Fathers Are to Talk To June 19, 1960
There are some wonderful words in our language, words that are inseparably associated: home, mother, father, family⎯and in our thoughts they are linked in fondest and most meaningful remembrance....
Debt: A Real and Actual Obligation January 17, 1960
Debt is a burden, a worry (or should be) – that is, it should be if it is a debt past due. Debt is a real and actual obligation. It represents the use of something that actually wasn’t ours,...
Control… of Thought, of Action, of Utterance… November 6, 1960
Controlling thought is essential to controlling all we are ever likely to become, everything we are about to be. And he who persists in saying that he cannot help what he thinks, is in effect saying...
Conscience and Habits Away From Home September 4, 1960
“There is nothing that a man can less afford to leave at home than his conscience or his good habits.” While this applies to all travel, to all activity, to all social situations, more...
Children… and the Effect of What They Feel… June 26, 1960
“What gift,” asked Cicero, “has Providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?” The answer suggests itself, and, since it is so, one thing of which we...
Causes That Can Be Counted On… November 20, 1960
Emerson gave us this sentence to consider: “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed;” he said, “for the effect already blooms in the cause,…the fruit...
Belief, Faith, Courage… February 7, 1960
There is a sentence accredited to William James, which says, “Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture.”...
Autumn Leaves Its Lesson… October 2, 1960
Somewhere we have read a sentence which says “God is in the . . . march of the seasons . . .” At the season of harvest it seems to be so. The changing of seasons is an always awesome...
A Summation: Qualities of Character March 27, 1960
These qualities of character⎯faith, courage, kindness, sincerity, loyalty⎯all seem in a sense to add up to a simple word⎯a word which doesn’t include them all, but without which all else would...
A Still and Quiet Conscience February 28, 1960
We would turn for a moment or two to the question of a quiet conscience, which is in a sense, simply self-respect, the real respect that comes with being free from the inward accusation that surely...