Now the strange thir.g is that some of the same people who were shouting "Hosanna! on Sunday, were shouting "Crucify him!" on Friday. Didn't they know their own minds? Well, they didn't Shouters seldom do. There are al ways shouters about, they emerge from every crack when anything exciting goes on. They shout in crowds; solo shouters are rare If you had taken many'maybe most) members of that Sunday crowd aside and asked each one in pri vate: "Do you really think this Jesus is a King0" it is a fair guess that some of them would have re plied. "Well ... I don't know, of course. But he might be. Good idea to get on the band-wagon. 1 hear . . . ” and so forth. Further, •f you Had been able to get private interviews with the bloody-sound ing shouters on Friday morning, and isked. "do you really think that this Jesus is guilty—and if he is. of what, exactly? Do you pei snnally,, want to sec him cruci fied by the Romans?" You might have got some answers like "Was I saying crucify'? Well, that's a little strong. Of course I hate to see anybody in Roman hands No, I don't know the man personally, but I was told ..." and so forth I have heard—I was told They . say . Your shouter has no mind. •Th] he has is a voice. We Should Know It is not such laik mystery why the same people could yell Hosanna! and Crucify! about the same person within a week. Re member what was lined up against Jesus—intrenched interests, self ishness. indifference, pride hatred, greed, prejudice. For him there was only truth, and truth has short shrift when the shouters are going strong. We may be shouters our selves. How is it that on Sunday we can sing the most devoted songs about Jesus, we can even ofTer prayers in His name, and then on Monday inot waiting till J Friday! our actions, which speak louder than our words always, crucify the Son of God afresh'"' we sing come from poems which better Christians wrote; we just ung along with others. no don't think much about what the words mean Then on Monday we fall in- ! to the ways of the world. We don't connect what we are doing (which can be pretty devilish and still legal) with what we said on Sun day; and we don't (maybe) inten- ; tiunally mean anything against Jesus. But we do and what "every body" does and says, and don't stop to think (it's too much trouble for a shouter to think) that what we are doing, or failing to do, says louder than words—"Jesus? Who's he° Nobody that makes any dif ference with me. nobody I d care to be like!"

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