So Many Unessentials – Sunday, June 10, 1956
Often, we enter each season with new plans and new purposes—but time is so swift, and the months move by, and we look back and...
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Commencement – season of decision… – Sunday, June 03, 1956
Whenever we arrive anywhere, wherever we are is but a place from which to proceed to the next place. Those who have come to Commencement...
Death is such a door… – Sunday, May 27, 1956
Not long ago from the window of a waiting train we watched a young mother with two young daughters, all dressed in their best, eagerly,...
The momentous matter of marriage – Sunday, May 20, 1956
In the memorable play, Our Town, one of the philosophizing characters speaks these telling lines: "I'm awfully interested in how big things . . ....
Are the children at home? Where is Mother? – Sunday, May 13, 1956
Two thoughts come sharply through today—two questions really, almost always asked by children, young or old, when they come home from anywhere at any hour:...
Who does his “fair share”? – Sunday, May 06, 1956
There is a sentence from an unidentified author which says in substance: "There is no limit to the good a man can do, if he...
The anxious load… – Sunday, April 29, 1956
There comes to mind today a stanza of a hymn which has some special meanings for the discouraged and the heavyhearted, part of which consists...
Freedom and Conformity – Sunday, April 22, 1956
May we turn today to another phase of freedom—to the question of freedom and conformity: How much does conformity come into conflict with freedom? How...
To be a slave to nothing – Sunday, April 15, 1956
The question of freedom is always before us: what it is—and how much men were meant to have—and how much freedom one can have within...