Oh, to Discover Again the Beauty of What Is Near!   July 25, 1971

There is much of fretfulness in life, of discontent, remembering often what we want, forgetting often what we have, and letting precious things become commonplace. We all go through these periods...

Be Good to Her--and Treat Her Like a Queen   July 18, 1971

A grateful son, long happily married, told in one short sentence what his father had said when he confided in his later concerning his coming marriage to a lovely girl. This his father had...

Enough of Ups and Downs to Keep Us Humble   July 11, 1971

Life is a great leveller. We all have problems, disappointments, sometimes sorrows, and enough of ups and downs to help to keep us humble. We’ve seen many happy and successful people, and some...

How Much Is All This Worth?…   July 4, 1971

What We Give Our Children   June 27, 1971

There is a sentence from an unnamed source which says, “We have been so anxious to give our children what we didn’t have that we have neglected to give them what we did have.”1...

Speaking Things Which They Ought Not   June 13, 1971

Among the many human faults and failing there is one that seems peculiarly persistent, and that is gossiping – whispering, spreading rumors which travel like a wind-swept fire from ear to ear, and...

The Greatest Waste in the World   June 6, 1971

We remember two sentences recently read. One from an unnamed source says, “The future is that time when you’ll wish you’d done what you aren’t doing now.”1 The second...

The Process of Prevention   May 23, 1971

There is much to said concerning the process of prevention, but in general it should be said that is less costly to prevent than it is to try to mend or correct or cure–to prevent disease, to...

Home, Sweet Home   May 9, 1971

Not long since, I sat with a family who had lost a precious loved one, among the most precious in the whole length of life⎯their mother⎯so precious, so loved, so needed, that except for their faith...

The Courage to Reconsider   May 2, 1971

“There is no dishonor in rethinking a problem,” wrote an acute observer, “but there is disaster in pursuing a wrong course.”1 But often pride oar perverseness, or...

I Don't Remember Growing Older---When Did They…   April 25, 1971

“Is this the little girl I carried, Is this the little boy at play? I don’t remember growing older⎯ When did they?…”1 Memories move upon us all. Children growing up⎯and...

If We Treat a Person as He Ought to Be…   April 18, 1971

“If you treat a man as he ought to be,” said Goethe, “he will become what he ought to be.”1 What is true of a man is equally or more true of a child. In an atmosphere of...

So Let Us Live to Live Forever   April 11, 1971

As we search and ponder the purpose and problems of life, all of us sooner or later face the question of the length of life, and of a personal, everlasting life. This question somehow lingers...

There Is Something About Children…   April 4, 1971

There is something about children that softens our hearts, and searches our soulsinnocent, honest, teachable, trustingthe children of all the world, worldwidethose of whom our Savior said,...

Marriage: And the Family First   March 28, 1971

“There is a kind of beauty . . . that increases and does not diminish with the years,” wrote Margaret Weymouth Jackson, a beauty “that lies within, and shines out . . . It is the...

Two Fools Quarrelling   March 21, 1971

Thomas Fuller said something in a short and meaningful sentence that pertains to loved ones, families, friends, and to all relationships of life: “The world is too narrow for two fools a...

The Tyranny of Fashion   March 14, 1971

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions,” said Henry Thoreau, “but follows religiously the new.”1 This brings us to what could be called the tyranny of fashion ⎯...

Theirs That Commit Them…theirs That Permit Them   March 7, 1971

There is this from Thomas Fuller that is worth some further thought: “The first faults are theirs that commit them; The second theirs that permit them.”1 We have cited before the...

Your Children to Whom You Must Relinquish All   February 28, 1971

“Could I climb to the highest place in Athens,” said Socrates, “I would lift up my voice and proclaim: “Fellow citizens, why do ye turn and scrape every stone to gather...

Beauty and Morality   February 21, 1971

We cite here three short sentences to help present a point. One is from Frank Lloyd Wright who said, “Beauty is the highest expression of morality.”1 The second is from Plautus: “I...