You Don't Know What You're Missing! February 4, 1951
Why Don't They Do Something? December 2, 1951
Sometimes we seem to look at life as if we were watching the progress of a play in which we have no part. Sometimes we see to be detached and to act as if we had no responsibility toward anything...
While the Earth Remaineth May 27, 1951
We Are Not Alone… April 8, 1951
Some men live blessedly long, and richly round out a fullness of years. Some are taken sooner. But no matter how long we are allowed to live in this life, we are all faced with some uncertainties,...
Trials of Our Teens June 17, 1951
We well remember those years—the years when we had definitely “arrived” as adults. Our problems, which often seemed deeply serious to us, were not always considered so by others. More...
Too Quick to Quit…? March 11, 1951
One of the most pressing problems concerns the perplexities of young people. The picture and the pattern change so fast for them that they must constantly wonder what they can count on. And so we...
There Are No New Plots or Principles February 18, 1951
In facing the present and the future we must always draw upon the experiences and the principles of the past. Of course we pass through the limits of this life only once, but other men have been...
The Way "Home" July 29, 1951
The Unfulfilled Future March 25, 1951
The Spirit and the Letter of the Law June 24, 1951
The spirit and the letter of the law have long come in for comment. Certainly we cannot get along without either the spirit or the letter of the law. There must be both. The law is dead without the...
The Shifting Beneath Our Feet December 30, 1951
“And Jesus made as though he would have gone further…But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” There comes a time in the life...
The Real Thing July 22, 1951
Occasionally we see pictures of stars with their stand-ins. To the camera they may look remarkably alike, and no doubt they have many qualities in common. But the one is the “real thing”...
The Question of Quitting… September 9, 1951
Besides the more or less “normal” reasons for restlessness, we are all well aware that there come at times additional causes of uncertainty and indecision that confront young people. Of...
The Question of Divorce August 5, 1951
The Purpose and Power of Prayer April 15, 1951
The fact that we pray doesn’t mean that everything we pray for will immediately be ours or that everything we pray against will immediately be wiped away. Fathers, however fond and...
The Point of Departure November 25, 1951
When we find ourselves on a wrong road, our first reaction is to look back and think at what point we departed from the right road. But sometimes we may have gone a long way before we are fully...
The Greatest News--and the Greatest Gift December 23, 1951
Some wise and well-informed men concluded, on questioning, that the greatest news story in the world would be for someone who had died to return from the realm of death, someone who could testify of...
The Future January 7, 1951
Always we are faced with the fact that it is only given to men to see so far, and that the future is cloaked and closed. As Emerson observed, the Creator “with grand politeness…draws...
The Faith of Our Fathers March 18, 1951
The Evils Have Their Life, Their Li October 21, 1951
There is an almost limitless list of things to worry about⎯a list that may seem to have grown longer lately. Our problems sometimes seem to have multiplied, and also our perplexities. But perhaps...