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granted.
In that letter of January 29, 1960, I wrote, further: "January
14, Khrushchev before the supreme Soviet 'announced that the
Soviet...stockpile of nuclear arms and missiles is large enough "to
obliterate from the face of the earth" any attacking country or
combine of countries.'" He was referring, of course, to
obliterating the United States from off the earth! It hasn't
happened--and it won't--BUT THE THREAT IS STILL HANGING OVER OUR
HEADS!
In the world, since then, men have repeatedly orbited the
earth--walked in space--docked in outer space with missiles
previously orbited. Men have received close up photographs made on
the very surface of the moon--and received photographs of the other
side of the moon. They have sent unmanned spacecraft
comparatively close to Mars, and received close-up pictures
establishing the certainty that Mars is not inhabited. Many
additional nations now have nuclear weapons--since 1959. This
completely changes the peace outlook.
There has been tremendous increase in crime, violence, race
hatreds, divorce and broken homes--major increases in sickness and
especially mental disturbances. We have seen a moral toboggan-
slide set in--especially on college and university campuses. (But
not on Ambassador campuses.) The nations of Europe have advanced
much closer to a UNITED EUROPE, resurrecting the Roman Empire,
even though De Gaulle has temporarily slowed down this momentum.
Great major strides have been made in these seven years in
setting the stage for the grand smash CLIMAX at the close of this
Age. In the next three or four years even more startling events
will come!
Jesus Christ said there would come (and it is coming now
almost immediately) a time of trouble on the world so great that,
unless GOD intervened, not a single human would be saved alive!
But, He reassured, "for the elects' sake" humanity will be saved!
God is using YOU and me as His instruments in converting that
"elect" for whose sakes God WILL INTERVENE! Humanity will be
saved!
We ought to realize HOW WONDERFUL it is that we have that
assurance! Otherwise, in face of TODAY'S CONDITIONS, and the
accelerating trend, THERE SHOULD BE NO HOPE FOR SURVIVAL!
Look at these MAJOR TRENDS, rapidly converging together toward
ONE FATAL CLIMAX:
How is human life sustained? By air, by food, and by water!
Rapidly our air is being filled with gasses, smog, poisons--even
nuclear fallout. In many places even the TREES are sickly and
dying, because of air pollution, lowering of the water level, lack
of rain, and the pollution (by man) of the sprinkler water supply.
Man is POISONING the air he breathes.
Our water supplies are suffering doubly. Water is getting