A Generation Grows Up--Quickly November 4, 1945
Where men are concerned, time does what it does quickly. Each hour adds its weight of impression to the total impressions of life. Each day adds some strength to the force of habit. Each week adds...
As Men Pray May 20, 1945
The Needs of our lives are many—but they are perhaps not so many as we sometimes permit ourselves to suppose. Like the children we are, we are often inclined to pray for things think are essential...
Between Man and His Maker May 13, 1945
To pray does not mean the same thing to all men. There are those to whom prayer is but a formality—an established custom, and accepted pattern to speak and to hear on set occasions. There are those...
Concerning Differences in Men March 25, 1945
There is a commonplace but ever-startling observation to be made concerning men, and that is: how very much alike they are, and yet how very different. Those reared in the same home at the same time...
Concerning Varieties of Ignorance April 8, 1945
As children we are excused from many mistakes because of our ignorance. And often later in life we would like to claim the same immunity—which brings us again before this question: When is ignorance...
Discipline August 5, 1945
Delivering a well-earned spanking to a child with the assurance, “This hurts me worse than it does you,” is a bit of hackneyed humor that has been much overworked. But aside from its...
For the Fashion of This World… September 16, 1945
Freedom From Offensive Speech December 2, 1945
As a society of men we have learned to take measures to protect ourselves against many things. Those who commit theft or violence we endeavor to isolate. Against the spread of communicable diseases,...
He Shall Not Be Afraid of Evil Tidings March 4, 1945
Legal Evil? June 10, 1945
An ancient prophet, reputed for much wisdom, observed with some seeming discouragement: “…of making many books there is no end.”14 We would paraphrase the utterance with equal truth and...
Let There Be Light! December 30, 1945
From the time of their earliest understanding, we wisely assured our children that there is no reason to fear the dark. We tell them of the need we have for the nighttime to bring us quiet and...
Of Remembrance May 27, 1945
There are many kinds of remembrance, some of which are superficial and some of which are very real. There is a kind of remembrance that confines itself to formal occasions, that is ceremoniously...
On Becoming Idle October 7, 1945
There is an old Scottish proverb which reads: “If the devil find a man idle, he’ll set him to work.” It was by no mere whim that the Lord God gave man his work to do and commanded...
On Becoming Self-Reliant July 8, 1945
We live in the paradoxical situation of having more people concerned about other people’s problems than ever before, and the more concern, seemingly the more also are the problems. The...
On Escaping Penalties October 14, 1945
Frequently the question is asked: Just how effective is the threat of punishment in keeping men from doing things they should not do? To this, we must frankly answer that often the mere threat of...
On Facing Life as It Is December 9, 1945
Sometimes in looking at the lives of others, we may suppose that there are those who lead an untroubled existencefree from the heartaches, free from the reverses, free from the causes for worry and...
On Getting Away From Ourselves November 25, 1945
For those who are old in years, the past seems to become sharper in memory, and many things which we thought had been obliterated have proved but to be stored away, only waiting to be recalled. For...
On Lying Without Speaking October 28, 1945
There has sometimes been an all too common assumption that truth pertains only to what one says or writes—an assumption that if we give a wrong impression with the right words, we are still within...
On Offering Excuses August 26, 1945
Any act of ours that is in any way wrong or unworthy, almost always seems to set in motion a process called self-justification. Often, even before we are called upon to explain our errors to others,...