Impairing Our Own Powers – Sunday, July 21, 1957
Last week we talked of the impossibility of being ever altogether on our own for there is no way of endangering ourselves, or doing what...
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On our own – Sunday, July 14, 1957
Some days ago, we heard a father and his son discussing a situation in which there was some risk—not moral risk, but physical risk. The...
Of sameness and simplicity – Sunday, July 07, 1957
Often, we tell ourselves what we will do next summer. But as to this summer, it comes and goes so swiftly—so swiftly that we sometimes...
A step at a time – Sunday, June 30, 1957
An eighteenth-century philosopher is credited with a searching sentence: "Freedom is as little lost in a day as won in a day."1
Marriage – duty – and the ideal of enduring – Sunday, June 23, 1957
We have come through another season of commencement, and another season of many marriages, and have been retaught—or should have been—a profound lesson of life:...
What are fathers for? – Sunday June 16, 1957
In writing to the question "What Are Fathers Made of?"1 Paul Harvey has given us some delightful pictures and impressions: When school grades are not...
Anonymous’ Actions – Sunday, June 09, 1957
Sometimes people seem to want to do things that they don't seem to want to be personally responsible for. They want the result without the...
Education – and the price we pay – Sunday June 02, 1957
Among the many questions considered at commencement, it is proper that this one should recur: Who pays for our education? (And a corollary question, "Who...
The meaning of remembrance – Sunday, May 26, 1957
Our thoughts have recently been turned to some words that give much meaning to remembrance, some words by Clara Edwards, from a song which closes...