Music & the Spoken Word Library

Escape – Sunday, October 20, 1940

There seems to have come to dwell among us the spirit of escape. Perhaps it has always been present, but the tenseness of our times...

Smoke Screen – Sunday, October 13, 1940

The spoken and the printed word are much in evidence in our day. Like all of the tools and facilities of civilization, they are used...

And They Stoned Stephen – Sunday, October 6, 1940

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

The Spoken Word – September 29, 1940

It matters not by what names we choose to call our vices and our virtues -- they remain what they are and what they always...

Religion on Trial – Sunday, September 22, 1940

We live in a day when every standard of value is being challenged, and religion has not escaped the challenge. Perhaps religion is held with...

The Pattern that Underlies all Things – Sunday, September 15, 1940

There comes at some time or other to disturb every man, the question of his relationship to life, to the world in general, and to...

For We Know not What We Should Pray For – Sunday, September 8, 1940

It is probable that there are many these days who find refuge in prayer who have not so frequently or so earnestly prayed before. It...

Fear and False Security – Sunday, September 1, 1940

There are two extremities of attitude in which a man may find himself, which have always proved perilous and often disastrous. One is an over-powering...

The Shaping of Public Opinion – Sunday, August 25, 1940

We hear a good deal these days, as we always have, concerning the molding of public opinion. Always a vital concern to men who live...