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populaúon is in dire poveny, living
in
filth and squalor; half or more illileraté
or nearly
so.
Tbe world is lllled with the
siclc aod diseased in bospitals. lis inbabi–
lants are tuming 10 i.mmoralily which
results in divorce a.nd broken homes and
families.
1
think
if
1
were God,
1
would thunder
out: "Give
ear,
O
Eanh. and HE.U!
WHAT HAVE YOU 001<2 TO
N\""
8EAU·
Tl1UL EAJtTH 1
TUaNE0
OVEit TO YOu?
You bave poUuled, pervened, ruined,
des.troyed, and injured every panicle of
Ibis
eanb
you were able 10 get your
hands on! You have pcrverted the won–
derful
MINI>S
1 gave you l
"Those
lba1 you bave educated you
have 1urned againsl me and fuoneled
into their unsuspec:ting minds fables,
líes. noosense, wlúle al the same úme
you
calJ
my truth fable or supersti1ion.
You bave lumed trulb inlo error. You
have called rigbl wrong. You bave bad
no place
in
your knowledge dissemina–
lion for me. You bave tumed lo a
WAY
OP
LIFE
t hal
is
deslroying your minds
and your bodics and my earth. You
have soughl false values and devoled
yo_ur time a.nd energies 10 lbings tba1
never saúsfy and are wonblcss and de–
suueúve. You hove sou&)lt pleasure and
e~
aod spurned righ1eousocss. You
bave forgotten the God wbo gives you
life and breatb, and you have despised
lús
RJGKT WA YS,
and 1umed to every
wrong way."
And
1
think
l
would thunder out:
"THll
TIME
POR AN ACCOUNTINO lif<S
COME! 1 •
&m
&bOul lO
PUNISH THIS
wolU.O
fOR
rrs
evu.sl"
Jesus ofNazarelh nid tha1 wben
Ibis
world reached its
END
úme, the condi–
úon
would
be
like il was in the days of
Noah, Tben God did look down
to
see
what meo bad done to bis euth.
· "And God saw that the wickedncss of
man was great in tbe earlb, and that
every imaginalion of lhe Jhoughts ofbis
hean was only evil continually ..• 1he
earlb
also
was corrupt before
God~
aod
the
eanb
was fiUed witb violence. And
God looked upoo lbe earth, and,
be·
hold, il was corrupt; (or aU ftesb had
corrupted bis way upon 1he eartb" (Gen.
6:5,
11-12).
But there
aJso
is
anotber prophecy for
lbe fulure: "And
l
saw
a
new heaven
aná-a new earth .•. and God shall wipe
away aU tears from their eyes; and there
shaU be no more deatb, oeither sorrow,
nor crying. nei1her shall tbere be any
more pain: for tbe forroer things are
passed away" (Rev. 21:1, 4).
Tbal
will
come aller lbe kingdom of
God bas come to the earth - aller bu–
manity
has been disciplined
by
the Jov.
ing Creator God. Tben lhe governmenl
of God
will
rule, bringing,
at
last,
WORLD PEACE!
O
WEEK ENDINO AUGUST 2, 197S
orchids~~~-
.
ORIORS
letters
1
just received my May 24th issue of
your
Ploin T"'th
mag~.
and
1
would
like 10 <J<prw my gratitude and apprccia·
tion
to
Mr. Armstrong for bis fine arttdt in
this
mooth".s
"'Personal~· sectio~
as well u
on
hls
MW
series.
-rhc:
~is:sin¡
Dimens•on
in
SeJl...
J
am a bousewife and mother
an
my ea.rly twenties, and my
feelin~
aro tha1
in umes such as these we need more God·
ínspired. straigbúorward informaüon on
thissubject.
Th~
country seems to be aoín¡
down tho drain morally and
1
feel )>itterly
diuppointed to watth as more aod more
people go along wilh lhe treod. Thank tbo
good Lord we still havo one deeent,
unshtkably moral publication such
as
yoll/1.
,
h
is becomlllg harder by tbe
da
y 10 keep
a marria¡c: cemerued toge.ther, what
with
all tbe sq..callcd "authorities... telhn&
\lS
that che iruutution or marriage i.s- outdated
and dyin8. whiJe on tbe otber hand inrorm–
ing
U$
thatsex sbould bo iodulged ín rreely,
"as
long
as
no one geu hun," and that
cxtramarilal
aff'airs
are actuaUy
"¡ood" fdr
us.
1t
ís almos! impossible 1oday 10 try to
cnjoy
10me
1011
or
fami1y
cnlertainment
(ts
TV,
movics. _maga.tines.
boolcs.
even
che
• newspaper) witboutlhis subtle propapnda
saturahn¡ our
m.iods!
1 bavc a two-yea.r-old son. aod my hUJ·
· baod aod
1
are cxpeCiiog aoo1her chlld
tlus
fall
1
can'! bogio 10 tell you bow worTOed
1
am about rais:ing my children tn
thas
ao–
eiety.
1
wan110 teach 1hcm in God's ways.
but how eft"cctivc can 1
be
whcn they wiU
be bombardcd witb thc uncw morality"
outsid~
our
home?
·
Well anyway. apio 1hank you for
a
bcautiful, wcll-written.
sone
publieatÍOrh
Picase keep up the good wort.
MerryOch.
Femdale. MI
1
hke to read cldferent articlcs on a sub–
ject
to
s.et ditrcrcnt
views
and
opinaons~
bu
e
whenevc.r l want lO gct a truc and proper
vicw on anylhing,
J
always
tum
co
the mos1
straíghtforward, bones1. ea{lly read and
lhought-provoking curreot news ¡ouree
1
know -
1'/ain Truth.
Thank you again for
makip&
1t
possible fo r me to receive
it.
Nancy Luc:as,
Hahira.GA
1
don't suppose Mr. Stao Rader needs
any
enc:ou.n&emenl
from
me
but 1.,as par–
ucultlrly unpressed witb the deplh or
hu
insistu
in
the ••Watergatc and Vietnam
De–
bacle" ín the May
3
issue of
Ploln Trutll.
1
have not be-en di.sappointed in any way
with tlle oew
Ploin T"'th.
In fact,
1
have
rorgotteo
tbat there was any
other forrnat.
Daniel
PaJmísano,
Oeny,.NH
Ha
v-in¡
JUSI
fin.iJ.hed the June 21 edHton,
1
was
swek
by
how
wcll
each seeoon
maint&ined
iu
iotegri1y wbile leadia¡ to
the aexl
and
thus preservin¡: 1he uRily and
COnllouíty
o(
the m-Fne
1 especialJ)'
lik:ed
your
tRatmcnl
Of
pp. 14-IS.
Tbis
was !he two-pa&e feature
spread oo agíng. Severa! years a&o all that
information would have bcen put into one
long essay style article. A year &&O il would
have been put out
IU 1
$horter articlc fes.
lOOncd with colored
boxe.s.
Tbese
ap–
proacbC$ tend to either makc
the
reader
wade lhrou&):t (to htm) a lot of i=levaot
material until be finds tometbing tbat
in–
tercsu.
him
or become
conf'u.scd
about
sub.
joct priority. (Which do
1
read
fin~
!he
.anide or lhe
boxC$?)
•
Now you have tbc qualhativc format as
well as the quantitatively íoexpeo$ive
mode
of
producin¡ it. Con&ratulations on
such wlse and shrewd manaaemeot.
Tím McCaulley.
Atlanta,GA
1 was
so
impressed
by
your
penooal
ar·
ticle in tbe May 24th issue of
Phlln Tn11lt.
1
am a teen-ager. and la¡ree
watb
you oom–
pletcly. 1 thinl: lhat the sex eduation book
Show
Me sbould bo leplly banned from
lhe public. especiallychildren.
1 wish
more people would listen
10
your
advice and turn toward Qod and away
from
pornosrap~y.
Margarct Gorgonc,
Ridgewood, Quecns. NY
Thank you
for
thc reeent
artic:.tes writteo
by
women (Carole Rmer and
Amy
Bow·
man). Womeo need sorne •rticlcs writtcn·
by
women. Thcre are some ucu wbere lhe
fcmate mind relates
beuer
to
another fe·
mate
mind. Bclievc
it
or not.
me-n
don'l
understa.nd
somc
lhinp!
Mrs. Ralph Klopfeostein.
West Lafayoue,
IN
1 havo just perused your latcst (vol. 40
numbet 10) and
read
in ••Jcucrs" a contro-–
vcrsy over An Buchwald - and funher
T
note: Y.ou
do
no/
have
ha.s
usual
funny
col·
umn. nor thc usual sreat c:anoon! Don
't
teiJ
me
you•re goin¡
to
let
some
so-<:alled
' 'Christian..
reade:r~'
criuca.sm
of this
gr~at
addition
to your
Plaut
Tn~tlt
ca\l$C you
"to
eliminate
it
from your new
look:!?
l'm a
subsc:tiber and long·llme rt:ade.r. and 1 re–
cendy seot in a subscription for a friend
IUST
IECAVSS
OP
your inclusion of such
Plain Truth
SATIR.e.
This
IS
tbe way
10
reacb a wider audience. Picase put bis col·
umn b.ack
in
Plaln Truthl
Joy Fullenon.
Seattle, WA
OnioDS
aod·
AA.swers
1
notice
tba1 all
readen• lette.rs oome
c-atbe.r
from America and Europe. Would it
not
be
possible for once
to
tnclode
one
from a RhOdC$ian reader? Wc are ata very
ioteresting stage
in
our
poJjtieal
hist~ry.
and
1
would have thought that Mr. Arm·
strong would be cntirely justified in pro–
dueing a o in-depth articlc about
Rhodesia~
afler all,
if
h.e
camc
here he
wilJ
sec
that wc
are ootlhe blood-suckins ogrcs m0$1 of tbe
world press have made
u.s
ou1
to
be.
l ma.ke
Ibis a cballeoge: are you bi& eóougb 10
take it up?
Mrs. M. R . Renwick.
Karo1,
Rhodesia
•
In
tlr~
M
ay 24,
191S
(JSut,
IW
prinJtd a
lm!r from Bulo..,.go, /lhodaia. The prob·
ltm
witÍ.
inttrnational ltllers is
compoundtd
b¡ th• IWQ·wt<k lag-lime ofprodu<lng 6ur
worldwldt ct/Jtfon 41td thtn reuiving lt.lf«s
unt from our ...,rldwitkojfica. U1111oll¡ the
ruponse
/.1
DYt.r
G
montlt oh/
hy
the tlmt
w
rrc.IW!
it In PtJMJtkM, and .....,·pnfrr loprlnt
~/tlltf'S.
R.qardtn1 on oniclt
on
Rltodtsia.
tlt~
Editor ond Monaglng Editor
'l"nr
Q
¡..,
woekJ
In llhO<hslo In 1971, producing o
st·
ries of ttltvlslon
spec!aú
and
Plain Truth
articlts
on RJtodtsio.
including
a
sympo·
thetlc ln-dtpth lnttnitw wlth Ion Smlth.
Mr.
lltrbtrt Armstrtmg
has
llis/ttd
many
lteods of
slattlln
A
frica,
l:iut
thtrt
ore
mony
natioM
tn
tite 'N()r/d ond he is jusi
one
mall.
No doubt ht
w/11
v/sil llhod$si•
S<>me
diJ¡.
Á
ro
,...
blg .nough
ro
tok<
rhe
dollengt1
We tltlnJc ...,
how•lmu/)'
rok.ol
itl
1
suppose thos
11
an
onion. bul my in–
tenlion
LS
ootto
insu1t,
but
to question.
In the Mj Jrd
(1975)
edition of
Pla{n
Truth,
Oavi Hill says wilh refereoee 10
holywars, "God forbid lhat you should get
th>t kind ofrelígion! Get God ins1ead."
Woll.
1
read a few other passages from
thal very personal. long leuer
io
the rorm
of the Bible and lhey read
as
follows:
"When !he Lord your Qod
brinp
you ínto
tbe laod wh1cb you are entering 10 take
pos:session
of
at ••••
theo you must
utterly
destroy tbem; you sball malee no coveoant
wi.th
them, and
show
NO
wncv
to
them..
(De
u
t.
7: 1·2)
"When you dra.w oear to a
city
10 A&):tt
. againsl Íl .... you shall put
all
iu males 10
tho sword, bul 1he womeo ·and the líttle
ones. the eanlc, and everylhi.ng else in 1he
ci1y. all
i~
spoíl, you sball take as boo1y ror
yoorselves: and you
shall
eojoy the spoll of
your enemies ••
.' ' (De
u
t.
20: 10-18).
Perhaps
1
am misinterpreting. but it
ap–
pears 10 me lhat !he Bible justilics boly
wars.
aod worsc
still.
mereiless
killin~
and
lootin& in lhe name of God. On the one
baod (Jcsus sa1dJ. "1 came not to brin&
peacc. but a swor<l... But. on the other
band, " He who uses tbe sword sball perish
by 1he sword." Thereforo. tbe only thing
you
ean do
is ..Let
not you.r Jefl hand know
what your right hand doeth...
:·
Plca.se prinl
this
Jetter.
l'd
likc to see if
you can answer
it
David
Oe·ne.au,
./ Wínclsor, Ontario. Canoda
• Tite
commands
10 kili
rlu>t
)"'JI
quottd
tNH
tiwn s¡wcifoally
lo
1lt~
antlrttt
ISttUI·
ites cf MOHs' diJ¡ and
lo
no
one
;tS..
Chrls–
IÍDIU
todoy
art
not
par1
of
the tlttocraJic
natfon
of
lsrotl
whtclt
wa.r
dil"t'Ct/y
in·
stru<ttd b)' God.
•
.
God.
tht Creatqr
of lift:,
r~serves
111110
himself the rlght to take liJe (Deut. J2:J9
and Iso/ah 4$:7).
Á/
ont time in hlstor¡
he
us~d
1he
natlon
o[Jsrael
a.r
Iris
Jnstrumenr In
punishin&
t::r.trtmely tkgenerare natioll.l
'"
th< /and ofCon4an.
Ir
"..u
nor
lsTOtl~
'*'<1·
non;
lt
WdS
God'sl
Bur
Cltrlsr
so•d.
"81•3#t!.,.
the
~a«
malctn" (Mouhrw 5:9).
Bis
spiriruol
P"·
deussor. John tire Baplist.
sold.
"Do
•io/ence
lo no
mDII"
(Luke
J:U).
Chrúr's
stattmtnr
Dbout
"/
came
not
10
bring ¡woct
but a sword" (s
plainly deoling
in context
wilh fomi/)1 s9uabblti that would arlst from
ont ptrJtJn
Jollowlng
Christ and hts
mal#
nol
dolnt so. (See Mollhew IO:J4-J6;
Luke 12:SI·52; John IJ: I8- 19and
John 18:J6-J1.)
Juu.s
allo
uid,
''Bt
ye
tllerefon
wlse as
strpe~t(S
and harmless as
dót~ts"
(Mal/. 10•16). lf men wt1u/d srudy
al/
the
scripturu
..,¡,lt
.,.,lsdc>m.
thtff
wou/d M no
"Aol, """'":
,.steoJ
/~
wou/J
bt
thl
honn/ess
do"*
of
peoce.
Wllot men do in
the
namt ofGod
is
not God's fuult.
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