Home--and Christmas December 18, 1960
What can one say for a season where so much is intermixed? There is thoughtfulness for others, but a thoughtfulness preoccupied with much bustling and busyness. Nor could one deny that sentiment is...
What Takes Our Time…? December 11, 1960
To quote again from Carlyle: “Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.” In this day and season of many pressures, we frequently feel we ought to do more than we...
The Waste of Doing Only Average December 4, 1960
We would preface these thoughts with a quotation from Carlyle: “men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.” This suggests of course, the willingness to use as fully...
To Think as He Ought… November 27, 1960
Further as to the thoughts we think, and our responsibility for all our actions and words: This subject seems somehow to be summarized in a single sentence from Pascal, who said: “Man is...
Causes That Can Be Counted On… November 20, 1960
Emerson gave us this sentence to consider: “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed;” he said, “for the effect already blooms in the cause,…the fruit...
What We Are to Be, We Are Becoming… November 13, 1960
Control… of Thought, of Action, of Utterance… November 6, 1960
Controlling thought is essential to controlling all we are ever likely to become, everything we are about to be. And he who persists in saying that he cannot help what he thinks, is in effect saying...
What We Choose to Think… October 30, 1960
There sometimes comes the question: Where do thoughts come from? How can they be controlled? By some it may be assumed that we are not responsible for the thoughts we think, since we cannot say for...
Seed and Fruit… October 23, 1960
To cite a sentence from Emerson: “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed;…” This suggests another sentence concerning cause and consequence which says,...
How We Work October 16, 1960
This we have said: that work should be more than merely motions; more than for money; it should also be moral⎯and since it is the expenditure of life itself, it should provide not only essential...
The Morality of Work… October 9, 1960
There is a side of the subject of work that should be considered. For want of a better word we might call it the worthiness of work. Work takes our time, and time is the very essence of life, and...
Autumn Leaves Its Lesson… October 2, 1960
Somewhere we have read a sentence which says “God is in the . . . march of the seasons . . .” At the season of harvest it seems to be so. The changing of seasons is an always awesome...
Life Without Liberty September 25, 1960
As we approach Washington’s birthday, we recall some sobering facts cited by a distinguished judge as he listed things that were lacking in the lives of those who live without liberty. It...
Work: Satisfaction and Shock Absorber September 11, 1960
In living with ourselves, and in learning to live with life, work is one of life’s surest satisfactions, and one of its surest shock absorbers. Work is much less wearing than worry, and often...
Conscience and Habits Away From Home September 4, 1960
“There is nothing that a man can less afford to leave at home than his conscience or his good habits.” While this applies to all travel, to all activity, to all social situations, more...
On Desensitizing Ourselves August 28, 1960
No matter where we are or who we are or what we are or how much help we have, we have to do some part of the solving of our problems for ourselves. We have to have the will and the willingness...
Inseparable From Ourselves… August 21, 1960
Constantly, ceaselessly, we are keeping company with ourselves. Inseparably we live with ourselves, with our own thoughts, whether they are deep or shallow, clean or unclean, happy or unhappy⎯which...
What Exile Leaves Himself Behind? August 14, 1960
It is apparent that at times the pressures of life are upon us all. Anxieties, difficulties, decisions⎯even opportunities weigh heavily under some circumstances. And, collectively, we meet pressures...
Thoughtfulness… August 7, 1960
We sometimes wonder what others think of us, but most of they time they do not think of us at all. Often, they are so absorbed with their own thoughts, with their own problems, with the impressions...
Fretfulness… and Thoughtfulness July 31, 1960
There is a song written around these thoughtful words: “The harvest now is over, the summer days are gone.” 1 There are times when all of us become aware of the swift passing of the...