A Lesson Learned at Midnight By James Q. DuPont Ever since one midnight, in nineteen hundred and nine, when I first heard my mother crying, I have been groping for beliefs to help me through the rough going and confusions of life. My dads voice was l
A Straight Wall Is Hard to Build By Lou R. Crandall As I try to outline my thoughts, the subject becomes more and more difficult. I have many basic beliefs, but as I try to pick and choose, it seems to me that they can all be summarized in the word c
We Cant Just Play with sports I believe that the greatest frontier of our ignorance lies in the relationship of man to man. I do not discount in the marvelous development in the world of things, nor do I devaluate the contributions of those who made
A Morning Prayer in a Little Church By Helen Hayes Once, years ago, I got into a dogfight. I was wheeling a baby carriage, my pet cocker spaniel trotting beside me. Without warning, three dogsan Afghan, a St. Bernard and a Dalmatianpounced on the coc
What Does God Say to Me? by Dame Edith Evans I believe that good is stronger than evil. I have found that if applied with complete faith, it can obliterate evil. Knowledge like this gives one great strength in time of oppression or tyranny. I believe
A Ball to Roll Around By Robert Allman I lost my sight when I was 4 years old by falling off a boxcar in a freight yard in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and landing on my head. Now, I am 32. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what col
What Are People Good For? By Ina Corinne Brown One's beliefs are revealed not so much in words or in formal creeds as in the assumptions on which one habitually acts and in the basic values by which all choices are tested. The cornerstone of my own v
Paying the Rent of Service By Lee Bristol In a complex society and a complex civilization, the individual is inevitably confused much of the time. But I believe that the basic solution of all world and group problems must first be solved by the indiv
A New Look from Borrowed Time By Ralph Richmond Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a stethoscope. Yes, he said, there is a lesion in the left, upper lobe. You have a moderately advanced case I listened, stunned, as he contin
The Hidden World Around Us By Harry Overstreet Ever since Socrates was introduced to my adolescent mind he has been one chief master of my thinking. What he believed still seems to me to be indispensable for carrying on an intelligent and responsible
Revelations on a Bomb Run By Lloyd Jordan One day while piloting a bomber through the war skies of Europe, I came to believe in the immortality of man. There was not any melodrama attached to this awakening. Only through the thousand details of a min
You Cannot Fix a Real Faith When I learned that members of my team, boys whom I had trusted and to whom I had devoted intense training and guidance---when I learned that these boys had been fixed by professional gamblers, my faith and belief in the b
Escape the Dark Destructive Force by Robert Hillyer I feel the coming glory of the light. This last line of Edwin Arlington Robinsons sonnet Credo expresses the general basis of my belief. It is my task to clear away the debris of dead emotions, regr
Roll Away the Stone I enjoy life because I am endlessly interested in people and their growth. My interest leads me to widen my knowledge of people, and this in turn compels me to believe in the common goodness of mankind. I believe that the normal
I See No Doom Down an Alley我看见的不是死胡同 By Herbert Hoover My professional training was in science and engineering. That is a training in the search for truth, and its application to the use of mankind. With a gloss of science we have a
A New Control of Destiny by Margaret Mead Children used to play a game of pointing at someone, suddenly saying, What are you? Some people answered by saying, I am a human being, or by nationality or by religion. When this question was put to me by a
Diogenes Didn't Need a Lamp BY DAVID LOTH I BELIEVE in people. However much of a mess we seem to make of the world, it is people who have brought about all the progress we know, and I don't mean just material progress. All have been for- mulated and
The Hidden Vitality of Human Beings by Newbold Morris What has been the most appealing part of the development of the American Dream? Well, to some of us, perhaps, the most dramatic phase of our development has been the ceaseless energy of the pionee
Baseball Has a Religion Too by Joe Williams There is a saying at the race track that you can't rule a man off for trying. I believe in this approach to life on this earth. I believe in God. I believe in my country. I believe in basic human decency. I
One Girl Changed My Life by Rose Resnick My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dra