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Why
1
TalkWith Heads of State
AboutWorld Evils andWorld Peace
1
n the last eight or nine years I have frequently, on
this page, told you of personal meetings with heads
of state around tbe world- kings, emperors,
presidents, others high in governments- and with
leaders in higher education.
But WHY all these meetings with world leaders?
At first,
1
did not know, myself.
f
did not initiate
these meetings. lnvitations seemed lo come
coincidenlally. And the favor
I
was given in the eyes of
these government leaders was even more astonishing. All
my life, from age
19, 1
have come in personal contact
with importanl men-at firsl, execulives of major
business corporations and banks. Although
l
found those
men cordial, there was no
special
warmth and favor,
such as
1
began lo experience in meeting these heads of
state.
1
didn' t understand it myself.
1
did know that they were tremendously concerned
about lheir own problems of government and about
accelerating evils in this world. All my life
1
had felt
concerned about the social evils and the unhappy state of
the lives of most of this world's billions. And
l
knew
1
had learned what few seem to know- the CAUSES of the
unhappy slate of the world, as well as what would, if
applied, CAUSE world peace, universal prosperity,
happiness and abundant well-being.
These men at the helm of governments are charged
with the responsibility for improving their peoples'
well-being. And
1
learned that they really were
interested in hearing what
1
had to say.
Bul how should
1
know the solutions? Didn't it seem
ridiculously incon.g'ruous that
1
should have discovered
the
answers
to humanity's problems which had eluded
science, religion, education and governments-answers to
the seemingly unanswerable?
What
1
knew was something undiscovered by science,
something outside the field of technology, overlooked by
religion, untaught by education.
Yes, it would seem one might retort with that age-old
The
PLAIN
TRUTH
April 1979
cliché, "Just who do you think you are?" They might
ask, "Do you set yourself above science, religion,
cducation?"
And
1
answer, "No, indeed!"
1
have just been willing
to BELIEVE the SouRCE of knowledge and truth.
ft
was
all there for any and everyone lo know,
IF
THEY WOULD
ONLY HAVE BELIEVED!
Well , how did it come about?
Back in
1926
1
was challenged!
1
was challenged on
the lheory of evolution and on a biblical question.
l
wasn't religious.
1
knew virtually nothing of the Bible.
1
had no interest in it.
1
did have an inlerest in
Darwin- and even studied farther back into Lamarck's
theory of use and disuse.
1
researched Darwin's
Origin of
Species,
Huxley, Haeckel, Spencer, Vogt, Chamberlin.
They, of course, instilled within me no biblical faith. But
1
wanted to research both sides.
1
believed in the slogan,
"Get ALL the facts- then decide."
In that world's best-seller, the book which, it seemed,
as Bruce Barton said, "nobody knows,"
l
found
astonishing facts. There
1
found the ANSWERS. It
required no extraordinary intellect. It needed only
willingness to BELIEVE what is true. There
1
found,
available to all, wbat science has never discovered,
religion has overlooked, education has never taught.
1
noticed the incident of the "forbidden fruit." It
portrays tbe ever-living Creator instructing the man and
the woman He had just created in what they needed to
know.
It
portrayed Him revealing basic
knowledge-knowledge undiscoverable aód unobtainable,
except by revelation from the SOURCE. But the first
humans
didn't believe!
After all, they had only their
Maker's
word
for it! The serpent suggested their Maker
was not a reliable source of knowledge.
"You shall not surely die," he lied, contradicting the
Creator's positive statement. When Eve
observed
that
the forbidden fruit was good for food, pleasant to the
sense of sight, and intellectually
(Conrinued on page 42)