Music & the Spoken Word Library

Choosing the Parents of our Children – Sunday, June 22, 1958

All of us make many choices every day—choices as to what we do with every hour and every opportunity.  And we are constantly faced with...

He gave me a good mother – Sunday, June 15, 1958

A grateful daughter had this to say concerning her once famous father: "He transmitted to me a sound heredity on his own side, and he...

Marriage – and the simple doing of duty – Sunday, June 08, 1958

Duty isn't a word that is always quite comfortable or convenient.  But the free and easy making of marriages, and the free and easy undoing...

To keep learning… – Sunday, June 01, 1958

We are not living a static life, as suggested by this sentence from an unknown source: "If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing...

All we could ask of heaven… – Sunday, May 25, 1958

Some thoughtful words of Addison today suggest a subject: "The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and...

Intent – a sure test of friendship – Sunday May 04, 1958

One sure test of friendship is to seek the welfare of him whose company we keep.  Since this is so, a reasonable question to ask...

To know where they are… – Sunday May 18, 1958

A much-blessed mother and father were once asked how they had so well reared their children.  They lived with modest means, seemingly with no unusual...

A Mother’s love outlives them all – May 11, 1958

Blessedly, in the lives of most of us, there are saving and safeguarding influences moving in the background, molding and mellowing and maturing us— influences...

“Friend” – a word of much meaning – Sunday, April 27, 1958

The word “friend” is a word of much meaning.  Sometimes it is applied loosely to mean simply someone we know, someone with whom we have...