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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
(In my "office" jetting at
45,000 feet elevation over
the Atlantic on last leg of
present around-the-world
flight-Paris to Pasadena)
December 1975
Dear Co-Worker in Christ:
I'm flying back to Headquarters on another 'round-the-earth
flight, 8 1/2 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. I have been reading
the year-end summaries of world news in three weekly news magazines
and this morning's Paris edition of the New York Herald-Tribune.
On the front page of the newspaper is a two-column picture of an
angry Henry Kissinger shaking a finger in a press conference,
warning the Russians over expansion in Angola, saying the United
States will "resist action."
Other front page headlines: "Terrorists Quit in Algiers,
Free Last Hostages"; "Portugal Gets Grim Year-End Message"; "U.S.
Envoys Shun W. Europe Reds"; "Gunman Kills U.S. Diplomat in
Athens"--all BAD NEWS!
And so it has been all year.
In the magazines: "Violence is on the Rise, Worldwide"--
especially featuring civil wars and guerrilla wars in Angola,
Lebanon, Oman, Timor and elsewhere.
Violence, and, as I have written you before, the toppling
of the governments of nations--at one a month--pretty well spell
out what has been happening throughout 1975 in the world. Then,
especially in the United States, the speed-up in another kind of
war--the "Women's Lib" movement. At an unprecedented pace, the
United States seems to be moving toward equality of the sexes.
Women want to do men's work. More and more men are doing
housework. But at the same time more and more families are
breaking up--the divorce rate soars--and the very foundation of
a stable and permanent society is crumbling.
On this trip I have just finished writing Part VIII of the
series of articles running in The PLAIN TRUTH, 'The Incredible
Human Potential." This installment is on HUMAN NATURE, and how
the whole world has been deceived as to its origin.
TROUBLE! TROUBLE! TROUBLE! The world seems full of nothing
but TROUBLE! WHY? Well, it's generally blamed on HUMAN NATURE.
But where did human nature come from? Ever think of that?