Good Men Ye Should Observe to Uphold   March 16, 1958

As to the great need for matching talent and training with intelligence and integrity, we should like to say something of these and other attributes that would surely be essential in filling any...

Training, Intelligence, and Integrity   March 9, 1958

We should like here to appeal to young people to keep the record of their lives clear and clean for any opportunity or opening that may ever be offered. From the earliest years of youth the record...

Talent Without Character   March 2, 1958

Home Is Those Who Are There   February 23, 1958

There has been much written, sometimes realistically, and sometimes sentimentally, about what makes a home. There are of course the comforts and conveniences, and a sense of belonging in a familiar...

Marriage--a Momentous Investment   February 16, 1958

Marriage is among life’s most momentous investments, if not the most momentous—the investment of ourselves, of all that we are, of all the future, and the future of our families. And since...

Character, Confidence, and Consistency   February 9, 1958

From a forecast of ten things, which can be counted on this one sentence we take from the ten: “Reputations will continue to be made by many acts, and to be lost by one.” This calls to...

Coming to Ourselves   February 2, 1958

The Best Tranquilizer…   January 26, 1958

Somewhere we have this short incisive sentence: “The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.” Some troubles come by accident or illness or misfortune (or from the faithlessness of...

The Curtain of the Future…   January 19, 1958

Concerning foreknowledge of the future, Emerson said the Creator “. . . with grand politeness . . . draws down before us an impenetrable screen. . . .” Cicero said this on the...

What We Now Know   January 12, 1958

We often feel we want to see further into future. But also it is a fact that we are already know much more concerning the future than we sometimes seem to suppose. Emerson said that further...

Let the Years Unfold With Faith   January 5, 1958

Often we wonder what unseen events are in the offing: Who of us will be here after a year from now? Who will leave this life; who will see sorrow and who will see success? How often we wish we could...