Music & the Spoken Word Library

What Will it Matter a Hundred Years From Now! – Sunday, March 26, 1944

Not infrequently we hear someone who shrugs off a puzzling situation with the comment: "A hundred years from now what will it matter!" This, of...

Fearful Voyager – Sunday, March 19, 1944

If we were to allow ourselves to be unnerved by the daily impact of all we see and all we hear, and by all the...

Fears Born of Real Offense – Sunday, March 12, 1944

In addition to the false fears that destroy the effectiveness of men (most of which are vainly imagined and are without substance), it must also...

False Fear – Sunday, March 05, 1944

The war of nerves, so-called, is a new name for an old stratagem—the stratagem of deliberately bringing about a state of fear in the lives...

Repetition – Sunday, February 27, 1944

One of the accepted methods of teaching and learning is by the process of repetition. By saying a thing over and over again, eventually it...

Unfeigned Champions of Freedom – Sunday, February 20, 1944

We pause again, as we do each recurring year at this season, between the birthdays of two American patriots whom time has given the mark...

Times Have Changed – Sunday, February 13, 1944

In this day and age, whenever anyone speaks of the social precautions which were formerly observed for the safeguarding of womanhood in general, and of...

Concerning Chaperonage – Sunday, February 06, 1944

Like fashions and customs in a good many other things, the words of our language come and go. Many times within our generation we have...

Disciplined Hearts and Minds – Sunday, January 30, 1944

The conduct of men is modified by laws which provide penalties for almost every outward act of evil that could be named or devised. Whether...