Music & the Spoken Word Library

Some Factors of Friendship – Sunday, August 11, 1957

We have in mind 'today one of the most beautiful relationships in life, and one of the most difficult to define. Aside from loved ones,...

A turning to friends and family – Sunday, August 04, 1957

Sometimes we may become weary of the sameness of our surroundings and feel that we should like to get away from familiar people and places. ...

The Finishers – Sunday, July 28, 1957

There comes to mind today a subject which, for want of better words, might be called the habit of re-arranging—that is, re-arranging without really resolving—such...

Impairing Our Own Powers – Sunday, July 21, 1957

Last week we talked of the impossibility of being ever altogether on our own for there is no way of endangering ourselves, or doing what...

On our own – Sunday, July 14, 1957

Some days ago, we heard a father and his son discussing a situation in which there was some risk—not moral risk, but physical risk.  The...

Of sameness and simplicity – Sunday, July 07, 1957

Often, we tell ourselves what we will do next summer.  But as to this summer, it comes and goes so swiftly—so swiftly that we sometimes...

A step at a time – Sunday, June 30, 1957

An eighteenth-century philosopher is credited with a searching sentence: "Freedom is as little lost in a day as won in a day."1

Marriage – duty – and the ideal of enduring – Sunday, June 23, 1957

We have come through another season of commencement, and another season of many marriages, and have been retaught—or should have been—a profound lesson of life:...

What are fathers for? – Sunday June 16, 1957

In writing to the question "What Are Fathers Made of?"1 Paul Harvey has given us some delightful pictures and impressions: When school grades are not...