The Price of Learning   October 20, 1957

Because of their love for us, or because of the spirit of sincere service, parents, and others also, do many things for us⎯and so often, so many of us find ourselves so much on the receiving side....

Assurance in Uncertainty   October 27, 1957

The momentous events of these days come too swiftly to absorb, with the ever-threatening areas of eruption, and the impact of man’s launching out into unknown orbits. And to the tensions of...

Be Not Long Away From Home   November 3, 1957

In the wandering adventures of the Odyssey, there appears this yearning, heartfelt plea: “Be not long away from home.” And Thomas Jefferson wrote this in a letter: “Abstracted from...

On Accepting Reality   November 10, 1957

The Go-Somewhere-Else Attitude   November 17, 1957

For some purposes, all the people in the world could be put into two categories: those we know and those we don’t know. But regardless of whom we know or whom we don’t know, there is...

A Living Gratitude   November 24, 1957

It is sobering, or should be, to each and all of us to consider how much of the hours and effort of others has gone into the making of all of us: the time others have taken to feed us, to teach us,...

Repeat Performance   December 1, 1957

There is a sentence currently quoted which says that “Everytime history repeats itself it does so at a higher price.” This would surely seem to be so, for with each repeat performance...

Better Than Any Later Hour   December 8, 1957

We all live with some uncertainties; we all at times fear failure; we all worry about many things that haven’t happened; and we all have regrets about some things that have happened. There is...

The Search for the Superfluous   December 29, 1957

A sentence from Seneca suggests a subject: It would be well if we could make “it clear to all men,” he said, “that the search for the superfluous means a great outlay of time, and...