When Can We "Let Down" In Life?   March 8, 1964

Sometimes after long effort, long work, we may ask ourselves when can we relax? When can we let down in life? There must be some diversions. We cannot drive ourselves all the time, nor be on tension...

The Friends of the Young…   March 1, 1964

One of the most effective ways of conditioning the character and conduct of children, of youth, as well as of others, is to be ourselves what we would have them to be—to be convincing in the counsel...

The Meaning of Discipline   February 23, 1964

One of the greatest blessings that can come into the life of any child or youth, or anyone else, is intelligent and constructive discipline⎯first the discipline of self, and second, as necessary,...

Strength and Struggle…   February 16, 1964

A sentence from Longfellow suggests a subject: “Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.” The fact...

Ventilation   February 9, 1964

In “the pounding life inflicts upon us,” said an eminent physician, “Ventilation is deeply important…” referring, of course, to the opening up and airing out of our burdens,...

Burdens---and Faith and Hope   February 2, 1964

This Matter of Money…   January 26, 1964

There is always before us this matter of money _ and it seems that almost no one ever thought he had enough. In a letter to a noble lord, Edmund Burke wrote: “We spend our incomes…for a...

Remember the End…   January 19, 1964

We are reluctant to leave a changing season without some earnest searching of ourselves. “We ought daily to renew our vows,” said Thomas à Kempis, “and kindle our hearts . . . as...

The Value of Routine   January 12, 1964

We may hold things tightly for a limited time, but sometimes must relax to get a new hold. A new look at things, a new hold, is sometimes essential. But despite all this, there is value in routine...

Why Not Now?   January 5, 1964

“Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!” This is more than a line of finely phrased poetry. It suggests we must not be indifferent, or resigned, or...