A Future Where Loved Ones Wait May 26, 1963
We often see people who have lost a loved one, and wonder how they face the future. But they face it because life goes on, and because the fact is there to face. All of us sometime face such...
A Passing Season… August 25, 1963
As we see a passing season, we sometimes seem to want to hold it harder to make up for some things we have not done. Sometimes we yearn to recover lost time, to go back to our youth, or some period...
A Prompt and Decided "No" February 24, 1963
“Through our weakened power or personal judgment we have vacillated for years on the knife-edge of indecision,” said Dr. Foster Kennedy⎯and a vacillating indecision is one of...
A Time for Moving Forward December 1, 1963
We often need an inner searching, of ourselves⎯our lives, our habits, and a searching of our surroundings, with frank and thoughtful appraisal of our own performance. “‘Tis greatly wise...
And This, Too, Shall Pass February 10, 1963
More than a century ago, Abraham Lincoln recounted a legend that suggests a searching of our pursuits, our surroundings, ourselves. A certain monarch, he said, “once ordered his wise men to...
Belonging… and… Believing December 22, 1963
There come to mind at this moment two great gifts. One is Belonging. Imagine the loneliness of not belonging—to someone, to something; not to have an obligation to others, or an interest in them—of...
Blessed Are the Merciful… August 18, 1963
This reminder comes from the Master of mankind: “Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.” Vengeance and revenge, cruelty, and unkindness; a contemptuous attitude, harshly...
Character and Self-Control February 3, 1963
“A thousand ills come in through the open door of unresisted temptation,” said David Starr Jordan. Out of all that is offered, a man has to choose, to make up his mind; and he who lacks...
Choosing Along the Whole Length of Life January 27, 1963
Often there comes the question as to why we make mistakes. We are not here referring to the constructive kind of trial and error which is often so essential a part of the learning process, but...
Commencement: The 'Final' Examination Follows June 2, 1963
There are some thoughts that suggest themselves for those who are leaving school to find their future. First, the finishers in life are entitled to some kind of special citation. What a good thing...
Drop-Outs… October 20, 1963
In a day such as ours, it is urgently essential that every young person prepare his mind, and improve his skills as fully as he can. There are many studies to prove that, even selfishly and...
Flexibility and Firmness… February 17, 1963
“We need both flexibility and firmness in their proper place and proportion. More than this, or equally so, we need standards, conviction, strength, and self-control and the judgment to know...
Good Men Have the Fewest Fears August 11, 1963
To quote a short, significant sentence: “Good men have the fewest fears.” Often we hear it said of someone that he is a good man. It may be meant in many ways, but in all its...
Gray Areas August 4, 1963
Aside from any definite decisions that we make there are in a sense “indefinite decisions”⎯the tampering with, the flirting with, the neither one thing nor the other sort of situation....
Habit: Servant or Master? November 17, 1963
“Habit,” said Nathaniel Emmons, “is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.” In considering this subject we often emphasize the negative side⎯habit as the...
In the Name of Being "Broadminded"… March 17, 1963
The word “broadminded” has such conflicting connotations that, like all words, it can be positive or negative. It can mean a commendable and understanding tolerance, a constructive...
Lest We Forget June 30, 1963
When one finds a desirable product, he would well look to the process by which that product was produced. And having been so greatly blessed, it would be well to look to the foundations of our...
Life Keeps Happening… July 21, 1963
Life is an endless process of trying, of doing⎯sometimes succeeding, and sometimes facing discouraging setbacks. The pioneers and patriots went through this process with the courage to begin⎯and...
Mistakes… and Lessons Learned January 20, 1963
It would surely be an understatement to say that all of us make mistakes⎯mistakes sometimes followed by real regrets⎯regrets for things we wish we had said or done, or wish we had not said or done....
Responsibility of Womanhood May 19, 1963
An eminent American has this to say on an important subject: “Womanhood today is not necessarily synonymous with motherhood and that is a social tragedy far more serious than we have yet...