Editorials

Over the past ten years or so, considerable attention has been given to a phenomenon called the near-death experience. Books have been written, psychological studies conducted, personal histories compiled.

The novelist and historian of Stalinist repression, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, refers in his Nobel prize speech to a Russian proverb: "One word of truth outweighs the world. "   Nobel Lecture (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.

From the beginning of recorded history, mankind has searched after wisdom. In the book of Proverbs the writer paints a vivid portrait.

A sermon that appeared earlier this year in an issue of The Christian Ministry tells of the time when the great composer George Frederick Handel was going through rough waters in his life and career. He had recently faced a serious illness that left his hands partially crippled.

First thought: Discovery is everything. Second thought: There is one paramount amendment to that first thought.

The Yellow Kid was an infamous "con man" in the United States earlier in this century. He sold talking dogs that couldn't.

Researchers working in a specialized area of computer technology are beginning to develop sophisticated mechanisms called "virtual reality" simulators. These devices would allow a person to enter very persuasive three-dimensional environments that could be created and controlled electronically, either by the user or through a predetermined computer program.

Walking home from work one day, I watched an art class focusing its attention on The Mother Church—evidently a favorite Boston subject for aspiring artists. It was fascinating to see the various renditions.

The author notes that "theology that expresses the actuality of the All-God, rather than human speculation about Deity, brings healing now as it did in Jesus' time."

Gaining an accurate perspective on events is not easy when we're in the middle of them. We understand adolescence better when we're no longer teen-agers.