St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-05-21
all the earth, the ears Of the deaf will
bs. nnsfnnned all the vascular growth

organ cured, corrected, cnanXc0.
Every being on earth will have a 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-
mcnt, 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 |
.Alleluiah!" 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 OBJ
servatory and look through the tel
escopc and see God in Jupiter, and God
in Saturn, and God in Mars, but we
could see more Ct Him through the
microscope of an aarist. 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. A ruler does not always prefer
the larger. The King of earth and
Heaven may have larger castles and
greater palaces, but l do not think
there is any one more curiously
wrought than the human ear. The
Heaven of Heavens can not contain
Him, and yet He says He finds room to
dwell in a contrite heart, and think,
in Christian ear.
Are you now ready for the question
of my text? Have you the endurance
to bear it's overwhelming suggestive
ness? Will you take hold of some pill
lar and balance yourself under the
semi-omnipotent stroke? He 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 8
He give us faculty which lie
has not himself? Doctors Wild and
Gruber and Toynbee invented the
acoumeter and other instruments by
which to measure and 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
their cry" The Bible intimates 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.n 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 a drink of
water HE that planted the ear, shall
He not hear?"
When a soul prays, God does not sit
bolt upright until the prayer travels
immensity and climbs to His ear. The
Bible says He bends clear over. In
more than one place Isaiah said He
bowed down His ear. In more than
one place the Psalmist said He inclined
His eur, 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 10 not God away of up
yonder, it is God away down
here, close up, SO close up that
when you pray to Him, it is not
more a whisper than kiss. All! yes,
He hears the captive's sigh and the
plash of the orphans tear, and the dy-
ing syllables of the shipwrecksd sailor
driven on the Skerries,- and the in
fant's, ..Now l lay me down to sleep
as distinctly as He hears the fortissimo
OF brazen bands in the Dusseldorf fes-
tival, as easily as He hears the salvo OF
artillery when the Is squares of En-
glish troops open all their batteries at
once at Waterloo. He that planted the
ear can hear.
just rs sometimes an enhancing
strain of music will linger in your ears
for days after you have heard it, and
just as sharp cry of pain l once heard
while passing through Bellevue hospi-
tai clung to my ear for weeks, and just
as horrid blasphemy in the street
sometimes haunts ones ears 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 phonograph, which
holds not only the words you utter, but
the very tones of your voice, SO that
hundred years from now, that instru
ment turned, the very words you now
utter and the very tone of your voice
will be reproduce l. Amazing phono
graph! But more wonderful is Gods
power to hold, to retain. All! wha'
delightful encouragement for our pray
ers. What an awful fright for oul
, hard speeches. What assurance oi
warm-hearted sympathy for all oul
griefs. He that planted the ear. shall
| He not hear?"
. Better take that organ away from al
sin. Better put it under the best sound
{ Better take it away from all gossip
, from all slander, from all innuendo
, from all bad influence of evil associa
tlO0. DGLlcE put IL W SCuOois ~ NAs
, to philharmonic. Better put that eaI
under the blessed touch Of Christian
| hymnology. Better consecrate it to-
time and eternity to Him who planted
the ear. Rousseau, the inddel, fell
. asleep amid his skeptical manuscript:
living all around the room, and in hi.
, dream he enter ID Heaven and heare
/ the song of the worshipers, and it wa
80 sweet he asked an angel what j
{ meant. The angel said: This is the
, Paradise of God, and the song yoi
/ hear is the anthem Of the re
> deemed Under another roll o
the celestial music Rousseau wax
D ened and got up in the mid
: night and, as well as he could, wrot
. down the strains OF the music that h
> had heard in the wonderful tune calle'
|: ..The Songs Of the Redeemed" Go
4 grant that it may not be to you and +
4 me an infidel dream, but gloriou
0 reality When we come to the nigh
J, of death and. we lie down to our las
= Sleen NAV our ears really be wakone