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The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of Understanding
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Editor
February 27, 1970
Dear Co-Worker with Christ:
I want to give you, by personal letter, a portion of my
"Personal" talk coming in the March number of The PLAIN TRUTH. You
will be receiving it in just a few days. But I want you to read
this portion IN ADVANCE -- and then you may read the rest when your
copy of the magazine arrives.. Here it is:
"The other day at a student assembly, Ambassador College,
Pasadena campus, a shocking film was presented. It showed, in full
color motion picture film, the horror conditions in Biafra.
"Seated beside me as my guest was the managing director of a
large motion picture corporation from Europe. During World War II
he had been a prisoner at Buchenwald.
"Before our eyes were living scenes of starving, rib-showing
children. We were viewing sickening scenes of putrefying sores
covering bodies dying from horrible diseases resulting from
malnutrition. To most of-us this was a moving, revolting, eye-
opening picture. It produced emotions of shock, horror, sympathy
for the helpless victims. But still it was a picture! We were
not, ourselves, in Biafra. We were in an assembly room on our
peaceful and beautiful campus. Surely we were moved! Our hearts
went out to the suffering, the dying. It moved us to want to do
something about it.
"Yet, moving as it was, to us it still was a picture. But to
my guest who had experienced the horrors of Buchenwald, it was
stark REALITY! To him it was actuality -- a living EXPERIENCE. He
was once again living in the human slaughter-camp. It left him
sick in the stomach for twenty-four hours."
Many are starving to death, and dying of horrible malnutrition
diseases in other parts of the world, too -- India, Egypt, Central
and South America. Just while you've been reading this far, at
least FOUR PEOPLE have died of starvation -- mostly children.
This Biafra picture certainly touched our hearts -- made us
want to DO something about it. The picture ended with an emotional
appeal to viewers to send in contributions -- liberal contributions
-- for food and medicine for the starving and disease-ridden of
Biafra.
But what perhaps none of the viewers of such a picture
normally would realize is this: THE APPEAL WAS TO TREAT WITH THE
EFFECT, NOT THE CAUSE!
To treat only the effect IS NOT ENOUGH. It is NOT THE