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dilferent backgrounds or cultures may
lind it diflicu.lt or impossible to be
LIKE·
MINDIID.
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What 1 said above
abou~
a mature
person marrying an immature person
enters in here. Age dilference is no prob–
lem as )ong as there is
LIKE-MINDEDNESS.
A very large percentage of marriages
of teen-agers breaks up in divorce. Two
people- both immature - are not
LtKE-
MINDEo!
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Another imponant factor: lt is a greíu
mistake to count age by the calendar.
1,
myself, for example, am not, in
actual
, age, anywhere oear my
calendar
age.
Few indeed
wi1J
believe
1
am at tbe ca–
lendar age ofjl2. Receotly 1 asked aman .
wbo bad no! seeo me before, and knew
noihiog of my age, how old be wou.ld
guess me
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be. "Well,'' be said thought–
fully,
"Y
ou migbr be approaching sixty
- probably late
fifties.'~
And even that
advanced age,
1
suspect, was estimatec
beca
use
ofmy white hair.
Few men of 50 or
55
could stand up
uoder the rigorous ordeal of trav;:l
1
am
oow pul
10,
worlóng up to 14 hours
a
day in vigorous driving work - usuaUy
working. even as
1
fty, at my typewriter.
Few of 50 or
55
could retain the vitality
ofyoutb, eoergy and
drive
Ido. Many of
our readers are fap!iliar witb my
frequeot, yet sigoi.6caot jesting of being
only 37, goingon 36.
.
A recent1y publisbed encyc1opedia
says: "How o1d is-'o1d7There are no fig- •
ures availa1:¡1e or even possib1e bccause
.lh,erc;. are
too
ma,ny variations in plíysi–
que and pcrsonality lhat bave nothing to
do witb the calendar. Age is not cbrono-
1ogical - a mistaken idea that bas
caused mucb mischief and misery - but
physio-psycbo1ogical A1arming changes
- in bo<ly and mind come primarily not
from advanoed age (!>y the calendar) but
from earlier pbysical impairment and
emotionál disorders, oflen previous1y
neg1ected."
1 have seen many meo 25 or 30 years
younger thao
1
by the calendar, ·who ac–
toally look, act, and feel older than
1
do
ana who could oot possibly
carry
on
with.. the vitality, drive, determination
and endurance that
1
do.
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To be like-minded, a marriage must
be based on r.ove. Love is an outgoing
conoern for the good and welfare of tbe
other and must oot be seltisb. But it is
more.
1
can only ask, wbat
is
that un–
definable mysterious
SOMJITHINO
that
causes one person
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come to be
IN LOVE
with a oenain person of the opposW. sex
in a manner he or she is not with any
one else? ls it sex appeal? No, but· that
undoubted1y·is included. But it is
MOllE.
One thing it is
NOT
is lust. Too many
confuse sex desire witb
LOVE.
There is
also a spiritual cootent
in
real
LOVE.
There must
aJso
be bigb regard and re–
spect, and mutuality ofinterestS.
Whatcver this mysterious undelinable
SOMETHINO
of real
LOVE
is, it is essential
in any bappy marriage.
But, if any of our readers, con–
templating in 1ater life a second mar–
riage,
are
concerned or worried over age
dilfereoce, tbe sure Word of Ood tells
you that you bave no problem there at
&111 You undoubttdly
will
have lhc
problem of
adjustment
-
actoally aU at
any age have that: Just be sure that
)'!>U
are
UICB· MINDED
and
IN LOVEI
O
WEEK ENDING IULY 12, 1975
Personal~
(Conrlnu•dfrom pag• /)
barro. Things have happened
1
can as–
cribe only ·to presence of an invisible
angel. But perbaps the greatest "secret"
of all is tbat
1
rely on lsaiab
40,
the last
4 verses. They constitllte a
PROMISE
from
Ood, and 1 apply them and
RJlLY
on
Ood to keep them! Many times when
people ask me, ÜHow do you
DO
IT?" or
"Wbat's your
SECRET
of sucb youtbful
. vigor and sucb long life?"
1
jusi teU
tbem, "Read tbe last 4 verses of
lsaiab
40.
You'lllind it tbere!"
o·r
course Ood expects us to do our
own pan. He does for us wbat we
can't
d,o for : ourse1ves! .But wheo you put
BOTH
together -
your own besr
and add
wbat Ood can do that's beyond what
you can do - you've gota combination
thal
PAYS OFF!
Those are my "secrelS." lf they have
be1ped sorne of
my
readers, T'm very
bapp~
indeed!
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MONDAY-–
.IHE.F_IR&T
DAY
OFTHEWEEK?
by
Víctor Root
BONN: Beginrung January 1976, the
Oerman week
wi1J
officjaUy begin eacb
Monday. Sunday
will
no' longer be the
begin,ning of the week for Oermans.
The decision.
was
made by the
German
Committee for Norms and Standards,
and il was dubbed Norm 1355. The new
norm adjusted a previous German ru1-
ing of 1943 lo "fit witb present inter–
nationally recognized customs.'' By do–
iog
so,
West Germany became tbe 27th
country to ratify an agreemenl for a
united division of tbe week.
The traditionaJ calendar, as we aU
know, lisis Sunday al tbe begin.ning of
eacb week; yet every working man and
woman automaticaUy relegates Sunday
to bis
weeund.
Monday is uruversally
the tirsl day of the worl:. weelc; even
thougb churcbes still recognize Sunday
as the bíblica! "first day of the week."
Altbougb church councils in the
fourth century decided tbat the "tirst
day of the week" would be kept as the
"sabbatb" day, cburcbes stiU recognize
tbe üJewisb" sabbath, or Saturday, as
the.seventh day of the week. According
lo both major churcb deoominations in
Oermany - Lutberan and Rornan Cath–
olic - this traditiooal order of days, is
still regarded as correct by the Christian
cburcb. These two major denominations
voiced thcir constemation ovcF not hav–
ing been consulted by the Committee
for Norms and Standards.
lnterestingly enougb the propbecy of
Daniel 7:2j
cootains a
punliog
remark
that meo would "seek to cbange times."
Cou1d Norm 1355 be an initial step in
this direction? Only timewill ten. o
JttBJril.l
by
Stanley R. Rader
TheWorld in Transition
BANGKOK, JUNE 9:
Less
thao two montbs ago
"!C
flew over Saigon en,
route from Manila
10
CaiJ:o.
As
foreseen at tbat time, it has proved to be the last
time for our U.S.-registered aifcraft to overfly Vietoam unless relations should be
. normalized in the future. T9morrow we shall be foroed to fty south in order to go
east and nonh, adding
an
hour and ooe-half and
740
stalute miles on our ft.igbt
from Bangkok to Hong Kong.
But this·is notthe only cbange that has a:ccurred in Southeast Asia during
_ the past two montbs. Today's newspaper in Bangkok, for examp1e,
announces
a
July 4 anti-American demonstration. The prime minister, meanwbi1e, has
stepped up bis demands for witbdrawa1 of U.S, forces and has begun his
country's
rapprochement
with Peking. Thailand's foreigo minister is scbeduled to
visit Peking 1ater Ibis montb (and coincidentaUy, one of our very bcst frieods in
Thailand, a member of the ne,w national legislature, is alteady in Peking at this
moment).
·
In Korea tension mountS as both Nortb and Soulh Korea aocuse the other of
provocative acts and prepa.Í-ations for war. Malaysia has already réceived tbe
Chinese ambassador, Presiden! I.,ee ofSingapore has sent his foreign minister to
PekiÍlg, and only Presiden! Subarto of Indonesia seems to stiU remember tbe
commlll$t·iospired difliculties ofsome ten y;:ars ago.
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Hanoi dominating Southeast Asia with its trained and battle-tes,ted army of
one million meo, baclr.ed with
lb
e latest Russian, and even American, equipmeot
(aequired afler the collapse of Soutb Vietnam), causes ooe lo wonder wbetber
Hanoi wiJI seek independently to dotuinate the entire area tomprised of Cam·
bodia and
Laos,'
as
¡vell as 'Thailand, witb
its
long ai.mmon border. Will · it tie
itself more close1y with Russia, thus granting to Russia hegemony in the area
(tbere is already a strong possibility that Russia will obtain former U.S. naval
bases in what was South Vietnam); or wijl Hanoi establisb closer ties witb qúna?
The wor1d
is
truly passing througb a time of transition, as relationships tbat'
have·developed sinoe the end of World War
J.I
are literaUy shaken by events in
every part of the globe. The nexus between Europe and the United States is
threatened. NATO
is
al a crossroads, despite the elfons ofJresi.dent Ford to
sbore it up. Turkey and
Gr~ece.
two members of NATO, bave a9tuaUy waged
war over Cyprus: Portugal, afler decades of rigbtist dictalorsb.ip, is 1eaning·
toward communism. Italy may .
~n
have the Communist Party joining the
government.
In Africa, Etbiopia, baving deposed ilS emperor, is still confronled witb a
civil war, and even Kenya, beretofore stab1e under tbe 1eadership of Presiden!
Keoyatta, is troubled internally with dissidents, undoubtedly aided by agenlS
from abroad. And just yesterday U.S. Secretary of Defense Scblesinger con–
firmed that the Soviet Union bas constructed a .very substantial military base in
Somalia. lnstaUation ofmissiles there could threaten tbe military balance in the.
westem India Ocean.
Mr. Schlesinger pointed
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tbe criticai' need of tbe noncommunist world on
the !odian Ocean for oil shipmenlS He was appearing before the Senate Armed
Services Committee, urging approval for additional funds for American facilities
on tbe Indian Ooean island ofDiego Garcia.
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Despíte the policy of
tlétente
between tbe S)lpcrpowers, tb.e
arms
raoe oontin–
ues between them, and many other natioos are eager tojoin
in
the competition.
Only in tbe Middle East do there seem to be sorne promising signs. Perhaps
the -momentum toward peace · may be a reality. The Suez Canal has been
reopeoed, the lsraelis. have voluntarily tbinned out their forces along
lb
e canal,
the Salzburg talks between Presiden! Ford and Sadat were reasonably successful,
and the recent meeting between Presiden! Ford and Prime Minister Rabio of
Israel may further case tbe tension in the area. Declarations from Saudi Arabia
aboul lsrael's rigbt to exist are also promising, as is Syria's seemiogly more
flexible attitude. Sbould the PLO also recognize lsrael's rigbt
to
exist, meaniogful
dialogue would follow.
Tbis
state of the world and what is prophesied for it was once again pan of
Mr. Armstrong's powerful message delivered to thousands during his two-week
visit
in
Nairobi, Kenya. Asked, as an ambassador for world peace, bow
he
inteods
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bring about peace in sucb an unsettled world, he has answered steadfastly that
he
is
not eommissioned lo bring about peaee, but he points
thé
way lo peace,
as
be bas for more Iban fony years - the
way
to. wlüch many people and many
world leaders grant only lip servioe. o
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