A New Crop of Fools Comes On… October 24, 1971
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...
Arguing! Arguing! August 1, 1971
One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing⎯the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves...
Be Good to Her--and Treat Her Like a Queen July 18, 1971
A grateful son, long happily married, told in one short sentence what his father had said when he confided in his later concerning his coming marriage to a lovely girl. This his father had...
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...
Enough of Ups and Downs to Keep Us Humble July 11, 1971
Life is a great leveller. We all have problems, disappointments, sometimes sorrows, and enough of ups and downs to help to keep us humble. We’ve seen many happy and successful people, and some...
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...
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...
How Much Is All This Worth?… July 4, 1971
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...
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....
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...
If You Shouldn't Do It--Don't! August 29, 1971
It Is Easier to Keep Up… September 26, 1971
There are some lessons in the passing seasons worth remembering from time to time, and one such is suggested in a sentence from a respected teacher who said: “It is easier to keep up than to...
Just for Today October 3, 1971
“Lord, for tomorrow and its needs, I do not pray,… Just for today.” In time of stress or sorrow, not infrequently we hear someone say, “I don’t know how I can face the...
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...
Oh, to Discover Again the Beauty of What Is Near! July 25, 1971
There is much of fretfulness in life, of discontent, remembering often what we want, forgetting often what we have, and letting precious things become commonplace. We all go through these periods...
Reliable Once in a While August 8, 1971
There is a thought from Confucius that touches upon the point of many personal and public problems. “A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless,” he said. In this there is much of...
Seeking and Accepting Counsel October 17, 1971
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...