Rev. W. J. Fesmire in an article in Nashville Tennessean Nashville, Tennessee

Communion with God is the glad privilege of every Christian, and it was true with Jesus during his life in the flesh.

Every Christian should live in an attitude of prayer, and should find time to enter his room alone each day, and we should pray for His will to be done in the world and in our hearts and lives.

God is our Father, and He loves, cares, and will supply our every need. He will deliver us from evil ... and we can grow in strength and overcome ever temptation, trial, and testing in this world. Let us ... pray to our Father daily, and He will reward us in supplying our every need always. He will bless us, and we will be a blessing to others.

Henry Geerlings in a column in the Evening Sentinel Holland, Michigan

Paul and Silas a had been stripped and scourged ... they had been thrust into the inner prison and their feet made fast in the stocks. Yet in such a place and under such conditions they sang. A strange place in which to sing! They prayed also. We are not so much surprised at that. It would have been surprising if they had not prayed. But to sing and to sing hymns, to be joyous and exultant—that is the remarkable thing.

This kind of spirit is a characteristic product of the Christian faith. ... Faith in Christ is able to make a man independent of circumstances and superior to his surroundings.

Aaron N. Meckel in an article in The Chaplain Washington, District of Columbia

"Righteousness exalts a nation; But sin is a people's ruin."

What is our ... foremost need in this hour? Is it more wealth? a larger stock pile of atom bombs? cleverness and education?

Somehow each of us knows that the need lies deeper, it is expressed in the text printed above (which is Proverbs 14:34 in the vital wording of The Bible: An American Translation). Only righteousness exalts a nation!

Here, now, is something we can do: we can with God's help plant the seeds of a better moral order in that seed plot of the future, the Christian home.

The home is the strategic center where the timeless fundamentals of our great Hebraic-Christian heritage must be inculcated. And not only taught to our children but faithfully exemplified by their elders. Here in our homes the spiritual ABC's must be stressed again: the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the life and teachings of our Lord, Christ Jesus, the need for prayer and Bible study —yes, and the radical difference between right and wrong. ... It was a wise ancient who said that not square acres but square men make a nation great.

From the Sunbury Daily Item Sunbury, Pennsylvania

The twenty-third Psalm is a striking instance of the religious temperament, a kind of double vision we call insight. Here is the power to see behind the outward forms and discover inner meanings.

Some people are endowed with this inner seeing. Others must cultivate it as they would a taste for art. All may acquire it. The acquisition is by way of observing, thinking, wondering, and finally worshiping that which knowledge cannot fathom.

From a column in the Herald Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Over the generations of the past mankind has made progress.

While wars and economic depressions have temporarily slowed or stayed the march to better things, the movement is never wholly halted. Somewhere new champions of freedom have come forward and new forces have taken form. The trend of man is forever forward.

Humanity is on the march today. There are signs that while there is discontent with the past, a new faith for the future is stirring men's hearts and firing their imagination.

Spiritual values are being recognized. Said the great Spurgeon: "Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman on deck cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft: lilts it above the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer."

From the Saturday Pulpit in The Evening News Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

The teaching of Christ Jesus is full of allusions to the family circle. He, who shared the life of a home at Nazareth, added a new meaning to the word. From the earliest days of Christianity the Christian home has been one of the glories of our religion. It was obviously his [Jesus'] conviction that the highest values in life are the values which are found and developed in the life of the family.... The family circle should be a team, a fellowship, a co-operative society in which all work together for the common welfare.

The family circle is what you make it. Make Christ the center and you will find that your family circle will radiate with health and happiness.