for Va
1 and just as a horrid blasphemy 10
e street sometimes haunts ones can
1 days, so God not only hears, but
e the songs, the prayers, the groan'
worship, the blasphemy. How we
I all wondered at the phonograph,
4 holds not only the words you
t but the very tones of your vois
c that 100 years from now. that ln'
ment turned, the very words you
e utter and the very tone Of your
:. will be reproduced. Amazing %
/ graph! But more wonderful is
e power to hold, to retain
3 Better take that organ away frO1
= sound. Better take 1t away fron
= gossip, from all slander. from al
n nuendo, from all bad influence o.
v association. Better nut IT to 80