Reserve Resources December 17, 1950
In times of disappointment men react in many ways, depending upon their teaching and temperament, upon their outlook and understanding, and upon their faith and foundations. To sudden and shocking...
Problems--and Repentance December 10, 1950
It has seldom been popular to appeal for repentance. The prophets of past have been persecuted and imprisoned, banished and burned for calling people to repentance⎯perhaps because when a person...
Uninvited Events December 3, 1950
No man ever lived his life exactly as he planned it. There are things all of us want that we don’t get. There are plans all of us make that never move beyond the hopes in our hearts. There are...
Opinionated People November 26, 1950
When a man drives a stake down deep without being sure he is putting it in the right place, he may have to pull it up again with a good deal of difficulty. And when a person proclaims a positive...
Fourscore and Seven Years Ago… November 19, 1950
On November 19, 1863 an immortal American uttered an immortal message. Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address. We are thankful that America has had such men; we are thankful for the faith and...
But Men and Women Aren't Statistics! November 12, 1950
There is sometimes a tendency to look upon the problems of other people as statistical rather than personal. Unless we guard ourselves against it, we are inclined to think of men in numbers and in...
They Say So October 29, 1950
In three lines of flawless poetry, Alexander Pope portrays how gossip is passed from person to person: “And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too; In...
Faith Against Fear October 22, 1950
Beginning Together October 15, 1950
Often young people who are beginning life together become discouraged because they can’t begin where their parents “left off.” There are many things they want, and working and...
Children in Understanding October 8, 1950
In times of trouble and of tragedy, there are always those who would question the Creator, and there are also those who would rule Him out of existence. There are those who, in their resentment...
The Power to Appreciate the Present October 1, 1950
Sometimes we become impatient with the present. We see its evils, it uncertainties, it imperfections, and earnestly we yearn for a day when things will be different. It is proper and expected that...
Let a Man Examine Himself September 24, 1950
For many purposes, people are constantly being classified. But quite apart from the classifications into which other people place us, we also constantly classify ourselves. It is a common human...
The Constitution of Our Country, The [Title Used A September 17, 1950
About a century after its acceptance the Constitution of the United States was described by Britain’s Gladstone as “the most wonderful work every struck off at a given time by the brain...
Teaching for the Future September 10, 1950
Tonic for Our Times September 3, 1950
With false philosophies and unwelcome world events added to all our personal problems, it is apparent that we need a tonic for our times. And whatever else may go into the making of this much-needed...
Of Human Jealousy August 27, 1950
The Strategy of Truth August 20, 1950
The word “strategy” is often used to describe the means by which people pursue their purposes. We hear of the strategy of attaining all manner of objectives – sometimes by deception....
Fearful Voyager August 6, 1950
If we were to allow ourselves to be frightened by the daily impact of all we see and all we hear and by all the disappointing circumstances of life, we should soon be so upset that we would lose...
Rearview Living July 16, 1950
People are given to wondering what would have happened if they had done differently: what would have happened if they had turned the other corner; what would have happened if they had taken the...
Ultimate Objectives July 9, 1950
It we want to know how far we can depend upon a person, we should know at least two things about him: We should know what basically he believes, and then we should know under what circumstances, if...