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state. That the last war will have been
fought. That every nation will live in
peace with every other nation under a
worldwide government!
What Can YOU Do NOW?
But is there nothing you and
1
can
do,
now?
Am
I
saying we should leave
it allup to God?
No!
Granted,
only
God can solve
al!
of
mankind's problems ! And God
plans
to
solve
alt
of mankind's problems -
S001l
f
No,
I
do
11ot
advocate the reasoning
too many use in too many instances
where the evils are abundant. The idea
seems to be in everybody's miad -
"What good is it for just
one
person to
try to do things right in a world gone
wrong?" Everybody tries to get the
other fellow to change. When will we
alf learn that you can't control others
but you
can cont,•ol younelf?
Each of us
has an
individ11al
responsibility. There
are
things each individual can do.
There are ten things listed in the box
on the previous page that you can do
that will help solve this pollution prob–
lem. It may seem a small thing, but
somebody has to make an effort some–
where. Even though you as only one
individual do
it,
your effort really
involves more than just you as an indi–
vidual. You do
not
pollute. You help
remove the pollution of
others.
And
you are an
example
to those who see
yo
u.
Now, am
I
kidding myself into
thinking that
yottr
lone action ·and
my
lone action will solve the
woddwide
problem? No,
I
do not think so. The
world, in all probability, will havc to
go
throttgh
the sad prophecies of both
man and God. But thank God, God
gives definite promise of good news on
the other side of the bad!
What Really Counts
Our human problem
is
not measured
in bottles and cans, plastic jars and oil
spills, po!Iuted rivers and sterile oceans.
The human problem is the attitude, the
nature which produces these
sigm,
which are mere evidence of its evil.
Where each of us must change, and
The
PLAIN TRUTH
where we each stand
atone,
where we
are not judged by what the world
around us does but by what we individ–
ually do is in our attitude, our character,
our frame of mind, our bent and way of
life.
What
cal/Ses
us to be a no-deposit, no–
return society is the full expression of
our human nature ! That nature wants
to
get
and
never give .
In addition, that
nature wants to get for nothing.
The something-for-nothing society,
the go-now-and-pay-later society, the
get-yours-wh ile-the-getting-is-good soci–
ety is motivated by an attitude of total
disregard for the laws God obviously set
to keep
1tatme
in balance. And,
more
important, it's motivated by a total
ignorance of spiritual laws that same
God set in motion to cure the
cattSe
of
our no-deposit, no-return society!
We have been led through a material–
istic and commercial fantasy to believe
that the good Jife consists of the abun–
dance of
things
we are able to have
around us.
).Y/
e
have got 1/Jhat we
wanted!
As a civilization we have
accumulated around us more things
than we know what to do with:
hence a garbage society!
We
don't
like
the
garbage.
We don't like the
con–
seq¡¡ences
of the way of life that led to
the garbage. But we still insist on living
the way that produces the result we
don't like!
It is not
real/y
a no-deposit, no-return
society. There has been a fantastic
deposit -
labor, energy, industry,
materials have gone into producing
more garbage than any other society
evec created! Now our no-deposit phi–
losophy has returned to us the divi–
dends we do not waot.
lt
is the
mentality
which is the cause behind the
problem that we see in the consequences
about us that must be changed. It is the
mentality of a no-deposit, oo-return soci–
ety which must be altered - and it can
be altered in
yott
as an individual if you
respond to this reasoning.
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