The Red Cloud chief., 1885-05-29
H~OSPlTAECE

The Voice of Christ the Voice Of Truth.
and They of the Truth Hear and Isecoy-
nize Iii. Voice.
They all heard the Galilcan Teacher
with the outward ear. They knew the
meaning Of the words He used. for they
were the simplest words in the language.
But the same voice and the same words
impre sed men very differently. For
some they were dark saying: for some
they were hard sayings; in some they
stirred up hate and envy. while some
heard Him gladly. Ii was the same
Teacher and the same words. but the
response anged through ali the passions,
from the most devoted love TO the most
Violent hate The sam word which
fell meaningless on indifferent hearts.
which stirred up hate in the ambitious
and sclt-willed, fell like the dews of
heaven on the weary and heavy laden.
lie ed not need To seek out these DIFF
terenj G asses. The word found them
a. IL fell on the multitude. IL found
them "a the sun fin Is the seeds that lie
in the ground; and one springs up a
vost. and another n thistle, and
another tina; is dead springs not; up nj
ali. Something in the seed Diet rmineS
what the flower shall! be. Something
in the heart determines what the result
skall Ice.
4 mans knowledge is a mixture of
what = in him and of what comes 10
him. A man judges what he sees by
- L.
idea of q piece of music he gives also
an idea of his own musical condition.
W. krow where To elias him by the
WAY le classes different STYLES If music.
A mans Judgment Of a book may mark
Ms own lterarv standing. As he grades
the books on the library shelves he Is
marking his W grade at the same
time. Every Judgment a man passes
L. double, being a Judgment oi himself
~ We'll as the object he passes on The
on,i, ian asks one TO look through an
instrument. then moycs the object back
ami forth til he can see II cieiriy. The
o server SAWS lac il finding the focus of
his ctSSS. The opt:cian saws: Il am
finding the focus of Your eve" TIE
former though: the In; er was testing his
instrument. but ne was really testing
the @. hers eyesich.. IL often happens
fha' our Judgment of what we look at
Is sill. more Il judgment % ourselves.
1 friendly soul recognizes friendship.
w. can not prave its existence TO a
ciiuri. He will answer our arguments.
exp,ain our example. and my,tify our
experience. ana We shall not Ice able to
convince him. Yet we know the voice
of friendship hy an inner sense of
which we can rot be mistaken. Some
thing in us enables us To recognize il.
A. jesus went shout lie seldom
reasoned t. prove His mission, and sell
dom did He affirm what He WAS. When
John sent te Him out Of PRISON. He
"a d: 400 tell what Won have seen
Let him Judge for himself. Often when
He hat healed some one. He charged
him not 10 make Him known. When
Peter said: Thou art the Christ. :he
Son of the living God" lie said: Tell
no one" He wished them Ia accept
Him fer what they saw. and no; from
a~noiher's word. As he went abot: in
His simple character and taught in His
Simple way. the simple-hearted. tic
spiritually-minaed. >.they that wc:e of
the truth" would hear Him Az, believe
Him.
As the Disciples aft.rward went
abroad. there were minds everywhere
TO whom the truth came rs a iamiliar
voice. Not aast they had ever heard
it before. but when they heard it there
was IN answering response within.
Philip was preaching IN Sa,naria He
was ordered 10 60 down toward she
desert. and then he overlook a solitary
African Prince. whose study of tie
prophets had brought him 10 the gue-
ton: What NEXT" When Philip pre-
scented Jesus. il answered hn questions.
ii solved his problems. and WAS the COM
plement of all that went before. His
own thought had brought him - where
Philips sermon began. That sermon
was 10 him like the finishing of a story;
like the continuation al 8 Ike the
bringing in of the missing part of q
.,ictufe. Peter was sent 10 CSSarea. 1
not to preach in the market-plaee Ia the
multiaudes, but TO preach TO soldier
whom a devout and prsyerfUl life had
brought into an expec,ant state Of mind
Paul went to Phiiippi The multitude
was Indifferent TO his coming. But |
there WAS n little company by the river
II ''where prayer was Won 10 be
made" Among these was q woman
named Lydia ..whose heart the Lord
had opened" And she listened to the
things spoken by Paul. and through her
6steEsag ali the city was moved.
Everywhere the Gospel found its
Simeons whose souls waited for the
kingdOm of God. They may not have
known for what they were looking. but
they recognized il when il came. 1t
was like the coming of q friend at mid
night 1t was not known whence il
would come. nor at what hour. but his
voice was recognized when he spoke.
So this story Of the Gospel touched
chords that were in tune. When the
song came from above it swept waiting
strings. and the song Of the heart re-
sponded to the ong of the angels.
No mere outward presentation can
help q man. There must be also q
auickening within. There are those to
whom nature speaks in vain because
there is n response within; there are
hose - whom music has no power be-
cause il touches no quickened chord:
there aye thsse 70 whom friendShiS
nakas No appeal because It speaks to no
6ien1ly eWotion, Yet ther0 Is that in