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the time when he was allowed IN the or /
gan loft Just TO play after the audience |
had left, to the time when he left 20 az
nations his Unparalleled oratorios ..
Esther Deborah Sampson 'Jephihah', /
Judas Maccabeus,' Israel n Egypt. anu
the Messiah, the soul OF the great Ter,
man composer still weeping IN the ushd
march Of our great obsequses and ttl-
umphing il the raptures OF every Easter
morn.
God Only Could Plan IL.
ITO conquer the ear and take this gate
of the immortal soul. Schubert composed (
his great 'Serenade.' writing the slaves
of the music on the bill of fare in a res
taurant. and went on until he could leave
as a legacy to the world over thou-
sand magnificent compositions in music
To conquer the ear and take this gate OF
the souls castle Mozart struggled on
through poverty until he came TO pau
per's grave. and one chilly, wet after
noon the body of him who gave 10 the
world the Requiem and the G minor
symphony was crunched in on the top OF
two other paupers into grave when 70
this day is epitaphless.
For the ear everything melliiuous,
from the birth hour, when our earth was
wrapped in swaddiing clothes of light anu
serenaded by other worlds. from the time
when Jub9l thrummed the first harp ana
pressed key of the first organ down 10
the music Of this Sabbath day. Yea, for
the ear the coming oyertures OF heaven,
for whatever other part of the body may
be left in the dust. the ear, we know, Is
to come to celestial life: otherwise, why
the 'harpers harping with their harpsy
For the ear. carol of lark and whistle OF
| quail and chirp of cricket and dash OF
cascade and roar of tides oceanic ana
doxolOgy or worsfipful assembly and MIN
strelsy, cherubic, seraphic, and archan-
gelic. For the ear all Pandean pipes, al
flutes, all clarionets. al hautboys, all bas-
soons, all bells, and all organs-Luzerhe
and Westminster Abbey and Freyburg
| and Berlin and all the great organ pipes
| set across Christendom, the great Giant
| Causeway for the monarchs of music 10
| pass over For the ear all chimes, all
| tickings of chronometers, all anthems,
4 all dirgeS, all glees, all cnoruses, all lulla-
bies, all orchestratiOn. Oh, the ear. the
God-honored, ear, grooyed with DIVINE DNs,I,
| sculpture and poised with divine graceful
ness and upholstered with curtains OF
| Divine embroidery and corridored by Dl-
vine carpentry, and pillared with DIVINE
architecture. and chiseled In bone OF III
| vine masonry, and conquered by process
sions of Divine marshaling. The ear! A
| perpetual point of Interrogation, asking
| How? A perpetual point or apostfopI9
appealing to God. None but God could
| plan IL. None but God could build
it, None but God could work 1t. None
but God could keep it. None but God
| could understand 1t. None but God could
explain it, oh, the wonder OF the human
ear!
Our Ears should BE Sanctifed.
"How much it has to do with the history
Of the world An abused ear brought on
a war. Capt Robert Jenkins said his
ship was boarded by Spaniards. They
demanded where his gold and merchan-
disc we're hidden. When he declined TO
| tell them they tore off his ear, and cried
carry that to your kingr The ear was
so carried, and the evaporation opened
bloody conflict between nations. The tar
tars iii v 81 .a.iiied nine sacks with the right
ears of the slain.
How surprisingly sac'sl the human
ear. You had better be careful how you
let the sound of blaspheny or unclean-
ness step into that holy Of holes. The
Bible says that in the ancient temple the
priest was set apart BY the putting OF
the blood of a ram on the tip OF the ear
the right ear of the priest. But, my
friends, we need all OF US to have the sa-
cred touch of ordination on the hanging
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ears. on the Eustachian tube of the ear,
on the mastoid cells of the ear, on the
tympanic cavity of the ear, and on every
thing from the outside rim of the outside
ear clear in 10 the point where sound steps
. off the auditory nerve and rolls on down
: into the unfathomable depths of the i'm
} mortal soul The Bible speaks of dun
| ears and of 'uncircumcised ears and oil
itching ears and of 'rebellious ears, and
of open ears and OF those who have al
, the organs of hearing and yet who seen
TO be deaf, for it cries to them: He tha1
hath ears to hear, let him near
ITO show how much Christ thought o.
! | the human car he one day met EiaI
who was deaf, came up to him, and put
! finger of the right hand into the orificc
? the left ear of the patient, and put I'M
. ger OF the left hand into the orifce OF IN
, right ear of the patient, and agitated TN
tympanum. and startled the bonelets, an
with a voice that rang clear through INT
7 the mans soul, cried: 'EDhphatha" al
the polyphoid growths gave way, and IT,
inflamed article cooled off, and that MAJ
: who had not heard sound Tor maa'
years, that night heard the wash OF IN
, waves of Galilee against the limeSton
/ shelving To show how much Chris
e thought Of the human ear, when the apps
I tie Peter got mad and with one SLASH o
his sword dropped the ear or MdlcnuS INT
, the dust Christ created new eXterna
l ear for MsIchus. corresponding with IN
: middle ear and the internal ear that n
: sword could clip away.
Gods Temple Is the Ear.
g "And TO show what God thinks OF tn
: ear we are informed OF the fact that j
I the miIlennial June which shall roseat
4 all the earth, the ears of the deaf VIII Z
unstopped. all the vascular growths gon
all reformation of the listening orga
cured, corrected, changed. Every bein
, on earth will have hearing apparatus
perfect az God knows how t. [. AXE Il, an
all the ears will be ready for that grea
{ symphony In which all the musical In
!. struments Of the earth shall play the &C
> Commandment, nations of earth and en-
u pires of heaven mingling their voices, 10
- gether with the deep bass Of the sea IN
= the alto of the woods. and the t6nor @
" winds, and the barytone OF the thunder
'AIleluiahp surging up meeting the "A
: leluiahp descending.
"Oh, yes. my friends, We have been lool
!, ing for God too far away instead OF looA
? ing for Him close by and In our own Of
!, ganism. We 90 up into the observator
n and look through the telescope and 50
n God In Jupiter and God In Saturn. an
9 Cod in Mars; but we could see more Z
y him through the microscope OF an aurlS
. No king is satisfied with only one res
l. dence. and in France II has been ST. Ciou
II and Versailles and the galleries. and
, Great Britain II has BEEN windsor an
Il Balmoral and Osborne. A ruler does NJ