Columns
- Click here to search the John R. Gunn columns by keyword -
- A Banistered Home
- A Beautiful Woman
- A Bulwark Never Failing
- A Business Woman
- A Clean Page and a Fresh Start
- A Comforting Assurance
- A Companionable Husband
- A Conquering Religion
- A Cure For Pessimism
- A Daring, Aggressive Faith
- A False Insinuation Refuted
- A Fool’s Bargain
- A Fortune You Can Have
- A Grasshopper Complex
- A Great Confidence
- A Great Man and His Mother
- A Great Wistfulness
- A Happy Nation
- A Harmonising Providence
- A Joyful Religion
- A Lesson From My Petunias
- A Light in a Dark Place
- A Little Nonsense
- A Man Never Ashamed
- A Man Who Played the Fool
- A Man Without Defense
- A Masterpiece
- A Meditation of God's Goodness
- A Mirror of the Ideal
- A Nagging Wife
- A Perilous Obsession
- A Picture without Colour
- A Prescription For Worry
- A Psalm of God's Presence
- A Religion of Love
- A Rich Man Nobody Envied
- A Satisfying Portion
- A Satisfying Reason For Living
- A Satisfying Religion
- A Solo Nobody Enjoys
- A Song and A Sword
- A Song In The Night
- A Sure and Blessed Confidence
- A Temptation You Should Resist
- A Timeless Truth
- A Toast To Home Keepers
- A Voice From the Deep
- A Voice in the Wilderness
- A Way of Preventing Crime
- A Wonderful Way Of Living
- A Word For All
- A Word from God
- A World with Some Fight In It
- Abiding Reasons For Delight In Life
- About Experimenting With Life
- About Our Concepts of Jesus
- After My Exodus
- Alone in the Garden
- An Everlasting Rock
- An Appeal to History
- An Appreciation of Musicians
- An Appreciation of Teachers
- An Enduring Substance
- An Enthusiast For Righteousness
- An Extravagant Waste
- An Old Road Still Unpaved
- An Unpopular Employer
- An Unwise Measuring
- And This Is Peace
- Anger
- Anger and Wrath
- Answering Hate With Love
- As Long As We Have God
- As Long As I Live
- Basic to Happiness
- Bees and Bulls
- Before The Iron Gate
- Before Trouble Comes
- Behind the Shut Door
- Behold Your God
- Being Faithful
- Better Than Silver and Gold
- Better Than Taking a City
- Bettering Your Best
- Beware of Your Friends
- Beyond Sight and Sense
- Beyond the Day’s Routine
- Brightening Up In Old Age
- By Little and Little
- Carrying a Pitcher of Water
- Cheer and Laughter
- Cheer the Despondent
- Christ and Christians
- Christ Keeps Us Thinking Of Others
- Christ the Truth
- Christ the Way
- Christian Ambition
- Christian Courtesy
- Christian Graces In Business
- Christian Life A Dedicated Life
- Christian Manliness
- Clouds and Rainbows
- Compensations of Right Living
- Conquer Those Lions
- Controlling Our Moods
- Controlling Our Passions
- Counting on Success
- Courage for Commonplace Life
- Courage to Be a Nonconformist
- Crowns Not Inherited
- Darkness Demands Outlook Of Faith
- Dead Men’s Bones
- Death and Immortality
- Deny - Follow
- Discoverers of Men
- Discovering Men
- Does Prayer Avail Anything?
- Doing Good Unto All Men
- Don’t Shilly-Shally
- Dreamers Who Are Doers
- Duties of the Citizen
- Easter in Winter
- Education and Religion
- Enough to Make the Angels Weep
- Evolution and Religion
- Except I shall See and Put My Finger
- Exchanging God For Other Gods
- Facing Duty Unafraid
- Facing Life Without Losing Heart
- Failed to Thank Him
- Faith in Action
- Faith in God
- Faith to Ask, Faith to Receive
- Faithfulness the Crown of Life
- Fear and Trust
- Fetters of Brass
- First Just Then Charitable
- For a Mess of Meat
- For Our Good
- For Preserving Married Happiness
- For Want of Judgment
- For Young Men In a Hurry
- For Young Men Seeking a Job
- Forgive Offense
- Four Discoveries
- Fretting Leprosy
- Gentleness in Business
- Get That Lion
- Get Thee Out
- Getting Even with the Other Fellow
- Getting In the Wrong Crowd
- Getting Rid of the Blues
- Give Christ a Chance
- Giving a Compliment
- Go on Sowing
- God and the Ploughman
- God And You
- God Bless You
- God Is Still There|
- God Our Confidence
- God Our Help in Trouble
- God Our Strength
- God Stands By
- God Still Runs The World
- God The Joy-Maker
- God's People Blessed To Bless
- God's Plan For Human Society
- God's Work Still Going On
- God’s "Forget-me-Nots"
- God’s Definition of Success
- God’s Fellow-Workers
- God’s Filling Station
- God’s Law of Distribution
- God’s Measuring Line
- Going a Little Farther
- Good Health
- Grace in the Wilderness
- Great Disaster, Great Faith
- Greatness That Is Not Greatness
- Guarding Our Reputation
- Happiness Through Endurance
- Hard Times and the Brotherhood of Man
- Hate
- Hats Off To the Plodders
- He Is Risen
- Heroes of the Commonplace
- Heroes of the Plowshare and Pruninghook
- Hold On to Your Faith
- Home Discipline
- How Haste Makes Waste
- How Much You Matter
- How Things Work for Our Good
- How To Avoid Getting Upset
- How To Get the Most Out of Life
- How to Live Confidently
- How We May Have Rest From Fear
- How You Can Create a New You
- Humility
- I Am Sure of God
- I Can, God Helping Me
- I Have a Friend
- I Shall Not Be Moved
- I Shall Not Want
- If Discontented with Your Lot
- If I Were a Girl
- If Tormented by Unrealizable Hope
- If We Had No Burdens
- If We Had No Temptations
- If We Had No Trials
- If You Are Afraid of Failure
- If You Are to Put Up a Good Fight
- If You Have Become Cynical
- If You Want Sure Friends
- If You Want to be Famous
- If You’re Down in the Dumps
- If You’ve Lost Zest for Life
- In His Image
- In His Light
- In Spite of Infirmity
- Industry and Self-Reliance
- Is Heaven a Reality
- Is Religion Playing out?
- Is the Race Playing Out?
- Isolation a Penalty of Selfishness
- It’s Up to You
- Joy and Strength
- Just a Plain Ordinary Man
- Just Before Dawn
- Just Try It
- Keep Away from Temptation
- Keep in a Good Humor
- Keep Kindness Going
- Keep on Keeping on
- Keep the Home Fires Burning
- Keep Your Faith Built Up
- Keep Youth’s Purity
- Know Your Road and Go Straight Ahead
- Known Unknown People
- Laughter a Tonic Medicine
- Launch Out!
- Leaving God Out
- Lest You Fall Out with Life
- Lest You Forget
- Let Me Be a Letter of Christ
- Let Us Be Earnest
- Life A One-Another Arrangement
- Life After Death
- Life Is Worth While
- Life’s Bright Spots
- Life’s Greatest Accomplishment
- Life’s Highest Satisfaction
- Lift Up Your Eyes Unto the Hills
- Light My Candle
- Little Drops of Water . . .
- Live Is an Echo
- Living by Christian Ideals
- Living Room
- Look at Your Good Neighbors
- Lord, Light My Candle
- Love Neither Blind nor Dumb
- Love the World’s Great Need
- Love’s Burdens
- Loving as Christ Loved
- Make the Most of What is Most Worthy
- Make Your Suffering a Service
- Making a Start
- Making and Keeping Friends
- Making Our Lives Rainbows of Promise
- Making the Desert Blossom
- Making Use of Affliction
- Man’s Amazing Resiliency
- Marriage and Divorce
- Memories That Cast Shadows
- Men of Faith
- Men of Great Heart
- Men of Substance
- Men of the Spirit
- Mind Your Own Business
- Ministers of Sympathy
- Mirth as Medicine
- Misplaced Confidence
- Money You Can Take With You
- Moody People
- More than Conquerors
- Mother!
- Mother’s Apron Strings
- Music a Mental Tonic
- My Soul, Be On Thy Guard
- Negative Goodness
- Never Plant Thorns
- Not Far From Us
- Not Genius but Work
- Not Money but Men
- Nothing but Leaves
- Numbering the Stars
- On Being Agreeable
- On to the City of God
- One Unfailing Encouragement
- Only Partly Alive
- Open Doors and Adversaries
- Our Debt to Mother
- Our Debt to the Jew
- Our Foolish Fears
- Our Freedom of Choice and Action
- Our Idea of God
- Out for a Good Time
- Out of the Bulrushes
- Out of the Furnace
- Overcoming Fear and Nervousness
- Parading Your Troubles
- Pastures in High Places
- Peace Nothing Can Destroy
- Peddlers of Discouragement
- Peevishness
- Pilgrims in the Dark
- Pleasures for Evermore
- Plough On
- Power of a Dedicated Life
- Power to Stand Up to Life
- Preferable to Nagging
- Prosperity That Is Not Prosperity
- Public Opinion
- Pushing Religion
- Quietness
- Quietness
- Reacheth unto the Clouds
- Reaching Out After God
- Real and Pretended Friends
- Religion and the Home
- Religion and the Nation
- Religion Brightens Life
- Religion or Materialism
- Remaking Marred Lives
- Remedy for Jumpy Nerves
- Respect for Law
- Rest In Trouble
- Rich Personalities
- Righteousness and Prosperity
- Rules for an Easy Mind
- Ruling Children by Fear
- Running Away from Life
- Safe in God’s Love
- Saints in Rome
- Saints on Earth
- Saving the Fragments
- Secrets of the Untroubled Heart
- Sensibility To the Beautiful
- Sentiment
- Shall We Scrap the Church?
- Sharing Our Faith and Hopes
- Showing Others How to Live
- Sick Heads and Faint Hearts
- Singing at Work
- Sit Still a While
- Speak to That Young Man
- Speaking For Christian Ideals
- Speaking Good of People
- Spiritual Fragrance
- Spirituality
- Starless Nights
- Stick to Your Bush
- Success Can Be Failure
- Success in Spite of Poverty
- Success That Is Not Success
- Sunday School Prevents Crime
- Take a Look at Your Home
- Take it to God in Prayer
- Taking the Long Look
- Teamwork
- Thankfulness and Courage
- Thanksgiving and Prayer
- The Achievements of Patience
- The Act of Repenting
- The American Mania
- The Answer to All Our Needs
- The Answer to Grief
- The Answer to Life’s Problem
- The Beauty of Human Kindness
- The Benediction of Noble Parents
- The Bible in Business
- The Big Secret
- The Bond to Hold Society Together
- The Bondage of Fear
- The Book of Comfort
- The Bright Side of Death
- The Brighter Picture
- The Brighter View of Life
- The Bulwark of Christianity
- The Business of Marriage
- The Buttered Side of Your Bread
- The Call to the City
- The Capacity For Loving Folks
- The Case of the Materialist
- The Central Truth of Religion
- The Christian as a Citizen
- The Christian Businessman
- The Clouds We Dread
- The Courage that Carries On
- The Cry of Greece to Judea
- The Cure for Pessimism
- The Daring of Youth
- The Day of Small Things
- The Day of Trouble
- The Demon of Noonday
- The Difference Companions Make
- The Difference Inside of You
- The Duty of Self-Encouragement
- The Failures of Unbelief
- The False and the True
- The Fascination of the Upper World
- The Finest Heroism
- The Fireside School
- The Fittest to Survive
- The Good Gardener
- The Good Life, the Happy Life
- The Good News of the Gospel
- The Greater Silencer
- The Greatest Boon to Mankind
- The Highest Example of Living
- The Highest Mission of Womankind
- The Immortality of the Soul
- The Kingdom of Fame
- The Land of Beginning Again
- The Lessons of the Stork
- The Light in the Clouds
- The Little Foxes
- The Lover of Books
- The Magistracy of the Heart
- The Making of a Great Life
- The Man in the Mirror
- The Man of Clean Life
- The Man the World Needs Today
- The Man with the Dull Axe
- The Management of Life
- The Master Man
- The Message of the Hills
- The Message of the Pleiades
- The Ministry of Beauty
- The Ministry of Kindness
- The Mount and the Valley
- The Need of Counsel
- The Neglect of Sleep
- The Notoriety Craze
- The Only Sure Safeguard
- The Overtaken Man
- The Parable of the Black Thread
- The Parable of the Earth
- The Parable of the Marred Vessel
- The Parable of the Ships
- The Patmos Experience
- The Patriotic Citizen
- The Peril of the Mystic
- The Peril of Undersleep
- The Peril of Victory
- The Pioneer Mother
- The Power of Personality
- The Practice of the Presence of God
- The Prayer Closet
- The Radiance of Character
- The Rock Higher Than I
- The Saintly Face
- The Sanctuary of Quietness
- The Saving Force of Life
- The Search for the Hidden
- The Secret of Contentment
- The Secret of Release
- The Secret of Rest From Fear
- The Secret of Sanguineness
- The Secret of the Saint’s Strength
- The Sense of a Comrade-God
- The Seriousness of Living
- The Set of the Mind
- The Sinner’s Prayer
- The Soldier’s Spirit
- The Soul’s Hunger and Thirst
- The Spirit That Stoops to Serve
- The Spiritualities of Life
- The Still Small Voice
- The Stimulus of Rebuffs
- The Sun Will Rise Again!
- The Supreme Must
- The Symmetrical Life
- The Thinker
- The Tonic of Pleasant Words
- The Treasures of Darkness
- The Unchangeable God
- The Value of Confidence
- The Way Where Light Dwelleth
- The Word You Alone Can Say
- The World’s Book of Comfort
- The World’s Debt to Thinking Men
- The World’s Only Preacher
- The World’s Supreme Need
- The Worth of a Good Man
- Theatrical Religion
- Then Thou Shalt Say, Up!
- There Is Always God
- There Is Lifting Up
- They Smile At the Storm
- Think Big
- Thinking Heavenward
- Thinking Things Over
- Those Respectable Philistines
- Thrift
- To Thine Own Self Be True
- Too Busy with the Store
- Tried and Untried Paths
- True Men Will Not Run
- Truth Makes Men Free
- Turning Prayer into Sin
- Turning to God in the Night
- Unconscious Excellence
- Uncrowned Kings
- Unless You Love People
- Unrecognized and Unremembered
- Up Again!
- Visions of the Night
- Waiting for Fair Weather
- Waiting in the Dark
- Wake Up, America
- Walking in Darkness
- Warm Up to Your Job
- Watch Your Good Points
- Watch Your Moods
- Watch Your Spirit
- We Can Make Our Lives Sublime
- We Still Need Fools
- Welcome, Disappointment!
- What Can Save Us!
- What Do You See In Life?
- What Is Your Chief Worry?
- What Is Your Price?
- What Religion Demands
- What Religion Does for People
- What the Mirror Shows Us
- What Wisdom Will do for You
- What’s the Use of It All?
- Whatever Happens
- When a Man Loses Spirit
- When a Sinner Repents
- When a Woman Sins
- When Earthly Supports Fail
- When God Is Forgotten
- When It’s Real Love
- When Men Revile You
- When More Is Not Enough
- When Morning Comes
- When Nobody Is Looking
- When Planning Your Career
- When Should a Man Retire?
- When Sleep Is Sweet
- When Stripped of Its Glamour
- When Success Is Enjoyed
- When the Odds Are Against You
- When The Thistle and Cedar Marry
- Where God Dwells
- Where Hearts Are United
- Where Is Any Good?
- Where Love Is
- Where Others Have Won
- Where Rest Is Found
- Where You Can Succeed
- Where You Get Your Foot In It
- Which Concerns Burdens
- Which Concerns Unhappiness
- Why Go On In the Dark?
- Why I Am a Follower of Christ
- Why Not Bet On Your Own Town?
- Why We Are Afflicted
- Will Science Destroy Religion?
- Will We Know Each Other in Heaven?
- Winning Where We Have Failed
- Wisdom and Understanding
- With Only Your Crumbs
- Yet Much Land to Be Possessed
- You Can Be a Going Man Again
- You Can Be Able for Anything
- You Can be As Happy As Anybody
- You Can Be as Successful as Anybody
- You Can Have Divine Guidance
- You Want Faith—A Faith to Live By and Die By
- You Want Too Much Honey, Maybe
- You Will Understand Later
- Your Little Patch
- Youthful Religion
