Music & the Spoken Word Library

Specifications of Happiness – Sunday, July 26, 1942

Perhaps the time has come again to remind ourselves that things are not important as our attitude toward them. It is time to remind ourselves...

The Encircling Gloom – Sunday, July 19, 1942

"Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom." Perhaps we have never before been so much aware of the encircling gloom as we are at this...

What is Man? – Sunday, July 12, 1942

It has been many centuries since David of Old propounded the question, "What is man, that thou art mindful of him?" (Psalm 8:4) Both before...

With a Great Sum Obtained I This Freedom – Sunday, July 5, 1942

It was inevitable that we should have been aware of a difference in this year's observance of July Fourth. There would seem to have been...

There Ought to be a Law Against That! – Sunday, June 28, 1942

In protest of something of which we disapprove, we often hear the offhand comment: "There ought to be a law against that!" As a matter...

Another Answer to Cain – Sunday, June 21, 1942

Whenever we want to say something that is very old and very true, to reach and impress the minds of some we have to think...

A Stranger Will They Not Follow – Sunday, June 14, 1942

We have come again to another patriotic occasion. Deep-rooted patriotism, of course, does not depend upon the observance of special days for its sustenance, but...

The Shifting Beneath Our Feet – Sunday, June 7, 1942

"And Jesus made as though he would have gone... But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day...

To Those Who Grieve for Their Dead – Sunday, May 31, 1942

"Let your hearts rejoice, and be exceedingly glad … Let the dead speak forth anthems of eternal praise to the King Immanuel, who hath ordained,...