Closing Curtains and Commencements – Sunday, June 1, 1952
As each season closes to be followed by each successive season, we become aware that life is a series of scenes separated by closing curtains...
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On feeling sorry for ourselves – Sunday, June 15, 1952
A little less than a century ago Emerson offered this observation: "These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are...
What ‘Everyone’ Is Doing – Sunday, May 25, 1952
One of the persistent practices of children—and of others also—is to justify what they want to do by saying that "everyone" is doing it. Parents...
On Profanity – Sunday, May 18, 1952
Somehow or other it seems that the use of language which profanes the name of Deity, has become a most flagrantly casual custom, until one...
As We Remember Mothers – Sunday, May 11, 1952
There come before us this day the memories of mothers. Many mothers blessedly are with us, to whom we may turn our grateful attention, but...
Answer to Confusion – Sunday, May 4, 1952
Upon the lips and to the hearts and minds of many there sometimes comes the question: Why would an omnipotent and all-wise and just and...
As We Want To Be Remembered – Sunday, April 27, 1952
As we remember our impressions of other people, we may well ask how we would want to be remembered. If we were posing for a...
Opposing Forces – Sunday, April 20, 1952
The forces that are at work in the physical world have a close counterpart in the forces that are at work in the lives of...
The Question of Everlasting Life – Sunday, April 13, 1952
There are many thoughts that come to us at Easter concerning the eternally vital events that this season suggests. It brings always before us the...