But Marriage Is Another Matter… May 31, 1959
Humility, Hard Work, and Integrity June 7, 1959
We are mindful these days of young people who are moving into life’s more permanent pursuits. We are mindful also of the many decisions facing those who have completed some part of their...
Every Man…Must Be Trusted to Himself June 14, 1959
Concerning men and physical and spiritual discipline, we cite some sentences form John Locke: “Consent to nothing but what may be suitable to the dignity and excellency of a rational...
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...
He That Will Have His Son Respect Him… June 28, 1959
On the teaching and training of children, John Locke said: “For you must take this for a certain truth, that let them have what instructions you will, and ever so learned lectures…daily...
Letting Habits Harden July 12, 1959
Time passes with exceeding swiftness between the time when we are very young and free and flexible until the time when thoughts and habits and attitudes become somewhat firmly fixed. And since fixed...
Our Need of Others--Always July 26, 1959
“The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property, wrote Sir Richard Livingstone. All of us borrow much from many, from the present and the past, and we are deeply indebted to...
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...
Happiness--and the Paradox of Comparison August 9, 1959
A sentence written some two or more centuries ago is significant in the search for the happiness that all of us so much seek. “If one only wished to be happy,” it says, “this could...
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,...
On Knowing the Truth August 23, 1959
Some centuries ago Nicholas Ling said, “Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.” And John Lock later added, “A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths which his...
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 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...
Idleness and Inactivity September 13, 1959
There comes a time in the lives of those who live longer, when for one reason or another, they must alter their activities. Things change, and people change, and personnel and procedures change....
At Summer's End… September 20, 1959
The passing of any season is somewhat sobering, or any day, or any period of the past. When a season begins, when a day begins, we think what we will do with it−what we haven’t done−what we...
Little Brass Nails… September 27, 1959
Perhaps all of set our hearts upon some things which, after we acquire them, seem somewhat shallow, or at least unessential. And when we wonder why we wished for them so much and worked for them so...
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 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...
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...
O Man, Whosoever Thou Art… October 25, 1959
There is a long-told tale of Alexander the Great, who paused, at the age of thirty-two at the tomb of Cyrus the Great⎯Cyrus who had preceded Alexander by some two centuries. Each in his own time had...