Let the Years Unfold With Faith January 5, 1958
Often we wonder what unseen events are in the offing: Who of us will be here after a year from now? Who will leave this life; who will see sorrow and who will see success? How often we wish we could...
What We Now Know January 12, 1958
We often feel we want to see further into future. But also it is a fact that we are already know much more concerning the future than we sometimes seem to suppose. Emerson said that further...
The Curtain of the Future… January 19, 1958
Concerning foreknowledge of the future, Emerson said the Creator “. . . with grand politeness . . . draws down before us an impenetrable screen. . . .” Cicero said this on the...
The Best Tranquilizer… January 26, 1958
Somewhere we have this short incisive sentence: “The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.” Some troubles come by accident or illness or misfortune (or from the faithlessness of...
Coming to Ourselves February 2, 1958
Character, Confidence, and Consistency February 9, 1958
From a forecast of ten things, which can be counted on this one sentence we take from the ten: “Reputations will continue to be made by many acts, and to be lost by one.” This calls to...
Marriage--a Momentous Investment February 16, 1958
Marriage is among life’s most momentous investments, if not the most momentous—the investment of ourselves, of all that we are, of all the future, and the future of our families. And since...
Home Is Those Who Are There February 23, 1958
There has been much written, sometimes realistically, and sometimes sentimentally, about what makes a home. There are of course the comforts and conveniences, and a sense of belonging in a familiar...
Talent Without Character March 2, 1958
Training, Intelligence, and Integrity March 9, 1958
We should like here to appeal to young people to keep the record of their lives clear and clean for any opportunity or opening that may ever be offered. From the earliest years of youth the record...
Good Men Ye Should Observe to Uphold March 16, 1958
As to the great need for matching talent and training with intelligence and integrity, we should like to say something of these and other attributes that would surely be essential in filling any...
Against Every Irritation March 23, 1958
In all the relationships of life, in all relationships with people, there are times that are rich and rewarding, and times that are tense and trying. This is true at home; it is true where we work;...
With What Judgment Ye Judge… March 30, 1958
To Be Born--or to Rise Again… April 6, 1958
Here we are alive, on a planet suspended in space—a beautiful and wondrous one, with sunrise and sunset, and seedtime and harvest, and the changing seasons; and all that grows, and all that moves...
Beginning to Be… April 13, 1958
We often speak of things we would like to do—or like to be. But so often, it seems, there is some distance between where we are and where we wish we were, and it takes effort to cover any distance...
Not Into Temptation… April 20, 1958
In a talk to young men and boys, a well-known athlete made this comment on a compelling question: What would we thank other people for later in life? We wouldn’t thank them for tempting us to...
Friend--a Word of Much Meaning April 27, 1958
“Friend” is a word of much meaning. Sometimes it is applied loosely to mean simply someone we know, someone with whom we have become acquainted. But a friend is much more than merely...
Intent--a Sure Test of Friendship… May 4, 1958
We have talked of friends and friendship and of the fact that no true friend would ever lead us into temptation, or to the making of memories that we would later be less than thankful for. With...
A Mother's Love Outlives Them All May 11, 1958
Blessedly, in the lives of most of us, there are saving and safeguarding influences moving in the background, molding and mellowing and maturing us—influences of which we are often unaware. And one...