Music & the Spoken Word Library

For the Duration! – Sunday, June 13, 1943

One of the most common of the phrases in current vogue is that one so often used to describe virtually every change and circumstance occasioned...

A Hunger for Truth, and Contempt for a Closed Mind – Sunday, June 06, 1943

Within past weeks we have seen another generation of students emerge from the doors of our schools, having been filled more or less with a...

Justice in Death – Sunday, May 30, 1943

On this day we hold in honored remembrance those who have preceded us to another life. For some the day has been long observed and...

The Banishment of Fear – Sunday, May 23, 1943

Regrettably, one of the dominant factors in human relationships is fear. The lives of most men are beset by many fears; some, of course, much...

The Myth of “Honor Among Thieves” – Sunday, May 16, 1943

There is an oft-repeated scene in the drama of human affairs that is played over and over again through the years—a scene that has often...

An “Emancipated” Womanhood – Sunday, May 09, 1943

Each year, on this second Sunday of May, a nation pauses from its hurried and sometimes thoughtless ways, to do honor to its mothers. It...

Opposing Forces – Sunday, May 02, 1943

The great forces that are at work in the physical world have a close counterpart in the forces at work in the lives of men....

If it Were Not So, I Would Have Told You – Sunday, April 25, 1943

Perhaps it is true that there are more people on the face of earth this Easter Sunday who would more deeply appreciate having an assurance...

Sobering From the First Draughts of New Knowledge – Sunday, April 11, 1943

It has sometimes been thought that a man of science—one who had read in the rocks of the earth, things which, to some, in our...