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AVoice Cries Out:
YES! There is a
National
Em.ergency!
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The question made news in late December:
Should
Mr.
Reagan declare an economic
emergency on inauguration? President
Ca.rter said
No!
Others,Ths! Just what is the
condition now, and
where
are we
headed?
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Q)
µ..,
Y
ES! WE
are now deep
in much more than
an economic emergency'
We're in a social emergency-a
moral emergency-an interna
tional emergency-a military
lif e-and-death emergency'. The
weapons of mass destruction,
for the first time sinc e man
kind inhabited this planet. can
erase humanity from the
earth'
But we're tno oc-rupied taking
rontident pride in awesome :!Oth
renturv a'rhievements in science,
terhno-ln�y. business and industry
to notice our
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OA�CER�
\\·e:ve had our minds. on what we
think of as "20th-rent Ur\'
"PHOCHEss"' If
"eems that the human mind i� nrtuall
)
lim1tlegs in "'·hat 1t can .l('Cnmpli:-
.h' \\'e
a�sume rnnhdent and smug cnmplann
C\ in such mind-hoKilin� fe.-1b a.;
,;ending men to the mnf'ln and :-afel
_
v
back. re{'t'\\ in� unmann1:>d .;pacerrat '
t
dose-up photos of ,Jupiter. Saturn and
the \1arttan surface, .;,
uch tel'
hn(•ln!a!:Kal
productions as 1he computer
1
An<l e\·en
t '
ull-rolor telev1sJOn and modern tele
phonic ad\ ' ances would ast.ini:-h those
whn died in the 19th l 'entury
Hut. just 'when we pat our--eh·e..;. on
our backs , and rhink we ' rp prett_
v
,.rood
and far · ·ad,.anced" �H.a..'1.' 1 .\n c1Stro .
naut returns safelv from a. moon ,·o\age
and !ind.._ he is helpless to handle ht:,;
family prohlems H1:,;. hnnie and famd\
hreaks up in di,.·1)rce'
We are
helpln.,
hefore nur trriuhlf'.-:.
and the myriad enls that cnnfront
mankind
Onr marria�e. home an<l t '
amil\
stru<'ture. nn which a :,;fa.Ne ,rnd
permanent ,1,riet_
,· ls ha,ed. ha:,;. hrnkf'n
duwn. People can't iet altinia!: with
pt>(1pl£>. /'actions 1,1,1fh t".:.1cti11ns. naci,,ns
with nations
WHy'
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Our ,,uc(· e..::sf's Me ph,,ical :rnrl
material. but our 1r,1uhles an1 . i e,·ds are
rn the spiritual realm
E\·en in thf-' phv-;iral ,rnd rnatenal
Mea it t:-tkes I ime. pal wnce ;rnd per-.e
\Pranre A mPt<>rt ' dr ('ompan,· l,1-.;f'-;
millions calling hack cl'nain m11dt"I:-. 1,1
c1irreu a mech.m,nd /.iulc Yee . ..,_ich
patience and ,u ,,maller nr greater c1,..,1,
v.e d,1 makf' r11t1tinual pr,igress, in the
ph\'
...i{ ' al and matt'nal cJ.rea:-.. that lS �n
we think \A.e are prenv g»nd
1
fhese
materialistic achie\emenb d(, h,,n:-.t nur
.. aunted morale' Hut 1,1,e llke !n 1g:n,,re
c,tuse� di ...pintual pr11hlem"'
I ' ve heen hammerm£ awa\'
1in !he fart
there is a nt :-;F. t' 11r e\Pr\ · etien - and
hurnanitv has tended tn rieal with etfe( L�
m"tead uf c,irrectLng-
rJuses m trnuhle
areas
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I repeat a�ain and agc1in and
again-THF.RF. IS ' "P!RITl'
AL t.,Y.. !hat
!;Overns the prohlems. troubles and eHls
we've been unahle tn snl..-e. We smugh
prefer to ii,::n,,rf." ll in our cnntidPnt ,anit,
Yet it's. as inexorable -as relentless and
as certain as the law of grav1t\ 8reak tt.
and ti hreaks vou
That spiritual law ls the prinnple
the mi11i.. <1t111n 1he c1.ttltudt:> ,1! "ut
t\o'wing LO\F. ii ts !1uttlc1w1ng Ctinrern
fc1r the gr1od anrl wellare ,1! ,i1hns I
,._,mplih it hv the term · ·
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,I\ F . , and its
rransgres:,;.ir,n a.;. "t,FT ·
rhi,; ma1niaJt...1ic v.nrlrl hii..:. ht>en
lra\'
PlinK the . ... cl.� "' 't,FI .
,t•li
cente-redne:,;.s, covelou.,ne....s .
Pn,·\· ,rnd
realou:-.\'
. compelitinn....1rde. \i11lence
.rnd war.re"t-'nlmf'nt 1>1 aL1th<1rlr,
rhe tn,i,;lhl
,e
la,... ..f ··1,1\F . , ,,._ r1111per
ahng-, helpinji!, <:.e-n tnK. :--haring It .,..e
.,..1,u!d all lt\f' Wlth that in,-Pruin• ciur
rr1,uhles and evil.s would ,ams h .
Hut
rhi" {'H"iJiution wiJJ nut'
\\"hne does that le,n·e 11<' Our e\1b
and woe:,;. are aceelerntinK .
\\'p are
,,peedin_g-
on a cnlli�ion cniir...e v. ith
human annih1l.;
uion
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B11t 1hank (;od
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Krfnre- -..uvh t1nal
cra,;,h, thal all-pnv.·
erful. ;i.
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ln lnter\f'nf' in thi,; wnrl<f,., atLur". ;1.nrl
..;a\."e a rl!hf'llic,u.� h11m,rn1I\ lrnrn 11.;el!'
·\!I h11mc1ni!\'
-;hall he cr,m1wllf'd tn
enJm pP:1Ce, hrtppine-;:,;., 1.rnl\er.,al .1hun·
,Linn in \.\.ell-hP1ng'
�c ien('e, mdu..;tr\'
. hum,in i,:ml:'rnment
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he
d1,ne tr, ti,;' CH emir"'f' tha! mr,rns rhat cl.f
la-;t m(1rtal t ' \f'S ..;hall he "perwd In the
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