Music & the Spoken Word Library

The will to work—and enjoy it – Sunday, September 06, 1959

These words of dedication from a grateful author currently appear in print: "To my own mother and father and to all parents like them, who...

The chasms that keep us from understanding – Sunday, August 30, 1959

These recent weeks we have considered happiness and. ignorance and understanding: the need for understanding facts and places, and people—perhaps especially people, for we so...

On knowing the truth – Sunday, August 23, 1959

Last week we referred to the fallacy of the old adage that “ignorance is bliss”—and to the need for understanding.  Now to turn for a...

The ignorance that shuts out understanding – Sunday, August 16, 1959

We spoke last week of happiness, of discontent, and of the problem of comparisons, and cited this two-century-old sentence: "If one only wished to be...

Happiness—and the paradox of comparison – Sunday, August 09, 1959

A sentence written some two or more centuries ago is significant in the search for the happiness that all of us so much seek.  “If...

Our need of others—always – Sunday, July 26, 1959

Last week we cited a sentence from Sir Richard Livingstone that "the young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property,"1 and observed...

To the men of radio—to the makers of music— and to you the listeners – Sunday, July 19, 1959

In a significant sentence Sir Richard Livingstone once said: "The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property."1 At all ages, young...

The beginnings of habits – Sunday, July 12, 1959

We have talked in recent weeks of self-control, of the fact that every man must sometime be trusted to himself, and of the influencing of...

Self-control, and liberty, and law… – Sunday, July 05, 1959

May we recall these two phrases from a moving and meaningful song: "Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law."1 Always and earnestly urgent...