Faith, Work, Patience January 2, 1955
The New Year does not last long. And despite its festivities, it is somewhat sobering⎯sobering for many reasons, and in part because of some uncertainties. But sometimes we overemphasize...
The Price of Repenting... January 9, 1955
Repentance doesn’t appear to be very popular. Prophets have been made martyrs for proclaiming it; nations and peoples have died rather than do anything about it. But however unpopular or...
Happiness--and Success January 16, 1955
Happiness is the most pursued thing in all the world. All men are looking for it, whether they know it or not. Our Founding Fathers knew its place and importance when they listed it along with life...
The Dotted Line… January 23, 1955
Signing on the “dotted line” has come to be a symbol of entering into obligations—a symbol sometimes of getting into things that are not easy to get out of. Many have discovered that it...
The Swift Traveling of Time… January 30, 1955
Sometimes, some event in our lives brings sharply into focus the swift traveling of time. It may be a birthday or some other anniversary which ties some happening of the past to the present, and...
And Thou Shalt Be Built Up… February 6, 1955
There comes to mind a phrase remembered from a childhood game of forfeits: “Heavy, heavy hangs over thy poor head.” If we were to emphasize the negative side of the passing scenes, all...
At Another Person's Pace… February 13, 1955
Perhaps most of us have had the experience of trying too closely to follow another car; and soon we learn how hazardous and difficult it is, how tense and trying to drive at another person’s...
What Is Man? February 20, 1955
It has been many centuries since the Psalmist asked this ever-recurring question: “What is man, that thou art mindful of him?” Both before and since then, many have asked it over and...
And Ye Shall Know the Truth… February 27, 1955
Not too infrequently it would be well to turn attention to Pilate’s timeless question,”What is truth?”⎯for on the answer hangs all we are or ever hope to be. On the answer hangs...
On a Dark and Sleepless Night… March 6, 1955
A sentence recently read offers these words of wise and comforting counsel: “Do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.” No doubt most...
All Present or Accounted For… March 13, 1955
It is a wonderful, comforting, reassuring feeling when parents, mentally, can call the roll, and find all the family in⎯safe and secure. When families are young in years it is comparatively easy to...
And Never Cease to Search… March 20, 1955
Dangerous though truth may be at times, it is not nearly so dangerous as ignorance is. Of course, ignorance, like all the other words we use, has various definitions and degrees. There is a great...
On Living in Tight Compartments… April 17, 1955
Sometimes some people seem to pride themselves on being self-contained, on withholding their thoughts and experiences from others. Up to a point, this may be evidence of a strong and admirable...
On Keeping Confidences… April 24, 1955
As already observed, there is strength and safety and sincere satisfaction in sharing thoughts and feelings and experiences with those we love and live with⎯husbands and wives, children with...
Someone to Be Safe With… May 1, 1955
We have talked of sharing and of keeping confidences. Now, for a moment, we should like to talk of someone to trust⎯someone to be safe with. There are many exciting people, many talented and able...
In Turning Homeward… May 8, 1955
There is something hallowed in turning homeward. Homeward turns the child tired from school or play. Homeward turns the man or woman weary from work, weary from the problems and the hard competitive...
On Relying on Laws and Locks May 15, 1955
On the question of being safe with someone: After all other considerations are taken into account and given their proper appraisal, we had just as well, first and always, face this fact: that the...
On Outsmarting Other Men May 22, 1955
There is another side to this subject of someone to trust, someone to be safe with, and that is this: The person who is foolish enough to suppose that he can outsmart other men, that he can outsmart...
The Designer… and the Design May 29, 1955
In some ways, time heals and softens the sharpness of many sorrows, but the sharpness of separation from our loved ones can become acute at any time, as any moment may bring its own reminders of...