Music & the Spoken Word Library

The Timelessness of Happiness – Sunday, January 04, 1942

With the breathless passing of many days, we have come again upon the first week of a new year, which, while it is fundamentally no...

Prospect of a New Year – Sunday, December 28, 1941

With another new year soon to become a part of the reality of our lives, we contemplate those things which belong to the changeless past,...

This Too Shall Pass – Sunday, December 21, 1941

It had been our hope that we could greet you from Temple Square on this Christmas Sabbath with the world at peace, but this cherished...

Faith is not to have Perfect Knowledge – Sunday, December 14, 1941

We hear many these days urging the necessity for faith—faith in the future, faith in God, faith in the ultimate triumph of right, faith in...

Dark Secrets from Dark Places – Sunday, December 07, 1941

One of the most common complaints of mankind is that we know so little about the future.  To most of us the future is closed,...

Intolerable Tolerance – Sunday, November 30, 1941

Sometimes we build such a strong case for the great virtue of tolerance, that, in doing so, we fail to remember that tolerance, like all...

Tolerance Without Compromise – Sunday, November 23, 1941

Someone has coined the phrase—“Tolerance without compromise”—which briefly expresses an idea that deserves further comment. 

Justice and Mercy – Sunday, November 16, 1941

Whenever the subject of justice is discussed, there are always some who would rather talk about mercy.  Justice is not usually attractive to a man...

There is No Victory Until the Final Victory – Sunday, November 09, 1941

Even in this day of urgent haste and uncertain expediency, there are still among us some who are trying to appraise things in terms of...