Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-04-23

rnu century Struggling Oh up from g
years of age, wien he was left father
less, Wagner rose through the obloquy
of the world and ofltimes all nations
seemingly aaninst him until he gained
the favor Of IL king and won tho enthusi
assn of the opera houses Of Europe and
America Struggling I'LL the way Oh to
70 years OF age TO conquer the world s
ear! In that same attempt to master the
human ear and gain supremacy over
this gate of the immortal soul great
battles were fought by Mozart, Glucli
and Weber and by Beethoven ard Mey-
erbeer, by Russini and by all the roll of
German and Italian and French COM
posers, some of them in the battle leav
ing their blood on the keynotcs and the
musical scores. Great battle fought for
tho ear-fought with butonr with organ
| pipo, with trumpet, with cornet-a-pis-
ton, with all ivary and brazcn and sill
yer and golden weapons of the orchestra;
royal theHtor and cathedral and acad-
envy OF music the fortrcsses for the COIL
test for the ear England and Egypt
fought for the supremacy of the Suez
canal, and the 5partans and the Persians
fought for TIE dciie at Thermopylp,
hut the musicians of all ages have
fought fer the mastery of the auditory
canal and the dcile of tho immortal
soul and the Thermopyl@ of struggling
! cadencos.
Conquest OF the Ear.
For the conquest of the ear Haydn
struggled OH up from the garnet, where
he had neither fire nor food, OH and Oh
until under the too great nervous strain
of hearing his own oratorio Of tho
Creation performed he was Carried
out to die. but leaving as his legacy to
the world us symphonies, lG3 pieces
for the baritone, Is masses, . ofatorios,
42 German tal Italian songs, 80 canons,
$50 English ana Scotch songs, with ac-
compartment, and l53G pages of liLfot-
ii. All that to capture the gate OF the
body that swings III from the tylnpanum
to the "snail SHELF lying on the beach
of the ocean Of the immortal soul
To CONQUER the ear Handel struggled
on from the time when his father would
not let him 20 to school lest he learn
the gamut and become musician, aud
from the time when he was allowed IL
the organ loft just to play after the au-
dience had left to the time when he left
to all nations his unparalleled oratorios
Of "Estber, - "Deborah, Sam ps0n,
"Jephtha!h, :" Judas Maccabnus, - Is
rael IL Egypt" and tho Messiah the
soul of the great German composer still
weeping iii the dead march Of our great
oasequics and triumphing i'll the rap
lures of every Easter morn.
To conquer the ear and take this gate
of the immortal soul Schubert composed
his great Serenade, writing the
slaves of tie music on the bill CT fare
in restaurant, and went OF until he
could leave rs legacy to the world
ever ,0OO magnificent compositions III
music. 70 conquer the ear and take this
gate of the souls castle Mozart strug-
gled on through porerty until nc came
to a paupars grave, and one chilly,
wet afterlcca tie body Of him who
gave to the world the "Requiem and
the &c Elinor Symphony was crunch
81 in OF tho top Of two other paapers
into a grave whioh TO this day is cpl
taphless.
For the ear everything meililnous.
from the birth hour when our earth was
wrapped in swaddling clothes of light
and serenudol By ether worlds, from
tho time when Junal thrummcd the first
harp and pressed key of the first or
gan down to tho music of this Sabbath
day. Yea, for the ear the coming over
lures of heaven, for whatever other
part of the body MAY DE left i'll the dust
the ear, we know, is to come to celes-
tial life; otherwise why the "harpers
harping with their harps?" For the ear,
carol of lark, and whistle Of quail, and
chirp of cricket, and dash of cascade,
and roar of tides oceanic, and doXology
of worsiiip!ul assembly and mlnstrelsy,
cherubic, seraphic and archangellc. For
the ear all Pandean pipes, all flutes, all
clarinets, all hautboys, all bassoons, all
bellsand ali organs-Luzerue and West
minister abbey, and Freiburg, and Ber-
lin, and all the organ pipes set across
Christendoni, the great Giants Cause
way for tho monarchs of music to pass
over. For the CIR, all chimes, all tick
ings of chronometers, all anthems all
dirges. all glees, all choruses, all lula
bies, all orchestration. Oh, the ear, the
God honoled CIR, grooved with divine
sculpture and poised with divine grace
fulness and upholstered with curtains
of divine embroidery, and corridored by
divine carpentry, and pillared with dl-
vine architecture, and chiscled III bone
of divine masonry. and conquered by
professions of divine marshalin9! The
ear a perpetual point of Interrogation,
asking, How: a perpetual point of
apostrophc appealing to God. None but
God could plan it None but God could
build it. None but Col could work it,
None but Col could keep it None but
God could understand it, None but God
could explain it, Oh, the wonders OF
the hunlan ear!
4 Sacred Thing.
How surprising sacred the human ear!
, You had butter be careful how you let
the sound of blasphemy or uncleanness
step into that holy of holies. The Bible
says that in the ancient temple the
priest was set apart by the putting OF
the blood of ram on the tip of the ear,
the right ear of the priest But, my
friends, we need all of US to have the
sacred touch of ordination Oh the hang
ing lobe of both ears and Oh the arches
Of the ears, on tie eustachian tube of
The ear OH the mastoid cells of the ear,
III the tympanic cavity of the ear and on
everything from the outside rim OF the
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