Marriage: And the Family First March 28, 1971
“There is a kind of beauty . . . that increases and does not diminish with the years,” wrote Margaret Weymouth Jackson, a beauty “that lies within, and shines out . . . It is the...
There Is Something About Children… April 4, 1971
There is something about children that softens our hearts, and searches our soulsinnocent, honest, teachable, trustingthe children of all the world, worldwidethose of whom our Savior said,...
So Let Us Live to Live Forever April 11, 1971
As we search and ponder the purpose and problems of life, all of us sooner or later face the question of the length of life, and of a personal, everlasting life. This question somehow lingers...
If We Treat a Person as He Ought to Be… April 18, 1971
“If you treat a man as he ought to be,” said Goethe, “he will become what he ought to be.”1 What is true of a man is equally or more true of a child. In an atmosphere of...
I Don't Remember Growing Older---When Did They… April 25, 1971
“Is this the little girl I carried, Is this the little boy at play? I don’t remember growing older⎯ When did they?…”1 Memories move upon us all. Children growing up⎯and...
The Courage to Reconsider May 2, 1971
“There is no dishonor in rethinking a problem,” wrote an acute observer, “but there is disaster in pursuing a wrong course.”1 But often pride oar perverseness, or...
Home, Sweet Home May 9, 1971
Not long since, I sat with a family who had lost a precious loved one, among the most precious in the whole length of life⎯their mother⎯so precious, so loved, so needed, that except for their faith...
The Process of Prevention May 23, 1971
There is much to said concerning the process of prevention, but in general it should be said that is less costly to prevent than it is to try to mend or correct or cure–to prevent disease, to...
The Greatest Waste in the World June 6, 1971
We remember two sentences recently read. One from an unnamed source says, “The future is that time when you’ll wish you’d done what you aren’t doing now.”1 The second...
Speaking Things Which They Ought Not June 13, 1971
Among the many human faults and failing there is one that seems peculiarly persistent, and that is gossiping – whispering, spreading rumors which travel like a wind-swept fire from ear to ear, and...
What We Give Our Children June 27, 1971
There is a sentence from an unnamed source which says, “We have been so anxious to give our children what we didn’t have that we have neglected to give them what we did have.”1...
How Much Is All This Worth?… July 4, 1971
Enough of Ups and Downs to Keep Us Humble July 11, 1971
Life is a great leveller. We all have problems, disappointments, sometimes sorrows, and enough of ups and downs to help to keep us humble. We’ve seen many happy and successful people, and some...
Be Good to Her--and Treat Her Like a Queen July 18, 1971
A grateful son, long happily married, told in one short sentence what his father had said when he confided in his later concerning his coming marriage to a lovely girl. This his father had...
Oh, to Discover Again the Beauty of What Is Near! July 25, 1971
There is much of fretfulness in life, of discontent, remembering often what we want, forgetting often what we have, and letting precious things become commonplace. We all go through these periods...
Arguing! Arguing! August 1, 1971
One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing⎯the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves...
Reliable Once in a While August 8, 1971
There is a thought from Confucius that touches upon the point of many personal and public problems. “A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless,” he said. In this there is much of...
Think Not, the Husband Gained, That All Is Done August 15, 1971
There is ever and always this matter of marriage⎯a subject that suggests quoting an old couplet: “…think not, the husband gained, that all is done: Think not the wife gained, that all is done;...
What We Say of Each Other August 22, 1971
Pascal said many things worth citing, among them this⎯which we hope is not as true as some of the other things he said: “…I hold it to be a fact,” he said, ” that if all persons...