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WHATISNOW
PROPHESIED!
Will the next two decades bring human extinction-or the dawn of a new
world of peace and incredible achievement?
S
UDDENLY
this world has be–
come different!
lt
was never
like this before. Look at the
change in the last 80 years–
then
LOOK
at the change in the last
lO.
What will
another
1
O
years be like?
When 1 was a boy, our family
transportation was a horse and bug-
March 1980
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
gy. Horse-drawn streetcars had just
been replaced. Telephones were rare,
hanging on walls. Only a few down–
town streets in cities were paved.
Automobiles were a curíosity- we
called them horseless carríages. They
were steered with a stick instead of a
steering wheel.
Gaslights dimly illuminated city
streets. A man, riding horseback,
rode past wíth a líghting stíck to turn
them on at dusk and again to turn
them off at dawn. Our home was
dimly lighted by kerosene lamps.
No man had ever flown. Orville
Wright 's first 12-second, 120-foot
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