You…grown Older… June 29, 1969
“There is an old man up there ahead of you that ought to know. He looks somewhat like you, talks like you, walks like you. He has your nose, your eyes, your chin: and whether he loves you or...
While You Are Making Other Plans January 19, 1969
Somewhere we have read a sentence which says “Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.”1 We are all subject to unexpected events. We all need each other. No man ever...
When You Make a Mistake… April 20, 1969
“When you make a mistake,” said Hugh White, “take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The...
When People Once Are in the Wrong… January 12, 1969
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it,” said Confucius, “is committing another mistake.” 1 Having in mind that all of us make mistakes, we turn to...
Tomorrow Morning… April 13, 1969
“Though we sometimes speak of a primrose path,” said John Erskine, “we all know that a bad life is just as difficult, just as full of obstacles and hardships, as a good one…The...
To See Something Get Going… January 26, 1969
“Life,” said Benjamin Disraeli, “is a tumble-about thing of ups and downs.”1 There are times when all of us feel overburdened, with debts, with obligations, so many things...
There Are Two Who Will Know… December 7, 1969
The World Owes Me a Living…? November 23, 1969
There is this that is so often said _ or supposed: “The world owes me a living.” But when the Creator gave man the earth He said, “…subdue it.” 1 And subduing a world takes...
The Poetry of the Commonplace September 28, 1969
The famous physician, Sir William Osler, expressed a thought that brings routine functions into focus. The “poetry of the commonplace,” he called it. “Nothing will sustain you more...
The Parents of Your Children May 11, 1969
The Insatiable Demand for More November 30, 1969
The Humor That Makes Us Ashamed March 16, 1969
There is a searching, meaningful sentence from Emerson: “Beware of jokes…(from which) we go away hollow and ashamed.” 1 We have talked before of the humor that hurts, the humor that...
The Humor That Hurts March 9, 1969
A sense of humor would seem to be one of life’s absolute essentials _ that is, a wholesome sense of humor. But there is a humor that heals, a humor that helps, and a humor that harms and...
The Beauty of Good Beginnings January 5, 1969
“There is a human instinct,” said Phillips Brooks, “which tells us the [while] our life…is meant to have a great continuousness…[it is also] meant to be full of new starts…It is...
That Is All There Is to You… February 2, 1969
There is a line from Emerson which somewhat summarizes life’s purpose in one short sentence: “Make the most of yourself,” he said, “for that is all there is to you.”1...
Take Time for Your Children October 5, 1969
In these swift-passing scenes and seasons there seems to come – insistently, almost above all else – this compelling cry: Take time for your children. More and more, professional people are telling...
Saving Your Marriage… August 24, 1969
Over and over this truth keeps recurring – that marriage and a happy home are essential for a safe and stable society and for a full and happy life. But one of the disillusionments of life is that...
Reason to Respect Ourselves… February 16, 1969
“The best way to study human nature,” said Tom Masson, “is when nobody else is present.”1 We often ask why other men don’t do better than they do; why others...
Quarreling--and Happiness at Home June 8, 1969
The best of living comes with harmony and happiness at home. And this depends, after all, upon character and courtesy _ and just plain common sense. And why, oh why would people who live in this...
On Making Memories… May 18, 1969
In this marvelous mind, this marvelous memory God has given, are stored away the impressions of life: what we have done and seen and thought and heard and said⎯all that makes the total experience of...