A QUIET EASTER SERVICE
A college professor told of an experience confirming the need for a place of solitude: It seems a group of students were holding a campus sunrise service the week before their Easter holidays. At first the atmosphere of the early morning out-of-doors was one of quiet reverence. But gradually the noise of traffic and other distractions of the awakening city competed with the speaker for the students’ attention. Suddenly he noticed that one student after another covered his ear on the side from which the noises came, in order to hear more clearly the sound of the speaker’s voice telling of the crucifixion and of the risen Savior. These young college students teach us a new truth–a modern parable of the noises and the sound: that whoever would hear the sound of God’s voice must first shut out the distracting noises of the less important, the less meaningful, the less eternal activities that continually and persistently crowd in and cunningly…
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