With What Judgment Ye Judge… March 30, 1958
What We Now Know January 12, 1958
We often feel we want to see further into future. But also it is a fact that we are already know much more concerning the future than we sometimes seem to suppose. Emerson said that further...
We Can't Go With Them… July 13, 1958
We go through some interesting cycles in this life we live. Our children arrive helpless in infancy, completely dependent upon us. We love and cherish and nurture them, and in large measure control...
Training, Intelligence, and Integrity March 9, 1958
We should like here to appeal to young people to keep the record of their lives clear and clean for any opportunity or opening that may ever be offered. From the earliest years of youth the record...
To Know Where They Are… May 18, 1958
To Keep Learning… June 1, 1958
We have previously cited this quoted sentence: “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” Now we should like to...
To Be Born--or to Rise Again… April 6, 1958
Here we are alive, on a planet suspended in space—a beautiful and wondrous one, with sunrise and sunset, and seedtime and harvest, and the changing seasons; and all that grows, and all that moves...
Things for Which We Don't Personally Pay July 20, 1958
One of the sobering considerations of life would be an appraisal of the things we have for which we didn’t personally pay a price. We may sometimes seem fearful that we are imposed upon, that...
The Process of Repentance August 3, 1958
One great relief in life is the unburdening that comes with sincere contriteness for offenses, and sincere resolve to make amends. It is a restoring, healing, renewing process, this process of...
The Partnership of Parents July 6, 1958
In commenting on the partnership of his parents, an eminent and grateful son once said: “Never in all my boyhood did they fail to stand together on any question which affected the children. We...
The Nearness of Nineteen Centuries December 21, 1958
We seem sometimes to consider people and events of the far past as something quite apart from the present. But they are nearer to us than we sometimes suppose. If we have lived twenty-five years, a...
The Kindness of Correction October 19, 1958
We would turn for a moment or two today to what could seem to be a paradoxical subject: The kindness of correction. We are thinking of some lines of a letter from a girl whose parents had corrected...
The Harvest of Health December 7, 1958
In recent observations we have arrived at an awareness that old age is the harvest of the years of youth; that each part of life is as natural as all others, and all make a complete picture. And one...
The Happiness That Faces Facts October 5, 1958
Within a framework of principles, it is the variability among men, the differences as well as the likenesses, that permit happiness to be possible — for if all wanted to do the same things at the...
The Duty of Discipline October 26, 1958
Correction as an essential part of the teaching process. Suppose that in the schoolroom not even the teacher cared enough to correct, or that in the home, not even parents cared enough to correct —...
The Curtain of the Future… January 19, 1958
Concerning foreknowledge of the future, Emerson said the Creator “. . . with grand politeness . . . draws down before us an impenetrable screen. . . .” Cicero said this on the...
The Courage to Run Away October 12, 1958
It takes many kinds of courage to live through life — the courage to face facts, to solve problems; the courage to accept assignments, to stay with what we have started, the courage to follow...
The Courage to Make Decisions August 24, 1958
Taking time to decide is sometimes essential for safety. But there is also such a thing as taking to much time. The power of decision is often lost by delaying to long. We should never be too...
The Character to Carry Responsibility August 31, 1958
Among the distinguishing differences between people — one which classifies and separates men in significant measure — is the willingness, the ability, the character, the demonstrated desire to...
The Best Tranquilizer… January 26, 1958
Somewhere we have this short incisive sentence: “The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.” Some troubles come by accident or illness or misfortune (or from the faithlessness of...