Gentleness With Firmness…   July 10, 1960

“” young man before he leaves the shelter of his father’s house,” said John Locke, “should be fortified with resolution, . . . to secure his virtues, lest he should be...

Those First Speechless Years…   July 17, 1960

It was written of John Ruskin that “the home atmosphere in which [he] grew up was one of utter peace and complete order. The relation between his father and mother was a beautiful one. There...

What Manner of Men They Were…   July 24, 1960

Each generation leaves the future to take on some of the problems of the past, solving some and adding others, appraising principles, struggling with compromise, sometimes deviating, sometimes...

Fretfulness… and Thoughtfulness   July 31, 1960

There is a song written around these thoughtful words: “The harvest now is over, the summer days are gone.” 1 There are times when all of us become aware of the swift passing of the...

Thoughtfulness…   August 7, 1960

We sometimes wonder what others think of us, but most of they time they do not think of us at all. Often, they are so absorbed with their own thoughts, with their own problems, with the impressions...

What Exile Leaves Himself Behind?   August 14, 1960

It is apparent that at times the pressures of life are upon us all. Anxieties, difficulties, decisions⎯even opportunities weigh heavily under some circumstances. And, collectively, we meet pressures...

Inseparable From Ourselves…   August 21, 1960

Constantly, ceaselessly, we are keeping company with ourselves. Inseparably we live with ourselves, with our own thoughts, whether they are deep or shallow, clean or unclean, happy or unhappy⎯which...

On Desensitizing Ourselves   August 28, 1960

No matter where we are or who we are or what we are or how much help we have, we have to do some part of the solving of our problems for ourselves. We have to have the will and the willingness...

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...

Work: Satisfaction and Shock Absorber   September 11, 1960

In living with ourselves, and in learning to live with life, work is one of life’s surest satisfactions, and one of its surest shock absorbers. Work is much less wearing than worry, and often...

Life Without Liberty   September 25, 1960

As we approach Washington’s birthday, we recall some sobering facts cited by a distinguished judge as he listed things that were lacking in the lives of those who live without liberty. It...

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...

The Morality of Work…   October 9, 1960

There is a side of the subject of work that should be considered. For want of a better word we might call it the worthiness of work. Work takes our time, and time is the very essence of life, and...

How We Work   October 16, 1960

This we have said: that work should be more than merely motions; more than for money; it should also be moral⎯and since it is the expenditure of life itself, it should provide not only essential...

Seed and Fruit…   October 23, 1960

To cite a sentence from Emerson: “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed;…” This suggests another sentence concerning cause and consequence which says,...

What We Choose to Think…   October 30, 1960

There sometimes comes the question: Where do thoughts come from? How can they be controlled? By some it may be assumed that we are not responsible for the thoughts we think, since we cannot say for...

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...

What We Are to Be, We Are Becoming…   November 13, 1960

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...

To Think as He Ought…   November 27, 1960

Further as to the thoughts we think, and our responsibility for all our actions and words: This subject seems somehow to be summarized in a single sentence from Pascal, who said: “Man is...