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AVoice Cries Out :
What'sWrong
with
Governm.ent!
Civilization is in danger of cosmoscide.
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It's time to look to causes !
L
EADERS OF AMERICA ,
WAKE UP!-or
face
human extinction! The na
tion and the world are
fraught with troubles and
evils seemingly past hu
man remedy.
SURVIVAL
is
now our No. l problem'
lt appears now that if weap
ons of mass destruction do not
soon erase mankind from t he
earth, the population explo
sion will !
There has to be a CA.USE for everv effect .
Too often people try to find soiulions by
dealing with effects. But until CAUSES are
removed, the effects will not just
KO
away.
fn the imperative search for causes we
look now to the six major facets that have
made civllization what it is: government.
business and industry, !Cience and tech
nology, modern education, organized la
bor, religion.
Where have these gone wrong?
A week ago we covered an overview of
modern education. Civilizatjon is what
its Jeaders have made it. and education
is the alma meter of the leaders. They
are largely what the educational system
made them. Education haa succumbed
to intel lectual materiaJjsm. Knowledge
of the TJW� VALVESwa.s jettisoned some
wl'.ere along the way. Humanity's prob
lems are spiritual in nature and a mate
riaJistlC knowledge cannot understand
or solve them.
Later we will focus on business and
industry, on science and technology, on
organized labor and on religion.
But recently this country ha.s been
concerne-d with a presidential E!lection.
So we take, now, a quick overview of
government. What has government con
t ributed either to the cause or the solu
tion of present escalating evils
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Over the
yean
I
have been invited to
pe-rsonal conferences with
numerous
heads of state-kings, emperors, presi
dents. prime mi nisters-and others high
i n government under them, in many
other countries.
I have, said often to them that there
are only TWO wA.vs or philosophies of
life. broadly speaking. And these travel
in opposite directions. One will produce
peace. universal pl'ospe,rity and weH
being. The
other will CAVSE
precisely
what we have in the 1,1,·nrld toda.v
1
I simplif�- these two basic mot.ivations
so even a child can understand. One ls
the
way of
··u
ET"
-the other the wav
of
'(;JVE "
"Girr"
is
the way of self . centeredne�s.
vanity, covetousness, envy, jealousy,
hostility, ref.;entrnent of authority over
one. ··G1vE" is the way of outflowing
LOVE-concern for t he well ·being of
neighbor equal to self.concern.
It
is the
way
of
helping, serving, sharing-of
kindness, consideration. p;oodwill.
GovERNMrNT is that organized au
thority over the people to insure
by
law
and order to each the freedoms and
1iberties that do not infringe on the
lawful rights and liberties of others
But pol iticiarts govern in a -Norld
living the ··cET" way of
life.
Government
should produce a contented, haQQY.
peaceful and p-rc, sperous society .
But
politicians
have grown
up in
this
world addicted ro the wav of "GET. " It
would indeed be naive to- suppose they
have not absorbed the "cE'T" motiva·
tlon. Nothing in their educational train
ing inculcated within them the "give"
incentive. So i t i� normal that they have
followed
the
old ••Ying, "Jones pays the
freight, give Jones what he wants.' '
Now Jones wants to "Gr.T" from gov
ernment. And political candidates want
to ··en" Jones' votes. But Jones in this
country
is
divided in many group
,.rotes.
\\'ha,t one faction may want to "Gtt"
from government too often coll ides with
another. The candidate often walks a
tight.rope, and to win both faction votes
the candidate sometimes succumbs to
making promises he can't deliver.
If the public wants to "GET'· from
government, we must not suppose polit
ical candjdates do not covet power. So i n
government i n this country we have the
merr� ·io· round of pe0ple trying t o
''GET . ,
from i,?n,..ernment. and
politicians
using eve r:,.-· strategy to "Et:T" POWER'.
I wi l l relate an incident in tase. I was
entertaining at dinner in mv home an
overseas d i p lomat some t i�es cal led
· 'thP stwn� man of Europe." A pres.i
dl"n\la\ inaw�:1.:i:ra\)on
nan
}u�, nl.'c-un�d
in Washini,!t • in
"What, " ' asked another guest of the
European politician, "do you suppose was
going on
in the mind of 1he new
president
while taking the oath of ntfice
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· ·How t o be reelertt"d four years from
now, of coursf"," came the in.st ant rE>pl.v
What, after al l . has government cCln·
tributed tn the present state of society
the nation and the world
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Government
has not co r rected or changed t he
human-nature way o f ·'r.F.T," but oper·
ated wi th i t . And every evil draRging this
sick W()rld t oward cosmnscide has heen
CAUSED bv the "Gl!':T. . nature in MAN � We
ca\\ it hu�man nature.
But we
need
governrnent . The alter
native
would
be anarchv'.
Governments of natio�s over the world
do work for PEACt-even tight and war for
PEAC£! And we still have wars. l know that
the responsibility of the chief office in
government weighs heavily on men in
such
high
office.
I have talked
with
many
heads of state who admit privately that
they face problem!& beyond human power
to solve
Some world leaders have said human
ity's only hope
Jies in
a single WORLD
government over all nations, with only
one mihtary forte. Yet in the same
breath they admit the impossibility of
man to produce it.
An editorial
some
time
ago
in
US
News
&
World Report
stated it a d i ffer
ent way-t hat it would now seem the
only hope
for
human survival lies
in
the
intervention of a strong "llnseen Hand
from Someplace''�
This voice announces, believe it o r
not, both these solutions wi ll happen i n
out lifetime. MA.NY.lNO won't change
human nature, nor set up the world
government-doesn't even have to be
lieve i t-eL'T rT wrLL HAPPEN
TO US.'
And ln this generation we shall see a
new 'NORLO TOMORROW ' with universal
well-being�
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Pastor General
Worldwide Church of God
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sent
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