Music & the Spoken Word Library

And thou shall be built up… – Sunday, February 06, 1955

There comes to mind a phrase remembered from a childhood game of forfeits: "Heavy, heavy hangs over thy poor head." If we were to emphasize...

The Swift Traveling of Time – Sunday, January 30, 1955

Sometimes, some event in our lives brings sharply into focus the swift traveling of time.  It may be a birthday or some other anniversary which...

The dotted line… – Sunday, January 23, 1955

Perhaps this comment could be called "the dotted line"—since signing on the dotted line has come to be a symbol of entering into obligations—a symbol...

Happiness – Sunday, January 16, 1955

It hasn't been long since, frequently and freely, we were wishing one another happiness for another New Year.  Already an impressive part of that year...

…and repentance – Sunday, January 09, 1955

Faith, work, patience: To these three elements from a formula for the New Year should be added also another—repentance.  Repentance doesn't appear to be very...

Faith, Work, Patience – Sunday, January 02, 1955

This, already, is the second day of another three hundred sixty-five.  The New Year will not last long.  And despite its festivities, it is somewhat...

Between Regret and Gratitude – Sunday, December 26, 1954

Christmas has come and gone again, and its closeness leads us to the question: Could we somehow keep the spirit that made yesterday so different...

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these… – Sunday, December 19, 1954

May we turn a moment or two to these words of Him whose birth Christmas commemorates.  "Then shall the King say unto them on his...

The faith within us… – Sunday, December 12, 1954

May we look further for a moment at a conclusion already arrived at: that every man has more faith within himself than he sometimes supposes—not...