The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-22

JHe ears Will De ready LOT bndJ great
symphony in which all the music al in
struments of the earth shall play the
accompaniment, 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 bari
tone of the thunder: "Alleluiah!'
surging up, meeting the "Alleluiah!'
descending.
On, 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 tele-
scope and see God in Jupiter, and God
in Saturn, and God in Mars; but we
could see more of Him through the
microscope of an aurist. No king is
satisfied with only one residence, and
in France il has been ST. Cloud and
Versailles and the Tuileries, and in
Great Britain it has been Windsor and
Balmoral and Osborne. A ruler does
not always prefer the larger The
King of earth and Heaven may have
larger castles and greater palaces, but
do not think there is any one more
curiously wrought than the human
ear. The Heaven of heavens cannot
contain Him, and yet He says lie finds
room to dwell in contrite heart, and,
| think, in Christian ear
We have been looking for God in the
infinite let us look for Him in the in
fnitesimal God walking in the corri-
of hn nd uff ~, l,a l.
lery of the human ear, God speaking
along the auditory nerve of the ear,
God dwelling in the ear to hear that
which comes from the outside, and so
near the brain and the soul He can
hear all that transpires there. The
Lord of hosts encamping un der the
curtains of the membrane. Palace of
the Almighty in the human ear. The
rider on the white horse of the
Apocalypse thrusting his foot into the
loop of bone which the psychologist has
been pleased to call the stirrup of the
ear.
Are you now ready for the question
of my text? Have you the endurance
to bear its overwhelming suggestive
ness? Will you take hold of some
pillar and balance yourself under the
semi-omnipotent stroke? "He that
planted the ear, shall he not hearP
Shall the God who gives us the appar-
atus with which we hear the sounds of
the world, Himself not be able to catch
up song and groan and blasphemy and
worship? Does He give us faculty
which He has not himself? Drs. Wild
~ al.
acoumeter and other instruments
by which to measure and examine
the ear. and 40 these instruments
know more than the doctors who made
them? "lle that planted the ear, shall
he not hear" Jupiter of Crede was
alwas 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 God has ears. Ellis ears are
open to their cry" The Bible
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" 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 az when, 10 years ago,
she was sick with scarlet fever, and
her mother heard her when at mid
night she asked drink of water. "He
that planted the ear, shall lie not
hear?"
When a soul prays, God does not sit
bolt upright until the prayer travels
immensely and climbs to His ear. The
Bible says lie bends clear over. in
more than one place Isaiah said He
bowed down His ear. In more than
one place the Psalmist said He in
clined His ear by which / come to be-
lieve that God puts His ear so closely
down TO your lips that He can hear
your faintest whisper. 1t is not God
away off 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 a kiss All! yes,
He hears the captive's sigh and the
plash of the orphans tear. and the dy-
ing syllables of the shipwrecked sailor
driven on the Skerries, and the in.
fant's, Now 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 10 squares of Eng
lish troops open all their batteries at
once at Waterloo. He that planted
the ear can hear
Better take that organ away from
all sin. Better put it under the best
sound. Better take it away from all
gossip, from all SANDER, from all innu-
endo, from all bad influence Of evil as
ISOLATION. Better put it to school, "a
church, to philharmonic. Better put
that ear under the blessed touch OF
Christian hymnology. Better conse'
crate it for time and eternity
to Him who planted the ear.
Rousseau, the infidel, fell asleep amid
his skeptical manuscripts lying all
around the room, and in his dream he