By Irven Himmel During their teen years most boys and girls begin dating. A “date” is a social engagement between persons of the opposite sex. It is an association reflecting personal interest. The age for one to begin dating depends on several variables. No doubt some youngsters have begun much too early, being totally unprepared to …
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“As Is the Mother, So Is Her Daughter”: Parental Example
By L.A. Stauffer A distant and rather casual acquaintance is now divorced for a second time and dates a young woman who, like himself, has the morals of an animal. When he invites her to spend the night, the two sleep together as though they had been united by God as “one flesh.” What, then, was …
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The Work Ethic
By Robert C. Welch “A treatise on Morals,” is the first definition of the word ethics, in my dictionary. Honesty, virtue and self-control are excellent moral principles. But they are no more excellent than the moral precept that we engage in profitable labor. That labor may be with the hands, on the assembly line or on …
Overcoming Peer Pressure
By Robert W. Goodman Often old problems are given new names. Peer pressure is a term not in the common versions of the Bible. However the idea is. Peer comes from the Latin par which means “equal.” One’s peers are one’s equals, friends and associates. This is a timely subject. According to a recent survey of …