The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-02-23
'TALMAGE'S SERMON.
MAKING THE DEAF HEAR" is
THE SUBJECT.
"And They Bring Unto Him One That
Was Deaf" Mark vii; 32-Christ's
Work as N HeaIer-A Lesson for All
Men.

Men.
"Six thousand years ago Adam and
Eve were driven out Of the garden OF
Eden. But ia the latter part of this
sixth millennium the kindergartens,
academies, colleges, universities, semi
naries, lyceums, legislatures, political
colleges, lawyers, doctors, ministers,
daily newspapers, weeklies, and
monthly magazines have been working
side by side to change the sands OF
ignorance into the fora OF knowledge
to lift the depressed valleys to the
heights of the hills, and to delugo
earths dry places with the water or
life. Once the pulpit was the great
center, the intellectual as we'll as the
spiritual educator Of the community.
The Clergyman, like the pope Of Rome,
could speak ex-cathedra. The orator
always knew as much as, If not grea.
deal more than, the auditor. Now the
intellectual audiences think for them
selves. The churches and the public
halls are flied with juries ready 10
weigh evidences. The people have not
only one, but many. Rosetta stones.
The dead languages are no longer dead.
Hearers as well as speakers can soor
separate the brass from the gold, the
tares from the wheat, the false from
the true, mans thoughts from Cod 5
thoughts. Once the king was not only
the ruler, but the judge and the exc
cutioncr. Two women claimed a GER
tain baby. Solomon, in his wisdom,
said. Bring NE a sword. Divide the
living child in two, and give half to
the one and half to the other When
the true mother fell down and begged
that her child be given to the enemy
rather than be destroyed. Solomon
said to the weeping suppliant, Give
her the living child. and in no wise
slay it; she is the mother.
One or Chri-t's Cures.
To-day We are going to study one o!
Christ's most wonderful cures: The
unstopping OF a deaf mute's ears. II Is
| the more remarkable because st. MARI
is the only divine biographer who
resords the miracle. In the first place
they bring unto him one that is deaf.
| because the affection was considered
incurable. Even unto this day we
! know but very little about the human
ear. The eye, the foot, the hand. tbs
stomach. the liver, the heart have been
explored and are understood by the
dissector's knife. But the ear, with
/ its tympanum, it's bones. its two vest!'
bules or storm doors, for the anatom!s
must pass through the outer and mid
die ear before he can enter the hoiJ
of holes OF sound the ear, able tc
catch a loved ole's whisperings, ant
yet not be stunned at the thunderclal
of a tornado, has never been fully mas
tered The drum has side holes to le
the air in and out, that the drumheat
may vibrate and cause sound. We fine
in the ear there Is a long tube connect
ing with the throat, and on the top o
this tube there is a thin membrane o.
skin which moves up and down as tE
waves Of sound strike it. And catarrh1
troubles are dangerous because the.
threaten the stoppage Of this tube
Sometimes deafness is caused by cere
bro-spinal meningitis. The nerv
which runs from the Lase OF the brai'
to the ear becomes paraliZed. Some
times deafness is caused by the QUITE
nerves OF the ear being destroyed D.
that most dreaded of all infantile dis
eases called scarlet fever, a more dc
structive enemy to the nursery tina
death, because when it is driven ava
, from the cradle, in mad rage this dis
ease generally strikes paralyz!n
, blow which leaves its victim helpies
and worse than dead. Sometimes tn
cause is inexplicable. A mans ear ma
Z be perfectly formed, yet the mind IS n
more able TO differentiate sound thu
> one afflicted with color blindness
: able to distinguish between red, whit
yellow, blue. purple, or green. Wha
ever may be the cause of deafnes
5 when a child is once born deaf, he
! deaf to the grave. No power of SUI
t gerry or medicament has ever bee
4 able to cure the affection.
u Figures That Prove Facts.
ITO prove this is true. OF the 50,
deaf mutes in the United States, al
u 29.512 deaf mutes in France, and 4
i "a. 4S8 deaf in Germany, and the 20
: deaf in Denmark, and the AIS i'll Sa
DINA, and 1000 deaf mutes in Canad
y and the 100000 deaf mutes in tn
5 world at the present time-for JOSEF
A. seiss, in his book called The Chi
dren of Silence declares there is oil
u deaf mute to ever 1,400 of the humf
race-not one of the deaf mutes h
u ever heard one sound IL born witho
= the power of hearing. Now, you mu
u realize the condition in which Jes
II Christ lived was entirely different fro
II that of the present day. In this a
u of factories and smoke and beehiv
e of swarming populations city is
II place where no one knows his neig
e bor The only interest most of us ia