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‘Causes’ that can be counted on… – Sunday, November 20, 1960

We would turn back today to a citation from Emerson which said: "Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for...

What we are to be, we are becoming – Sunday, November 13, 1960

We would turn again to a sentence previously cited, which says: "What we are to be, we are becoming."1 This seems somewhat to coincide with...

Control…of thought, of action, of utterance… – Sunday, November 06, 1960

We should like further to pursue the question of where thoughts come front and how we can control them—for controlling thoughts is essential to controlling...

What we choose to think – Sunday, October 30, 1960

Last week we talked of "the seed and the fruit," of cause and consequence in thought and action and utterance, and of the importance of...

Seed and fruit… – Sunday, October 23, 1960

Recently we cited a sentence from Emerson which said, "Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed;”  This suggests another sentence...

Work…fair and full – Sunday, October 16, 1960

We have talked in recent weeks of work: and would turn now for a moment or two to the question of how we work.  As...

As to the worthiness of work… – Sunday, October 09, 1960

Some recent weeks ago we spoke of willing work: its dignity, its healing power, its power to soften shocks and sorrows—work which Carlyle called "The...

Autumn leaves its lesson… – Sunday, October 02, 1960

Somewhere we have read a sentence which says "God is in the ... march of the seasons. . ."1 At this season of harvest, it...

Life without liberty – Sunday, September 25, 1960

Last week in commenting on the anniversary of what Gladstone called the “…American Constitution,"1 we included some recent quotations from a "Challenge to the Citizen,"...