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AVoice Cries Out:
What's
Right
about theWorld
Toinorrow?
Three world views for tomorrow:
Only one will become
reality!
T
ODAY,
chaos, tomor­
row, the world
erupts
into
PEACE!
Today, threat
of human extinction. Tomor­
row,
UTOPIA
grips the earth'
You don't have to believe itl It's
as certain as the rising of tomor­
row's sun!
Humanity won't bring it about� It is
going to be done to us
1
People are going
to be compellPd to enjoy PF.ACF. world­
wlde, to be happy, r.o
experience
universal -'BU!'HlANCE
1
. l'top\s" Why
not'. Why should it
be
an imaginat�· or
impossible pipe dream
..,
Think about
that� There's a c.H'SE for rodav's
apparently �nsl)lvable problems and
unstoppable evils. It's a
u·ay of /1/e
- the way I simplify by the one word
"c;ET.' '
What do world leaders expect" The
two most widely held are di\"ergent
views. Paradoxically they point in
oppogite
directions.
Many world
leaders now
expect­
though they immediately put the
thought out of mind-that
nuclear
and
other means ofmass de-st
ruction e\·entu­
alJy�perhaps soon-will erase mankind
from the face of the ear th'
At least four other causes.
beside
nuclear anoih1la.tion. nqw for the nr�t
time in history make possible human
exrinction--and by the hand of \UN'
Some point out that man has never yet
invented a new means of greater mass
destruction that has not been actuall
y
used.'
Yet we all try to :-:imply put that
awesome pos.sihility out of mind' Do we
suppose that just not thinking ahout it.
and doing norhint! about ir, will auro­
maticaHy cause the- threat to )?o away·)
But a wellsknown philnsnpher and
author. Aldous Huxlev. said. ··\fost
prophec.
v tends rn o�ctliare hetween an
extreme uf �loom and the .....-ddest
nptimism." Another Sf't of c;f 'er'> thinks
the world is destined c;ofln to becnme a
gigantic sort .,f l'an'.as:-. land. The
human race wd/ linci rerr�ttrnJ happi.
ne!-.s plaving with an Pnd\ess d.:.snr'tment
,lf eH•r more ingenin11s rnechalli,,
_·al 111\s
produced by science, technology and
industrv
Hut these nptimistic gJamorous pre­
dictions -.eem trHallv to PXdude the
c;tark reality that human happiness and
well· heing
ii-
a ,piritual, not a phy<.ical
nr materialisric. rnndi(inn The near
future glamorous predictions O\.erl110k
the addttlvnol--.narl:-. c\nd prnhlem� thelr
nwn predictit)ns would hrinj:!
1
fhe
ovf>rcrnwded, .;,nar\ed. enervating cos­
mopolitan life uf this ,.,ptimistic view ls
rath�r
fril,!h{ening
1
But when we take a hard, cold,
realistic view uf conditions <1nd trends,
they point inevital-:,[y to a fast -apprriach-
1ng WORLD f"Rl�I-.\ of combined nucle-ar
war. stan·atlOn. uncnntmllahlf' dlsE>a)";e
epidemics, tontinued esralating crime.
;.iolence, the population explosion
and human extinctinn
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Yet SO",f: OF T"HF::"'F. 1....; 1;01...;(; TO
H . .. PPF.S'
It is nnt fantasv or surNstitinn hut
reality and
H.CT
that he fore man
annihilate.:-- mankind. that supre-me­
p,-,wered un:,':een ··Strong Hand from
Someplace· · is going tn inte-rvene tn this
world's atfa.irs
�nrne wr>rld·known o;cienti._t,; have
said 1)LJr only hnpe. now. l" fur a �uper
go\·ernment ruling over all nations -
wlth tlnly its nrH" m1\ilfH\' {on : e. \hn
can't hnn� this about
1
Hut that ··L'nseen
Pown'" c.-1t..,
1
-and before we de,;trov
nurselves \.\:JLL.1 . JJ nur irnwhab]e
prnhlems and evils are heing c.4c·�fo:D bv
a wa�· uf life l <simplify b\. the wnrd
· 1<ET · \1ankind ""·ill he turned 1n the
Ufl\ 1lf "(;l\f
(
'-nutrlnv.·1ni 1.0\F. towt1rd
God and man
1
There ...hall, in :ictual fact. he ::!
one.world (;O\ ·FR"\ff"' r H·c1m.1n ciq]i.
zc1tion won't bring it dhout. It will be
done r,, us' \\.'hethE'r ,me ht>lie-\es it.
dnf'sn'r m,llter_ It's as certain dS the
rising: nf tomnno\l.·s ",\ln
At'ler we pasi:. the �upreme world
crisis Just ;:ihead. there .-:.hall dawn the
WO.... f)fRFI L WORf O f0'.10RROW
1
\\.'orld
PEACE. happiness, universal AB1·1•..0A�CE
shall at \ast !!;rip thl:; f"<lnh.
\ 't11p\a ,''
Weil. w H'I: �OT' It is
1
1ur ,, . Rf- HOPE!
H£RBF:Rf
w
A.R\f:-iTRO\(;
Founder
Ambassador
Fnundati(,n
V.'e have nothing to �ell. Hut un re4ue.;t \uu ma , , · rf'Cf'I\ P , gratis. a Jti·pa�e
E'\'t>·•)pening honk\et, Th� V.:nridyrfui \ · \'"rid fq,n
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