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VoL. 49, No. 10
CIRC.
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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
1984
ARTICLES
3 -
World Peace-Just Around the Corner!
5
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lt
All Happened So Fast! ·
7 -- The Plain Truth About Child Rearing
Growing Healthy Babies
10
The Big Question: Where Did the Idea of
an " Immortal Soul" Come F rom?
13
Why Churches Observe Sunday
18.-
Put "Thanks" Back into Thanksgiving
22-
Wives-You Can Enrich Your Marriage! -
23--
Husbands-Your Responsibility to Your Family__...
31-
One Nation's Planto Survive Nuclear War
35-
Sell True Values to Your Children _
39
Lifting the Cloud of Depression
F EATURES
t -
Personal from Herbert W. Armstrong
15
International Desk -
20
Increase Your Bible IQ
27
"Tbe World Tomorrow" Radio and TV Logs
45
Letters to the Editor -
0 UR
COVER
Scientists, viewing the political confrontat ion between the two superpowers,
have moved up the nuclear clock to three minutes before midnight- the
hour of nuclear doom. But nuclear war between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. is
not revealed in Bible prophecy. What is revealed is the threat of a nuclear
war from another military superpower yet to arise. The prophesied outcome
is world peace-and it's just around the corner.
COVER II.LUSTRATION BY C WINSTON TAYLOA
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