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Vol. XLIII, No. 7
ISSN
0032-0420
August 1978
ARTICLES
Why Humans Were Put on the Earth
2
Who Will Stop Russia?
4
Hitting Glose to Home
8
Probability: What lt Says About Evolution
13
Part Three: David-AMan After God's Own Heart
18
Too High a Price? The Affluent Diet
22
Human Rights Come from God
29
Why People Don't Go to Church
31
ls lt True That ... " Every Man Has His Price"?
34
Part Two: The Ministry of the Worldwide Church of God–
Reversing Religious lrrelevance
36
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