Your Name Is Safe in Our Home March 8, 1959
“Your name is safe in our home.”1 Do we speak as well of our friends when they are absent as when they are with us? It would sometimes seem hazardous to be absent from some kinds of...
Whoso Neglects Learning in His Youth… February 15, 1959
In some thoughtful lines on life, Samuel Johnson said: “Reflect that life, life every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone.”1 Last week we spoke somewhat of the uses of...
Who Teaches Early… June 21, 1959
“Every man must or other be trusted to himself.” Pursuing further this thought and theme, we would share some observations as to fathers and sons, as to parents an children, and the...
Whatever Else She Is… May 24, 1959
In considering ideals and objectives, and the sometimes overemphasis on social considerations, and appeals merely to appearance, Ruskin wrote: “The courage or sincerity [of girls is hardly]...
What Will It Do to the Man? March 1, 1959
Whenever policies or products or principles, or actions or attitudes were under consideration, a certain thoughtful observer often asked this challenging, this compelling question: “What will...
To Undermine Self-Respect Is a Sin April 19, 1959
These quoted sentences suggest a subject: “I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of...
To All Our Ancestors… October 18, 1959
Someone peering at a portrait of a great personality of the past was heard to say, altogether unimpressed: “Who’s he? What did he do?” We are often so absorbed in the present...
The Will to Work… and Enjoy It September 6, 1959
These words of dedication come from a grateful author: “To my own mother and father and to all parents like them, who have dedicated their lives to providing their children with the...
The Weediness of Words March 15, 1959
Sometimes we little seem to realize how much of hurt there is in irresponsible utterance, and how much of time is used in triviality of talk. On this subject Sir John Lubbock said: “One is...
The Unfulfilled Future March 29, 1959
The Total Hours of Time… February 1, 1959
In a writing of half a century or so ago, Arnold Bennett said: “Philosophers have explained space. They have not explained time. It is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all...
The Torment of Intentions… February 8, 1959
We have talked before of beginning to be what we want to be, and of the uneasy feelings that linger inside ourselves when we leave what we should have done not only undone, but also unstarted. We...
The Moving Power of Prayer October 4, 1959
There likely isn’t much greater loneliness than the loneliness of a man who cannot find comfort and assurance and help outside himself. And there likely isn’t much greater loneliness...
The Meaning of Honor… December 13, 1959
We recall a comment accredited to Thomas Carlyle: “Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.” With this in mind we turn to the meaning of honor, without which there...
The Ignorance That Shuts Out Understanding August 16, 1959
One of the greatest barriers to happiness is ignorance. And this we say despite the old saying that ignorance is bliss. If it is, it is a bliss founded on false foundations. Happiness should be,...
The Choice of Every Hour January 4, 1959
One of the easiest answers to anything we don’t want to do, is to say we don’t have time. Sometimes this is true. Sometimes it isn’t. It is deeply and desperately true that we...
The Chasms That Keep Us From Understanding August 30, 1959
Shakespeare, in Love‘s Labour‘s Lost, had one of his characters make this remark: “Who understandeth thee not, loves thee not.” We so much need an understanding of each...
The Basis of Credit and Confidence… August 2, 1959
Sometimes when feelings of self-sufficiency seem to assert themselves, when people feel sure that they no longer have need of others, we need to remind ourselves that no man can be sure he will not...
The Attitude of Intent… October 11, 1959
We have read in some rules of safety the following sentence: “Never point a gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot.” This is basic to a whole series of parallel precautions...