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and are met with elaborately careful
handling by authorities and are studi–
ously ignored by the majority.
Millions hope that, if they pretend
the chaos is not real , it will go away.
Because our only goals are intensely
personal
ones - greater wealth, greater
possession, greater fame or attention,
more leisure time, more enjoyment,
more "fun" - we fail to care for
greater, national or supranational goals.
A government that began enlarging
American involvement in Vietnam under
the catch-phrase "fulfilling our com–
mitments" soon found itself plagued
by a demonstrating public that neither
recognized the meaning of the term
"commitment" nor cared to learn its
meaning, since being "committed" to
ANY great cause or purpose beyond
momentary pleasures obtained for
self
had become a concept beyond their sen–
sual perception.
Lacking a great, single, unifying
goal
as a people, lacking a deep sense of
responsibility toward each other, and
toward all mankind, we may soon find
our world filled with
enenlies
who will
uoite behind a common goal we seem
determined to achieve
for
them, by
default - that of our own destruction.
For a time, a rich nation may indulge
itself. lt may be able, for a short span,
to make its single goal and purpose the
ever greater gratification of its own
spoiled citizens.
But only for a time.
Then, finally, the enmities it will
iocur abroad, and the debilitating and
enervating exhaustion it will experience
at home, will bring it to disaster.
lt's Not T oo La te, Yet
lt's not too late for America. But it's
much,
much
later than we think! Unless
something is done, and done quickly, to
heal the spirit
of our peoples - to
unite us behind a
common
cause which
has the stuff of GREATNESS, a challenge
reaching to the stars for its all-con-
T he
PLAIN TRUTH
suming importance, a goal worthy of
great individual and collcctive sacrifice
-
1111/eu such
a goal is captured by our
peoples, and soon, then we are only
writing another modern record of
Sodom. We're another tottering Rome
showing the decay of indulgence, stu·
pidly faiüng to recognize the symptoms
of our own sickness.
We, engaged in this worldwide
WORK over television, radio, and via
the printed page, are bending every
effort to WARN our peoples of their
incredible lethargy, and their shocking
character drain. We cry out for a
heal–
ing
of the HOME and FAMII.Y. (You
should write, immediately, for our free
booklets nn
Y
o11r Maniage Can De
Happy, The Plain Tmlh Abo11t Child
Rearing,
and
Modem Dating, Key 10
S11ccess
or
Fail11re in Marriage.)
We cry out about the terrible CRIME
that plagues us like a dreaded national
disease ( write for our booklet on
Ct'ime.)
We strive to warn our peoples
of the curse of DRUG ABUSE (write for
the free booklet titled
Neu Facls Abolll
Marij11ana).
We try to continually deal with the
tSSUES at hand, and to always
see
those
issues in the light and perspective of
carnal, sellish, self-seeking HUMAN
NATURE.
We recognize the massiveness of our
problems and fully understand that
only a deeply aroused, rededicatcd,
inspired, concerted effort among hun–
dreds of thousands, and MII. LIONS, in
their bornes and fami lies, in their prí–
vate lives - an effort to BUlLO CHARAC·
TER, to REPENT of our terrible moral
degeneracy and sins, to CAPTURE thc
SPIRIT OF RlGHTEOUSNESS for our peo–
ples - ONU' SUCH A TOTAL COM·
MITMENT BY ALL OUR PEOPLES CAN
SAVE US FROM NATIONAL
CALA~i!TY!
We
knou•
this to be true.
That's why Ambassador College is a
character bttilding
institution. That's
why the publications we send around
the world, free of charge, continually
urge our peoples -
and all peo–
ples- to understand the CAUSES of our
many domestic and world problems,
aod to
recap111re the tme 1'a/!(eJ
of life!
We strive, through
this
magazine,
and through TOMORROW'S WORI.D
June
1971
magazine (devoted to more powerful,
spirit11al
type artides than generally
seen in
The
PLAIN TRUTH), to
jtdji/1
what
1/'e
earnestly and sincerely recog–
nize as a GREAT GOAL!
Can there
be
any greater goal than
the most urgent drive to HEAL THE
SPIRIT OF OUR PEOPLES? Can there be
any more desperate NEED, today?
Jmbued with the envisionary purpose
of sprcading this message of wholc–
some, truthful,
common sense
to peo–
ple, our young students at the three
Ambassador College campuses
come
to
know the meaning of
sacrifice,
and of
p11rpose
in their lives. They nearly
al!
come
to have a
DEEP
desire to become a
PART of this great Work - devoting
themselves in whatever way they can,
whether by helping with writing, teach–
ing, speaking, visiting other people,
working in the Press, or Data Process ing
Center, or in the Physical Plant Depart–
ment - being a daily PART of some–
thing in which they fervently
believe.
If
you are a young person of college
agc, and you're sick of some of the hid–
eous problems of this present age, then
perhaps
yo11
might be "Ambassador
material."
If
so, you should write for our free
brochure,
Thú Ts Ambauador College,
or direct a letter to the Registrar, and
enquire about admissions policies.
Millions want to know, "But what
can
T
do?"
You can GET INVOLVED, first, by
looking into your OWN life!
Firsl
comes
a deeply personal, honest, introspective
appraisal of SELF.
First
comes recogni–
tion of }'Our
ou•n
needs. Then will come
a desire to help other people experience
the same drastic changes you can
come
to recognize in your own life.
That's what Ambassador is all about.
It's "boot camp" for
lije.
It's the "\Xfest
Point" for this worldwide Work, of
which this magazine is only one sample.
lt's the place for young people to GET
INVOLVED!
lf
you're curious,
reall)'
curious, about
just \X'HO and WHAT we are, and
WHY
we're sending you these straight-talk,
informative and challenging articies,
then
look deeper.
Write for your free
subscription to ToMORRow's WoRLD
magazine, and liad out how character
begins at home
!
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