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D
o vou see a brigbt future
abead? For you? For buman-
ity?
•
Personally,
I
do - and if
you
can
join me in saying tbat, you
are one in a hundred tbousand!
Wbere
is
any
gOQd
news
today?
Wbere is any future to be found in
nations developing nuclear weapons
wbich can erase all human, animal
and plant tife from tbe eartb?
Wbere is any hope to be found in
tbe wretchedness, ignorance, pov–
erty, squalor and filtb in which more
tban half tbe world's population
tives?
Wbere is any joyous anticipation
to be found in prosperous "bave"
nations where sources of drinking
water - tbe rivers and lakes - are
being polluted and 1he air we
breatbe is being befouled, tbe soil is
wom out and contaminated and tbe
foods are being robbed of nutrit.ion
in food faciOries; wbere bornes and ·
famities are being brnken up, crime
is rapidly increasing. racial problems
an<t violence are erupting. and sick–
ness and mental disturbances mul–
tiplying?
.
Where
is
happiness loday? Sixty
years ago, driving along country
rnads in lowa,
1
saw and bCjll'd farm–
ers plowing behind
teams
of horses,
singing bappily
as
they walked.
Today, tbe farmers ride tractors -
but where -did tbe singing and the
happiness go? Where do we ñnd en–
couraging reassurance for 1omorrow
on university campuses wbere the
leaders of tomorrow are consigning
morality to tbe limbo of
an
out–
moded
past,
wbere suicides are on
tbe increase, and where unproved
doctrines are being absorbed by im–
pressionable minds?
Where do we ñnd iospiration in
tbe assertions of world leaders and
the "great," warning us tbat we must
adjust to a future of growing prnb–
lems and dangers wbere tbere
are
NO SOLUTIONS?
Well, for tbose of tbc abovc prc–
vailing concepts, tbe future mus! in–
de~d
appear discouragingly bleak -
if tbey talce a look at it iostead of
kidding tbemselves iniO the assump–
tion tbat by ignoring
th~
dangers
they
wilJ
som'ehow go away.
Tbere is a CAUSE for every effect.
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WEEK ENDINO JUNE 7,
197S
Tbere is a CAUSE for the state of
the world today. And there has to
be
a CAUSE that wiU produce tbe peace–
ful and bappy world lomorrow.
There had to be a ñrst cause for the
very existence of·matter, of life, of
forces and ener$)es.
But today, it is considered "in–
tellectual" 10 be willingly tGNOR4NT
of tbat.
I
have said that in tbc ñrst
two centuries of the so-called Chris–
tian era, it was popular
to
embrace
gnoslicism - meaning, "we know."
But today, it is popular to embrace
agnosticism - meaning. "we don't
know - we a.re ignoran!." Today,
ignorance is embraced and labeled
"knowledge."
ls
it
IONOitANCl! lO recognite the
facts of lhe great ñrst cause who
re–
veals the
true
cause of all of loday's
ills? ls it wise, intellectual and
knowledgeable lo be detiberalely ig–
noran! ofbasic facts
and
truth?
Tbere are two
main
ways of life -
two basic principies - two funda–
mental pbilosophies. One is the way
of
orvmo,
the other of OllTTlNG.
One is LOVI!, lhe other LUST. One
• believes it
is
more blessed 10 give.
than to receive. The other insists that
acquiring. laking. accumulating. in
the way of competition, leads to
progress and haP.piness.
Tbe one way is God-cenlered, the
other is SELF-centered. Tbe one ac–
cepts the Golden Rule, the olher
says, "Do il lo otbers befÓre they do
it
10
you."
Tbe one is tbe way of the divine
nature; tbe other, the way of human
nature. Tbe one is the way of bumil–
ity; tbe otber, of vanity.
This world - all civitiution- this
world's society -
is
based bn tbe
hostilc, competitive, SELP-centered
way. It has produced every wail of
human woe.
It
is the ·way tbat now
threatens the extinction of humaoity.
This all means ¡me thing. Man,
imbued with human nature,
is
ut–
terly UNABLE to solve his problems.
He
can
only worsen problems and
create new ones. By the "knowl–
edge" aod efforts of man, this world
is
doomed and hopeless.
Is
tbere, then, nothing lo live for7
Is tbere no bope for the future? No1
within the knowledge, the skills and
abilities of
Ibis
world's great minds.
Personal from...
HDPE. fDR THI fUTURI
Of self-professed "greal" meo, God
says, ..Professi.ng tbernselves
\.0
be
wise, tbey have become fools!"
But lhere emphatically is
a
brighl
future abead! The world lomorrow
- wbich the
Plain Troth
proclaims–
wilJ
bring world peace, universal
prosperity, universal righl education,
universal good health.
In
the wonderful world tomorrow,
we shall have knowledge of tbe
TRUI!
values. People will oease
chasin~
the
false values and suffering the paanful ,
consequences. People will leam the
WAY
10
real happiness and 6nd iL
Life will
be
continuously interesting
and invigorating. Tbere will be
world peace. There
wilJ
be universal
prosperity.
But
l
am not naive enough
to
sup–
pose thal Ibis utopía
wilJ
blossom
forth automatically, through lhe im–
minent acceplance of these truths by
~
mankind. This coming utopía
does not depend on tbe planning or
doing of men.
h
wilJ
be produced
in
spite ofmen.
The grea1es1 event of al! history
will be !be coming of the
living
Jesus
Cbrist again
10
earth. Bul tbis time,
he
is
not coming as the gentle young
man from Nuaretb, bringing the
announcernen1 that led to his ftog–
ging and dealb al the bands of angry
men. Jesus Christ rose from the
Volume XL No. 10
dead.
He wenl to the tbrone of the
govemment of the vasl un.iverse to
be GLOIUI'tED, and coronated as su–
preme RULBR over 1he enlire earlh.
When he retums, the world will
know sometbing of the meaning of
"the power and the gloryl"
_
His eyes
wiU
flash
tike Oames of
tire.
His face
wilJ
not be
paJe
white.
It
wilJ
be lilee the sun sbining. in
FULL
STRENOTH. He will come witb all tl\e
POWI!R that created the universe!
He
is
coming
10
crush cvery gov–
em.meot of men, as if to grind them
into powder! He
is
coming as the
King of
king1,
ruling over
AJ.L
NA–
TIONS.
He is coming
10
change human na·
turel
He is corning lo enforce the WAY •
of outgoing concem, or love, of giv–
ing, serving, sharing. helping. in–
stead of grasping. taking and self–
centeredness.
He
is
coming to abotish war, com–
petition, strife and violence. He is
coming 10 inaugurale a universal,
right education. He
is
coming to
clean up Ibis ñlthy earth. He is com–
ing 10 restore the government of
God as the all-powerful world gov–
emment. Yes,
1
see
a very brighl
fulure- jusi abead!
lt's tbe only
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NEWS in tbe
world today!
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