The Alaska citizen., 1916-09-18
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THE CALL OF THE DEBT.

well nigh lost in the busy throng of noisamakers We are a nation of habblers and everyone is in love with his own voice We want to be heard. Silence is golden" and still waters run deep" have long since lost their important places We are a nation ready for some new thing that will attract attention because of it's noise pos sibiities. We go into society. and il is "eiggle sabble, gobble, git eout" You hear noise. you listen to silence Hearing is sensation, excitement; listening is feeling, thought "Nenana. the New Noise" calls forth pleasures and things of day. Alaska the Nations Store house, causes men to stop and lis ten. for they hear in that song the silent forces that make homes and happiness. contented hearts and si. lent haryests.
 It is not too much 10 say that men are great men if they are not only good takers, but also good listeners In every age it is the man who has listened who has message. Moses did not invent the Ten Commandments-he recorded them Handel did not compose the "Messiah'-he transcribed it only little men think they are causes. Great men say they are voices We poor. a. they seem to give atten- tton The old gentleman on the front seat may hear little of the sermon because his hearing is de fective, and yet he may have heard far better than another whose hear ing was perfect Some who look see the cut of the speakers coat. while others see how to give the "cup of cold water;' some hear the mistake in enunciation, others hear the voice of God in the soul. Some hear most when the noise is loudest; others hear most when si- lence reigns supreme. What do We know about the voices of the flowers? What is the language of the stars and the words of the worlds above you? Is h. bowling wind the only thing ,c be heard N ho can imagine tho symphony of tha snow stovm? Most If Us are deaf people. for We hear not the great orchestra of silent instru- ments they play in perfect tune, ca'ns men C the good and the true and the permanent things of the eternities.
 When Moses came from the noun tain he brought message for all ages When MendOlSsOhn came from his study he presented mankind with heavenly music Wh en Ra- phael and Michael Angelo had fin ished their work the people of ev- cry nation listened to their silence, and are listening still. These men heard and wrote down their mes sage The world and man look into each others eyes; both can speak, and both can hear; what are the voices of the deep?
 | In Nature there is voice calling unto man. Primarily and always this voice is a revelation To some it reveals one thing, to others another. One man means merchandise and he goes to nature for lumber, or iron, or copper, or grain. More mean amusement and they go to nature for a picnic, q hunt, a race course. Some mean health and they seek the mountains for rest and pure air. Others asks for knowledge, and they count the stars, examine the rocks classify the flowers, and set the names of the animals and birds down in a book They call it nature study, and find little else beside. Nature is merchandise. amusement. health, knowledge, all these and more. na- ture is merchandise.
 Our Book of books has a conner cial value. The orator goes there for his figure of speech. The mer- chant for knowledge of his busi- ness, and the musician for harmony seeks it's pages, There is found history, experience and knowledge in thousand facts. Yet what would we think of man who used the Bible only for oratory, busi- ness, music, an encyclopedia? We would consider that somehow the kernel of that Book had escaped his notice, for the Bibles heart is revelation.
 Let everyone go into the fields in the height of summer. Let him listen to the voices of the deep re- vealing God to his soul Let him not see the wilderness of growth so much as let him see what the soil can produce for man every where Let him not see the force of the wind in the storm, as the rain that waters the earth and causes it to bring forth her increase. Let him go reverently as David out