Music & the Spoken Word Library

The best tranquilizer – Sunday, January 26, 1958

Recently somewhere we have read this short and incisive sentence: "The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience."1 Some troubles come by accident or illness or...

The curtain of the future – Sunday, January 19, 1958

For a moment or two we should like to turn to yet another side of the subject of knowing more concerning the future, and in...

What we now know – Sunday, January 12, 1958

Last week we talked somewhat of the desire to see farther into the future, and quoted Emerson to the effect that further knowledge, further revelation,...

Let the year unfold with faith – Sunday, January 05, 1958

Always it is sobering to begin a new cycle of days, a new cycle of seasons.  Always we wonder what undisclosed events are in the...

The search for the superfluous – Sunday, December 29, 1957

A sentence from Seneca today suggests a subject: It would be well if we could make "it clear to all men," he said, "that the...

The essence of all that Christmas is – Sunday, December 22, 1957

Among the several sides of this season, there is one that is the essence of all that Christmas is, By its very name (and by...

Christmas has its several sided – Sunday, December 15, 1957

Somewhere recently we read a sentence which said some of us "are sawing wood so fast that we forget to take time to sharpen the...

Better than any late hour – December 08, 1957

We all live with some uncertainties; we all at times fear failure; we all worry about many things that haven't happened; and we all have...

Repeat performance – Sunday, December 01, 1957

There is a sentence currently quoted which says that "Every time history repeats itself it does so at a higher price."1 This would surely seem...