Cagle Grams: Noise: A sign of the times

“Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me ... they make a noise like a dog” (Psalm 59:1-6 KJV). The word "noise" originally meant "sickness" or "nausea" for the confusion one usually experiences while being sick. It now means a loud, harsh, annoying, intrusive sound There is the legitimate noise of labor and progress. Then there is unnecessary noise, which is a nuisance that noisy people who can’t live without noise make. The wicked men in our text who were sent to find David growled, snarled and quarreled throughout the city like detestable dogs. The demon Screwtape, in C. S. Lewis’s "The Screwtape Letters," said, “Noise