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Signs of the Times
The Honorable John B. Connolly Governor of Texas in his address at the 17th Anniversary Dinner of The Religion in American Life Program New York, New York
It seems to me that in this era of relative ethics, a return to the training of people in the highest of ethics is mandatory.... I doubt if there are many in this room who do not believe that aside from their parents and their church, their teachers had the greatest influence for good or bad upon their characters. It is incumbent upon teachers and upon that profession to realize this and to adhere to an especially high code, in order to lend to their teaching that important dimension which can have so profound an effect upon their students.... With an ethical background in the lower schools, the student in college is better equipped... to see... that in the pursuit of a career seemingly far removed from any religious connotation, he is going to have to call upon his ethical training and his religious beliefs as never before, every day of his life.
Many a man, self-sufficient and complacent in his youth, has learned after the buffeting of years that his personal well-springs, even the intellectual well-springs accumulated and replenished through the ages, are not enough. He has learned that he needs the plumbless depths of religion, the boundless power of his God to bring him unscathed through ... a continually challenging life....
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August 13, 1966 issue
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Gaining a True Sense of Love
RUTH C. PRICE
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The Healing Art of True Mediation
MADORA HOLT
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The Family of Mankind
JOHN H. WILLIAMS
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Man, the Complete Idea of Mind
REGINA HUGHES WILSON
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FACE TO FACE
Godfrey John
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"To whom shall we go?"
JAYNE D. LUCE
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Right Thinking
BERNICE KING BRIGHAM
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"The solution of being"
Helen Wood Bauman
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Solving Racial Problems
Carl J. Welz
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In the world of today in which there is a great searching by mankind...
Barbara E. Hilborn
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I should like to tell of a healing I had when I was about five years...
Randy Black with contributions from Arletta Black
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Since my first testimony was published in 1926, my dependence...
Edith Cle Forster
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For many years I lived in dread of public speaking
Bradley L. Morison with contributions from Gwendolen Garsed Morison
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I shall always be grateful that my mother took up the study of...
Ruth I. Hitchcock
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Signs of the Times
John B. Connolly