Forgiving Others---Forgiving Ourselves January 3, 1971
“A person’s ability to forgive is in proportion to the greatest of his soul. Little men cannot forgive.”1 “Tell them,” said a beloved associated, “tell them to...
All This Is Part of Happiness… January 10, 1971
There is a whimsical sentence from Kin Hubbard which says: “It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an’ wealth have both failed.”1 Beginning sendings more...
The Desire to Be Appreciated January 17, 1971
“The deepest hunger in human beings,” said William James, “is the desire to be appreciated.”1 A wife, a mother, can put up with faults and imperfections ⎯ with inadequate...
Two Kinds of Pollution January 24, 1971
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”1 Then later this follows in the account of the creation: “And God saw everything that he had mad, and, behold, it was very...
I'm Busy. Don't Bother Me Now. January 31, 1971
We often are aware of impatience with other people’s questions, with other people’s problems ⎯ with an obvious “I’m busy, don’t-bother-me-now” attitude....
Some Sudden, Sobering Fact to Face February 7, 1971
A “life to live! We all want to do our best with it. We all want to make the most of it,” wrote one earnest searching person. “The question is not how much time have we? —for in...
Beauty and Morality February 21, 1971
We cite here three short sentences to help present a point. One is from Frank Lloyd Wright who said, “Beauty is the highest expression of morality.”1 The second is from Plautus: “I...
Your Children to Whom You Must Relinquish All February 28, 1971
“Could I climb to the highest place in Athens,” said Socrates, “I would lift up my voice and proclaim: “Fellow citizens, why do ye turn and scrape every stone to gather...
Theirs That Commit Them…theirs That Permit Them March 7, 1971
There is this from Thomas Fuller that is worth some further thought: “The first faults are theirs that commit them; The second theirs that permit them.”1 We have cited before the...
The Tyranny of Fashion March 14, 1971
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions,” said Henry Thoreau, “but follows religiously the new.”1 This brings us to what could be called the tyranny of fashion ⎯...
Two Fools Quarrelling March 21, 1971
Thomas Fuller said something in a short and meaningful sentence that pertains to loved ones, families, friends, and to all relationships of life: “The world is too narrow for two fools a...
Marriage: And the Family First March 28, 1971
“There is a kind of beauty . . . that increases and does not diminish with the years,” wrote Margaret Weymouth Jackson, a beauty “that lies within, and shines out . . . It is the...
There Is Something About Children… April 4, 1971
There is something about children that softens our hearts, and searches our soulsinnocent, honest, teachable, trustingthe children of all the world, worldwidethose of whom our Savior said,...
So Let Us Live to Live Forever April 11, 1971
As we search and ponder the purpose and problems of life, all of us sooner or later face the question of the length of life, and of a personal, everlasting life. This question somehow lingers...
If We Treat a Person as He Ought to Be… April 18, 1971
“If you treat a man as he ought to be,” said Goethe, “he will become what he ought to be.”1 What is true of a man is equally or more true of a child. In an atmosphere of...
I Don't Remember Growing Older---When Did They… April 25, 1971
“Is this the little girl I carried, Is this the little boy at play? I don’t remember growing older⎯ When did they?…”1 Memories move upon us all. Children growing up⎯and...
The Courage to Reconsider May 2, 1971
“There is no dishonor in rethinking a problem,” wrote an acute observer, “but there is disaster in pursuing a wrong course.”1 But often pride oar perverseness, or...
Home, Sweet Home May 9, 1971
Not long since, I sat with a family who had lost a precious loved one, among the most precious in the whole length of life⎯their mother⎯so precious, so loved, so needed, that except for their faith...
The Process of Prevention May 23, 1971
There is much to said concerning the process of prevention, but in general it should be said that is less costly to prevent than it is to try to mend or correct or cure–to prevent disease, to...
The Greatest Waste in the World June 6, 1971
We remember two sentences recently read. One from an unnamed source says, “The future is that time when you’ll wish you’d done what you aren’t doing now.”1 The second...