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HE Lord who formed the ear is constantly in the act of speaking unto us—"Day unto day uttereth speech;" for His speech is His Holy Word, and this is constantly exhorting us to holiness, admonishing us when we go astray, instructing us in righteousness, or encouraging us to go forward in the regeneration, and promising to be ever with us. Man is not supported "by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." The two bodily senses of seeing and hearing, are the appointed means of keeping open a circulation of good things from one world to another, especially from the great Creator to His creature, man; under the conviction that they all proceed from Him who planted the ear, and Who will continue to supply all its wants, if we wait upon Him. The internal ear should be open only to hear the voice of the eternal mercy and truth of Jesus Christ, according as it is written, "I will hear what God the Lord will speak."

It is a discovery in modern philosophy, that sound is propagated better in the night than in the day. This is also true concerning spiritual sound, or the effect which the Word of God produces on the spiritual ears. For spiritual sound, which is the voice of God, or the Word of God, makes more impression in the night, both of spiritual ignorance and of spiritual trial, than in the day of spiritual illumination and consolation,