Music & the Spoken Word Library

…Always-and forever – Sunday April 05, 1953

The longer we live the more aware we are of the shortness of this life we live, and the more aware we are of a...

Impersonal People – Sunday, March 29, 1953

In the normal course of living there are many pleasantries that pass from person to person.  There is also much social. veneer and much perfunctory...

Freedom and Force – Sunday, March 22, 1953

There is no more basic question in life than the question of freedom and force.  No doubt it was a foremost question before the world...

…men in the making – Sunday, March 15, 1953

As we see a new home, finished and landscaped and lovely, we may partly forget the process by which it was brought into being.  There...

Little Brass Nails – Sunday, March 08, 1953

Perhaps all of us pursue some things which, after we acquire them, seem somewhat shallow or shoddy or at least unessential.  And then we wonder...

A…Heart that doeth good like a Medicine – Sunday, March 01, 1953

We sometimes use formidable words to express simple ideas.  Consider, for example, the word psychosomatic.

Without Higher Help – Sunday, February 22, 1953

When we think of America's patriots of the past, there are two who almost unfailingly are mentioned, whom this month we hold in special remembrance. 

Why Leave it So Late – Sunday, February 15, 1953

On a certain journey not long ago, some travelers encountered one of those untamed onslaughts of the elements which man, despite all his previous preparations,...

Occasions for Confidence – Sunday, February 08, 1953

As concerning young people, parents are sometimes heard to say: "I don't know what more I can do.  I have given them everything anyone could...