Confusing Issues Of Modern Age Cited by Miller

"Our topsy-turvy world is faced by the confusion of its principles," Stanford professor of Religion Alexander Miller asserted last night at Memorial Church in the next to last Noble lecture. "Occasionally there are cries of 'forward,' but no one knows which way is forward."

Issues now are desperately complex, he stated, and liberals are nostalgic for the days of McCarthyism because it was so clearly an enemy of democracy that it represented a positive challenge to the liberal cause.

The Scotch-born minister quoted Damon Runyon's statement that "No man knows what his life is worth until he has had to risk it."

He also spoke of the role of money and material wealth in the coming age of automation, stating that "work and leisure must be evaluated in Christian terms."

Professor Miller concludes the William Belden Noble lectures tonight at 8 p.m. in Memorial Church, speaking on the topic "Selfhood and Salvation."