Albert Mohler: "One Word of Truth Will Outweigh the Whole World" -- The Death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Monday, August 04, 2008

"One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world." Alexander Solzhenitsyn cited that Russian proverb in his 1970 acceptance speech as he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He did not deliver that speech in person, for he knew that if he left the Soviet Union he would never be allowed to return. Even after he was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, his great wish and absolute determination was to die in Russia, the land and people of his birth.

Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow on Sunday, ending a life of 89 years -- one of the monumental lives of the twentieth century.

Few writers have exerted so great an influence on contemporary events. David Remnick of The New Yorker described Solzhenitsyn as "the dominant writer of the 20th century." As he explained, "Who else compares?" the rest