Music & the Spoken Word Library

Unfeigned Champions of Freedom – Sunday, February 20, 1944

We pause again, as we do each recurring year at this season, between the birthdays of two American patriots whom time has given the mark...

Times Have Changed – Sunday, February 13, 1944

In this day and age, whenever anyone speaks of the social precautions which were formerly observed for the safeguarding of womanhood in general, and of...

Concerning Chaperonage – Sunday, February 06, 1944

Like fashions and customs in a good many other things, the words of our language come and go. Many times within our generation we have...

Disciplined Hearts and Minds – Sunday, January 30, 1944

The conduct of men is modified by laws which provide penalties for almost every outward act of evil that could be named or devised. Whether...

He Went Away Sorrowful – Sunday, January 23, 1944

"But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions." (Matthew 19:22.) The problem of the young man...

The End From the Beginning – Sunday, January 16, 1944

There comes to mind one of the pastimes of our childhood when we paused with wide-eyed children to watch the billposter, harbinger of circuses and...

Cycle of Belief – Sunday, January 09, 1944

The cycle of fashion in human affairs has often been observed and commented upon. Succeeding generations come back to old styles, modified, but strikingly similar....

To Resolve to Think – Sunday, January 02, 1944

The New Year brings with it the annually recurring question, to resolve or not to resolve. No doubt some of us have quit making resolutions,...

Atonement – Sunday, December 26, 1943

This day between Christmas and the New Year would seem to be a good time to remind ourselves of some realities that bear repetition. If...