Chance Could Not Have Done It… July 13, 1969
As men move farther out from the magnificent earth and look back on its awesome beauty, its movement, its precision and proportion, upon the wondrous working, and magnificent majesty of it all, we...
Let Every Man Remember… July 20, 1969
Now Make the Most of It! July 27, 1969
Somewhere the story is told of a talented girl who was not doing enough with the gifts and talents she had been given, and under some urgent impulse her mother one day impatiently shook her and...
All Your Danger Is in Discord… August 3, 1969
There are these lines from Longfellow: “All your strength is in your union.. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.”1 And he...
And Even Forgive Ourselves August 10, 1969
All of us are aware at times of fretfulness and frustration⎯and are sometimes troubled, discouraged, and discontent, as we lose the peace and sense of purpose that are always so essential to an...
If We Don't Have Standards… August 17, 1969
There is a simple, forthright subject that we would turn to, namely: virtue, honor, chastity; living a clean and honorable life. It has to do with standards, morality, law, and even what we call...
Saving Your Marriage… August 24, 1969
Over and over this truth keeps recurring – that marriage and a happy home are essential for a safe and stable society and for a full and happy life. But one of the disillusionments of life is that...
On Being Misunderstood August 31, 1969
In the pressures and complexities of life there is much misunderstanding, and often we think wrong things about the other people, with suspicion, mistrust, imagining or magnifying offenses,...
On Dragging Others Down… September 14, 1969
In our concern for restlessness and lawlessness and looseness we need perhaps to search ourselves, remembering that any letting down in example or in attitude on the part of any parent or teacher,...
Education--to What End…? September 21, 1969
There is a sentence from Samuel Johnson that suggests a persistently important subject: “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless…” he said. “Knowledge without integrity is...
The Poetry of the Commonplace September 28, 1969
The famous physician, Sir William Osler, expressed a thought that brings routine functions into focus. The “poetry of the commonplace,” he called it. “Nothing will sustain you more...
Take Time for Your Children October 5, 1969
In these swift-passing scenes and seasons there seems to come – insistently, almost above all else – this compelling cry: Take time for your children. More and more, professional people are telling...
A Lesson From Huckleberry Finn October 12, 1969
On this matter of our supposed emancipation from morality, may we forthrightly reaffirm this fact: that unhappiness, frustration, and impairment of the minds and lives of young and old alike, come...
I Had a Pleasant Time With My Mind… October 19, 1969
There is a thoughtful line from Louisa May Alcott: “I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.” The mind, of course, can go anywhere, even when the body is confined....
If Something Needs Doing… November 2, 1969
“If something needs doing, do it;” said David Starr Jordan, “the more plainly, directly, honestly, the better.” These words suggest two facets of an insistent subject,...
If We Patronize Evil… November 9, 1969
With increasing concern for the lowering standards of morality and decency, there comes the question what to do about it? Should we just sit as if we were watching the progress of a play – or is...
Clean--What a Wonderful Word… November 16, 1969
There is a word that has within it some wonderful possibilities for safety, for self-respect, for personal peace, and the word is called “clean.” Clean hands, clean hearts, clean homes;...
The World Owes Me a Living…? November 23, 1969
There is this that is so often said _ or supposed: “The world owes me a living.” But when the Creator gave man the earth He said, “…subdue it.” 1 And subduing a world takes...