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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, SEPTEMBER
6, 1985
FROM EDITORIAL SERVICES
Although it is only September and the Feast is still just ahead of us,
next year's Plain Truths are now being produced in Editorial Services.
Let me share with you some of the behind-the-scenes planning going into
January's Plain Truth.
Mr. Armstrong's new book Mystery of the Ages began running serially in
The Plain Truth in July-August of this year. In January we will run
Chapter 3, "The Mystery of Man."
we are also running the first
installment of Mr. Armstrong's new booklet "The Bible -- Superstition
or The Authority • • • and Can You Prove It?" It will run in two parts
in The Plain Truth.
The January Plain Truth cover will be especially eye-catching as it
focuses on "Trends to Watch for in
1986."
Specific trends will be
pulled out of Gene Hogberg's accompanying article to be featured on the
cover.
Other features in the January Plain Truth include a forceful article by
Keith Stump on the Soviet economic crisis. It will show how the Soviet
Union's growing economic woes will ultimately force the Kremlin to cut
loose its Eastern European satellites, al"
lowing them to associate with
Western Europe.
At Mr. Armserong's request, we are editing an article taken from a talk
by Abu Odeh to employees and students here in Ambassador Auditorium
June
7.
Mr. Odeh is a minister of the royal court of Jordan. The
article is titled "'What We Need Most Is Peace' -- A Palestinian Speaks
Out."
We had such a good response from teenagers to John Halford's article
"Youth Should Protest--but How?" in the July-August edition, that we're
planning several articles to appeal specifically to that audience
throughout the year. In January we are running an article of mine from
the Youth magazine, "Are You Sure Everybody's Doing It?"
In the booklet area Mr. Armstrong has certainly been keeping us busy!
In addition to his full-sized book Mystery of the Ages, Mr. Armstrong
has revised and combined material from the former "Who Is the Beast?"
and The Mark of the Beast booklets to form a new booklet "Who or What
Is the Prophetic Beast?" Also, as mentioned before he has given us the
manuscript for "The Bible -- Superstition or Authority • • • and Can You
Prove It?" Both booklets should be good attention-getters for
advertising on television and in other literature.
Just today, as this is being written, we received material for an
entirely new booklet Mr. Armstrong has written, titled "Are We in the
Last Days?" This is a fresh approach to the subject and will replace
the former, outdated and no longer distributed "Are We Living in the
Last Days?" booklet.
It will likewise be a good subject for
advertising. All of the above will, of course, be illustrated.