So Many Unessentials June 10, 1956
We often begin new seasons with new plans and purposes _ but the months move by, and we look back and wonder how they could have gone so suddenly and soon. Only another day or two and this year will...
As to Fathers… June 17, 1956
Life gives us many memories⎯of home, mothers, fathers and family. And as to fathers, we should like to turn to some passing pictures and impressions: First of all, fathers commit themselves to...
Concerning Safety and Survival… June 24, 1956
There was once perpetrated upon the public a two-word phrase that is contrary to truth and goodness and good sense: “Live dangerously.” Many do it, and many have done it⎯of which the...
A Approach to the Safety Problem…, July 8, 1956
The Letdowns in Life July 15, 1956
Another Approach to the Safety Problem July 22, 1956
We have previously approached the safety problem as a moral principle. Now we should like to consider safety as the evidence of an inner attitude, for the inner attitude of a person tends to carry...
The Power of Prevention July 29, 1956
We should like to turn for a moment or two to the power of prevention. It seems sometimes that we spend too much of our lives putting out fires—too much time running to meet emergencies—too much...
The Warning Signs and Symptoms August 5, 1956
We should like to consider another side of the power of prevention: Often we become so busy in life that we ignore the first symptoms and the warning signs in many matters. Under the pressures of a...
On--or Over the Edge August 12, 1956
Some twenty centuries ago, Epictetus gave us these very modern-sounding sentences: “It needs but a little to overthrow and destroy everything—just a slight aberration from reason. For the...
A Door Must Be Either Open or Shut… August 19, 1956
We have previously referred to the rate of speed at which men move—to the fact that sixty miles an hour means moving eighty-eight feet in a single second—to the losses that could occur from only a...
Truly the Light Is Sweet… August 26, 1956
There is a short sentence in Ecclesiastes that suggests a subject: “Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is to behold the sun.” “Truly the light is sweet.” If...
The Thoughts We Think September 9, 1956
It was Cicero who said: “To think is to live.” Many other eminent observers have suggested the prime importance of the thoughts a person thinks⎯for thoughts are the forerunners both of...
The Tension of Pretense September 16, 1956
There are, in literature and in life, some interesting tales of the tensions that come from leading a double life. In the field of espionage, for example, there would seem to be little time for...
The Process of Procrastination September 23, 1956
We have talked of the tension of pretending⎯of insincerity, of pretending to be what we aren’t, of pretending to be doing what we aren’t doing. There is yet another side of this subject...
So Take Your Choice September 30, 1956
Decisions of Principle--and of Preference October 7, 1956
There comes to mind the recent remark of a young man facing some current problems and pressures: It was the utterance of one awakening to reality: “There certainly are a lot of...
From Here On… October 14, 1956
There are always some regrets in living life. No matter what decisions we make, we are likely to wonder what would have happened if we had done differently; and often we feel sure we should have...
How Fine the Line October 21, 1956
It is a dramatic and frightening fact that a man can do a thing right a thousand times, and then when he does it wrong just once, tragedy comes. Except for some very narrow escapes, perhaps any of...
The Power to Appreciate the Present October 28, 1956
Comparison--and Covetousness November 4, 1956
For the purpose of measuring progress, for the purpose of measuring merit, some kinds of comparison are essential. They tell us where we are with respect to where we were, and where we ought to be....