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booklet form for handy
reference.
There is one part of the
subject that 1 would like to
see explained in greater detail
and that is Ephesians 6:4:
" ... do not provoke your
children to wrath." I have
seen parents, and particularly
fathers, teasing children until
they are frustrated. Even
animals become mean when
they are teased.
Tbe following are two
quotes that were very
inspirational to
me
during our
years of child rearing:
"No other success in life
can compensate for fai lure in
the home. "
"You will have to give
account of how you have
fulfilled your duty to your
children. They are yours on
loan to form, fashion and
mold that mind."
J eanette Treybig
Houston, Texas
Violence in Sports
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am writing to applaud
the article "Violence in
Sports-ls Tbere a Better
Way?" A very insightful
article! Author Ronald D.
Kelly not only reported
today's headlines, but also
reported yesterday's headlines,
proving that the problem of
sport violence ís reoccurríng.
Whíle other authors would
have sensatíonalized and
stopped, Mr. Kelly reached
for the cause of sport
violence, taking the reader
through a lífetime of
competítíon in this "get"
society. He presented the
only alternative- God's way
of cooperatíon and
selflessness.
1 realíze that my lífe as a
student is competítive; from
beating
someone to the dorm
telephone to taking a
graduate school entrance
exam. May we all realize how
deeply competitive our lives
are and opt for the alternative
of God.
S .L. Workman
Oakland, California
New Subscriber
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have just got a copy of
The Plain Truth
from my
friend. I arn arnazed to find
January
1986
it answers most of the world's
present day problems. I find
it to be illuminating, smooth
to read, and a solace in the
thick of the diverse anxieties
and troubles each of us faces
in this ever more complicated
world.
Abdulrahman A. Al Hajeri
Dubai,
United Ara b Emirates
The New Europe
As an Austrían 1 wish to
give sorne addítion to your
issue of September 1985,
namely to the interesting and
bope-raising article from
Gene H. Hogberg.
The President of the
United States of America
expressed the feeling of every
European, when he said:
"lt
is rny fervent wish that in the
next century there will be
one, free Europe."
Sorne of us in Austria
agree with the statement of
Mr. Bailey: that the Holy
Roman Empire was the
grandest design ever
conceived by man.
lt
was
right, that the true crown,
reposing in Vienna, was
refused to William
J.
My
teacber in history, Heinrich v.
Srbik (Vienna University),
declared, that it was wrong to
speak from Great-Prussia in
terms of 'Second Reich': the
true successor of the Holy
Roman Empire with its
supranational mission is the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
The son of our Emperor
Charles is working for a free
Europe. He has the privi lege
to
be
the legitimate heir of
the crown of the Holy
Empire.
As Mr. Pflímlin said: no
one can stop us of dreaming
of a complete Europe united
in peace. My dream is: our
Polish Pope John Paul
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would coronate, in
Aix-Ja-Chapelle, Otto von
Habsburg, elected in a
democratic way by
representatives of all states of
Europe as electors for the
first monarch of this free
Europe.
As I think, thís event could
happen sooner than in the
next millennium.
Jobann Knoblocb
Innsbruck, Austria
Children of War
The action of using
children in war must be
condemned by any sensible
thinking human being for tbe
simple reason that all children
should be given the cbance to
enjoy theír childhood.
However, the article [Sept.
'85] forgets to mention that
in the case of Palestinian
children, against whom the
article seems to have been
directed, these children have
no childhood to enjoy,
anyway! They have no
country, no borne and merely
live as refugees under the
merey of charity.
May one suggest publishing
an article or two about the
people whose homes were
blown up, whose orcbards
were torn apart, and whose
villages have been bulldozed?
Traíning children for war?
For the sake of truth,
perhaps, you would ask what
do the
kibbutzim
do? And
who has set the example in
the Middle East?
B.D. James
Guildford, Surrey
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The artic/e "Children of
War" was not directed
against any children,
but to
highlight the problems
children face in many lands.
In this issue we present an
Arab view of the Midd/e
East problem in keeping with
our policy of remaining
above
politics.
Male/Female Ratio
Upon looking over a back
issue of
The P/ain Truth
from last December, 1 was
interested in your article on
wives. lt states that God's
purpose in creating woman
was to "share man's life and
love, to respond to him,
encourage him...." "Without
this, they are losing their
reason for being ..." and so
forth. And I agree with the
later statement, that "without
giving this help, woman
becomes edgy, frustrated ,
resentful, and headed up a
'blind alley' .. .." 1 truly
agree, because 1 am all of
those things.
You see, statistics show that
there is a tremendous gap in
the ratio of available single
women to available single
men ... in fact, there are
7,800,000
MORE WOMEN THAN
MEN!
1 have not just read this
in one place, but in severa!
publications ... and, in fact,
the notorious "man shortage"
is pretty much common
knowledge these days.
In Chicago, there are
approx. 62 men for every 100
women. In Kansas City, that
number is 58 men for every
100 women. And in Long
Island, NY, there are
virtually twice as many
women as men!
Mr. Armstrong, I am a
single woman in my early
thirties, attractive, and
college-educated. I have not
been involved with a man for
quite some time, and when 1
read statistics such as those,
to say that 1 am discouraged
would certainly be an
understatement. In addition to
the already grim statistics,
please bear in mind that a
much higher percentage of
men are homosexual than
women, and that the prisons
are about 98 percent men,
and you get the picture.
Why would God, if he
intended woman to be created
to be a mate to man, permit
such lopsided circumstances?
For surely, at least those
almos!
eight mil/ion women
will
never
have a chance to
love a man- unless it is
someone else's man, which is a
whole other story-if that man
simply does not exist! And if
you have not guessed by now,
1 am convinced that I am one
of those women God has "left
out in the cold."
The articles in
The Plain
Truth
are so concisely well
written, please address this
matter in a future issue- for
it affects
ALL
women, even
the ones who already have a
man-for, when the odds are
so uneven, it surely stands to
reason that more men will be
cheating on their wives, even
if their marriages are
basicaUy sound!
Linda
Suburban Cbicago
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We addressed this matter
in the JulyjAugust 1984
issue and will do so in
jorthcoming issues.
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