Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
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Transcriber’s Note: Writings are ordered by category, then publication year (goal is earliest available at least with legible text), then alphabetically (ignoring “A”, “An”, and...
2. Part 2Germany has long recognized the power of the writer in the moulding of history. She has made a large use of it in her attempts to build the history of the future to suit herself...
3. Part 3It is often said that a nation’s life is mirrored in its literature. This is necessarily true because it is the mission of literature to express life. Even if such were not its...
4. Part 4Let us not blame the innkeeper of the long ago. He did [not] know whom he was turning from his doors. He did not act in the light which twenty intervening centuries have given u...
5. Part 5Our program should probably cover the following points, all of which are old and simple: _(1) A warm spiritual life and a high personal ideal for all_. There are no exceptions f...
6. Part 6Nothing can be more groundless than the notion that a child should not be influenced religiously until he is old enough to settle such questions for himself. Ultimately he will...
7. Part 7Any great idea or interest, however spiritual in its nature, must be incarnated in an institution or it will die. The life of the race could not be nurtured without the family....
8. Part 8Preaching to college students is one of the most exacting of homiletic responsibilities. This is the case not so much because students are critical as because they are the world...
9. Part 9One day it was discovered that Gwynplaine, the wandering showman, was a man of noble blood. As such, he was entitled to a seat in the House of Lords. On the night when he went t...
10. Part 10Naturally, the members of the national army who had considered tobacco a necessity at home also considered it so abroad. Just as naturally, those who had not used it at home wou...
11. Part 11The budget plan is based on a system of appropriations. Such is the plan used by all successful business interests. The business is first analyzed and divided into departments....
12. Part 12When this is done, knowledge becomes more than a thing of the mind alone. It is not our concern to merely educate the brain. It is our commission to educate the whole life and t...
13. Part 13The Phoenician Empire was one of the most remarkable dominions of the ancient world. Geographically it was small. It was only about 140 miles long and 15 miles wide, skirted by...
14. Part 14I had seen men have the will to disobey, yet when they had wandered into a far country and had become sick of the husks of sin, I had seen them have the will to come back again...
15. Part 15It seems a particularly hopeful thing that, although war has not yet been recognized as a mere relic of the barbarous past, in the midst of its bloodshed there are to be heard t...
16. Part 16The tournament mentioned also emphasized the promptness of the effect of alcohol upon the nerves. It was discovered that the influence of a drink of liquor begins to manifest it...
17. Part 17There is much in the world about us that is more or less negligible. We have to do with it. It plays its part in our daily round of life. It seems necessary in the scheme of thi...
18. Part 18The reasons for this are natural and plain. The unhappy person is never relaxed. He lives between a high tension of discontent and the lifeless reaction which follows. Today he...
19. Part 19A day came when she could no longer sit at the window. The thin old frame that was her body had grown too weak to support itself in a chair, so she lay upon her bed. Neglected?...
20. Part 20This is one of the severest tests to which any man is ever put. It is also one which many fail to meet. It is easier to overcome others than to conquer oneself. Noah proved the...
21. Part 21The Christian Program. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _Northwestern Christian Advocate_. Vol. 68 No. 26. Chicago: The Methodist Book Concern, Jun 16, 1920. p. 664. Note: Par...
22. Part 22The Sense of the Human. Byline: Clarence E. Flynn. Source: _American Messenger_. Vol. 78 No. 9. New York: The American Tract Society, Sep 1920. p. 136. Notes: 1) “realize the pr...
23. Part 23The person who thinks religion must be sombre has misread his Bible and misinterpreted his Master. It may be serious and earnest, but never morose and gloomy.---A despondent per...