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


Ito the appeals oi
His people. The text Is Psalms s4:s'
He that planted the ear. shall he no.
hear?"
Architecture Is one Of the most fas'
cinating arts, and the study OF Esyp'
tan. Grecian. Etruscan. Roman, BY
zantine, Moorish. Renaissance styles oi
BUILDING has been to many a man
sublime life work. Lincoln and Yors
cathedrals, st. Paurs and st. Peters
and arch Of Titus and Theban temple
and Alhambra and Parthenon are the
monuments to the genius OF those wno
built them. But more wonderful than
any arch they ever lifted or any tran
sept window they ever illumined or any
Corinthian column they ever crowned
or any Gothic cloister they ever elao-
Grated is the human ear.
Among the most skillful and assidu-
Gus psychologists Of our time have been
those who have given their time to the
examination Of the ear and the study OF
its arches, its walls. its floor. its canals,
its aaueducts, its galleries. its ihtrlca-
cies, its convolutions, its divine ma
chinery, and yet 1t will take another
thousand years before the world comes
to any adequate appreciation OF what
Ccd did when He planned and executed
the infinite and overmastering architec-
ture of the human ear. The most OF 1t
is invisible, and the microscope breaks
down in the attempt at exploration. 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 i'm
mortal soul.
Such scientists as Helmhoitz and
Conte and De Blainville and Rank and
Buck have attempted to walk the APP
plan way Of the human ear. but the
mysterious pathway has never been
fully trodden but by two feet-the foot
Of sound and the foot Of God. Three
ears on each side the head-the exter-
nal, the middle ear. the internal ear
but all connected by most wonderful
telegraphy.
The external ear in all ages was adorn-
ed by precious stones or precious met
ais. The temple of Jerusalem partly built
by the contribution of earrings, and
Homer in the "Iliad" speaks of Hera,
"the three bright drops, her gittering
gems suspended from the ear" and
many of the adornments Of modern
times were only copies of her ear Jewels
found in Pompeiian museum and Etrus-
can vase. But while the outer ear may
be adorned by human art, the middle
and the internal ears are adorned and
garnished only by the hand of the Lord
Almighty The stroke of a key Of yon-
der organ sets the air vibrating, and
the external ear catches the undulat-
the bonelets of the middle ear to the
internal ear, and the 5000 fbres Of the
human brain take up the vibration and
roll the sound on into the soul. The
hidden machinery of the ear by physi-
ologists, called by the names of things
familiar to us, like the hammer, some
thing to strike; like the anvil, some
thing to be smitten; like the strrup
of the saddle with which we mount the
stead: like the drum beaten in the
march; like 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;
like bent tube Of a heating appara-
tus taking that which enters round
and round; like a labyrinth with Won
derful passages into which the thought
enters only to be lost in bewilderment
A muscle contracting when the noise
is too loud, just as the pupil of the eye
contracts when the light is too glaring.
The external ear is defended by wax
which with it's bitterness discourages
nsectile invasion. The internal ear
imbedded in by what is far the hard
est bone of the human system, a very
rock OF strength and defiance.
The ear, so strange a contrivance
that by the estimate Of one scientist
1t can catch the sound of 73, 700 vibra-
tions in second. The outer ear TAX
ing in all kinds Of sound, whether the
crash of an avalanche or the hum of a
bee. The sound passing to the inner
door Of the outside ear halts until an
other divine mechanism passes
1t on by the bonelets of the mid
die ear, and, coming to the inner door
Of that second ear. the sound has nc
power to come farther until another
divine mechanism passes 1t on through
into the inner ear. and then the cound
comes to the rail track Of the brain
branchlet and rolls on and on until 1,
comes to sensation. and there the cur
tain drops, and hundred gates shut
and the voice Of God seems to say to
all human inspection. Thus far and
no farther"
In this vestible Of the palace Of the
soul how many kings Of thought, OF
medicine. Of physiology, have done
penance Of lifelong study and got nc
farther than the vestibule! Mysterl.
GUS home Of reverberation and echo
Grand Central depot of sound. Head.