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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MAY 11, 1984
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But even more, I'm in the process of writing a Cantata about the
Plan of God--and I know firsthand the tedious, hard work involved
in writing the notes--getting the timing just right and all the
accents as they are needed so that others can reproduce the music
by voice or instrument as it should be. Truly, he is an inspira
tion to the whole Church--joyously as you are! I will write him
gladly.
S.M. (Rancho Cordova, CA}
I was saddened to hear of your brother's condition in your last
letter. I know that
he
will
be
rewarded for all of his unselfish
years of work and the beautifully inspiring music he has con
tributed in praise of God and His works. I am going to write to
Mr. Dwight Armstrong to thank him personally for his service to
God and the enrichment of our Christian lives. I pray that God
will greatly bless him now in the time he has left in this life
with peace, joy, physical comfort and freedom from pain, and the
abundant love and concern of family and brethren.
Thank you for bringing this need to our attention. I look for
ward to meeting Mr. Dwight Armstrong someday, if not in this
lif9,, then surely in God's Kingdom!
ON THE WORLD SCENE
J.H. (Stanford, MT}
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY; HOW THE TUBE UNDERMINES
EAST GERMANY; THE POPE'S "UNIVERSAL MISSION"
The world is indeed changing. A new global economy is arising, an inter
esting development in light of what is portrayed in the eighteenth chapter
of Revelation. The nations of Europe are still groping around, hoping to
find their "niche" in this new order of things, according to John Naisbitt,
writing in the April 22, 1984 SUNDAY TIMES of London. Mr. Naisbitt, an
American, is the author of a book entitled MEGATRENDS.
Europe is like a great dinosaur waiting for the weather to get
better. It won't. Things are not going to get better. Things
are going to get different. What is happening in the United
States is instructive.•.. Capital and energies going into artifi
cially propping up the old industrial economies diminish the
possibilities and opportunities of creating new economies. We
�becoming� global economy--not merely more trade
among
150
or
so countries, but shifting from trade among nations to a sin $le
economy. As part of this shift to a truly global economic vil
lage, the entire planet is re-sorting who is going to make what,
a redistribution of labour and production.
As part of this process, all developed countries are de-indus
trializing, or rather, being de-industrialized as Third World
countries increasingly take up (i.e. beat us at} the old indus
trial tasks. By the year 2000, less than 16 years away, as much
as 30% of the world's manufactured goods will be manufactured in
the Third World: in South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Brazil,
Mexico, etc.