A Favor for Themselves – Sunday, April 04, 1954
We often see the familiar picture of parents and teachers pleading with young people to improve themselves, to learn their lessons, to make the most...
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Another Spring – Sunday, March 28, 1954
Since we are assured that Spring has constantly recurred for so many centuries, we should not, perhaps, be awed or overly impressed by its coming...
The Scenes Move Swiftly – Sunday, March 21, 1954
In the ultimate sense no man and no set of circumstances can keep another man from what he has earned. As Emerson observed: "Persons and...
The Spirit of Getting By – Sunday, March 14, 1954
There is a spirit that blights and shrivels the human soul whenever it remains unchallenged and unchecked. For want of better words, perhaps it could...
The Duty of Being Happy – Sunday, March 07, 1954
“There is no duty,” wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, “we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” We think of happiness as being deeply...
The Sound is Silenced – Sunday, February 28, 1954
Sometimes there are sounds which at first we are only vaguely aware of, intrusive, insistent sounds that are all around us, but which don't quite...
If Washington were here – Sunday, February 21, 1954
On the surface it might seem that we today have few of the problems of Valley Forge, and that they had few, if any, of...
A Legacy of Experience – Sunday, February 14, 1954
There sometimes seems to be a disposition to assume that the lessons which another generation has learned somehow don't apply to the present. And seemingly...
Sitting this one out – Sunday, February 07, 1954
We sometimes hear something said about "sitting this one out." It is all right to sit out some things, but it is tragic to sit...