Wheaton College - Tower Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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f N such pressure because things like ten- sion headaches, ulcers, and nervous breakdowns have also become trade- marks of our time. There are people who say that these problems are a result of technology, of doing too much too fast. Those who think this way are the ones who may drop out of the system in communes, or turn on to drugs, losing themselves in a never- never land of their own creation. Others think that these problems are the result of our political system. Ad- herents of this philosophy may be found teaching in many colleges to- day, or quoting from Chairman Nlao's little red book during revolutionary cell meetings. These are the ones who are possibly escaping from reality by searching for the utopia that their poli- tics cannot bring about. For as long as we believe that man has a fallen na- ture, the nature of sin, we as Chris- X J

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maybe we, the people, aren't ready toy X The quiet horse and buggy of yester- day has been replaced by the roaring car, the screaming jet and the wailing train. The tedious jobs of yesterday have been replaced by such inventions as self-cleaning ovens, step-saving floor cleaners, and T.V. dinners. The quiet winding country back roads have been replaced by straight inter state highways which have been cut from the earth by bulldozers. A good part of each American city is taken up by the wide expanses of concrete called n'1ainthoroughfares. As the velocity of our style of life accel- erates, the pressure upon the people who live it increases, like the increas- ing G-force on an astronaut in an ac- celerating rocket. We begin to see that Qur world today is dedicated to speem

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