1970 Miracle Yearbook

Faculty parking. In the discipline of music, one is continually confronted with conson- ance and dissonance. These two factors provide a valuable contrast in music, the former suggesting repose, the latter stress. There has been, however, no absolute agreement as to what actually constitutes that which is consonant and that which is dissonant. The ear is the final judge, and the ears of musicians have reacted differently in different eras. As the ears of musicians have reacted differently over the ages, so have individuals been at variance in determining that which is spirit- ually consonant and dissonant. In musical practice only the unison and octave are mathematically consonant; all other intervals are dissonant in a greater or lesser degree. Is it too difficult to allow that an infinite God may both provide that repose and permit that stress which is then evidenced in our lives in a most valuable contrast? In the final analysis, will we ever accept the concept that the relationship of God, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and the ministry of the Holy Spirit, to the individual is absolutely constant, and that all other relationships are dissonant to a greater or lesser degree? —David L.Matson 55