A Matter of Semantics – Sunday, April 25, 1954
Perhaps it has always been so; certainly, during our day it seems increasing to have been so: that custom and connotation have changed the meaning...
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To see the human soul take wing… – Sunday, April 18, 1954
In The Prisoner of Chillon, Lord Byron said in the awesome words of a classic couplet: Oh, God! it is a fearful thing...
The Root and the Tree – Sunday, April 11, 1954
Frequently we see people come to places of prominence or achieve pre-eminence in some particular profession. But what we frequently, fail to see is the...
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...
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...