'Only the Master's hand

Only the Master's hand can bring out of our souls the music that slumbers in them.

A violin lies on the table silent and without beauty.

One picks it up and draws the bow across the strings — but it yields only wailing discords.

Then a master comes and takes it up, and he brings from the little instrument the most marvelous music.

In the same way, other men touch our lives and draw from them only jangled notes.

Christ takes them, and when He has put the chords in tune, He brings from them the music of love and joy and peace!