Reading – and character and wisdom – Sunday, January 25, 1959
Seldom in life do we find ourselves living or working under ideal conditions. There are delays and distractions. There are times of waiting—waiting for people,...
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…out of the best books… – Sunday, January 18, 1959
Today we should like to turn to the rich rewards of reading—not reading merely for the purpose of passing time, but for the purpose of...
Concerning inner resources… – Sunday, January 11, 1959
Because so much is done for so many of us, both by men and machines, because we have become accustomed to so much service, the...
The choice of every hour – Sunday, January 04, 1959
One of the easiest answers to anything we don't want to do, is to say we don't have time. Sometimes this is true. Sometimes it...
…Nothing that has an end is long… – Sunday, December 28, 1958
It was recorded of a certain ancient king that he lived a hundred and twenty years, and that he reigned for eighty years—longer than most...
The nearness of nineteen centuries – Sunday, December 21, 1958
We seem sometimes to consider people and events of the far past as something quite apart from the present. But they are nearer to us...
A soul in right health – Sunday, December 14, 1958
Herbert Spencer once said: “The preservation of health is a duty.”1 In other words, there is—on all of us—an obligation to keep free from contaminating...
The Harvest of Health – Sunday, December 07, 1958
In recent observations we have arrived at an awareness that old age is the harvest of the years of youth; that each part of life...
Old Age: the harvest of the years of youth – Sunday, November 30, 1958
A subject so greatly significant as old age is not soon exhausted—and we would add at this hour some further thoughts on this theme: "We...