Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Vesper Talks to Girls

This volume contains a few of many talks which the author has given on Sunday afternoons to the students of Bradford Academy. At their request and for their convenience the volume is published. While hundreds of addresses to young women of college age have found their way into...

Chapters

4. Part 4

We may learn from nature's rhythm of life that we need both society and solitude. To adjust these to each other in proper degree is a problem for each of us. Are you one of the...

9. Part 9

We often hear people wish for childhood or youth again. When any one expresses such a wish, he generally means that he would like to be a child or youth again if he could take b...

2. Part 2

Youth is wasteful of many things, but perhaps of nothing more than of friendship. Too many people wake up later in life to find that what has been so thoughtlessly thrown away n...

6. Part 6

Others may surpass you because of greater natural endowments or larger opportunity, or both, but this should not move you from the even tenor of your way. No less faulty than th...

8. Part 8

In those parts of the world where the Christian religion is little known, the progress of women has been even slower and beset with more obstacles than in Christendom. Indeed, t...

3. Part 3

But wishing cannot bring them back, as we all know to our cost. The only thing to do is to learn our lesson and in the future to keep the mastery of self. "He that ruleth his sp...

7. Part 7

The person of disciplined will has learned to respect the rights of others. English people often comment on the lack of discipline in a certain type of American home, with its s...

5. Part 5

Another thought that may help us to adjust ourselves to the hard things in our lives is that it takes some losses, some disappointments and sorrows to make us appreciate the goo...

1. Part 1

This volume contains a few of many talks which the author has given on Sunday afternoons to the students of Bradford Academy. At their request and for their convenience the volu...

10. Part 10

"Do something worth living for, worth dying for. Do something to show that you have a heart and a mind and a soul within you," were some of the ringing words of Dean Stanley. Ha...