Words--the "Semblance" And the "Substance" July 15, 1962
There is timeworn saying, which says: “After all is said and done, there is much more said than done.” “There is so much talking and so little understanding.” We live in a...
What Is Love Without Truth? December 2, 1962
Marriage is such a basic, sacred and vital relationship in life that it must be fixed on solid foundations and cannot safely be subjected to pretense, to double standards, divided loyalties, and...
What Have We Got to Lose? April 8, 1962
Often we hear people discuss the odds on certain prospects or proposals—the chances of winning or losing, of success or failure in various matters. And sometimes we hear quite casually the...
Unwillingness to Wait October 28, 1962
There are many things in life for which we must be willing to wait. But too often, too young, there is too much tendency to try to rush life, to have it all now, to exhaust its experiences and force...
Unearned Pleasures April 1, 1962
“The motive of most forms of sin is the desire to make a short cut to happiness. Temptation promises pleasure without the effort of earning it.” With this observation, previously cited,...
To Be a Son--to Love a Father June 17, 1962
A thoughtful young man once said with grateful, heartfelt sincerity that he had “never spent sweeter or happier hours in life than in his father’s home.” Would that every son could...
To a Skeptical World… June 10, 1962
“No man adequate to do anything,” said Carlyle, “but is first of all in right earnest about it; what I call a sincere man. I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity,...
Thus Spoke Lincoln February 11, 1962
There is much said concerning Lincoln—yet not too much for so great a subject. He is one of the great, even on the list of now immortal men. As to some of his qualities of character, these were...
Those Whom God Has Given Us January 28, 1962
There is much –quoted phrase from Scripture about being our brother’s keeper. But if it is important to be our brother’s keeper, which we cannot doubt, how very important it must be to...
The Sense of Process September 2, 1962
In commenting on an unproductive person, one observer said, “[She] has no sense of process…. She wants the result without doing any of the work that goes to make it.” This is a...
The Quest for Unearned Happiness March 25, 1962
It is more than half a century since David Starr Jordan made some searching remarks on a pressingly important subject⎯”The Quest for Unearned Happiness [italics ours].” “So long as...
The Principles, the Penalties August 5, 1962
We often know better than we do, and many of our difficulties come from ignoring what we know. We know the rules, the laws, the consequences in many cases but sometimes allow ourselves to be dared...
The Obligation to Find Happiness November 25, 1962
“There is an evident effort in nature to be happy,” says an old and respected source: “Everything blossoms to express beauty, as well as lead to fruitage. Even the inorganic...
The Fallacy of the Collective Cloak May 6, 1962
Too often we seem to try to hide under a collective cloak, to assume that an act or utterance in the name of a crowd or a group or an organization or institution is something for which no one is...
The Constitution--Old as Truth and Modern as Tomorrow September 23, 1962
“If men were angels,” said James Madison, “no government would be necessary.”1 And in a government of the people by the people, the great difficulty is that one must...
The Constitution of Our Country, The [Title Used Previo September 16, 1962
Each hour we live we have more reason to be grateful for both liberty and law, and for the inspired Constitution that makes these priceless things possible and yet we seem to have too little...
Speed--and Direction October 7, 1962
In the long process of learning and preparing, young people often feel both pressure and impatience⎯sometimes so much so that delays of difficulties may cause them to quit, to give up too easily...
Speech--It Hurts or Heals March 11, 1962
In every successful relationship in life, three things are of particular importance: what we say, how we say it, and what we leave unsaid. And along with what we sometimes wish we had said there is...
Some Requirements of Marriage February 25, 1962
Love, as often indicated, is not likely to live unless it is sustained by solid substance, by some essential qualities of character, qualities that include courage to face facts, to meet problems,...
Repentance--and the Failure to Forgive August 19, 1962
To repeat a sentence India’s Tagore said, “Only let me make my life simple and straight.” But this we do not always do. We let life become cluttered and complicated. We make...