LIST OF WRITINGS BY CATEGORY

Categories are not mutually exclusive.

LIFTING THE ARTS

“It was an innocent-faced maid” (1906): Humorous anecdote

“A man entered a downtown street car” (1906): Humorous anecdote

The Modern Grandmother (1915): Humorous anecdote

The Opportunity and Peril of the Writer (1918): “He dare not fail to be a mouthpiece of truth.”

The Message of the Washington Monument (1919): “...it outlines the essential qualities of our people.”

The Post-War Outlook for Literature (1919): “The fundamental principles of life have not changed, but our attitude toward life and our application of those principles have changed mightily.”

Free Verse (1921): “It is one of the best outlets poetry can ever offer for the expression of the moods and thoughts of the human soul.”

Music and History (1921): “The issues of life have always proceeded from the heart, and the heart of any age expresses itself in its musical productions.”

Correspondence (1929): “As good correspondence is an art, so a good correspondent is an artist.”

LIFTING CHRISTIANITY

The Sabbath Desecration (1910): “We may well ask whence this great difference between our age and that of the preceding generation.”

The Light (1915): “In the life of man, [light] takes the form of the knowledge of the truth which makes him free.”

The Yoke (1915): “...the command of Jesus to accept and wear His yoke is often much more dreadful than there is reason that it should be.”

The Crowded Inn (1916): “[The story] has been the most tragic because it has represented the most widespread condition.”

The Price of Liberty (1916): “The tragedy of Calvary opened up the way to liberty....”

Paul’s Ideal Sufficient (1918): “Each social institution has one task to perform, and it will be found to be unable to perform more than that one task well.”

The Religion of the New Age (1919): “The facts of religion can not change, but humanity can achieve progress in rightly interpreting them and in rightly adapting itself to them.”

Christianity and Americanism (1920): “The perpetuity of the state depends most largely upon the very things for which the Christian religion stands.”

The Christian Program (1920): “[Realization of the Kingdom] therefore depends upon the passing from one to another of its master secret.”

Essay contributed to a symposium on “The Church and Young People” (1920): “Unless [the church’s status in relation to youth] is improved, the kingdom will become a victim of race suicide.”

The Message of an Empty Tomb (1920): “[Jesus’s] life had been a message of life triumphant.”

The Laboratory Test (1921): “...the only way to appraise [the Christian faith’s] real merits…”

The Nearness of Destiny (1921): “‛What you are to be you are now becoming.’”

Children and the Church (1922): “...we should assume that every child is...to be reared in its ways and teachings...until he wilfully forsakes it.”

The Church’s Fourfold Program (1922): Evangelism, education, social welfare, and finance

Newer Conceptions of Religion (1922): “We cannot alter the divine plan of life and redemption, but we can make progress in our understanding and use of it.”

The International Religion (1923): “As to whether God proposes to save the many or the few, it would seem to favor the first answer.”

The Great Teacher (1925): Vital things, simple and plain, and position clear

What Can We Believe? (1928): “One is made or unmade by his beliefs.”

The Christ of the Sea (1929): “He began at once promoting the kind of thing the practical world calls impossible because it is right.”

The Comrade Perfect: An Appreciation (1929): “...life is not all that it ought to be without the presence of the Personality which completes us.”

Four Addresses to Young People (1929): Christian service, communion with God, spiritual and practical leaders, and the church’s purposes

What Is Happening to Religion? (1929): “Eminent scientists announcing their faith in and support of religion are a growing company.”

LIFTING CHRISTIAN MINISTERS

Has the Day of Great Preachers Passed (1921): “The one standard by which he is measured is the question of his ability as an exponent of the Christian religion.”

The Heart Interest in Preaching (1922): “He has sensed the human side, and seen what it is that makes the need for preaching.”

The Great Compulsion (1928): “That was the last peaceful day he ever saw, for our peace is the price we pay for greatness.”

The Minister and His Reading (1928): “...the field with which the minister needs to be familiar is unlimited because it touches all the others.”

Preaching to College Students (1928): “[The minister] is dealing with adventurous minds whose one concern is truth.”

Some Problems of the Preacher (1928): “They have cost many a man his usefulness, and limited that of many others.”

The Ambassador (1929): “It is a wonderful thing to be a minister, because a minister is an ambassador of the Kingdom of God.”

Let the Minister Know Life (1929): “He needs to see, and hear, and know enough to understand the mind and heart of the world.”

The Yielding of Aaron (1929): “...the adaptation of the principles and standards of religion to public tastes, ideals, and desires.”

LIFTING COMMUNITY

The Necessary Asset—Friends (1917): “The most valuable friend is the friend who is one for friendship’s sake alone.”

Building a World Brotherhood (1918): “In [Jesus’s] estimation of things, a man was a man. He could be no more and there was no disposition to ever rate him as less.”

The Laughing Man (1919): “My lords,” he said, “I bring you news—news of the existence of mankind.”

The Safe Foundations for a League of Nations (1919): “If the hearts of men are not right toward one another, the vision of peace will be as idle a dream as it was in the past years.”

Is It Nothing to You (1929): “By all these things we and ours are profoundly affected. Why should we not care?”

What Makes a City? (1929): “The greatest factor [in what makes a city is] the care it takes of and the safeguards with which it surrounds its people.”

LIFTING ECONOMICS

Capitalizing War for the Tobacco Trade (1919): “This is always done in the name of patriotism, even though the effect may be altogether antipatriotic.”

Creating a Demand (1919): “...helping to build that larger and better commercial world in which all business will be at its best because all people are at their best.”

Should Prices Be Standardized? (1919): “In other words, it would lift the markets above the gambling level.”

The Home Budget (1920): “It enables the poor to keep from growing poorer, and often enables them to reach comfortable circumstances.”

Efficient Spending (1921): “Between the hoarding of money...and the reckless habits of the spendthrift...lies this golden mean.”

LIFTING EDUCATION

The Three Agencies in Child Training (1909): “...the aim of each should be the perfection of personality.”

The Association of Mind and Muscle (1918): “As knowledge becomes a matter of action, it becomes a matter of purpose, ideal, and character.”

The Sound-Reproducing Machine as a Music Teacher (1919): “The taste of the listener is on its way to better things.”

The School Teacher and the Republic (1920): “The nation cannot recognize its obligation to the teacher too soon or too completely.”

Some Overlooked Compensations in Teaching (1920): “[The teaching profession] places in the hands of those who choose it privileges which many of the rich would gladly give their gold to obtain.”

Dollars Versus Sense (1921): “...preoccupation with material things. Minds become cloyed; hearts grow dull; and souls grow no wings with which to lift themselves above the mire and the clay.”

Education and Production (1921): “The accepted canon in educational circles is that a man is not trained at all unless trained to be good for something, and that he must prove his culture by bringing forth fruits meet for it.”

The School as a Reform Agency (1921): “Whatever the future contains, the school teacher holds the key to it.”

LIFTING HUMANITY

The Same Face (1915): “Along our years motherhood has planted three pictures that are so good for us to see that love and memory should always keep them bright.”

The Will (1915): “The will of man is not only his danger, but it is also his hope.”

The Sword that Keeps the Past (1916): “There is only one way to change the past, and that is to change it before it becomes the past.”

The Fountain of Youth (1917): “Such as it is, it exists everywhere.”

Some Principles of Efficiency (1917): “One has but one chance at this life, and he has a right to make that one effort the best possible.”

The Story of the Red Cross (1917): “One of the strongest forces now making for a day of lasting peace is the beautiful suggestion that comes from the spirit of those who make it their aim to help while others destroy.”

Words (1917): “The power of uplifting speech and the right to enjoy helpful conversation are high privileges.”

The Line of Necessity (1918): “It is the unnecessary that changes bare existence into throbbing and purposeful life.”

Some New Facts About Alcohol (1918): “Whether in the workshop or in the military camp, liquor and efficiency are sworn and uncompromising foes.”

Facing the Future (1919): “The race is still achieving some progress, however, and most of us still believe that the most promising days of civilization are yet to be.”

Life’s Backgrounds (1919): Character, preparation, and relationships

The New Philosophy (1920): “...philosophers feel a growing realization that advancement is the proper aim of human endeavor, and that the vital problem of Philosophy is human welfare and progress.”

The Sense of the Human (1920): “Humanity is the center of all creation, and the proper object of all our striving.”

The Holy Spirit and Social Viewpoint (1922): “The salvation of the group can only be accomplished by the salvation of the individuals who compose it.”

Civilization (1929): “denying themselves and their families the joy”

The Road Uphill (1929): “successively better generations”

LIFTING VIRTUE

Some Stories About Beethoven (1915): “He placed the claims of life, right, and truth in a place of supremacy over all other claims.”

The Obligation of Good Cheer (1916): “Whoever has a cheerful disposition has that much of a start toward positive and complete goodness.”

Worship and Service (1916): “He who would die in the spirit of the cross must live there.”

Do It Right (1917): “...the maxim which pointed the way to their mutual success.”

Life’s Handicaps (1918): “Along whatever way one’s path may happen to lie,...his life would be utterly unnatural if it were devoid of difficulties.”

The Riverside (1918): “It is not what we would like to do in this life, but what we really get done that counts.”

Determinants (1921): “The nature of a man can be altered or reversed.”

Love’s Burdens (1921): “In some unfeeling, intellectually ideal republic, such a pitiful piece of human wreckage might have been cast upon the junk heap.”

The Successors of Tantalus (1921): “Yet these unrealized hopes are among the most valuable experiences we have.”

The Christian Standard of Greatness (1922): “‛If any man would be first, he shall be last of all and the servant of all.’”

The Objective of Service (1922): “Humanity is, therefore, the most important object to which our interest and service can be dedicated. It represents both the divine problem and the human task.”

Our Blessings of Deliverance (1922): “No less important than the things which we have been given are the things from which we have been saved.”

The Redemption of Jean Valjean (1922): “[Victor Hugo] furnishes us a master picture of the upward struggle of a soul despite the influences acting within and without to keep it down.”

Eulogy for Joseph E. Henley [excerpt] (1924): “we have none too much of simple human kindness”

The Corner Stones of Life (1925): “Any product that has in it only the very best of materials suggests just one thing—character.”

Eulogy for Sanford F. Teter [excerpt] (1928): “He passed through the fire, but he did not let it burn away his courage...”

MISCELLANEOUS

Is Prohibition Paternalistic? (1919): “Freedom needs to recognize its own proper limits, and it will do so in any properly organized social system.”

Vibration as a Basis of Invention (1919): “Nature probably holds some provision for our every want. We need only to establish the means by which she can deliver her gifts to us.”