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PASTOR
GENERAL'S
REPORT, DECEMBER
30 ,
1986
PAGE
13
0
"Your
Awe s ome
Fu t u r e "
T h i s
book l e t , t aken from t h e
book "The
I n c r e d i b l e Human Po t e n t i a l , "
pr ev i ous l y
had
a subhead on
t h e
cover reading 'How Re l i g i on Deceives
You.'
Th i s
was
un s u i t a b l e f o r t e l e v i s i o n .
The
new
subhead
reads:
"The
Missing Dimension i n Knowledge."
Accordingly, t h e drophead
has
been
ed i t ed
t o
read:
"It 's p o s i t i v e l y as tounding1 The awesome purpose of
human
l i f e
h a s
remained undiscovered by s c i ence .
Higher
educa t i on
h a s
never t augh t
it.
And
organized r e l i g i o n has
f a i l ed
t o announce
it."
The
t e x t
of
t h e
booklet from t h e beginning
t o
t h e
middle
of page
17
h a s
been
e n t i r e l y
de l e t ed .
Part
one now beg i ns
w i t h
page
17 ,
us i ng t h e o l d subhead as
t h e
new
t i t l e .
Personal r e f e r ence s t o
t h e
au t hor i n
three
paragraphs
on page
1 9
have
been
deleted
i n keeping
w i t h
t h e
f ac t
t h a t
Mr.
Armstrong
is
no longer
a l i v e .
The
same
is
t rue f o r
pages
22
and
25.
On page
27
of
t h e
ear l ier
e d i t i o n of t h i s book l e t new copy
is
added
which
is
taken from
t h e
end of chap t e r
I11
of
'The I n c r e d i b l e Human Po t e n t i a l , '
pages
32
and
33.
Then
comes
p a r t
two
of
what
is
now t h e new e d i t i o n of
t h e
booklet .
Here
copy from c h a p t e r
IV ,
pages
34
t o
48 ,
is
added,
a s
w e l l
as copy
from
chapter
V,
pages
55
t o
59 ,
wi t h
e d i t s .
The
booklet
as it
now
is
a dv e r t i s e d on t e l e v i s i o n
is
e n t i r e l y new i n
its
emphasis, though taken from t h e
same
book.
I t
is
sugges ted
t h a t t h e
new
booklet
be
read
by
each
of
you t o f am i l i a r i z e your se l ves
w i t h
t h e
d i f f e r e n t con t en t .
I n t e r n a t i o n a l
News
Prom
Germany
P r e p a r a t i on s f o r
t h e
1987
Feast
of
Tabernacles i n Brno
began e a r l y i n November
w i t h
a v i s i t t o Czechoslovakia.
On Wednesday, November
5 ,
my wife Es t he r and
I
flew
t o
Prague,
Czechoslovakia
t o
n e g o t i a t e t h e 1 0 t h
Feast
of Tabernacles i n
Czechoslovakia. F e s t i v a l Coordinator Winfr ied F r i t z and h i s wife Carola
met
us
i n
Prague
t o
d i s c u s s
t h e
1987
F e s t i v a l wi t h
D r .
J a r o s l a v Macourek,
Foreign Tr ave l
c
Congress Department Manager
of
Cedok.
On-Wednesday evening
Dr .
Macourek i n v i t e d
u s
a l l
t o d i nne r i n
t h e
Golden
Prague
Res taurant .
During d i nne r
we
d i scus sed
t h e
past
n i n e y e a r s of
c e l e b r a t i ng t h e
Feast of
Tabernacles i n Czechoslovakia and how w e have
never
t r ied
t o
p r o s e l y t e
or
s o l i c i t
members
dur i ng t h i s
t i m e .
Dr.
Macourek repl ied t h a t
w e
n e v e r t h e l e s s
do
advert ise
by t h e way
we
l i v e and
t h a t
we
have
had
a
b i g i n f l u e n c e on
him, h i s
wife
and
h i s
f ami l y ,
as
w e l l
as
t h e
members
of
Cedok
and even
other
people throughout Czechoslovakia.
Next
on t h e agenda
for
November
was
t h e Regional
Directors
Conference i n
Pasadena.
T h i s
was
t h e be s t
organized and
most
p r oduc t i ve conference of
t h i s type t h a t
w e
have eve r had.
Mr.
Rar l son
a l so
f e l t t h a t ' the
conference and t h e gu i d e l i n e s coming from it may ve ry we l l . p r ove t o
be
a
mi les tone i n t h e
f u t u r e
a c t i v i t i e s
of
t h e
Work
i n
t h e
German-speaking
area.'
A
major
breakthrough
came
i n t h e
l a s t
week
of November which al lowed
u s
t o double newsstand c i r c u l a t i o n ove rn i gh t .
The
company Bahnhofshandels-