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The Executive
with
Rose-Colored Glasses
M
N
He was a bit ahead of his time.
Still, things
will
be far more
rosy
than
he sees them now!
I
T'S A PLEASING
deception,
perhaps, to see the most
terrible and widespread
evils of human history as if
they were nonexistent, and all
is well with the world.
The rose-colored glasses were
worn by a highly placed executive
of a multinational corporation, on
a business trip in Cairo. He had
read these page messages in a leading
U.S. newspaper, and wa'l one of the
guests attending a large banquet in the
ballroom of the Nile Hilton Hotel. I was
the principal speaker, and I was
speaking on the current troubled world
condition-its causes, and what lies
ahead.
To one beside him he commented that
he respected what I am doing, but
disagreed that world conditions are
reallv bad. He has it made, economicallv
He
lives
well, enjoys the very best in
material goods. The fact that half or
more of the world is sutfering, illiterate.
li-..·ing in abject poverty. filth and
squalor-many dying of literal starva
tion-isn't atfecting his well-being. The
moral downdrift of our youths, the
breakdown of the familv structure, the
escalating crime wave: the continual
overthrow of the go,..·ernments of
nations, the wars and threats of wars
the myriad knotty, complicated prob
lems and troubles seemingly beyond
human solution apparently had not
touched or harmed him personally. The
anguish of the multiplied millions had
not. apparently. as yet reached through
to him. But it
will!
HF.RBERT W ARMSTRONG
How many are in the same boat.
happily oblivious to others who are
sinking') Soon we shall all sink, unless
the present world trend is reversed.
When world evils are what they are,
and fast accelerating. with the number of
nations in the nuclear club increasing, a
madman at the helm
of
any one of those
nations could ignite the nuclear explo"
sion that can exterminate us all�
Do
we
have FAITH in such a madman that he will
hesitate to exercise such awesome
power"
We are confronted with an almost
unbelievable paradox
1
In the l'.nited
States and developed nations, progress
in civilization has been phenomenal in
the 20th century. But this advancement
has been altogether in the materialistic
and physical realm
Conversely the world has retrogressed
and
is
cursed with more unsolved and
humanly insolvable problems and evils
than anv time since mankind has inhab"
ited th� earth. And our No. l problem
today is that of HllMAN Sl1RVl\'AL1
What
successes we enjoy are
in
the
materialistic realm. But materialism. no
matter how abundant, does not produce
happiness. peace, joy, the truly meaning·
ful life. And it leaves us questioning
about. in ignorance of. worried about or
trying to ignore the question
of
life after
life. Material abundance alone can never
satisfy.
�eanwhile the developing countries
and the "have�not" countries are lagging
or utterlv lacking in evenmaterial needs,
let alone· abundance.
Our real problems and evils are
spiritual in nature. They are caused by
the way of life I call"GET" for simplicity.
The way of self-centeredness, vanity.
covetousness, envy, jealousy, selfish
competition. strife and violence.
This way of life transgresses the
overriding spiritual LAW [ term"GIVE"-
outflowing LOVE toward others, concern
for their welfare, serving, cooperating,
sharing. That invisible spiritual law is as
inexorable-as relentless in automatic
motion as the law of gravity�
\Ve can never have a happy, meaning
ful. satisfying life and world UNTIL WE
REPE�T-Tl'RN FROM-THF. SELFISH WAY
OF ··(�ET�" But if humanity won ' t-and it
will not�-the unseen "Strong Hand
from
Someplace" will soon intervene
in
world atfairs. save humanity from
destroying itself and rule all peoples of
the earth with the
Law
of"GJ\'E" instead
of "GET." This will usher in the happy,
peaceful, abundant WORLD TOMORROW.
No
one will need rose.colored glasses
...
�
HERBERT\\'. ARMSTRONG
Pastor General
\Vorldwide Church of God
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