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...
My Departed Hours--Where Are They? June 15, 1969
The weeks seem only hours, they go so swiftly. “My departed hours _ where are they?” 1 _ the poet asked in anguish. And when we look at what we do with passing days, the lost times, the...
For Directions on How to Live Life June 22, 1969
Where should we⎯or can we go for directions on how to live life? Perhaps we can draw a parallel. Where would we go for directions on how to use a machine, a car, or a complex piece of equipment? Who...
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...
A New Crop of Fools Comes On… July 6, 1969
This message was sent to a president of the United States by a group of concerned young people: “We stand for preservation of our heritage through obedience to law.”1 Without law, we...
Chance Could Not Have Done It… July 13, 1969
As men move farther out from the magnificent earth and look back on its awesome beauty, its movement, its precision and proportion, upon the wondrous working, and magnificent majesty of it all, we...
Let Every Man Remember… July 20, 1969
Now Make the Most of It! July 27, 1969
Somewhere the story is told of a talented girl who was not doing enough with the gifts and talents she had been given, and under some urgent impulse her mother one day impatiently shook her and...
All Your Danger Is in Discord… August 3, 1969
There are these lines from Longfellow: “All your strength is in your union.. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.”1 And he...
And Even Forgive Ourselves August 10, 1969
All of us are aware at times of fretfulness and frustration⎯and are sometimes troubled, discouraged, and discontent, as we lose the peace and sense of purpose that are always so essential to an...
If We Don't Have Standards… August 17, 1969
There is a simple, forthright subject that we would turn to, namely: virtue, honor, chastity; living a clean and honorable life. It has to do with standards, morality, law, and even what we call...
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...
On Being Misunderstood August 31, 1969
In the pressures and complexities of life there is much misunderstanding, and often we think wrong things about the other people, with suspicion, mistrust, imagining or magnifying offenses,...
On Dragging Others Down… September 14, 1969
In our concern for restlessness and lawlessness and looseness we need perhaps to search ourselves, remembering that any letting down in example or in attitude on the part of any parent or teacher,...
Education--to What End…? September 21, 1969
There is a sentence from Samuel Johnson that suggests a persistently important subject: “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless…” he said. “Knowledge without integrity is...
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...
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...
A Lesson From Huckleberry Finn October 12, 1969
On this matter of our supposed emancipation from morality, may we forthrightly reaffirm this fact: that unhappiness, frustration, and impairment of the minds and lives of young and old alike, come...
I Had a Pleasant Time With My Mind… October 19, 1969
There is a thoughtful line from Louisa May Alcott: “I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.” The mind, of course, can go anywhere, even when the body is confined....
If Something Needs Doing… November 2, 1969
“If something needs doing, do it;” said David Starr Jordan, “the more plainly, directly, honestly, the better.” These words suggest two facets of an insistent subject,...