"BE strong and of a good courage!" More than three thousand years ago the inspiring words were spoken by a great military leader to men about to undertake a tremendous task. Some o...
A man had planned a three-day trip with care. On paper everything looked promising for a combination of business and pleasure that would make these days stand out in the record of...
THE highest courage is impossible without self-conquest. And self-conquest is never easy. A man may be a marvel of physical courage, and be a coward in matters of self-government....
THE world is full of lonely people--people who keep to themselves, turning away from every approach of others, from all invitations to come out of retirement. They persist in livin...
"There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us." THAT popular rhyme hits the nail squar...
ANYBODY can drift, but only the man or woman of courage can breast the current, can fight on upstream. It is so easy to be idle or to work listlessly. Average folks drift heedlessl...
"YOU may expect to spend the rest of your days tied to your chair." Theodore Roosevelt's physician made this disconcerting announcement to his patient a few weeks before his death....
FROM Norway comes a moving tale of a lighthouse keeper. One day he went to the distant shore for provisions. A storm arose, and he was unable to return. The time for lighting the l...
YOUNG people sometimes play the game of "Consequences." The sport increases in proportion to the strangeness of the results. Perhaps the reason the game has so many attractions is...