And So He Succeeded…   February 12, 1967

At a time when some seem overprivileged and some feel underprivileged, and many rebel, and many drop out and don’t prepare themselves, we are reminded that “Abraham Lincoln knew...

The Process of Preparing   February 5, 1967

“Art is long, and Time is fleeting”1 as Longfellow long ago said. And now, more than ever, preparation is long⎯and life is fleeting⎯as those who are young soon become aware. And in...

Why and Wherefore in All Things   January 29, 1967

“How certain the future is,” Walt Whitman said. And he said it not as a question, but as a fact. Often we fear the future, as we consider uncertainty. But basically there are many...

Always Something to Decide   January 22, 1967

“Each of us has to render a decision,” said David Starr Jordan, “to say yes or no a hundred times when our grandfathers were called upon a single time.” There are more...

Old Age: The Harvest of the Years of Youth   January 15, 1967

Come Now!   January 8, 1967

This is the summons that all of us will sometime receive from the Great Judge and Father of us all: “Come as you are . . . but come now!”1 It is a profound thought to ponder⎯the...

We Are Sowing…   January 1, 1967

Remembered from the years of youth are these words from an old song. “We are sowing, daily sowing Countless seeds of good and ill, Scattered on the level lowland, Cast upon the windy hill;...