Music & the Spoken Word Library

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...

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...