Music & the Spoken Word Library

Peace is a Personal Problem – Sunday, December 22, 1946

This is the second such season that we have enjoyed since war formally ceased. And the measure of peace that has since been ours, and...

Reconciliation with Life – Sunday, December 15, 1946

Attitudes toward life change with age and experience. As children there may have been times when we confidently believed that the world was ours, that...

Encroachment by Precedent – Sunday, December 08, 1946

There is a principle of common law to the effect that a privilege, freely and unrestrainedly continued, may come to be looked upon as a...

Teaching is more than Telling – Sunday, December 01, 1946

Sometimes we are puzzled by the apparent ineffectiveness of some of our teaching. Surely, we may think, we have told our youth often enough what...

On Taking Things for Granted – Sunday, November 24, 1946

There are times, no doubt, when all of us are moved by gratitude, and there are times when all of us become careless and indifferent...

Devotees of Defamation – Sunday, November 17, 1946

It would seem that there are always among us some who find pleasure or profit in defaming the character of others. And those who are...

Religion and Life – Sunday, November 10, 1946

Many definitions have been given of religion. There is little to be gained by adding to them, but we should like to quote again from...

On Calling Evil by Its Right Name – Sunday, November 03, 1946

All this may have been long ago—and it may not have been just as it now appears to have been—but we seem to have remembered...

Talent Without Character – Sunday, October 27, 1946

There is an old phrase, of unidentified origin, which says that "Talent without character is more to be dreaded than esteemed." Using character in its...