Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-04-21

the tymp pannn, aud etaTtIe tho !!SBnelets
and, with yoioo that rang cleart through
hto the nian's soul, Dried, 'sFphpba.
tina and the polypoid grow gave
%aF; and tho inflhmad auriclo cooled
of, and that man who had not heard a
sound for many years that night hoard
the wash Of She waves OF Calico against
the hs limestone shccil shccil.:..:; no s..o. h.>,
much Christ thought OF the human car,
when the apostle Potor got mad and
with one slash of his sword dropped the
ear OF Malohus into tho dust Christ orc
ated n now external ear for Malchus oor-
responding with tho middle ear and tho
internal ear that no sword could clip
away.
And to show what God thinks of the
ear we are informed Of tho fact that in
the millennial Juno which shall roseate
all the earth, the ears Of tho doaf will
be unstoppod, all tho vascular growths
Bohe' ali d6foTinatioia OF tbs listening
organ cured, corrected, changed. Every
being on earth will havo hearing ap.
paratus as perfect rs God knows how to
make 1t, aud all tho cars will be ready
for that great symphony in which all
tho musical instruments Of tho oarth
shall play tho accompaniment, nations
Of earth and empires of hoavon min
Cling their voices togothor with tho
deep bass OF the sea, and tho alto of tho
woods, and the tenor Of winds, and
the baritone Of tho thunder. "Hallolu-
iah ~ surging up meeting tho "Hallolu-
iahl' descending.
God In Ourselves.
Oh, yes, my friends, we have boon
looking for God too far away instead of
looking for him oloso by and in our own
organism. Wo go up into tho obsorva.
tory and look through tho telescope and
see God i'll Jupiter, and God in Saturn,
and God in Mars, but wo could 500 moro
Of him through tho microscope Of on
aurist. No king is satisfied with only
ono residence, and in Franco it has boon
st. Cloud and Versailles and tho TUT
lorios, and in Great Britain it has boon
Windsor and Balmoral and Osborne. A
ruler does not always prcfor tho largor.
Tho King Of Garth and hoavon may havo
larger castles and greater palaces, but
do not think thero 10 any ono moro ouri-
ously wrought than tho human car.
Tho hcavon Of heavons cannot contain
him, and yet no says ho finds room to
dwoll i'll q oontrito heart, and think in
o Christian ear.
Wo havo boon looking for God in tho
infinite; lot us look for him in tho inf
nitosimal. God walking tho corridor of
tho car, God sitting in tho gallery Of tho
human car, God speaking along tho au
dltory nervo Of tho onr, God dwelling
IN tho ear to hoanst that which comes
from tho outside, and so hear tho brain
and tho soul he oan hear all that tran
spires thero. The Lord Of hosts cncamp-
ing nndnr tho curtains Of n,o,nhwn
Palace or tho Almighty In tho human
car Tho ridor on tho wliit0 horse OF
tho Apbt$$. i.So ttirusting his foot into
"Cno loop Of bono which tho physiologist
has boon pleased to call tho stirrup of
tho ear.
Are you ready now for tho question
of my toxt? Have you tho endurance to
boar its overwhelming suggostivonoss?
VIII you tako hold Of somo pillar and
balance yourself under tho somiomnipo.
tent stroke? "Ho that planted the ear,
shall ho not hcar?' Shall tho Goo who
gives us tho apparatus with which wo
hear tho sounds of tho world himself
not be ablo TO catch up song and groan
and blasphomy and worship? Doos he
give us faculty which no has not him
6olf? Drs. Wild and Grubor and Toyn-
bee invented tho acoumotor and othor
instruments by which to measure and
examine tho car, and do these instru-
monts know moro than tho doctors who
mado thom? "Iio that planted tho oar,
shall ho not hCar?' Jupiter of Crcdo
was always represented in statuary and
painting as without CARS, suggesting tho
ldoa that ho did not want to bo bothor-
cd with tho affairs Of The world. But
our God has oars. "IIis ears aro opon co
thoir ory." Tho Biblo intimatcs that
two workmon OH Saturday night do not
got thoir wages. Their complaint in
stantly strikes tho ear of God, "Tho cry
OF those that roapod hath onterod tho
cars Of the Lord Of Sabnoth." Did God
hear that poor girl last night as sho
throw herself on tho prison bunk in tho
CITY dungeon and cried in tho midnight,
"God have morcy?" Do you really
think God could ht II hor? Yes lust as
easily as whom IL years ago sho was sick
with scarlet fovcr and her mother hoard
hor when at midnight sho asked for II
drink Of water "Ho that planted tho
car, shall no not hoar?''
How God Hears Prayers.
Whom q soul prays, God does not sit
bolt upright until tho prayer travels i'm
lnonslty and climbs to his onr Tho Bi-
bio says ho bonds clear over In moro
shan one place Isaiah said h0 bowed
down his ear. In moro than ono plaoo
the psalmiat said he inclined his car. by
which l como to DoiioVo that God puts
bis ear so closely down to your lips chat
no can hear your faintcst whisper. 1t is
not God away off up yondor. 1t is God
away down horo, close up, 80 close up
that when you pray to him it is not
moro whisper than kiss All, Yes, ho
hears tho captivo's sigh and tho plash of
tho orphans tear and tho dying sylla-
blcs OF tho shipwrGcl1od sailor drivon on
tho skorrios and tho infants CHOW I
lny mo down to sleep" as distinctly as
no hears the fortissimo of brazon bands
IN tho Dusseldorf festival, as easily as
no hoars the salvo Of artillery whom tho
IL Squares Of English troops opon all
their batteries at onco at Waterloo IIo
that planted tho car can hear.
just as sometimes an cmtrancing
strain Of music will lingor in your cars
FOR days after you havo hoard it, and
just as sharp cry of pain onco heard
whilo passing through Bclloyuo hOspi-
fol f,1t b.,