The Progress., 1898-04-30
Rev. DR.. Talmage Talks on the
Architecture of the Ear.
An Instructive Discourse on Mans Organ
of Hearing God Does Not Endow
Us with II Faculty He Does
Not Himself Possess.

the construction of the human ear.
The text is:
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?--
Psalms KEW. 8.
Architecture is one Of the most fas-
chatting arts, and the study of Egyp-
tan. Grecian, Etruscan, Roman, By
zantine, Moorish, Renaissance styles OF
building has been to many a man
sublime life work. Lincoln and York
cathedrals, ST. Pauls and ST. Peters
and Arch of Titus, and Theban temple
.Alha.nbra and ParthenOn are the mon
u.alents to the genius Of those who
built them. But more wonderful than
any arch they ever lifted. any tran
sept window they ever illumined, or
any Corinthian column they ever
crowned, or any Gothic cloister they
ever elaborated, is the human ear.
Among the most skillful and assidu-
GUS Psychologists of our time have been
those who given their time to an eX-
animation of the ear and the study OF
its arches, it's walls, it's floor, it's canals,
it's aaueducts, its galleries, it's intrica-
cies, it's convolutions, It's Divine ma
chinery, and yet, it will take another
thousand years before the world comes
to any adequate appreciation of what
God did when He planned and executed
the infinite and Overmastering archl-
lecture of the human ear. The most
OF it is invisible and the microscope
breaks down in the attempt at explora-
ton The cartilage which we call the
ear is only the storm door of the great
temple clear down out of sight, next
door to the immortal soul.
Such scientists as Helmholtz and
Conte and De Blainville and Rank and
Buck have attempted to walk the APP
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mysterious pathway has never been
fully trodden but by two feet-the foot
of sound and the foot of God. Three
cars on each side the head-the ex-
ternal ear, the middle ear, the internal
ear but all connected by most wonder
full telegraphy.
The external ear in all ages adorned
by precious stones or precious metals.
The Temple of Jerusalem, partly built
by the contri button Of earrings, and
Homer in the Had speaks of Hera,
1.-THE three bright drops, her ghttering
gems suspended from the ear" and
many of the adornments of modern
times were only copies of her ear jew
els found in Pompeiian museum and
J Etruscan vase. But while the outer
ear may be adorned by human art, the
middle and internal ear are adorned
,anu RdrulST-cu only ny Ghc hbuu VI Gue
Lord Almighty The stroke of a key
of yonder organ sets the air vibrating,
and the external ear catches the undu-
lating sound and passes it on through
the bonelets of the middle ear to
the internal ear, and the 5000
fiberS of the human brain take
up the vibration and roll the sound
on into the soul. The hidden ma
chinery of the ear by Psychologists
called by the names of things familiar
to us, like the hammer, something to
strilke-like the anvil-something to be
smitten-lilSe the stirrup of the saddle
with which we mount the Steed-lilSe
the dram, beaten in the march-lil1e
the harp strings, to be swept with
music Coiled like snail she'll" by
which one of the innermost passages
of the ear is actually called-like a
stairway, the sound to ascend-lilSe a
bent tube of a heating apparatus, talk
ing that which enters round and round