As I write this, the candidates for public office are making their last frantic appeals to the public for votes. Like many others I am always dismayed by the quantity of rhetoric that flows from political lips, and even more so by its quality. Truth always seems to suffer at election time, and men who otherwise exhibit rationality and morality in good measure seem to lose substantial quantities of both until the election seizure is over. Yet somehow the nation manages to survive these biennial extravaganzas. Normality returns, and the party in control of the government turns out to be neither as good as it promised nor as bad as its opponents claimed it would be.
Calvin Linton returns to our pages with a delightful essay on the nature of work in heaven. Rolf Aaseng drives home the truth that neither sex is complete without the other; the two are complementary, not competitive. Donald Gill, speaking for one school of thought, tackles the problem of how churches that have lost their evangelical distinctives can be brought back to life and vitality. I commend to our readers also the essay by associate editor David E. Kucharsky, who has followed the National Council of Churches carefully and has attended most of its major meetings for a number of years. He knows whereof he speaks.
To all, a happy Thanksgiving.
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