The Courage to Run Away October 12, 1958
It takes many kinds of courage to live through life — the courage to face facts, to solve problems; the courage to accept assignments, to stay with what we have started, the courage to follow...
The Kindness of Correction October 19, 1958
We would turn for a moment or two today to what could seem to be a paradoxical subject: The kindness of correction. We are thinking of some lines of a letter from a girl whose parents had corrected...
The Duty of Discipline October 26, 1958
Correction as an essential part of the teaching process. Suppose that in the schoolroom not even the teacher cared enough to correct, or that in the home, not even parents cared enough to correct —...
Seeking and Accepting Counsel November 9, 1958
We have all seen youngsters and others also, listen reluctantly to last-minute instructions. “I know, I know,” impatiently they reply, maybe having half heard. They are confident they...
On Old Age November 16, 1958
As the years come and go, increasingly there is concern and consideration for old age. Youth and age endlessly have both come in for comment. In a sense, the comparisons and appraisals are somewhat...
If We Miss the Spring… November 23, 1958
“The course of life is… run but in one way, and only once.”1 This was said of youth as it moves into old age, but it has its application in other ways also. People sometimes punish...
Old Age: The Harvest of the Years of Youth November 30, 1958
A subject so greatly significant as old age is not soon exhausted — and we would add at this hour some further thoughts on this theme: “We grow old naturally,” said one physician,...
The Harvest of Health December 7, 1958
In recent observations we have arrived at an awareness that old age is the harvest of the years of youth; that each part of life is as natural as all others, and all make a complete picture. And one...
A Soul in Right Health… December 14, 1958
“The preservation of health is a duty.”1 In other words, there is — on all of us — an obligation to keep free from contaminating and injurious substances and habits and influences that...
The Nearness of Nineteen Centuries December 21, 1958
We seem sometimes to consider people and events of the far past as something quite apart from the present. But they are nearer to us than we sometimes suppose. If we have lived twenty-five years, a...
Nothing That Has an End Is Long… December 28, 1958
It was recorded of a certain ancient king that he lived a hundred and twenty years, and that he reigned for eighty years — longer than most men live. And then the recorder of this chronology quickly...