FINDINGS OF THE EAR 



which a prodigious amount of thundersome 

 declamation and desk-thumping was deemed 

 necessary a notion whose logic resembles 

 that of the man who imagines that emphatic 

 oaths give force to his remarks. 



Some people with emotional requirements, 

 which nothing but loud hosannas can satisfy, 

 find occasion for alarm in the quieter tone 

 and temper of the modern pulpit; but such 

 fearful ones should meditate on the words 

 of Isaiah, who declared that the effect of 

 righteousness is quietness. It is only among 

 people so benighted that righteousness comes 

 as an exciting novelty that religious fervor 

 gives noisy evidence of itself, like the bub- 

 bling fermentation of yeast in liquors; but, 

 when the yeast has thoroughly worked, the 

 bubbling and fermentation cease. 



The same force which has been making 

 for quiet strength in the field of religion will 

 eventually abolish noise from every depart- 

 ment of man's activity ; but, at present, man 

 still shakes his baby rattle in the calm pres- 

 ence of his mother nature. Some of her 

 own lapses from gentle decorum must never- 



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