Taking Time to Listen… March 3, 1968
Besides seeking counsel, which for all of us is so essential, there is another side of the subject: listening so that we can give counsel sincerely and sensibly. “Lately I have thought a lot...
The Art of Living Long… March 10, 1968
If we are blessed with long years of life, this brings us to old age, and with old age there sometimes comes concern, not so much concern for growing old gracefully as for growing old...
Discouragement Comes to All of Us… March 24, 1968
Discouragement is said to be one of the most effective tools of the devil. And “Despondency,” said De Witt Talmage, “is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.”...
You Are Going to Meet Again March 31, 1968
“We are all of us fellow-passengers on one and the same planet,” “We are all of us fellow-passengers on one and the same planet,”1 said Hendrick Van Loon. And if we ever...
If I Am Not Happy With Me April 21, 1968
From a thoughtful observer of human behavior, this sentence seems significant: “If I am not happy with me, other people suffer.” Our attitude and actions toward others often depend more...
From Which a Man Can Be Made… April 28, 1968
Phillips Brooks once portrayed what he called “the double parentage of every child born into the world⎯the heavenly and earthly parentage. Many fathers and mothers who are eager to advance the...
On Being Bored May 5, 1968
Young or old, one of the most down-pulling attitudes in life is being bored. Sometimes we become bored with routine, with what we feel are repetitious and unchallenging tasks. But there is...
Young People With Problems May 19, 1968
On the question of law and order, and young people with problems, a panel of internationally eminent law enforcement officers had these significant things to say: that there is about a fifty-fifty...
All Day We Miss Thee, Everywhere May 26, 1968
Never too far from our thoughts are questions concerning the length of life, the purpose of life-life, death, loss of loved ones, the whereabouts of those who leave us, and our own time of leaving...
To Finish June 2, 1968
For youth, it is a season of searching and decision, with some completing school, some deciding to continue, some quitting before they acquire credentials. From the Master, there is a meaningful...
The Unity and Patience of Parents June 23, 1968
Thoughts often turn to home, to memories, to mothers; fathers, families, and the meaning of it all, all beginning with a marriage that two people made⎯and, having made it, must see that home becomes...
One Man, One Mind, One Life to Save (Live?) June 30, 1968
“What is man that thou art mindful of him?” This question from the Psalms always suggests some earnest searching. It is obvious that the mind and spirit of man are infinite, as we see...
Breaking the Law "Just a Little"… July 7, 1968
A thoughtful listener has sent these words from an inscription in a school auditorium: “Obedience to law, respect for others, mastery of self, joy in service⎯these constitute life.”1...
The Best Books July 14, 1968
It was Carlyle who said that “books are like men’s souls.” This could mean that the kind of man a writer is suggests the kind of book he will write. And it could mean also that the...
Marriage Is More Than a Wedding… July 21, 1968
“One of my students wrote… me… announcing his engagement,” said Wm. Lyon Phelps, “‘This is not going to be much of a wedding,’ he said, ‘but it is...
Emphatic Trifles… July 28, 1968
The swift passing of a season is always sobering⎯for “Time,” said Benjamin Franklin, “is the stuff life is made of.”1 And while time in the eternal sense is limitless, what...
And That Has Made All the Difference August 4, 1968
In looking back we often see where we took one way instead of another⎯and what we might have done differently. This, in one sense, is what happened to Scrooge in Dicken’s Christmas Carol. He...
The Get-Out-From-Under Attitude... August 11, 1968
There is sometimes evident an attitude of wanting to get out from under, not wanting to be accountable to anyone. Young people, for example, sometimes choose to move away from home and family and...
Not Responsible to Anybody? August 18, 1968
To repeat a self-evident sentence: “There is no such thing in human existence as being so high you’re not responsible to anybody.”1 This applies to all people in all positions. It...
Hurting Ourselves…and Others… August 25, 1968
There are two acceptable assumptions that we can hurt ourselves without hurting others; and the assumption that we can hurt others without hurting ourselves. The words of John Muir come to...