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...

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...

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...

Talent Without Character   March 2, 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...

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...

Against Every Irritation   March 23, 1958

In all the relationships of life, in all relationships with people, there are times that are rich and rewarding, and times that are tense and trying. This is true at home; it is true where we work;...

With What Judgment Ye Judge…   March 30, 1958

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...

Beginning to Be…   April 13, 1958

We often speak of things we would like to do—or like to be. But so often, it seems, there is some distance between where we are and where we wish we were, and it takes effort to cover any distance...

Not Into Temptation…   April 20, 1958

In a talk to young men and boys, a well-known athlete made this comment on a compelling question: What would we thank other people for later in life? We wouldn’t thank them for tempting us to...

Friend--a Word of Much Meaning   April 27, 1958

“Friend” is a word of much meaning. Sometimes it is applied loosely to mean simply someone we know, someone with whom we have become acquainted. But a friend is much more than merely...

Intent--a Sure Test of Friendship…   May 4, 1958

We have talked of friends and friendship and of the fact that no true friend would ever lead us into temptation, or to the making of memories that we would later be less than thankful for. With...

A Mother's Love Outlives Them All   May 11, 1958

Blessedly, in the lives of most of us, there are saving and safeguarding influences moving in the background, molding and mellowing and maturing us—influences of which we are often unaware. And one...

To Know Where They Are…   May 18, 1958

All We Could Ask of Heaven…   May 25, 1958

Some thoughtful words of Addison suggest a subject: “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” In other words we...

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...

Marriage--and the Simple Doing of Duty   June 8, 1958

Duty isn’t a word that is always quite comfortable or convenient. But the free and easy making of marriages, and the free and easy undoing of them by divorce, suggest, for the sake of all...

He Gave Me a Good Mother…   June 15, 1958

A grateful daughter had this to say concerning her once famous father: “He transmitted to me a sound heredity on his own side, and he gave me a good mother.”1 And then she added:...

Choosing the Parents of Our Children   June 22, 1958

All of us make choices every day — choices as to what we do with every hour and every opportunity. And we are constantly faced with contrasts: We turn down or yield to temptations. We keep or we...