Article November 16, 1946 Issue

Make a Joyful Noise

MARY RETTA TITUS

The very small children in a Christian Science Sunday School class were learning to sing hymns. Their voices were off key, but the teacher encouraged them to try. "Make a joyful noise," she urged. "Even if we do not sing the tune correctly now, if we try to make a joyful noise God will hear us."

Profound and helpful advice for all of us! If we sometimes think that our efforts to express harmony are feeble and unavailing, let us draw a lesson from the children and at least try to make a joyful noise of gratitude to God for the good He has already given us. If we have allowed sorrow, sickness, or inharmony of any kind to dim our clear vision of the ever-presence of good, then let us renew our efforts to praise God!

Recollect the eager expectancy in the voice of a little child learning to sing! Children do not normally have a negative outlook regarding any of their undertakings. They are not easily discouraged, but have an expectation of and a trust in good that we all need. It is to this fresh, pure open-mindedness and trustfulness that the master Christian referred when he said (Luke 18:17), "Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdomof God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein."

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