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food from fertile soil, the result is an
inferior product. The crop becomes dis–
eased and is cffectively Jabeled so by
such diseases as rust, smut, mildew,
root-rot or insects which attack it.
I nsects and fungi are not the real
cause of plant diseases. Rather, they
attack only unsuitable hybrids, or crops
imperfectly grown. Their true role and
purpose is that of censors, pointing out
improperly nourished crops that would
otherwise pass on malnutrition to ani–
mals and humans.
Both fertile soil and pure seed are
necessary for a plant to resist disease
and to produce truly quality seed for
the next generation. Hybridization is an
attempt to pass off the abnormal - the
stuile,
the "odd·ball," the reject of
nature - as normal and acceptable,
even
desirable!
The coro blight pcstilence was
camed
- it did not just
happen.
It
is the
warning of nature that we are per–
verting our food crops and undermining
our health.
The Wrong Kind of Scien tific
Experimentation
It was scientific experimentation which
produced the hybrid coro - the very
kind which is affected by the blight.
The blame for the blight therefore
must be laid at thc doorstep of agricul·
tural technology. And yet, agricultura!
experts and farmers are looking even
more to scientific experimentation and
technology for answers. They want sci–
entists to
FURTHER
manipulate natural
stocks to produce new "blight resistant"
types for increased yield and profit.
But how far can we go? Must we
depend on a treadmill of scientific
manipulation that has no proveo prom–
ise of arriving at ultimate solutions?
There are two ways of dealing with
our agricultura! environment. One way
involves altering genetic structure,
manipulating natural forms. Experi–
menters have chosen, as a whole, to fol–
low this course.
The other is to get in step with the
laws in naturc regulating growth and
reproduction, to dress the garden and
the farm as an effective husbandman.
Man has not contented himself with
being a husbaodman, lookiog after his
land - dressing it and keeping it. He
The
PLAIN TRUTH
has not gencrally beco conccrncd with
seeking out the physical laws which
guarantee abundant and healthy crops.
Rather, scientific experimentcrs have
manipulatcd and dcstroyed the life of
the soil. They have tampered with the
natural genetic structure in such a way
as to produce wcak crops, and increase
the threat of disease.
Must the prophecy "Cursed shalt
thou
be
in the field" apply to us? Will
we continue to break sound agricultura!
principies so that our crops must be
smitten "with blasting and with mildcw
[a disease of plants consumed by
fungi] until [ we] perish"? (Dcutcron–
omy
28: 16, 22 .)
We are already cursed in the lield,
our crops are already smitten with dis–
eases. There is yet time to avoid the
final catastrophe. But thc solution will
come only if agricu ltura! expcrts becomc
willing to totally revise their conccpts
concerning the use of the land and
methods of crop growth - and if they
open their rninds
to
a new source of
understanding.
Every seed producer religiously pro–
vides the farmer a catalogue offering
detailed guidelines and planting instruc–
tions. Yet, the very most important and
fundamental Guidebook to agriculture
is shamelessly ignored. Even the answers
and solution to the corn blight problems
are there - right on the lirst pagc.
Notice what this Guidebook says.
"Let the earth bring forth grass, the
herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding frui t
erfter his kind, whose seed
is in itself ..
."
(Gen.
1 :11).
Did you
catch it? Seed that reseeds itself, repro–
duces its
ort'll
kind
-
not a hybrid, but
one of the samc genetic background.
To
stress
its importance, this instruc–
tion was reiterated
len
different times.
It is all in the first chapter of that
forgotten Guidebook to living - the
Bible.
If
seeds are properly selected and
reproduced they will
mainlain
quality
and productivity. Hybrid plants do not
yield seed that reproduces after its own
kind. Instead, they produce decepti ve
freaks that look good but can be devas–
tated by one season's disease. This car–
dinal point is reiterated:
"Ye shall keep my statutes ... thou
shalt not sow thy field with mingled
35
seed ..." (Leviticus
19
:19). The
1970
coro blight disaster was a direct result
of overlooking this warning. It is par–
tia!
f"lfillment
of that warning. We
ought to
leam
and
heed.
O
THE '!JESUS TRIP"
( ContÍimed from {rage 6)
with his mind's eye that great God as it
would have been for you as a boy of
17
to opcn that door, expecting little old
stoop-shouldered, pinched-faced, bent–
over, one-Iegged, long-haired, sallow·
complected, lung·cancer-riddeo Joe
Stapzinski - and to see instead this
big, six-foot-four roan, a picture of
hcalth, sticking out his hand, and
booming a cheerful greeting.
And it will be equally shocking to
you when you see what the
1·eal
Jesus is
like!
"Turo on with Jesus," the hippie
said. How do you do that when you
don't know
who Jestts
is?
How do you
"turn on with Him" when you don't
know how to contact Him? Why turn
on with the very
same kínd
of a
Christ whom you hold responsible for
bcing the guiding figure in a Judeo–
Christian society which has brought this
world to the point of virtual nuclear
annihilation?
Find the Real Jesus
Jf
you youngsters want to "turn on
with Jesus," do it. But why do it with
the traditional Jesus? Why do it with
the pseudo-sanctimonious, long-haired,
sad-faccd Christ of tradition? Why
accept a complete fabrication, a total
fake, another }:sus, a false Christ?
1 challenge you to find the true Jesus
Christ, and l'll guarantee you a few
things right now. You won't like
what you see. Believe it or not, Christ
was a law-and-order man, a short-haired
Christ, a Jesus Christ who would not
have stood out in a crowd, who looked
rather plain, like anybody. And He was
clcan!
That Christ you find will very prob–
ably turn vou off! He'll command you
to
KEEP THE
LA\'\'S! You'll be told to
BE
CLEAN! You'll find He would tell you
it's a
shame
for a
man
to have
long
htrir