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AN OPEN LETTER...
ON THE
INTERNATIONALYEAROF THECHILD
T
o all children around the
world! In this International
Year of the Child, grown-ups
have at last decided to take a more
genuine interest in your welfare!
It
was about time, wouldn't you
say?
But now that the year is practical–
ly over, what has truly been accom–
plished? Did grown-ups keep the
promises that were made to you? Did
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Dibar Apartian
you actually find better understand–
ing, interest and more help-not only
in regard to your needs, but also in
you as human beings?
As one of the adults deeply con–
cerned with your future, I want to
tell you, first of all, that this is
not
God's world. No, He didn't make it
this way. Men have cut themselves
off from God, because they bave re–
jected His laws. They have turned
away from the way of peace, happi–
ness and joy God wants all of us to
have.
No wonder that most men- who
are cut off from God-have little un–
derstanding of your needs and lack
genuine love for you. Paradoxically,
they expect you to be "reasonable,"
to behave yourselves as good and
healtby cbildren, even though your
minds and your bodies are constantly
The
PLAIN TRUTH Oecember 1979