The Ear
T. DeWitt Talmage
Psalm, 94: 9: " He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?"
Architecture is one of the most fascinating arts, and the study of Egyptian, Grecian, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine, Moorish and Renaissance styles of building has been to many a man a sublime life-work. Lincoln and York cathedrals, St. Paul's and St. Peter's, and Arch of Titus, and Theban Temple, and Alhambra and Parthenon are the monuments to the genius of those who built them. But more wonderful than any arch they ever lifted, or any transept window they ever illumined or any Corinthian column they ever crowned, or any Gothic cloister they ever elaborated, is the human ear. No one but the infinite God could have fashioned it.
Among the most skilful and assiduous physiolo- gists of our time have been those who have given their time to the examination of the ear and the study- ing of its arches, its walls, its floor, its canals, its aqueducts, its galleries, its intricacies, its convolutions, its divine machinery, and yet it will take another thousand years before the world comes to any ade- quate appreciation of what God did when he planned and executed the infinite and overmastering archi- tecture of the human ear. The most of it is invisible, and the microscope breaks down in the attempt at ex- ploration. The cartilage which we call the ear is onlv the storm-door of the great temple clear down out of sight, next door to the immortal soul. Such scien- tists as Helmholtz and Le Conte and de Blainville and Ranke and Buck have attempted to walk the Appian 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 external ear, the middle ear, the internal ear-but all connected by most wonderful telegraphy.
The external ear in all ages adorned by precious stones or precious metals. The Temple of Jerusalem was partly built by the contribution of earrings; and H ...
T. DeWitt Talmage
Psalm, 94: 9: " He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?"
Architecture is one of the most fascinating arts, and the study of Egyptian, Grecian, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine, Moorish and Renaissance styles of building has been to many a man a sublime life-work. Lincoln and York cathedrals, St. Paul's and St. Peter's, and Arch of Titus, and Theban Temple, and Alhambra and Parthenon are the monuments to the genius of those who built them. But more wonderful than any arch they ever lifted, or any transept window they ever illumined or any Corinthian column they ever crowned, or any Gothic cloister they ever elaborated, is the human ear. No one but the infinite God could have fashioned it.
Among the most skilful and assiduous physiolo- gists of our time have been those who have given their time to the examination of the ear and the study- ing of its arches, its walls, its floor, its canals, its aqueducts, its galleries, its intricacies, its convolutions, its divine machinery, and yet it will take another thousand years before the world comes to any ade- quate appreciation of what God did when he planned and executed the infinite and overmastering archi- tecture of the human ear. The most of it is invisible, and the microscope breaks down in the attempt at ex- ploration. The cartilage which we call the ear is onlv the storm-door of the great temple clear down out of sight, next door to the immortal soul. Such scien- tists as Helmholtz and Le Conte and de Blainville and Ranke and Buck have attempted to walk the Appian 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 external ear, the middle ear, the internal ear-but all connected by most wonderful telegraphy.
The external ear in all ages adorned by precious stones or precious metals. The Temple of Jerusalem was partly built by the contribution of earrings; and H ...
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