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...
The Partnership of Parents July 6, 1958
In commenting on the partnership of his parents, an eminent and grateful son once said: “Never in all my boyhood did they fail to stand together on any question which affected the children. We...
The Process of Repentance August 3, 1958
One great relief in life is the unburdening that comes with sincere contriteness for offenses, and sincere resolve to make amends. It is a restoring, healing, renewing process, this process of...
Things for Which We Don't Personally Pay July 20, 1958
One of the sobering considerations of life would be an appraisal of the things we have for which we didn’t personally pay a price. We may sometimes seem fearful that we are imposed upon, that...
To Be Born--or to Rise Again… April 6, 1958
Here we are alive, on a planet suspended in space—a beautiful and wondrous one, with sunrise and sunset, and seedtime and harvest, and the changing seasons; and all that grows, and all that moves...
To Keep Learning… June 1, 1958
We have previously cited this quoted sentence: “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” Now we should like to...
To Know Where They Are… May 18, 1958
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...
We Can't Go With Them… July 13, 1958
We go through some interesting cycles in this life we live. Our children arrive helpless in infancy, completely dependent upon us. We love and cherish and nurture them, and in large measure control...
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...