Music & the Spoken Word Library

Confronting Ourselves with Ourselves – Sunday, March 22, 1942

There is a very old subject that has been distasteful to every generation, and which every generation has had to reckon with no matter how...

Beware of Weak Enemies—and Strong Ones! – Sunday, March 15, 1942

One of the strategists of our day has restated the axiom that it is hazardous either to under-estimate or to over-estimate an enemy.  The soundness...

The Strategy of Truth – Sunday, March 08, 1942

There is an old word that has come again into daily prominence which often implies some deception or artifice, but which does not necessarily carry...

Last Chance – Sunday, March 01, 1942

As we face the reality of a restricted economy, we see before us many grasping for things they fear will never come again—or at least...

Immunity? – Sunday, February 08, 1942

There is a persistent characteristic of human kind which causes many of us to imagine that we are somehow immune from those things which affect...

It’s a Man’s World… – Sunday, February 01, 1942

We sometimes hear the phrase, off-handedly spoken, that “It’s a Man’s world after all.”  And there are still a good many men who believe it,...

The Crowd – Sunday, January 25, 1942

There is a persistent trait of human nature which causes most of us to seek refuge in the crowd.  This is easily understandable because we...

The Desire to Believe – Sunday, January 18, 1942

It is a common experience of history that when a man’s physical world begins to crumble, he seeks refuge in the realm of those spiritual...

According to the Rules Back Home – Sunday, January 11, 1942

What is happening to us these days is rather readily explained in sociological and economic and statistical terminology.  We read of population displacement, of labor...