A wealthy woman, who had the misfortune of losing her left ear in an automobile accident, advertised for a left ear, offering $2500 for anyone who will sell an ear that will fit.
It is reported that she had about a dozen responses to her ad. Among others was a young woman who wanted the money in order to buy better clothes.
There are multitudes of people in this country who have sold their ears for less than this in fact, vast numbers give them away. They have loaned their ears to fanciful theories, and have never gotten them back again. The outward appendage is all that the aforesaid people offer to sell. They could still hear without it but the numbers of whom we speak have sold their inner ear, the ear of the soul, and can hear nothing else any more but the pet theory that they have been induced into loaning their ears to. The Word of God tells us:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death into life.” John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).
ML 10/13/1940