As Parents and Children Come to Common Ground – Sunday, March 04, 1956
It is an odd thing, in a way, how each generation seems to feel that each preceding generation is somewhat old-fashioned—how each generation listens impatiently...
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In looking at our loved ones – Sunday, February 26, 1956
Someone once wrote, "If the stars came out only once a year, the whole world would go out and look at them."' But since they...
On belonging to a family – Sunday, February 19, 1956
One of the very wonderful things of life is a sense of belonging. And one of the most wonderful things to belong to is a...
And what of Abraham Lincoln…? – Sunday, February 12, 1956
There is much said concerning Lincoln—but not too much for so sincerely great a subject. Men do many things for their own comfort and convenience,...
Giving and Taking Counsel and Correction – Sunday, February 05, 1956
Sometimes there comes a cleavage between people who should be close to one another—because of inability either to give or to take counsel and criticism...
There is no right way to do a wrong thing – Sunday, January 29, 1956
Hardly does it seem possible that a twelfth part of another year already has passed. But however swiftly or slowly time goes, it is still...
Again, we turn to happiness… – Sunday, January 22, 1956
Again, we turn to happiness—the happiness which all people pursue. "There is even a happiness," wrote Thomas Hood, "that makes the heart afraid."1
We turn to…happiness – Sunday, January 15, 1956
At this time of new beginnings, new purposes, new records, new resolve, we turn a moment to a subject that is timeworn, yet always timely:...
Success-of Quantity and Quality – Sunday, January 08, 1956
On this question again of success and failure, and of closing the books upon the past, and then having immediately to turn around and repeat...