Music & the Spoken Word Library

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...

Emphasis on the Home – Sunday, May 19, 1957

It sometimes seems that almost everyone wants almost all of almost everyone s time these days. There are so many things to do, so many...

Blessed mother – and sweet memories – Sunday, May 12, 1957

Songs my mother taught me, In the days long vanish'd, Seldom from her eyelids Were the teardrops banish'd. Now I teach my children Each melodious...

Something to get up for… – Sunday, May 05, 1957

We were touched and moved in our hearts by the lighter step, the happier look, and the eager lift in her voice. She was no...

The Sky Is Falling – Sunday, April 28, 1957

From childhood many of us would well remember the story of Chicken Little. She was the character of fairy tale and fable who felt something...