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faith
in such a great and real God, roan
is INCOMPLETE. Cut off from this
true
God of law and order, man is
purpose–
less, empty, fmstrated, confused.
Summarizing the WAY to achieve
ful–
fíltmmt
of man's desire for a happy,
abundant and purposeful life, Solomon
wrote these words at the end of the
book of Ecclesiastes: "The end of the
matter, all having been hearcl: fear '
God, and keep His coromandments,
for
this is the
WHOLE
man"
(Ecd.
12:13,
Moffatt translation) .
Solomon knew that a living God
rulecl tbe universe with active, dynamic,
beneficia! LAws. And that without this
divine LAW, there is
no absolttte stan–
dard of behavior.
The result is moral
chaos.
It
is
lawlessness
and wretched–
ness in the htUnan heart - the
"per·–
missive society"
we see all about us in
Britain and America today.
The \V/AY OF LIFE revealed in this
basic law is simply
the way
of GIVING.
Jt is
otttgoing concern
to our Creator
and our fellow man - yet with stated
safeguards to prevent even this prin–
cipie from being misapplied through
faulty human reasoning.
This great Law teaches young people
to
honor
and
obey
their parents.
It
teaches us all NOT to kili, NOT to com–
mit adultery or even to "lust" - thus
FOR.BIDDJNG pornography in all forros.
It teaches us NOT to steal, bear false
witness or covet.
If
tmderstood
and
obeyed,
this law
would END PERMISSIVENESS - and it
would end crime, war, broken bornes
ancl a host of other ills. Nationally, it
woulcl STOP the cleterioration of the
British Commonwealth and American
peoples as world powers.
One of America's premier writers and
editorialists, Raymoncl Moley, recently
wrote in his conclucling eclitorial of our
national "infection." He describecl it as
"a state of apathetic
PERMJSSIVENESS
[emphasis ours]
indrtced by ttuÍI1 delu–
sions: that gt·eat national might is ottrs
in perpetrtity and that what
is
called a
f1·ee society is indestrucúble."
True.
We must not ASSUME that we can
continue to breed rebellious youngsters,
coddle criminals, wallow in sex in every
perverted form, become a nation of
The
PLAIN TRUTH
weirdos, pill poppers ancl drug addicts,
and yet somehow our enemies will "go
away" - that hungry nations more
dis–
cipüned
th~n
ourselves will not bring
us clown as surely as they did ancient
Rome !
Yes, indeed. Permissiveness even has
to do with our national SURVIVAL.
Mr. Moley continued: "The 'bless–
ings of liberty' as written by the makers
of our Constitution imply LAWS and
attthority
which protect those who enjoy
them. Freedom provides no blessings. It
creates no environment but chaos."
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As ToMORROW's WoRLD makes clear,
a generation is soon coming which
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appreciate
law,
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and permissiveness
are
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be
leaders
in that new and better
tomorrow.
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one's own self-concern. lt's clifficult to
make human nature see that the latter is
the MORE PRACTlCAL way, that pays off
bigger in the end.
When capital and management held
the reins, they took every selfish advan–
tage.
It
may seem surprising to most,
March 1971
but this was even foretold in the Bible
(James
5 :1 -6).
Then carne the union labor move–
ment, with the weapon of the strike.
lt
has hacl its abuses, too. Have people
forgotten the Herrin (lllioois) Mas–
sacre and the Los Angeles Times explo–
sion
?
lt's a tnatter of human nature.
Whoever has the POWER uses it for self–
ish advantage regardless, usually, of the
harm to others.
But, as mechanized MASS-production
developed in America, union pressures
spiralled wages with it. New industries
appeared, producing new appliances,
new entertainment devices, new luxu–
ries. And the accompanying higher
wage scales created mass markets among
the working dass. The American living
standard became the highest in the
world.
But union leaders and wage earners
are afflicted with the same human nature
as employers. Prosperity usually goes to
the head of the newly prosperous. The
shoe had been now shífted to the
other foot. Under labor unionism the
employer was envisioned as the enemy.
Human nature is bent on GETTING aH it
can, at the same time giving as
little
as
possible.
Constantly labor demanded shorter
hours and increased benefits, along with
higher wages. It was even willing to
accept higher wages, gíving NO WORK
in return. When, for example, the rail–
roads adopted the diesel engine, replac–
ing the coal-burning steam engine, there
was no need for .firemen shovelling
coa!. But the unions forced the railroads
to continue hiring firemen ( feather–
bedding) who continued to ricle in
locomotives with absolutely nothing to
do.
It has been not at all uncommon for
a union leader to say to a worker:
"Hey, buddy, slow clown there. You're
working too hard. Pretty soon you'll
have everybody working as if their
hearts were in their jobs."
lt's true, of course, that in many trades
union men are better trained and more
skilled than non-union. But it's also
true that the general w1ion philosophy
is that of delivering the LEAST amount
of work possible, while employing the