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The Real Meaning of Christmas
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Is Christianity Dead in Britain?
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MAN TO RULE UNIVERSE?
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' M WR ITI NG fro m 4 1.000 fee t
above the Pacitic Ocean, ap-
proaching To kyo. At ni ght.
from here. the whole vast universe
above seems to burst forth like a
st upe ndous sky rocke t expl odi ng
int o all the myriads of uncountable
suns. wh ich we call stars. that seem
to fill the vastness of unendi ng
space.
Many of these seemingly tiny
stars are suns much larger than our
sun. And like the pla net s surro und-
ing our sun. there must be uncoun-
t a bl e mi l l i o n s o f p la ne t s
surrounding these suns. How did
they come to be there? Did they
evolve? Were they created? Was
there purpose?
What about the other pla nets in
our own solar system? Do they sus-
ta in life? Ar e t here peopl e or some
kind of living beings on Mars? Or is
this earth the sole hody of matter in
the endless universe that is in-
habited"
Astronomers may hazard some
guesses. The actua l facts they do not
have. The unmanned s pacec raft de-
signed at J PL (Jet Propul sion Labo-
ra tory). which se nt phot ographs
bac k to earth fro m va ntage points
close to some of these planets. does
no t gi ve any evidence whatsoever of
condi tions that would sustain life.
Science customarily rejects reve-
lation as a source of such knowl-
edge. but. whi le science can tell us
lilli e or not hi ng a bo ut the possibili ty
o f life on any of these astral bodies.
revelation does give us some insight
into their existence. their purpose .
and their future. Most certainly thi s
is not generally realized or under-
stood. Yet it ties in directly with the
existence and presence on earth of
man - _the meaning and purpose of
human life - and ac tua lly involves
tremendous significance to human
life an d destin y.
King David of ancient Israel was
a thou ghtful man. fasci na ted by the
study of the sta rs in the heav ens. He
was o utstanding as one o f the
writers used in the recording of re-
vealed knowledge. Speaking as if to
the creator God. this king wrote:
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
Personal from
" Wh en I conside r thy heavens. the
work of thy finger s. the moon an d
t he sta rs. which th ou hast or-
dained . . : . so vast in comparison to
a human being. he asked. by com-
parison. " what is man. that thou art
mindful of him?"
Yes. why sho uld the great God.
who created. as David de clared. the
entire universe. be concerned wi th
insigni ficant man?
He continued. "For thou hast
made hi m a lill ie lower than the
angels. an d hast crowned him wi th
glory and honor. Thou rnadest him
to have dominion over the works of
thy hands: thou hast put all things
under his feet . . ." David had just
written that the whol e vast starry
heavens were the work of the Cre-
ator 's ha nds . But now. suddenly. he
hastens in his next words to limit
human j urisdic tion : "All sheep and
oxe n. yea. and t he beasts of the
field : the fowl of the a ir. and the fish
of the sea .. . 0 Lord our Lord. how
excellen t is thy name in all the
ea rth" ( Psa lm 8:3-9) .
This same passage is q uoted by
t he a postle Paul in the book of He-
brews. with much. muc h more
adde d. Speak ing of a future "wor ld
to co me. whereof we speak." he con-
tinues. "but one in a certain place
[qu ot ed above] testifi ed. say ing.
what is ma n. that thou art mindful
of him? . . . Tho u madesl hi m a lilli e
lowe r than [marginal translation is
bett er : a lill ie while inferi or to] the
angels: thou crownedst him with
glory and hon or . and didst set him
over the works of thy hands: tho u
hast put all things in subjection un-
der his feel. For. in that he pu t all in
subjection under hi m [manI. he
[God] Icft nothing that is not pu t
under him" ( Hebrews 2:5-8). The
sa me "all things" a ppea rs al so in
cha pt er I :2-3. an d is there tr an s-
lat ed " the unive rse" in the Moffatt
translation. That is the obvious in-
tended meaning.
Spea king of Christ. the Moffall
translation has: ".. . a son whom he
[God] has a ppoin ted heir of the uni-
verse, as it was by him [Ch rist] tha t
he [God] crea ted the world. He. re-
flecting God's brig ht glory and
stamped with God 's own cha rac ter.
sustains the universe with his word
of power . . ." (He brews I:2-3). In
both places Moffall uses the tr an s-
lation "universe" where the autho-
r i zed ( Ki ng J ame s) ver s io n
tran slat es " all thin gs." Thus. in the
second chapter. the meaning is that
God has put the entire universe in
subj ection under man's feet.
That. of course. is a statement so
overpoweringly colossal as to sound
incredi ble. Yet it is the actual state-
ment of what is regarded by believ-
ers as the very word of God. It
simply has not been bel ieved. It is
one of the statements of revelation
that has been overlooked. or misun-
derstood. or disbelieved. or else
flat ly rej ected.
But go furt her with thi s revealed
statement.
The very next words in the second
(Continued on por,e 19)
--- Ii ne" 'Ham .'.
t e mo - at .
by Charles Hunt ing
and David Ord
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
T
il E ECO NOMIES of European
nation s are in deep tr ouble.
The problem : rampant in-
flat ion .
Germa ny's leading ne ws maga-
zine. Der Spiegel. warned recent ly of
th e possibl y grave impli cati on s that
co uld a rise fro m the co lla pse of th e
cou ntry 's la rgest pri vate financi al
ins titution, the Herst au Bank, fol -
lowed by th e d own fall of four
sma ller banks, Spiegel editors re-
mi nded their read er s that the si tu-
a tion was t he wo rs t s in c e the
unf orgetta ble co lla pse of the "Dan-
a tba nk" 43 years ago - the "s ta rt of
the grea t crisis in Germany. th e be-
ginni ng of the way int o un em ploy-
ment a nd to Hit ler:"
Co nt inued Der Spiegel: "" , both
laym en and ex perts regard the Her-
sta rt cras h as a new sta rt of a co l-
lapse of the co untry's monetary and
credit eco nomy - s imilar to the
grea t bank crash of 1931. ""
Whi le many so ught immed iately
to allay fear s, th e fact is that the
Democracy is facing a severe
test. Can it deal with Europe's
current crises? And if it should
fail- what then? Parallels be-
tween today 's Europe and the
years leading up to 1939 could
be cause for concern!
Are we ignoring
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economies of the Europea n nations
a rc sulfcring fro m a worsen ing in-
flati on tha t po lit ical pa rti es of a ll
persuasions seem una bl e to control.
Oil Money of Li ttle Help
The si tua tion is be ing madc even
more precarious by the manne r in
which Middl e Eas l oil mon ey is
bei ng invest ed in Europea n banks.
To invest profitably. banks mu st pu l
their mo ney out on long-t erm loa n.
Bu t t he oil- p ro d ucing co un t ries
have burdened the ban ks with un prece-
dented sho rt-term investments. In
such a situation. a ll of the risk fa lls
upon th e shoulders of the banks -
and for a very sma ll inter est margin .
They recognize th at th ey ca nno t con-
tin ue to crea te a precari ous maturi ty
struct ure indefinitely.
David Rockefell er. president of
one of th e world's largest ba nks.
wa rned on a visit to Europe ea rlier
thi s yea r. that the econ omi c si tu-
at ion is "very a larming: ' Rockefel -
ler expla ine d that the industri al
nati on s - principa lly the United
St ates. West ern Europe and Ja pa n
- a re go ing to ha ve to find ways of
working together. Even the oi l-pro-
ducing nat ions a nd the U. S.S. R. a rc
go ing to hav e to coopera te. The
problem. hc sa id. is of "globa l mag-
nitude" a nd of " grea t urgency."
Democraci es Inadequate
Questioned privately. Me. Rock-
efelle r ex pla ined that the truly dem-
oc ra t ic for m o f governmen t is
unable to so lve such pressi ng prob-
lems because it ca n' t ta ke the steps
that are necessa ry to dea l with such
a n al a rmi ng situa tion.
He po inted to unemploy ment as
a n exa mple. Some un employmen t
would devel op in a nat ur al way in
an econ omy like Germany's. a nd it
woul d do wonders in check ing in-
flati on. deficit of pa yments a nd
ot her related problems.
But in a tru ly democr at ic nat ion.
wha t polit ician ca n a fford to ope nly
pursue a poli cy of e ncou raging
un empl oyment? It would be politi -
cal suicide.
Wh en asked if he had a rea lly
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
workable solution to olfer. he admit-
ted th a t he had none.
Rut othe rs a re th inking of pos-
sible solu tions - an d the demi se of
democracy is in the forefront!
Democracy Failed Before
Whi le a litt le unemploy ment
mi ght be a good curb to infl a tion. it
was un em ployment which ca used
widesprea d rioting and th e threat of
communism in Germany in th e
wa ke of World War I. The German
Weima r Republ ic wa s toppled by its
inabi lity to deal with infla tion a nd a
subseq ue nt massive un employm en t.
In 1923. the Reichsba nk in Berli n
issued bank not es faster th an its
thirty co ntrac t firms could pri nt
them. pressin g dozen s of pri vat e
print ers into service to help produce
th e money. Not one note was lower
tha n 100.000 marks. By November
400. 000 billion marks wer e in cir cu -
lat ion. Mon ey beca me wort hless.
Recalling the terribl e inflat ion of
the Weima r Germany. Wi lly Fris-
cha uer. writing in Brit ain's Dai l y
Te l egraph. exp la ined h o w
une mploym en t rocke ted: "When
money ra pidly lost its val ue in Ger-
man y. ' ha rd gra ft" ceased to be as
rewarding as soc ially less desirabl e
wheeling. dealing. a nd specula ting
which beca me a way of life bu t pro-
duced no tangible asset s. Priced out
of ra w materials. fact or ies closed
a nd offices shut down which made
the clamou r of workers for hi gher
wa g e s i rre leva nt. Wh en t h e y
counted the cost. t here were six mil-
lion un empl oyed: '
Fr ischa ue r liken ed the co llapse of
a n orderl y way of life in Germany
to th e present Br it is h economic
scene. Germans lived for today as if
ther e was no tomorrow - "s wa l-
lowed up by th e permissi ve society
of th e 20s ' - totall y un aware of th e
grave nati on al cri sis a nd what it
would eventua lly lead to.
" Stumbl ing from one emergency
measure to th e next. sho rt-lived
[Germani govern me nts lost sight of
th e futu re except where they saw
a cha nce to pledge it in excha nge for
momen tary reli ef: ' Fr isch au er re-
ca lled. "Politica l ex tremists harassed
the Weima r Government ... which
was power less to control events, 10-
flat ion had wat ered the seeds of po-
litical disintegrati on."
Democracy in J eopardy
The Wester n world has come to
think of democr acy as pa rt of its
herit age.
But is democracy reall y so deep ly
entrenched in th e West?
Now. even i n Brita in. the la nd in
which the idea of a coup has always
seemed ridiculous. ther e is ta lk of
the fa ilure of democracy to dea l
wi t h vital iss ues. Fo rme r Primc
Minist er Sir Al ec Douglas-Home
wa rne d th at Brit ain may stand on
the verge of a na rchy.
In Italy. G iova nni Agnelli . head
of t he Fi at motor company. stat ed
recently thai his country does not
have long to save itself from "t he
bottomless pit : ' He ex pressed hope
tha t It aly wi ll no t reach the point
whe re it would have to choose be-
twee n "s ta rva tion and a relinqu ish-
ing of freedom:'
The kind of "relinquish ing of
freedom' l tha t might occur in Italy is
evident whe n we consider the re-
vived interest in Mu ssolini in tha t
nation toda. This interest is not
co nfined solely to the neo- Fuscists,
Under the right circumstances.
cou ld Ita ly again a ba ndo n democ-
racy for a d ictat orsh ip?
Rene wed interest in Mu ssol ini in
Ita ly is pa rall el ed by growing pre -
occupa tion with the Hitler era in
Germany. This fas cination. cen te red
first a roun d books. records a nd
fi lms. has now culmi nated in a 52-
week slick magazine se ries entitled
"The Third Reich: ' While it docs
not gla morize th e Nazi peri od. it has
" po pula rized" this time in recen t
hi story as never before.
The Los Angeles Times com-
ment ed that there has been consid-
erable debate a mo ng sociolog ists
a nd poli tical scientists concerning
thi s nostalgia for the di ctators of th e
1930' s. The q uestion is whet her it
ind ica tes a " late nt hank ering for t he
strong man : ' or whethe r it is merely
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health y re-exa mina tion of history.
Whatever the case may be. such in-
terest makes "us awa re of how close
we may be to repeat ing the mistakes
of the 1920's: ' said the Times.
"The intensifyi ng interest in dic-
tatorshi p thus appears to be linked
to the fact that not since the 1930's
has the political lead ership in the
West seemed so incapable of mee t-
ing the social and economic chal-
lenges at ha nd:' the article said.
And it concluded that it "now seems
possible th at any democr acy in
Western Europe could quickly be-
come a dictatorship."
Germans Express Fears
Warnings of this kind. consid-
ering the present economic sit u-
ation. are cause for conce rn enough .
But when Ge rmany's own leaders
express a deep fea r for Europe's fu-
ture. it's time we rouse ourselves
from complacency.
Willy Brandt. recent cha ncellor of
West Ge rmany. some months ago
openly expressed his fears that de-
mocracy is failing in Europe, and
could have only 30 years ofli fe left.
Ludwi g Erhard. also a former
cha ncellor of West Ge rma ny. spoke
out in a series of articles which ap-
peared in a mass-circulation Ge r-
man Sunda y newspaper.
Erhard warned of a dangerous
lurch toward d ict at orship whi ch
could occur in WeSI Ge rma ny. He
said that Ge rmany is headed for
economic troubles and he now felt it
was his duty to warn of where such
trends could lead . Drawing startling
parallels between 1924 and 1974.
Erhard showed how it was economic
troubles that prepa red the soil for
Adolph Hitler. He warned that di-
saster may lie ahead unless Ge r-
many is wi ll ing to ta ke drasti c
act ions to avert a full-blown eco-
nomic crisis.
A Jittery Public
The public sees a worsening situ-
arion all around. Prices ar e climb-
i ng , a nd so is unemplo ym en t.
Money is harder to come by, and
everyon e is having to strive harder
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and harder to make ends meet. At
the same time they see governme nt
impotence, and political and eco-
nomi c stalema te among the leaders
and so-ca lled experts. Th e problems
have simply become too great for
single governments to solve. They
are s upranational. needing inter-
nati on al cooperation and sacrifice to
bring abOUI sol utions. Unfortu -
nat ely. there is no sign that this is
being achieved. Na tiona l govern-
ment legislation is not enough to
prov ide solutions and restore public
confidence.
The London Times stated: "There
should be no flinching from the ex-
treme gravity of the inflationary di-
saste r now threatening the co untry.
It is immea surably the most serious
problem facing government and
people since 1945. Th is is a lime at
which one should and would expect
the major political leaders to state
and ca mpaign for their remedies for
the disaster threat ening the count ry.
Yet there is a mysterious silence ."
In Ge rmany before the war. Hit-
ler came forwa rd to provide the an-
swers , t o give so lut io ns. Th e
German people felt downt rodd en
and humhied after the first Worl d
War. They had just expe rienced the
pa in and suff ering and insecurity of
hyperinflati on when hard-earned
savi ngs we re obliterated overnight.
They were ready to listen to a man
who promised economic stability
and prosperity. and who promised
to return Germa ny to its "rightful
place" among the nati ons. Th ey
were not intereste d in delving into
the de tails of how he proposed 10
achieve such popul ar ai ms.
Are the nation s so diffe rent
today? Former Chancellor Erhard is
co nc e r ne d . Will y Br an dl ha s
sounded a warning. Could it ha ppen
in Ge rmany again? Could a dictat or
arise in Europe? A disill usioned.
frustrated and insecure people will
be ready to listen to a de magog ue
who oversimplifies the problems.
presents them in emotional terms.
and promises qu ick, pain less solu-
tions.
Peopl e today are looking for an-
swers. They want to hear of hope
and optimism and of a way out of
the mess the world fi nds itself in.
Th ere is now a leadership vac uum
in Euro pe, and in the world. And
nature abhors a vac uum. People are
looking for a new messiah. Has the
world ever really learned that a
huma n messiah is never the answer?
As Newsweek magazine put it in
an article on the leadership short -
age : 'The danger in such per iods is
that peop le may start looki ng for a
man on a white horse who offers
simple answers to complex ques-
tions . A few observers have detected
enoug h signs . .. to predict that the
democracies are now increasingly
suscepti ble i"a demagog ue ready to
lead them back down the road 10
some form of Fascis m."
The Plain Truth magazine has for
over a quarter cen tury been warning
its readers of a coming ten-nation
union in Europe Ihal will not prove
friend ly to the United States and
British peoples. This has not yet
happened. but it cnnsistently draws
closer. Escalating economic troubles
leading to trade war could rapidly
bring abo ut the fall of democracy in
several Europea n nations and give
rise 10 a powerful military-oriented
union. The recent oil crisis proves
how qu ickly the world scene can
cha nge.
Del uding ourselves that there is
no threat will not make the da nger
go a way . The Old Te stamen t
prophet Jeremiah wrote of a time in
which there wou ld be unwillingness
to admit reality in the face of di-
saster: "They have healed also the
hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly: ' it was predicted, "saying.
Peace. peace : whe n there is no
peace" (Jeremia h 6: 14). Are we not
alrea dy in such an era?
After the Mun ich Con ference in
1938, Ne vi lle Cha mberlain de -
cla red. "Peace in our time." Chur-
chill sounded the warni ng. yel the
world was taken by surprise when
World War II burst upon all civ-
ilization .
Will we be taken by surprise
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PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
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World Food
Conference-
the Overlooked Issues
Rome:
Aroun d the world. ove r 460 mil-
lion peo ple - mor e than double the
popul at ion of the United States
are right now threat ened with star-
vation. It is fear ed that some 10 mi l-
lion peop le will die this year a lone.
It is also estimat ed that most of the
victims wi ll be children under five
years of age.
These were the gri m sta tistics that
greeted 1.250 delegat es from 430
nati ons who gathered November 5-
16 in Rome for the United Nations
sponsored World Food Conference.
Opening the conference. U.N.
Secretary Geoe ral Kurt Waldheim
stated: " I t is difficult to review the
sequeoce of events that led to the
current food crisis without feeling a
sense of dism ay at the lack of fore-
sight and sense of common interest
which has been shown by indi vid-
uals. governments and by the int er-
national communities."
Mr. Waldheirn's remar ks have
borne oct the staggering rea lity that
on its present course the nati ons of
the wo rld must increase grai n out-
put by roughly t he eq uivalent of the
Ca nadian. Australi an and Argen-
tine wheat crops each year just to
keep up with demand. Th at is mind-
boggling to comprehend.
Just to attempt to aocomplish
such a herculean task is awesome
enough. Grea tly complicating the
situa tion is the fact that world agr i-
culture is becoming increasingly de-
pendent upon fewer and fewer
varieties of the basic food crops
which are now being ma ss produced
each yea r just to try and head off
starvationfor the millions mentioned
above . What no one has touched
upon a t thi s food conference is
the staggeriog po te otial for ex-
plosive out breaks of plant disease
that both genetic standardization
and grain monoculture are posing
for producers of these crops and
subsequently for the hun dreds of
millions of lives dependent upon
these very same crops for food .
I n o t he r wo rd s. mod ern-day
breeding for select - usuall y high-
yield - crops of standard height.
texture, and time of ripening has
meant an increasi ng genetic unifor-
mit y within the plant species. Thus
when disease strikes. it can move
through the entire crop. which may
stretch across entire growing areas.
wit h farme rs helpl ess tpdo anything
about it.
This was the case in the United
States in 1970 when close to 50% of
t he corn crop was wiped out by
blight in some states. Such an eve nt
today with world grain reserves at
an all time low wo uld have calami -
tous repercussions.
Th e margin of sa fety against dis-
ease that was always provi ded by a
multitude of genetic variet ies within
each species is being systematically
destroyed by man 's narrowing of
their genet ic base. And every yea r.
additiona l thousands of nat ive. so-
called primitive varieties are lost.
perha ps forever.
In the thousa nds upon thousa nds
of words which poured forth at the
World Food Conference. delegates
and observers alike seemed to ut-
terly gloss over the inheren t weak-
ness of con temporary agricultural
meth ods. Instead, speeches and dis-
cussio n invariably revolved around
chemica l fe rtili zers. pe sticides .
me ch ani zati on. in cr eased te ch-
nol ogy. irrigat ion. weather control.
newe r high-yield " miracle grains:'
and vast ly expa nded food aid pro-
gra ms. Left unaddre sse d at t he
Food Confere nce were some very
basic questions we need to ask our-
selves.
First. is the system of food pro-
duction on which man is staking his
future ca pable of the indefi nite ex-
pansion . or is it already becoming
self-limiting economica lly and eco-
logically even among the farmer s in
the affl uent Western world?
Secondly. doe s it make sense to
base our food supply on expensive
processing and transportation of
troleum-based fert ilizers when fert i-
lizers are already prese nt in most
agricu ltural soils and in the atmo-
sphere?
Th ird. is it logical to intensify the
continuing oi l crisis by all nations
competing in a desperate bid to pay
the going price for three tons of oil
in order to produce every ton of
nitrogen fertilizer ? It would not
see m so in view of the fact that.
acco rdi ng to one eminent and well-
known authority. the atmosphere
con tains 34.000 tons of nitrogen
above each acre of ground.
Four th. if healthy plants need a
balance of 20 to 30 nutrients. can we
imagine what we are doi ng to all
soi l-dependent forms of life when
we doubl e an d tripl e producti on by
the addition of at most only three of
these most needed nutrients?
Fifth. arc the mi llions who casti-
gate the West for its luxury produc-
tion of animal protein mindful of
the fact that such prot ein is meant
to come from anima ls eat ing pas-
ture. not grai n? Peopl e are apt also
to forget that this grai n is now pro-
duced by crop monocult ure - the
fastest method of soil destruction
known to man. If the worl d's farm-
er s grew the right crops. upgrad ed
pastu re lands. and avoi ded most
gra in feeding of animals. man
would have his animal protein. sup-
ply more grains for hu ngry mout hs
and improve the soil - all at the
same time!
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Sixth. everywhere man is st rug-
gling with explod ing city popu-
lati ons. a cyn ical dehumani zed
industrial work force and an eco-
nomi ca lly underprivileged fa r m
community. Despite the situation.
most nations are unable . for one
reason or anothe r, to come to grips
with the painful problem of inter-
nati onal land reform.
One could hope that the recen t
Rome Conference might have laid
the foun dation to halt man's world-
wide drift away from the la nd
a nd to make prosperous fami ly
farms the basic unit of a stable
human society around the whole
ea rth.
However. these vital issues were
not hammered out at the Worl d
Food Conference. and the great er
danger resultin g from this histori c
meetin g is the fact that delegates
have left Rome co nvinced that more
technology. mechanizati on and fer-
tilizer is the only answer to the
world food crisis. Onl y time will tel l,
- Ray Kosanke and ColinSutcliffe
Waldheim Urges Unity
to Solve World's Woes
Was hington. D. C :
IN Al" address a t a recent
Na tiona l Press Cl ub luncheon in
Washin gton. United Na tions' Secre-
tary-General Kurt Waldheim de-
cla r ed th at th e " r he to ri c o f
int erdependence" is rhetoric no
longer.
The nations of the world. he
stressed. face a series of global prob-
lems from which none is immune;
the big que stion is whether suf-
ficient progress can be made toward
solving them befor e they become
"completely unmanageable."
The secretary-general's frank ap-
peal to the newsmen for "support .
interest. and understanding- followed
his meeting with President Ford and
Secretary of Stat e Henry A. Kiss-
inger . where they discussed Cyprus.
the Middl e East. and world eco-
nonuc problems on the previous
day.
6
In the introduction to his annual
report delivered a week earlier to
th e United Nati on s. Waldh eim
made it d ear that global problems
of growing intensity - a food
shorta ge. skyrocketing population
growth. rival ry for resources. and
crushing oil prices - place urgent
new demands on the international
forum. "No nation, however rich
and powerful. can remain immune,"
he stressed, "or hope to confront
and resolve these problems success-
fully on its own."
Waldheim observed that a t the
moment there is a "profound con-
cern" shared by responsible people
everywhere, an almost universal
sense of apprehension about where
t he tumultuous developments of our
time may lead us.
He said that we are daily re-
minded "how thin the mar gin is be-
tween order and chaos, between
suffi ciency and desperate want . be-
tween peace and annihilation."
"If we wish to overcome the vast
anxieties and uncertainties of our
time," he asserted, mankind as a
whole will have to make a "con-
scious and concerted effort to
change course."
Many great civilizations in his-
tory, Waldheim continued. have col-
lapsed at the very height of their
achievement because they were un-
able to ana lyze their basic problems.
to change direct ion. and to adj ust to
the new situation which faced them.
"Today," conclu ded the secretary-
general, "the civilization which is
facing such a challenge is not ju st
one small part of mankind - it is
mankind as a whole."
- Dexter Faulkner
Iran Expands
Influence in Asia
Sydney:
The 17-day visit to Australia and
four other Asian nations in Septem-
ber by Shah Mohammed Riza Pah-
lavi of Iran focused attentio n on
Iran's spectacular emergence as one
of the world's great financial powers.
Last year's four-fold increase in
oil pr ices has significant ly benefited
Iran . the world's second-largest oil
exporter. Figure s recentl y released
by the Internation a l Mon et ary
Fund show that between June 1973
a nd June 1974. Iran's international
reser ves rose by a staggering 350
percent. from about $1.5 billion to
$5.4 billi on . Revenue from thi s
yea r's oil export s ar e expected to
add anot her $14 billion to the na-
tion's reserves.
With his growing wea lt h. th e
Shah is determined to convert his
still und er-developed nati on of 30
million into a major industrial and
mi litary power as soon as possible.
as Iran's oil reserves are expected to
be depl eted wit hin the next thirty
yea rs. The Shah has reportedly pre-
dicted that within a decade Iran will
become the fourt h largest industria l
nati on after the United States. the
Soviet Union and Japan.
Australi a's import ance to the
Sha h in this regard lies first in its
capacity to provide Iran with man y
strategic natural resources, in-
d uding iron ore. bau xite and ura-
nium. In addition. Australia can
supply Iran with many foodstuffs.
induding meat. sugar and wheat.
Australia. with its considerable ex-
perience in irrigation agriculture,
could also assist in deve loping a
modern agricultural industry in
Iran.
A maj or obj ective in the Shah's
tour. which took him to Singapor e.
New Zealand . India and Indonesia.
in addition to Australia. was to ex-
tend Iran's influence in Asia. The
Shah intensified calls for some kind
of common market arrangement
among the countries bordering the
Indi an Ocean. from Africa in the
west to Indonesia in the east. The
Shah sees Australia and New Zea-
land as a pa rt of this vast mar -
ket.
The Shah also proposed the cre-
ation of a collective security system
among the nat ions on the periphery
of the Indi an Ocean. The ai m of
such an arrangemen t would be to
persuade the United Slates and the
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
Soviet Union to withdraw their na-
val forces from the region . which the
Shah envisions as a "zone of peace: '
The various proposals put forth
during his extended tour through
Sou thern Asia and the south Pacific
have given the Shah the image of a
leader wit h vision. In the word s of
Pr ime Min ister Gough Whitlam at a
dinner with the Shah in Ca nberra .
the Shah is " hea d of a grea t nation.
a great man . the most active. the
mos t powerful. and the most in-
volved of the world's monarchs."
- Dennis Luker and Don Abraham
New European-Arab
Dialogue Under Way
Dtisseldorf:
In ea r ly September. secreta ry
general of the Arab League. Mach-
mud Riad . visited Bon n. West Ger-
ma ny. where tal ks with Chancellor
Schmidt and his cabinet laid the
foundation for a new European-
Arab di alogue. An agreement was
reached to bring togeth er the 20
Arab League nations a nd the 9 Eu-
ropean Community na tions for tal ks
in Paris during the second half of
November.
Riad 's visit and the upcomi ng
Paris conference highli ght a norma-
lizat ion of Arab-European relations
which have sulfered throughout the
lon g series of Middle East crises.
Two facto rs put this Arab dia-
logue high on the list of Euro pea n
priorities.
First. the industrial nations of
Western Europe - much more de-
pendent on oil from the Middle East
than the Unite d St ates - are ner-
vo us ly awai ti ng th e sc he d ul ed
OPEC oil pri ce conference on De-
cember 12. which cou ld result in still
another stiff oil price increase - un-
less something changes in the mean-
time.
And secondly. Europe's own in-
ternal economi c problems involving
di scon te nted farmers. st r iki ng
unions . and rampant inflation cer-
tainly put her in the mood for dis-
cussing coo pera tion. Add to this
PLAI N TRUTH December 1974
Italy' s and Fr an ce's plans to rati on
oi l this winter as a result of the pro-
j ected demand exceeding the avai l-
able supply, and Germany's fea rs of
a coal shortage due to the enormous
energy needs forecast for this win-
ter. and the motive for cooperation
becomes clear.
Any favorable oil price agreement
could eliminate some winter worries
and bring a much desired boost to
the econom ic health and stability of
Europe ove rall.
During his visit, Riad also men-
ti oned Eu ro pea n development
projects in Arab lands, strongly
hintin g at Arab financing. Western
Eur opean go vernmen ts. banks .
businesses and industries are also
eager to obtain as many of the oil
producers "petrodo llars" as pos-
sible in the form of loans or capital
inves tments from the oil producers.
Th e allur ing prospect of sharing
Arab oil profits comes at a time of a
troublesome economy and a wor-
sening unemployment figure for
Germany and the rest of Western
Euro pe. There is no doubt that Eu-
rope recogni zes the inesca pa ble
benefits of having good relation-
ships with the Arabs.
The Arab League is und oubtedly
looking on the many technological
adva ntages in Europe. including
Europe's first multipurpose tactical
bomber. the MRCA swing wing.
As European-Arab relations con-
tinue to develop and tensions con-
tinue to grow in the Middle East.
the ques tion many are asking is
whether Western Europe will be
able to remain ne ut rally uninvolved
should another Mideast war erupt.
- John Karlson
Europe Faces
Period of Uncertain
Leadership
Brussels:
\Vith inflation continui ng to
threaten Europea n economies. with
the Israeli-Arab situation at con-
sta nt high-boil. and with Arab fi-
nan c i al powe r be coming a n
overwhelming reality. the need for
concerted cooperation among the
nine nati ons of the European Com-
munit y has never been greater.
And the Common Ma rket had
bette r show some signs of directed
motion before the year is out. since
divided. war-torn Ireland is sched-
uled to assume the EEC presidency
in J anuary 1975. For the last six
month s of next year, faltering Italy
receives the preside ncy. to be fol-
lowed by Luxembourg for the first
six months of 1976.
In other words. Europe must see
some dynamic pace-setting lead-
ership now and in the remaining
weeks of 1974 before the institutions
of the EEC are t urned over to na-
tions which are not, in fact. in a
position to lead Europe into the
next 18 month s of an uncertain fu-
ture.
- Ray Kosanke
South Africa Faces
Uncertain Future
Johannesburg:
The sun is fast setting on nearly
500 yea rs of Por tuguese coloni alism
in Africa.
The Moza mbiqu e Lib erat ion
Front. or Frelimo. has assumed
power in an interim government in
Mozambiqu e, which is slated for
full independence next Ju ne. A sim-
ilar swi tch to black government
seems inevitable in the Portuguese
ter ritory of Angola .
How will this independe nce affect
Sout hern Africa - the so-called
" white south" in parti cular? Fr elimo
lead ers have recently made publi c
promises that they will cut economic
links with whit e-ru led South Africa
and Rhodesia the moment they take
power. It is bel ieved. however. that
as far as Sou th Africa is concerned.
the economic effects of a Mozam-
biq ue boycott would be marginal.
Should Freli mo cut the vital rai l-
road link to landlocked Rhodesia,
howeve r. the resultant economic iso-
7
lation would be somewhat more se-
rIOUS.
The mar ginal effects on the South
African economy would be centered
in three main areas: Fir st, South Af-
rica. already suffering from severe
harbor congestion, would find her-
se lf in an eve n worse situation
should the Mozambique port of
Lourenco Marques be closed to
South African traffic. The problem
would be temporary, however, as a
new port on the Natal North Coa st
will. come into opera tion in 1976.
Second, the withdrawal of nearl y
100,000 Mozambique workers from
the South Afri can gold mine s - 20
percent of South Africa's mine labor
- would result in a temporary drop
in South Afr ican gold production .
Finally, if Frelirno's threat s to blow
up the Ca bora Bassa hydroelectri c
dam are carried out, a small per-
Language Issue
Stirs Quebec
Montreal:
Months after its passage, Que-
bec's controversial language law is
still the object of debat e. French -
the mother tongue of 82 percent of
the province's population - is now
the sole official language with pre-
ferred status over English in busi-
ness. education and govern ment.
The nati on of Ca nada as a whole is
officially bilingual. although Quebec
is the only significant French-speak-
ing area.
Although t he use of English has
been guaranteed as a matter of per-
sonal rights. many who speak it as
their first la nguage feel that the new
legislati on will threat en their way of
life. But others feel that that "way of
life" had involved unfair dom ina-
tion of the prov ince's industrial and
financial wealth, and tha t a balance
needed to be encouraged with the
help of this law.
Th e law. referred to both in
French and Engli sh as Bill 22, spells
alit. in over 100 cla uses. ways that
the status of the French lan gua ge is
8
centage of South Afr ica's power
would be temporaril y lost.
Local opinion has it, howev er,
that Frelimo could cut 011' economic
relations with the white sout h only if
Mozambique is assured of sub-
stantial long-term foreign aid from
other countries. Without such alter-
nate aid , FreJimo leaders could find
that cutting off economic relations
with the white south may do more
harm to Mozambique than it does
to South Africa and Rhodesia. But
whether such practical cons id-
erations will force a more moderate
Mozambique policy toward th e
white south is uncertain. Hist ori-
cally, such pra ctical considerations
have not always pr ecluded the ap-
plication of sanctions for ideol ogical
reasons, rega rdless of what is in the
best interests of a nation .
- Sydney Hull
to be preserved in government. in-
dustry and edu cati on.
One of the most controversial
clauses gives the mini ster of educa-
tion the authority to send children
to Fr en ch, rather th an Engl ish
schools if their knowledge of Eng-
lish is j udged insufficient for English
schooling. This primaril y affects the
chi l dren of immi grant famili es.
Montr eal. Cana da's lar gest city, is
an international port by virtue of
the St. Lawrence River ; it is t he na-
tion's favorit e sett ling spot for immi-
gra nts. Th ey prefer to settle there
for its European flavor, yet they de-
sire to have t heir children att end
English schools to give them more
mobility and greater adva ntages
throughout all of North Amer ica.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise
t hat these minorit y groups are dis-
pleased by the bill.
Perhaps the most sur prising op-
ponents of Bill 22 are the followers
of the separatist Parti Quebecois
(PQ). They clai m that the bill is too
vague and will be laxly adminis-
tered , yet there is also the realiza-
tion that if this plan were to succeed
in safeguarding French culture and
in gi vin g Fr e nch-Ca nad ia ns a
great er share in the economic life of
the province, they could be a party
without a platform. Some within the
PQ ask whether the bill is noth ing
but a plot from Ott awa to und er-
min e th e Fre nc h independence
movement.
The bill has also raised criticism
from Canada's other provinces. The
premi er of New Brunswick has
asked Pr ime Mini st er Pi e rr e
Trudeau to refer the law to the Ca-
nadian Supreme Court for a ruling
on its constitutionality. Although
Mr. Trudeau has stated his reserva-
tions about the bill, he is unlikely to
do so, preferring that a private citi-
zen instead initiate the court case.
On one occasion, I asked Mr.
Trudeau what those reservations
were . He termed them " philosophi-
cal, not poli tical." " I' m a libera l." he
continued, "and I don 't like the idea
of forcing a person to choose one
language or another." He does not
deny that the situation in Qu ebec
needs balancing, but feels it should
be done by " persuas ion, rather than
legislation. "
Until the law is challenged in
Ca nada's courts, the provincial gov-
ernment of Premier Robert Bou -
rassa will continue plans for its
implement ation amid continuing
vocal opposition on all sides. Mean-
whi le. moderate voices throughout
the province hope that this law will
both lessen the one-sided advantage
of the English language and culture
at top levels of commerce and in-
dustry an d at the same time reduce
the calls for complete secession of
the provi nce from Canada.
Yet Quebec remains as another
example on a list containing situ-
ations as diverse as the Flemi sh-
Wall oon controve rsy in Belgium,
the Biafran secession attempt in Ni-
ger ia , and t he independen ce of
Bangladesh. At a time when states-
men and thinkers are calling for in-
creased cooperation and concerted
effort between the nations as the
only chance man has of solving the
grievous problems facing him, the
trend is toward the breakup of tradi-
tional nation-states into smaller.
tribe-like subdivisions.
- Henry Sturcke
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
spare THe roo &
SPOILTHe CHILD?
by Charles F. Vinson
Discipline - often misunderstood, often mis-
used - remains the key to successful child
rearing. Every parent should understand why.
I
T' S NOT easy to rear children today. espe cially with
so much confusio n amo ng the expeets. One ex pert
re c ommend s a " pe rm iss ive"
method. Ano ther would be horri fied
at the thought. insi sting that a
strict. "no-nonsense" policy is
the on ly road to responsible
~ adu lthood . These terms at
~ be st a rc vag ue. and
..
, much is left for pri-
oJ!
c> va te interpretation
~ a nd debate.
.s But ha ppily.
~ mor e a nd mor e
{
,,;. yo ung parents are
~ realizing that rear-
f ing a ha ppy. obed i-
::.. e n t , honest.
~
, frie nd ly. bri ght.
.Q uninhibited. ta l-
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! entcd. respectful
" (a nd a ll t ho s e
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t.
other qualities that parents envi sion) child does not
de pend on a magic textbook formu la. The most impor-
tant ingredient is the proper administration of dis-
cipline.
Parents of all life-styles are discovering that effe ctive
and con sistent discipli ne - not necessarily the fre-
quency or physical severity of that discipline - is the
secret to child rearing success.
A Teaching Process
Dr. James Dobson. assistant professor of
pedi atrics (child development) at the Uni-
versity of Sou t hern California School of
Med icine and au thor of the best seller
Dare 10 Discipline. stresses that "ch ildren
thrive best in an atmosphere of genuine
love. undergirded by reasonable. con-
sistent discipline."
" Discipline," which comes from the
same root word as "disciple," actually
me ans "learning." Discipl ine is a
teaching proces s. involving control of
consequences. There are times . for
example. whe n a parent can effec-
tively discip line a chil d by giving
praise for doi ng a good job - lettin g
PERMISSIVENESS
the chi ld know th at as a pa rent. yo u
are really pleased with his accom-
plishments.
Dr. Dobson condemns permis-
siveness as a disaster and advises
parents to esta blish in advance ab-
solute boundaries for their child's
conduct. They must not be wishy-
washy a bout what children may or
may not do.
This is more important than most
pa rents real ize. When a child aware
of his boundaries does something
punishable - whether he has been
overtl y selfish. deliber at ely offensive
to others or openly rebellious to
mom a nd dad - he will ac tually
expect hi s paren ts to respond. And.
indeed. parents should respond with
puni shment tha t is "suffi cient to the
crime:'
The Ideal
But wa lking the tightrope be-
tween yo ur own anger and adminis-
teri ng the right a mount of di scipline
is a trick y business. Proper dis-
cipline. aft er all. is something you
do jor a child. not j ust 10 him. Re-
member the quote from Proverbs
13:24: "He who spa res the rod hates
his son, but he who loves him is
dili gent to d iscipline him" (RSV).
Discipl ine should be a posit ive ac t
- not merely a negati ve one. Par-
ents who constantly badger or in-
ti mi da te the ir childre n usuall y are
irritated about something else en-
ti re ly. and the chi ld becomes the
most convenient object on which to
vent anger .
For most parents. criticizing or
spanking becomes a form of per-
sona l therapy and is of litt le help to
the child. What should be a posi tive .
loving relationship beco mes hostile.
The chil d may be obedient. but the
motivat ion is through fea r of pro-
voki ng his parent s into another yell-
ing. s pa nking or face- sl a pping
session. No child can equate this
kind of punishment wit h a construc-
tive learning process. Chances are
th e child wi ll return the sa me hosti l-
ity when he is older.
On the ot her hand. some paren ts.
wa nti ng the bes t for their child. are
10
so over-protective and dominating
that they st ifle all ini tiat ive. They
insist on constantly directing and
controlling th e child's every activity
- literally ru nn ing his or her life
aro und the d ock . refusing to allow
th e child en ou gh freedom to react as
a normal human being.
Ideal parent al di scipl ine springs
neither from hostility nor the ne ed
to domina te. bu t from the fact that
t he parent feels absolutely sure of
wha t constitutes correct behavior.
And the pa rent. in a loving and pos-
itive way. is teaching the child to
understand and conform to these
values.
Corporal Pun ishment?
As everyone knows. there inevita-
bly come times when eve n the best
children refuse to conform to mom's
and dad's rules. During these times
no other form of discipline is as im-
mediately effective as spanking.
Spanking is not to be confused
wit h the sick. psychotic practice of
child beating. The two have nothing
whatsoever in common. Neither is
spanking (or, more formally. corpo-
ral punishment) a last resort to be
a pp l ied o n ly a f t e r yo u h a ve
shouted. screamed. cried. begged,
nagged. de prived or stood the child
in the corner. Spanking should be a
positive act. and the child must rec-
og nize hi s infraction a nd hopefully
be sorry he committed the offense.
It should be a deterrent to de-
fiance. rebellion. willfu lness a nd ha-
tred. Spanking painfully teaches
that such emotions . when expressed.
a utoma tically lead to punishment.
In addition. spanking teaches for-
giveness. And here is a most impor-
tant point: Never refuse a punished
child the love and reassurance he
wants after spanking. Cuddle hi m
a nd expla in why he was pu nished
a nd how to avoi d it next time . With-
out that correspond ing expression of
love. spanking is merely hitting - a
negat ive influence. As yo unger chil-
dren grov, in their love and respect
for you and realize the boundaries
of cond uct yo u ha ve esta blished.
spa nking should become an infre-
quent punishment.
By the time a child becomes an
ad oles cent. spanking should not be
necessary at all. Most teen-agers
de sperately want to be thought of as
adult s a nd de epl y resent be in g
tre at ed as sma ll chi ldren . Spanking
them is viewed as the ultimate in-
sult. Other forms of di sci pline may
be more effective - loss of privi-
leges. curfews, etc.
Invaluable Benef i t s
One of the most positive benefits
of int elligent corpora l punishment is
t hat it helps bui ld a chi ld's self-
esteem. Self-esteem is not synony-
mous with vanity. It means proper
self-confide nce a nd a lack of inferi-
ority feelings which cri pple ad ult
chances for success and happiness.
An interesting study carried out
by Dr. St an ley Coopersmith. associ -
ate professor of psychol ogy a t the
University of Ca liforn ia. bore this
out. That study incl uded 1.738 nor-
ma l. middl e-class boys and their
famil ies. begin ni ng in th e pre-
adolescent period and fol lowing
them through yo ung ma nhood . Af-
ter ident ifyin g those boys ha ving the
highest levels of sel f-esteem. he
compa red their homes a nd child-
hood influences with those having a
lower se nse of self-wort h.
He found that the most successful
boys. those with the highest levels of
self-estee m. we re defi nitely more
love d an d appreciated at home than
were the low-esteem boys. The pa-
rental love was genuine. not merely
verbal. And their parents were gen-
erally more strict in their approach
to discipline.
By contra st. the parents of the
low-esteem group created insecurity
a nd dependence by thei r permis-
siveness. Their chi ldren felt ru les of
conduct were not enforced because
no one really ca red about them.
Furthermore. the 111 0st successful
and inde pen dent young men were
found to have come from homes de-
mandi ng the strictest accountability
and responsibility - but decided ly
not in a repressi ve at mosp here.
Their homes were characterized by
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
famil y participation and openness.
Once the boundar ies for behavi or
were establ ished. there was absolute
freedom for indi vidual personalities
to grow and develop. Success in life
followed much more regularly than
it did in homes where disci pline was
carried out in a hap hazard or non-
existent manner.
The End Product
Different personalities require
different approaches and different
degrees of control. Extremel y sensi-
tive children may need spanking
only rar ely - a harsh look is often
sufficient punishment.
And conversely, some children
never seem to get the point. But
when children do turn out beau-
tifully. it is not an accide nt. It is
because those children were lucky
enough to ha ve parent s who reall y
loved them - parents who under-
s tood a nd adm inistered proper.
immedi ate and con sist ent dis-
cipl ine. 0
authoritarian control group was far
a head . An d to an outsider, the pro-
ceedings seemed better organi zed.
But problems arose when the
lead er left the roo m. Th e boldest in
the group began horsing around
first. then the less courageous ones .
unti l fina lly only a couple of worr ied
littl e boys were still half-hea rted ly
sticking to business.
The children under very tight dis-
cipline had no outlet for their spon-
taneo us ideas or indi vidua l wishes .
Resentment built up under the sur-
face and brok e out whe n the leader
left the boys by themsel ves.
The laissez-faire group met with
disastrous results: Little or nothing
was accomplished . Once in a while
th e boys woul d ti re of horsing
around and attempt 10 accomplish
something. but none of them was
strong enough to lead. The rowd ier
hoys always disrupt ed any progress.
Surprisingly. thi s gro up did better
when the adult left the room. it was as
though the boys were emba rrassed
when an adult who di d not know how
to act like one was present.
Th e story was quite differ ent in
the democratic co ntrol group. The
hays took pride in the fact that the
project was their very own - not
something forced on them. They
had the freedo m to be creat ive and
to share ideas. They were interested
and busy. There was no evidence of
hos tility. \Vork went on almost as
wel l when th e lead e r left the
room. 0
In the authoritarian group. the
leader took complete charge from
the begi nnin g. He announced that
this was t ~ be a carpentry club. and
they were go ing to build birdhouses .
He told them where to ge t the nec-
essary materials and wha t the de-
sign was to be. as well as how to use
the tool s. He was agreeabl e enough
in manner. but left no initi ati ve to
the boys. He maint ained absolut e
order and efficiency.
In the loissez -faire group. the
leader was present wit h th e boys. he
answered questions. he gave indi-
vidual help. hut offered no real
leadership.
The procedures in the democratic
group were radically different. It
was to be the boys club, and they
could choose the activity. Typically.
all type s of projects were suggested,
some quite impractical. But the
leader didn't squelch anyone or try
to impose his own ideas. He did
keep the discussions orderly and re-
minde d the group if they forgot
thei r manners.
When the gro up fina lly did defi-
nit ely decide on a project. the leader
shifted conversation toward que s-
tions of design . how to gat her mate-
ria ls. bor row tools . et c . Whe n
building time neared. there had to
he discussions of methods and divi-
sion of labor.
The results were predict abl e. In
terms of efficiency - number of
hours and days necessary to build a
certain number of birdhouses - the
A
I ' EXPERI MENT carried out
by psych ologists several
yea rs ago was re-
cently reported in Raising Children
in l/ Difficult Time. by Dr. Benjamin
A. Spack. noted American pediatri-
cian.
The experiment was designed to
co mpare the e ffects of discipline in
three di fferent con trol groups: ( I)
absolute autho ritarian (that is. ex-
ternal or arbit rary) discip line: (2)
laissez-faire (l illie or no discip line) ;
and (3) democratic (meani ng inter-
na l. or responsible) discipline .
Activity cl ubs were set up for sev-
eral gro ups of boys of the middle
chi ldhood yea rs. The boys were to
work at hobbies after school unde r
the lead ership of the psychologists.
MOTIVATING YOUR CHILD
HERE'S
AN EXPERIMENT
WITH
POSITIVE RESULTS
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Both merchants and advertising agencies
recognized the commercial possibilities
of folk festivals and began to exploit these
occasions shortly after 1920. This was
immediately successful and has continued
unabated to the present.
T
HE SEASON to be jolly is nearly
upon us again. With it will
come parties. gifts. famil y
ge t-t ogethers - and fam ily break-
ups - all with the stern reminder
not to forget the "real meaning of
Christmas,"
Admoniti ons 10 promote peace.
love. j oy. good will and hope stem
from a sincere desire to circumvent
the overwhelmi ng commercialism of
the season. But as usual. the admo-
niti ons will be almos t tot all y ig-
nored. a nd underst andably so. The
"real meaning" of the hol ida y has
al ways been annoyingly vague.
To con fuse matters further. the
alleged birthday of Christ ha s come
to be inescapably associated with a
j olly Nordic saint secretly bearing
gifts in the night. With a Santa on
every street corner. most children
forget that Chri stma s is somehow
s up posed to be a billi on-dollar
birthday party for Christ.
A closer look a t the history of
Christmas should clear up the mys-
tery. Ironically eno ugh. it will show
that tod ay's gc nerally irre ver ent eel-
cbra tion of December 25 comes far
closer to the "rca I meaning" of
Christmas than most Chri stians
dare to admit.
How Modern Christ mas Began
Commercial Christmas is only
a bo ut 50 yca rs old. James H. Barn-
ett of the University of Connecticut
e xpl a in s th e or igi n o f "Green
Christmas" in his book The Ameri-
can Christmas: A Studv in National
Culture.
"The studied expl oitation of the
fes tiva l did not develop fully unt il
the third decade in the present cen-
tury:' he writes. "At the close of the
war in (918. the American economy
was gea red to a high level of output
and a host of new products were
ready 10 be so ld. However. con-
sumer demand s were shrinking. and
there was serious danger of a stag-
nant market:'
Postwar retai lers and man ufac-
turers. it seems. were faced wi th a
dilemma . The asse mb ly lines were
rolling. but consumer cas h was not.
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
T he nash depressio n of 1920 struck.
making bus inessmen e ven more
desperate.
"{n thi s dilemma:' continues
Barnett . "business leaders sought
some mean s of increasing normal.
peacet ime buyin g. a nd turned to
promoti on and high-pressure sales
meth ods. Both merchants and ad-
vertisi ng agenci es recognized the
commercial possibilit ies of folk fest i-
vals. and began to exploi t these oc-
casions short ly afte r 1920. Th is was
immediately success ful a nd has con-
tinued un abated to the present."
Now we find Christmas business
dominaling the entire second half of
the calenda r yea r. The bu siest
month in railroad freight yards is
Au gust , primarily because manufac-
turers are shipping goods to ret ail
out lets in prepa ra tion for the Chri st-
mas gift traffic. Christmas sales be-
gin around Labor Day (earl y
September). rather tha n early De-
cember.
Ret ailers look a t it thi s way: 'The
more sho pping da ys before Christ-
mas. the more potential sales. The
whole a pproac h to selling is to get
stuff out as early as possible . You
need plenty of time for reorders."
It's now qu ite common to see
Christmas advertisements in early
October!
Gift s for Everyone?
Since 1965 t he American public
ha s spent over 10 billion dollars on
Chri stmas gifts each yea r. or about
S l 25 bi llion between the years 1965-
1974. In ju st 10 percent of the year's
shopping days - the period from
Tha nksgiving to Christmas - mos t
sho ps do more tha n 20 per cent of
their business. and more gifts are
exchanged on December 2S than on
all the 01her 364 days comb ined!
Ju st about cvery imaginable kind
of obj ect has been a Christmas gift.
and just about everyone has re-
cei ved his sha re of the bounty. But
ironically, the churches - actively
expounding the Christmas spi rit -
suffer monetary reverses. In fact.
seasonal Christmas spending con-
sistently exceeds all religious cont ri-
but ions given to all churches for the
entire year! And gi fts to religions
consistently decl ine du ring Decem-
ber.
Wouldn't it be incongruous if you
attended a birthday party where
eve ryone exchanged gi fts with the
guests. while the host was ignored -
honored with no gift at all" Fig-
uratively spea king. that is what hap-
pens on Jesus Christ' s supposed
"birthday. "
Yet thi s is only one of the Christ-
mas "oppos ites" - those cust oms
and pr acti ces which work in oppos i-
tion to what a de sperate humanity
wishes Christmas would be. Com-
pare a few of the other Christma s
practices to the textbook thai most
Chri sti ans profess to read.
Christ mas " Opposit es"
Isn' t it a little hypocritical to
teach our children a fantastic web of
fal sehoods a bout Santa Cla us. the
reindeer. and even the time and cir-
curnstances of Christ's birth, while
we a re suppos edly honoring the one
who said. "Thou shalt not bear false
witness"? (Ma tthew 19: 18.)
There are more murde rs and
accidenta l dea ths at Christ mas time
th an a t a ny other timc of yca r: yet
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Isn't it a little hypocritical to teach our
children a fantastic web of falsehoods about
Santa Claus, the reindeer and even the time
and circumstances of Christ's birth, while
we are supposedly honoring the one who said,
"Thou shalt not bear false witness'?
Jesus said. "Thou shalt do no mur-
der' (Mat t hew 19: 18). And isn' t it a
litt le contra dictory that on the sup-
posed birt hday of the Prince of
Peace. parents buy their children
plastic guns and other toys of vio-
lence?
One fourth of all liquor sales
come du ring the Chr istmas season.
supposedly hon or ing the one who
said. "Take heed to yourselves. lest
at any time your hearts be over-
char ged with surfeiting and drunk-
enness . . ." (Luke 21: 34).
Christ also spoke against set-
ting one's heart on the "abundance
of things." Vet the purchase of many
"things" is what Christmas is all
about. He also stated. " I t is more
blessed to give than to receive"
(Act s 20: 35). But no ot he r day
st resses gelling. especially to chi l-
dr en. as much as Christmas. The
qu est ion most asked at this time of
year is. "What did you ge t?" - not
"What did you give?"
Finall y. isn't it somewhat
strange that professing Christians
would observe a day which neither
Christ nor his disciples ever men-
tioned - much less commanded or
kept?
Can You Pu t Christ Back
Into Christ mas?
If Jesus Christ of Nazareth were
transplanted into a modern Christ-
mas part y. he might enj oy the com-
pani onship. but he certa inly would
not recognize it as his birthday. be-
cause he was born in earl y autumn.
and he didn't observe birt hdays as
a nything special anyway. Instead.
he would recognize December 25 as
the Roman "Sa turna lia" of his day
or the Babylonian religious festival
honor ing the "birthday of the Sun. "
He might even advise those who
worry about " putt ing Christ back
into Christmas" to stop worrying.
It's impossible. Christ never was in
Christmas. And the public toda y
trul y is keeping the "real" or origi-
nal mean ing of Chr istmas - a com-
mercialization of an utterly pagan.
openly hedonistic celebration that
has been given an aura of respect-
ability via labels of peace. j oy. love
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
and goodwi ll to all. Most have sup-
posed that the Chr istmas celebra-
tion is roo ted i n the se good
intentions. and. of course based on
the bi rthday of Jesus. This idea is
false.
There is no need in this article to
prove the depths of Christmas' pa-
gan roots. That information is read-
ily ava ilable in your local library.
Discover it for yourself.
To summarize. "Christmas" be-
gan over 4.000 years ago in Baby-
lon. then migrated to Egypt. Greece
and Rome. In Rome. it combined
with Nordic and Druidic customs
and was finall y "blessed" as a Chris-
tian holid ay over 300 years after
Jesus Chr ist died. In each of these
pagan societies. December 25 was
celebrated as the birt hday of the
Sli l1. on the occasion of the sun's
"rebirth" at the winter solstice.
An hour or two of research would
document these assertions. Look in
t he maj or encyclopedi as under
"Christmas. " "Saturnali a: ' "Sun
Worsh ip: ' "Yule" a nd rel at ed
words. Or peru se some complete
books about Christ mas under the
"394" Dewey Decimal heading in
your local library.
You might even turn to a scrip-
tUfe in the Bible (Jeremiah 10: 1-4)
wher e God conde mned the keeping
of pagan practices centuri es befor e
the birth of Jesus: "Thus saith the
Lord. Learn 110 t the w ~ r oJ the hea -
then. and be not dismayed at the
signs of heaven: for the heathen are
dismayed at t hem," (The heath en
nations became fri ghtened as the
sun reached its winter solstice on or
around December 21 - when the
sun is farthest from our orbiting
earth. They were afraid the sun. as
the symbol of heat and light. was
dying. So they lit fires. sacr ificed
animals. shouted to their sun god,
and were in general "di smayed at
the heavens.")
To continue. "For the customs of
the peopl e are vain: for one cutteth
a tree out of the forest. the work of
the hands of the workman, with the
axe. They deck it with silver and
with gold; they fasten it with nails
and hammers. that it move not:'
A Better Day ...
Even though Christmas is pagan
in origin. some feel it is rather un-
fair to condemn the positive aspects
of Christmas unless there were
somethi ng far better to take its
place.
Happily. there is.
About 3,500 yea rs ago, God re-
vea led to his people Israel a pattern
of days set apart for a holy pur pose
and for festive family celebrat ion.
Concerning those days. God com-
manded. "Thou shalt rejoice" (Deu-
teronomy 16: 14; 14:26). Th ese
special days were kept "wit h j oy"
(Ezra 6:22) . Th ey were j oyous feast
days in which entire famili es could
part ake of fine food and dr ink. and
enj oy real love. pea ce and goodwill.
They were family festiva ls (De uter-
onomy 14:26) of treme ndous mean-
ing and purpose.
If you would like to know more
about these "days: ' write for our
free booklet. Pagan Holiday s - or
God's H o ~ 1 ' Day s - Which'
These are special days of rea l
meaning and purpose for humanit y
- of which Christmas is a cheap
counterfeit. 0
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F
ROM EARLIEST time s. as far
back as man 's recorded his-
to ry and be yond. hum a n
beings have been vi tally concerned
about dea th and a possible hereaf-
ter.
Archaeological discoveries reveal
that Neanderthal man must have
pondered the nether world and a
possible life afte r death . He dug
burial pits for his dead. He also pro-
vided his deceased with tools. wea p-
ons and food - und oubtedly an
attempt to give the depa rted. or the
departed's so ul. necessi ties for an
imagined afterlife.
But Neandert hal 's burials were
simple compared to burials of later
ancients. Burial extravaganzas un-
surpassed in scope and magnitude
are recorded in the histories of some
o f the world ' s past great civ-
ilizations. Enormous treasures of
gold and j eweled obj ects. riches of
all kinds . so me ti mes s e rva nts.
horses. wagons and even ships. we re
oft en ento mhed wit h kings a nd
qu eens to help them conti nue a la-
vishly high standard of living in a
fancied afterlife con tinued by their
souls.
One royal tomb. excavated at the
site of the ancie nt Sumerian city of
Ur. revealed the remains of five
men. len well-dressed women. an
entire chariot. the remains of two
ass es and their grooms. a number of
other bodi es. a large treasure. and
some weapons and tool s. Afte r all of
thi s were found soldiers. whole
wagons. and more grooms and cour t
ladi es - sixty-two bodies in all. Fi-
na lly. further excavati on uncovered
the king in his buria l chamber.
along with three more servants.
In more recent times people have
been just as concern ed about death
as the anci ents but less co ncerned
abo ut the hereaft er.
The Founta in of Yout h
Throughout the ages men have
spent long hours seeking to discover
a way to prolong human life and
maybe even to obtain eterna l life.
Th e keys to longevity have been
thou ght to be everything from
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wi tches' incantations. mystical herbs
and spices to ce rtain food s and mi n-
erals. or some kind of regimented
diet. Ponce de Leon and ot hers were
convinced there was an actual foun-
tain of you th somewhere.
Ponce de Leon began his search
for this legendary fountain after be-
co ming intoxicated on new wo rld
Indi an stor ies abo ut a wonde rful
founta in of youth tha t rejuvenat ed
the old and strengt hened the wear y.
supposedly hidd en somewhere on
the island of Bimi in the Bahamas.
He hel ped organize a pri vately
s pons o re d expedi tion. and on
March 3. 1512. set out with his
group to find that fountain.
Soph isticated moderns. of course.
don't believe in Ponce de Leon's
founta in of youth. but in a sense.
they are still se arc hing for it.
They're tryin g to find it in a differ-
ent way - throu gh science. tech-
nology and medicine.
Aging movie stars go to plastic
surgeons. spending large slims of
money for face lifts. to erase the tell-
ing wrinkles of age.
Those who dislike the knife turn
to beauty techni ci ans wh o are
skilled in the art of skin stretching
or in the ability to create a new
image by the usc of makeup. Some
ingest or inject hormones. Oth ers try
special baths or speci al diet s.
Scientists and medical research-
ers. on the other hand. arc trying to
discover the exact causes of agin g
and thereby learn how to cur e it.
maybe even stop it.
Freeze Now, Liv e Later
A growing number of people are
putting their hope in future medi -
cine . knowing full well that today's
medical scientists are still nowhere
ncar eradicating disease or finding
the solution to aging. They're sub-
mill ing their bod ies to Cryo nic sus-
pe nsion. a sort of mummificat ion by
freezing. Several Cryo nics societies
now ex ist.
A Cryonics socie ty member' s
body. instead of going through the
normal burial or cremation proce-
du res. is prepared for storage by
ARE
YOUR
AFFAIRS
II
ROER?
"To every thing there is a sea-
son, and a time to every pur-
pose under the heaven: a time
to be born, and a time to
die . . . . " - Solomon.
by Patrick A. Parnell
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
1
J
55Reality is undeniable. You are
going to die, And when you die, you are
dead. All the billions of dollars in
the world won 't alter that fact.
All of man's technology and
research can't change it. gg
freezing. Blood is drained an d re-
placed with a sort of antifreeze solu-
tion. The body is pl aced into a ten -
foot-long ca psule full of liq uid ni-
trogen, which is kept a t 32 1 degrees
below zero Fa hre nheit. And instead
of bei ng bur ied six feet under in a
cemetery pia l, the the rmos- bott le-
like capsul e is sto red in a vault
which will be opened so meti me in
the distant fut ure when medical
science, hopefully, wi ll have the
ability to thaw out the body, cure
the ca use of death of the deceased
Cryonics socie ty member. and re-
store hi m or her to life.
Superfi ciall y, this sounds t remen-
dously intri gu ing. But as experts are
q uick 10 point OUI. a nd objec tive
Cryonics society membe rs a re
forced to admi t. the statisti cal odds
against its working are phenomenal.
Why won't it actually work? Be-
cause the undeni able real ity is that
a human body is progra mmed to
die. Even i f disease could be vir-
tually elimi na ted, along wi th stress
and poor di ets (major fa ctors that
contribute 10 dea th ), we would still
di e. From the very moment of birt h
man's days arc numbered.
Programmed to Die
Basic life-support ing cells in the
human body divide just so many
times. They reach a d ivisioning
limi t. a pproxi ma tely 50 ti mes for
certai n main types of ce lls, after
which all do ub ling ceases. This in-
born aging factor puts a limi t on
man' s life spa n. Cell deterioration.
tissue deteriorat ion. organ deterio-
rati on and bod y deteriorati on end-
ing in de ath is ine vitable.
This programmed physical dete-
rioration begins to increase drama ti-
ca lly in the average healthy human
ar around age 40. Tas te abi lity, con-
sta ntly on the decl ine, now beg ins to
dramaticall y decrease. The ab ility to
hear hi gh-pitched tones diminishes.
A noti ceable drop in visua l acuity
occurs . More importantly, the vita l
orga ns such as the heart. lungs. kid-
neys and liver increasingly malfunc-
ti on.
With aging, hardening of the ar-
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
teries increases ma rkedly. Blood
pressure climb s. Bones gradualIy
lose more a nd more calc ium. They
become fragi le a nd subj ect to break-
age. even with relati vel y minor falls.
OveralI body reflexes become
sluggish wit h age. The conduction
speed of nerve impulses slows. Brain
cell deteriora tion. constantly occur-
ring throughout life. reaches a more
critical point. Memory starts fading.
Increasing me mory loss for recent
events occ urs. Th e ability to acquire
new learning and cope with psycho-
logical stress decli nes.
As physical and psychological de-
terioration mo unts. the ability to
sha ke off and resist di sea se weakens.
At this point the way o f all flesh
draws nigh - death rears its ugly
head .
Cryonic suspension doesn' t alter
this death cycle. Those bod ies whic h
arc frozen are frozen a fter death.
Proper health care. including a
proper diet and the elimination of
di sease. ma y prolong life su b-
stantialIy. but it doesn't solve aging
and eve ntua l death.
Plastic surgery. skin stretching
an d the heavy use of cos metics a nd
ha ir dyes may give a more youthful
appearance for a time. but the inner
process o f aging and inevitable
death continues nonstop.
At this poin t. one mi gh t be in-
clined to forget trying 10 prolong life
or live forever in the flesh a nd begin
to ponder what happens aft er death
a nd whether or not there is a n after-
life. But contra ry to wha t the an-
cien ts thought and what many
today will be shocked to find out .
hope in havi ng a possible afterlife
th rough an immortal soul is j ust a
dream.
Afterl ife?
The religious source of belief of
mill ions - the Bible - sur ely ought
to be the most authoritative a nd re-
lia ble so urce on such a subject as an
afte rlife.
And. indeed. the Bible does speak
out on the subj ect. According to
Scripture, the dead don't hear an y-
thing, see a nything, t hink anything
or know anything. They have no
knowledge that they eve r existed.
They have no awareness of any
kind, per iod.
The dead are dead. Man doe s not
ha ve some kind of an immortal soul
that lives on after the body die s.
The Bible records the foll owing
fact: " For the living know that they
shall die : but the DEA D KN OW xor
ANY TI liNG. neither have they any
more a reward: for the memory of
them is forgotten . Also their love.
and their hatred, a nd their envy, is
now peri shed ..." (Ecclesiastes 9:5-
6).
Again. in talking a bOUI someo ne
wh o dies. the Bibl e says : " His
br eath goeth fort h. he returneth to
his ea rt h: in that very day HI S
THOUGH TS PERI SH" (Psa lm 146:4 ).
Th e Bible a bsolutely confirms
beyond the shadow of a doubt that
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Editor' s note: Be sure to read the
" Personal from the Editor " in thi s
issue. It explains wh at the scrip-
tures reveal about those resur-
rect ed to eterna l life as sons of
God .
cal plan is qu ite simple: All who
have ever lived. or ever will live. wi ll
be given a chance to change from a
life of disob eyi ng God to one of
obeyi ng him - thereby having the
opport unity to live for eternity.
Some, however, will reject tha t op-
portunity. Th ese ar e the ones who
will suffer an et ernal death by being
burned up in a lake of fire (Revela-
tion 20: 15).
God explai ns, however. that he
has no desire to impo se such a fatc
on anyone. He is "not
willing that any should
peri sh, bu t that all should
come to repenta nce" (1 1
Peter 3:9). But fort he self-
willed and rebellious -
those who rej ect his way
- God ha s no ot her
cho ice. The Bible teaches
tha t disobedience pro-
duces unha pp iness, and
God wi ll not a l low
people to exi st in a mis-
era ble sta te of min d for
a ll e te r n ity. He wi ll.
the refore , mercifully and
perma nently dest roy t he
wicked.
Hu manity has always
been and will con tinue to
be vita lly concern ed with
the possib ility of an af-
terl ife. The qu est ion is,
will it continue to reject
or will it accep t the only
source that provides a
hope for th e dead? Cer-
ta inly the attempts of
man. through science or
religious myths. offer no
satisfactory alterna tive.
Obedi ence to a Creator God? A
resurrection from the dead? These
que stions may seem farfetched to
some. but not to those who are seri-
ously putting their affairs in
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indeed de ad . The Script ures do, on
the other han d, state that dea th is
not the end. Everyone is going to
live agai n. Some, as the Bible men -
tions elsewhere, will live aga in for-
ever and some for just a very short
time. This concl usion is based on
the very words of Jesus, who was,
according to Scripture, himsel f res-
ur rected the thi rd day after being
crucified.
Contra ry to the elabor ate schemes
and myt hs of men regardi ng the
possibility of an afterlife, the bibl i-
dam nation ["judgment," margi nal
reading]" (Jo hn 5:28-29).
Jesus, the founder of the ear ly
ch urch - and the one whom Chris-
tianity acknowl edges as the very son
of God - says all, meaning that
everyone who has ever lived, is go-
ing to be resurrected - the good or
bad, atheist, heret ic, heathen or be-
liever. And so it's clear that the
Scri ptures do not support the ide a
of an immortal soul or afterlife as
ima gin ed by man, and the de ad are
A Hope for the Dead?
Jesus is quot ed in talki ng of a
resurrection: "Marvel not at this:
for the hour is coming, in the which
AL L that are in the graves shall hear
his voice, and sha ll come forth ; they
t hat have done good, unto the resu r-
rection of life: and th ey that have
done evil. unto the resurrection of
the dead are dead: " Whatsoever thy
hand findet h to do , do it with thy
might : for there is no work, nor de-
vice, nor knowledge . nor wisdom, in
the grave, whither thou goest" (Ec-
clesiastes 9: 10).
" For tha t which befa lleth the sons
of men befa llet h beasts; even one
thi ng befal leth them: as t he one
di eth, so dieth the other; yea, they
have all on e breath; so that a man
hath no preemi nence above a beast:
for all is va nity. All go unto one
place; all are of the du st,
andall {urn to dust again,.
(Ecclesiastes 3: 19-20).
As far as the immorta l
soul idea is concerned.
it' s a myth that origi-
na ted in ancien t Egyp-
ti an and lat er Greek
thought. and was chie fly
ma de po pular t hrough
t he phi losophy of Plat o.
It didn't come from th e
Bible.
Ju st as yo u can' t pin
your hopes of living for-
ever on technology, nei-
ther can you put your
hope on having an im-
morta l soul.
Rea lity is unden iable.
You ar e going to die.
And when you die, you
are dead . All th e billions
of dollars in the world
won' t alt er tha t fact. All
of man 's technol ogy an d
research can't change it.
But the same source
that shatters the immor-
tal soul myt h actua lly
says man ye t has hope in death .
That hope is spoken of throu ghout
the Bible as a resurrection of th e
dead.
18 PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
t Connnurd [rom page I)
chapter of the book of Hebrews a re:
" But now we see not yet all things
[the whole uni verse] put und er him
[man)."
That is for the future. In this con-
text the writer is speaking of things
in " the world to come" (verse 5).
The "world to come" will not be put
in subj ection to the angels. Thcn he
proceed s to reveal that the entire
universe will. then. be put in sub-
jection under man.
But the scriptural revelation is
tha t ma n will then be cha nged from
mortal to immortal - from tlesh and
blood material composition to spirit
composition - then immorta l.
Continue. now, in Hebrews 2.
We see not yet the uni verse put
under man, "But we see Jesus. who
was made a little lower than the
an gels for thc suff ering of death .
crowned with glory and honor ... .
For it became him. for whom are all
things tall the universe]. and by
whom are all things. in bringi ng
many sons unto glory [in a state of
immort alit y]. to make the cap tai n of
their salvation perfect through suf-
ferings. For both he that sa nctifieth
a nd they who are sanctified are all
of one: for which cause he is not
as hamed to call them brethren .....
(verses 9- 11).
Those who are to gain salvation -
eternal life in the Kingdom of God
- are called sons of God. even as
Christ is called the Son of God. He
is sai d to be " the firstborn among
many brethren" (Roma ns 8:29). He
is thus portrayed as the captain of
their salvation - the pioneer - who
has gone on ahead. by a resurrec-
tion from the dead. and now. as heir
of the universe. he sustains the entire
universe by the word ofhis power.
Wh a t a s t u pe n do us. mind-
expa nding. see mingly incredib le
heritage for man! Yet the scriptures
call those who hav e received the
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
Holy Spirit of God heirs. and joint-
heirs with Chri st (Romans 8: 16-17).
Now. more specifically. wha t is
the connection with the questions
rega rding the planets of outer space.
and whet her the y are inhabited?
This same 8th chapter of Romans
throws considerab le light on that
matt er. These particular verses are
not made clear by the King James
translation from the original Greek.
Th e word "creature" shou ld have
been translated "creat ion: ' The Re-
vised Standard translation clears it
up. as does the Moffatt .
Continuing right on from the
verse quot ed. in the RSV. showing
man. through salvation, the heir of
God. and ther efore of the un iverse:
"1 consider that the sufferings of
this present time are not worth com-
paring with the glory that is to be
revea led to us [in us. Authorized
Version] . For the creation [universe]
wai ts with eager longing for the re-
vealing of the sons of God : for the
crea tion was subj ected to futil ity.
not of its own will but by the will of
him who subjected it in hope : be-
cause the creati on itself will be set
free from its bond age to decay [as
planets now are - even as our
moon] and obtain the glorious lib-
erty of the children of God. We
know that the whole creation has
been groaning in travail toge ther
until now: and not only the cre-
ation. but we ourselves. who have
the first fruit s of the Spirit. groan
inwardly as we wait for adoption as
sons. the redemption of our bod ies."
This last sentence. more correc tly
tran slated by Moffat t: " . . .but even
we ourselves. who have the Spirit as
a foretaste of the future. even we
sigh dee ply to o ursel ves as we wait
for the redempt ion of the body that
mean s our full sonship" (verse 23).
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What is here revea led. or strongly
imp lied. is that the planets of the
entire universe are like our moon.
unable to sus tain li fe. virtua lly
waste and empty. subjected to futi-
lity as of now. in decay. but so sub-
jee red by God in hope. For . when
God's purpose in having put hu-
manity on t his ea rth is completed.
untold millions of humans shall
have become fully-born sons of the
living God - then composed of
spirit - then di vine as God is di vine
- born into the very famil y of God.
which. ruling the universe. will be
the Kingdom of God.
God. first of all. is Crea tor. Th ose
who receive that salvation will be-
come creato rs. Planets will be
turned into beautiful. productive
plan ets. sustaining life. New life will
be created.
Second to being Creator. God is
ruler. God sustains and preservcs
what he creates by his gove rnment.
God is the author of beauty. of
light. of peace. of happiness and joy.
The governme nt of God once
ruled this earth. There was peace.
beau ty. happiness. But rebell ious
angels rejected that government.
This truth leads into the very cause
of all the evils in this wor ld - and
the cause that wi ll produce . as
God's doin g - not man 's - wor ld
peace and everything glorious and
beauti ful.
God sent a glorious message to
mankind some 1900 yea rs ago by
his son Jesus Chr ist. Th at message
was the only true gospel of Christ. It
incl uded what I have written here -
and much more! It was rej ected.
and another and different false
"gospel" was put o ut to a deceived
wor ld. The true gospel was not pro-
claimed to the world after the first
century.
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19
Do we understand the major
concerns of the Soviet people
and their leaders today? Plain
Truth edit ors report s urprises
on a recent trip to the U.S.S.R.
Here is the s econd and con-
cluding part of their report .
Y
URt WAS on ly 16 years o ld.
but inte lli gent a nd e x-
tremely well-versed on in-
ternati onal affairs - from the Soviet
point or view, of course. Upon fin-
ishing his special educa tion co urses
in Moscow. he hoped someday to
enter his nat ion's diplomat ic
service .
We were introduced to each
other while attending a Rus-
sian wedding party in Lenin-
grad. For over an hour Yu ri
a nd I held a friendly and at
times animated di scussion of
the world polit ical scene. Th e
longer we conversed, however.
the more I wa s amazed to dis-
cove r how totall y dif fer ent
we re our perspect ives and fun-
dament al viewpoi nts. We were
bot h obviously the produ cts -
one is almos t tem pted to say
the victims - of our respective
ed ucat ional and communica-
tion systems .
Pat riots and Villains
Language itsel f was no real ba r-
rier. for Yuri had learned English
exce pt iona lly well in school. But
somehow, the words and termi nol-
ogy we used conveyed almos t en-
tirely d ifferent meanin gs one to the
other.
It was fairly ea sy for Yuri a nd me
to ag ree on the "big" issues - the
need for worl d peace. the desire for
increased understandin g and coop-
era tio n between the United Sl at es
a nd the Soviet Unio n. But ou r com-
mon concept ions broke down rather
rapid ly once we began to di scuss the
"det ai ls." For exa mple. I as ked
Yuri : " Wha t politi ca l leader in the
United St a tes do yo u d ist rust the
most?"
It was n't Rich ard M. Nixon , he
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
assured me. The former president
had. a t that time. j ust completed his
third s ummit conference with Soviet
Communist Par ty leader Leo nid I.
Brezhncv.
" We respect Nixon:' replied Yuri
with complete ass ura nce. " I think
we can trust him. But your Senato r
J ... a h. .. .' .
"J ackson?" I helped ou t.
"Yes. yes. Sena tor Hen ry Jack-
son:' retorted Yuri, shaking his
head vigorously. " We don't like him
a t all. He wa nts to bring our two
co untries back to the brink of the
Co ld Wa r."
" We ll. that' s who I thought you
would na me: ' I co unte red. " But. do
you real ize that most knowledgeable
Ameri ca ns wo uld likely view yo ur
De fens e M in is t e r . Mar sh a l
G rechko, in the sa me ligh t?" (Ma r-
shal Andrei A. Grechko has recently
been wa rning that "impe rialist" na-
tio ns are fueling the arms race,
" ma king mat eri al preparat ions for
wa r." )
"Oh, no !" exclaimed Yu ri in-
credulously. cupping his crestfa llen
head in his left hand, " not Marshal
Grechko. He's a pat riot!"
I was witness ing first ha nd the
ideological chasm that sti ll se pa rates
the two superpowers, even in this
age of detente. The hero. pa triot
and defender of the fai th on one
side is a utoma tica lly the villa in or
threat to the peace a nd security of
th e other.
All t he News Not
Fit to Print
Des pit e hi s personally unper-
cei ved ideological sc ree n. Yu ri
di spl ayed a rather remarka ble com-
prehension of ev ents and trends in
the Uni ted Sta tes. I asked him how
he was able to keep so up-to -da te
with news from America.
'" read the American press: ' he
responded qu ickly.
"Oh, which newspaper?" I asked.
"Yo ur newspaper from New York
City - the Daily Worker, " he a n-
swe red confide ntly. wit h a glint in
his eye that see med to ind icate
tha t he was sure he read the
sa me daily news sou rce I di d.
The Daily Worker, of course.
ca nnot be compared to the
New York Times or Daily News
by a ny stre tch of the imagina -
tion . It is a sma ll. int en sely po-
lemical j oorn al pub lished by
the Communist Party of t he
United Sta tes . Little known
a nd even less read withi n the
United States. it is nevertheless
freel y ava ilable in most lar ge
Soviet cities. along with other
exa mples of th e "Socia lis t"
press of cou ntries around the
wor ld. As a resul t. the Daily
Worker conveys to English-speaking
Soviets the impression that it speaks
for the maj ority of the American
"working class:' which it mos t em-
ph aticall y does not.
On ly in the large Int ou rist -run
hotels in the bigge st Soviet cities
does one stand a remot e chance of
find ing a tr uly represent ative Am er-
ican newspa per. There. the lady at
the hotel newsstan d j ust mi ght have
a recent copy of the International
Herald Tribune. an English lan-
guage newspaper publi shed in Paris.
But yo u' ll have to as k for it! She will
invari a bly have the "Trib" tucked
safely out of view on some nether
shelf - as if it were a form of politi-
ca l pornography.
'" Hate M ao "
Co ntinuing our co nversa tio n.
Yuri sincerely believed that de tent e
21
" SOCIA LIST REALISM " style 01
Soviet art depicting a victorious
Lenin, grac es a Leningrad building
during annual May Day celebrations .
This powerful portrait with a mes -
sage reflects officially approved ar-
tistic concepts which emphasize
and glorify Soviet social, economic
and political achievements. Ab -
stract art and sculpture is generally
frowned upon by authorities.
HIGH-WIRE ACT thrills an audio
ence at the famous Moscow Circus.
The Soviet government hea vily sub-
sidizes the performing arts . Top
performers are well paid and enjoy
certai n privileges.
with the United States was here to
stay. With three annual summit
conferences already written into the
history books. detente. to Yu ri' s way
of thinki ng. was on the \vay to be-
coming "ir reversible," a term Mr.
Brezh ne v has employed co nti n-
uou sly. But nett lesome China was a
di ffere nt story altogether.
His express ion change d wit h the
very thought of the men at the helm
in Peking. "I hate Mao!" he ex-
claimed. He repeat ed his d isgust
with doubl e em ph asis. War between
the Sovi et Union an d the People's
Repub lic o f C h i na m ig ht b e
un avoidable some day. he believed.
Yuri was not alon e in his prognosis.
The chief Russian guide ass igned to
our Na tional Press Club tour group
believed that war between her coun-
try and the United States \vas "un-
thinka ble:' but that conflict with
Chi na was probably inevitable.
In thi s light it is noteworthy to
ment ion th at s hort ly before bi s
forced exile. Soviet author Alexan-
de r Sol zhenitsyn d ispatched a dra-
mat ic 15.000-word open lett er to the
leaders of his country. Among ot her
things he wa rned tbe Kreml in lead-
ership again st the folly of entering
into an "ideo logical wa r" with
China - in order to try to prove
once an d for a ll which sta te is the
true standard-bearer of Marxist Le-
ninism. Such a war, warned So lzhe-
22
nitsyn, coul d cost the Soviet Union .
60 million dead - three ti mes the
horrendou s to ll of t he Second
World Wa r! "After this war:' he
sa id. "t he Russian peop le will vir-
tuall y cease lO exist on this planet."
Nevertheless, based upon my ad-
rniuedly limited "poll tak ing." the
Soviet people seem to be almost re-
signed to an inevitable showdown
between the two Communist giants
- but ho pefully not in their day.
Detente - W hys and
Wherefores
Yu ri ' s fee lings are but a personal
reflect ion of his natio n's welt-
anschauung. or world perspective. In
actualit y. fear and s us pic io n of
China co nstitutes one of the three
maj or planks of the policy of de-
tente as pursu ed by the leaders of
the Soviet Union.
Closely linked with the China-fix-
ation arc \\\:0 other factors - the
Soviet demand for stabilizing once
and for all her "Western front" in
Europe. and the need to gain
greater access to Western. especially
American. techn ology in order to
modernize and expand Russia's in-
dustrial sys tem.
Why detente is was
graphicall y illustrated in a remark-
able disclosure earlier this year. In a
speech deli vered on a visit to Soviet
Cent ral Asia. Mr. Brezh nev re-
vea led pl an s for a gigantic rnu lubi l-.
lion ruble scheme to reclai m and
de velop millions of acres of new
land in the central and northern re-
gions of the vast Russian federa tion.
largest of the U.S.S. R.'s 15 repub-
lics. The area invo lved in the new
"virgin lands" master plan would
encompass as much land as the en-
tire American Midwest!
Concurrently. Sov iet authorities
have called for an equa lly awesome
undertaki ng - a crash program to
construct a new 2.000m ilc tr un k-
line railroad from Lake Baikal east
to the Amur Rive r ncar the ,Soviet
Uni on's Pacific Coast.
The new "BAM" (for Baikal-
Amur Mainline ) will be bui lt a t
great expense through some of the
world's most difficult terrain - over
gorges . through thi ck tai ga fore sts
a nd across soggy marshlands. It
should prove to be of great eco-
nomic importance in opening up the
vast mineral wealth of Siberia. And
of equal polit ica l impac . the
line \v-i l l be much more mil-
ita rily defensible than the eastern
portion of the Trans-Siberian rail-
road it is intended to bypass. For
more than ha lf its length. the Tran s-
Siberian is almos t within guns hot of
t he Ch inese border.
For the Soviets to devote thei r
attention to mammoth undertakings
in the east. it is essential for them to
feci secure on their Western bor -
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
WA TER- VENDING machines abound inside So viet cities . For one kopeck
( 1.3 cents). a machine dispenses a portion of clear, effervescent water;
for 3 kopecks a customer can have a citrus- fla vored version the Russians
call1imonad . Paper cups are not used in the res ource -conservative country.
A clear drinking glass is available at each machine. After each use, the
customer rinses the glass upside-down ove r a tiny spigot. We sterners
might consider s uch a practice "uns anitary," But one thing is for certain
- the Soviet Union is not being buried under a mountain of was te pap er
and other solid trash.
der. It was from European soil that
the great Nazi scourge was un-
leashed upon the Soviet heartl and.
Thi s is the reason why Moscow is
pushing so hard to achieve its objec-
tives at the on-again. off-again Eu-
ropean Seeur ity Conferen ce (ESC).
Number one goa l of the Soviet
negotia tors at the ESC is for all Eu-
ropean states to unconditionally rec-
og niz e the " i nvio la bi li ty o f
European borders"; to at last give a
stamp of official approva l to the So-
viet Union's "buffer zone" acquisi-
tions in Eastern Europe at the
conclusion of Wor ld War II.
Th e terms "European secur ity"
and "inviolability of European bor -
der s" crop up repeatedly in official
Soviet literature. At the airport in
Kiev, I picked up a pamphlet trans-
lated into Englisb ent itled European
Securityand Peking 's i ntrigues. In it
the author Ilai led away at China's
"belligere nce and intractabi lity: '
Th e Chinese, according to the book-
let. are trying to undermine detente
in Europe. accusing Moscow of
merely seeking the confirmation of
the status quo there in order to con-
ce ntrate larger mi li tary forces
against China.
The Technology Ga p
Caution in the East. securi ty m
the West - these comprise an inter-
twined two thirds of the Soviet
Un ion's basic world postur e. But the
third factor - the need lor Western
trade and technology - may be as
critical as the first two combined.
During the decade of the I960s.
the Soviet Union slipped further
a nd further behind the rapidly ex-
panding economi es of the capitalist
worl d. The situation became so criti-
cal that by the winter of 1968-69. a
crash research project was commis-
sioned by the Central Committee of
the Communist Part y of the Soviet
Union to open-mi ndedly assess the
deteriorating situation.
The reports indicated that the So-
viet economy had become grossly
inefficient - its productivity was
low, its quali ty of manuf actures
23
poor and its management tech-
niques se riously behind the times.
Even more important. the gap be-
tween Soviet industry a nd that of
the West was widening most seri-
ously in the highl y sophistica ted
fields. such as computer lechnol ogy.
The recommendation of the ex-
amin ing experts was that the Soviet
Union must turn to the Western
world for tech nology. manageria l
skills and vas t cre dits.
The poli cy wa s no t acce pted
wholeheartedly at first by so-called
" hardliners" within the Soviet hier-
archy. They had to be convi nced of
the need to at least temporarily
so fte n th eir ideo logic al s tance
agai nst the West for the good of the
Sovi et economy.
Also. the military establishment
was promised that a policy of de-
tente wou ld not reduce the nati on's
military pos ture.
With all sides ba sicall y sa tisfied.
major accords and treati es were
reached with West Germany and
France in 1970 a nd 1971. Then in
May 1972. the first of three summit
talks between Mr. Nixon and Secre-
tary Brezhnev was held. Detente
had ta ken root.
Thai the- Sov iet leadership still
places great stress upon its new
relationship with the West is ex-
emplified by an apparent willing-
ness on Moscow's part to permit
expa nded emi gr a tion of Soviet Jews
in expected return for trade and tar-
iff benefits from th e United States
equal to those Washington grants to
other nations.
24
Detente Doesn't Mean
Peace
Det en te is not a one-way street. of
course. Former President Nixon.
alon g wit h Dr. Henry Kissinger.
have sought a more cordia l relation-
ship with the Soviet s pr imarily in a n
attempt to slow down the arms race
and stabilize the nucl ear balance.
Nevertheless. despi te certain mu-
tual needs and desires. detente has
primarily heen a Soviet initiative.
II' s extremely importan t 10 them.
Their news media conti nually moni-
tors the American political scene.
ferreting out those political and eco-
nomic leaders judged 10 be "ene-
mies of detente." The downfall of
Mr. Nixon. for example. was ex-
plained as ha ving been engineered
by those who disapproved of his
positive position on detente.
The Sovi et press al so issues
periodic warnings to its readership
thai it sho uld be wary aga inst ab-
sorbing unwanted Western ideas
an d cultural va lues along wi th
Western goods and industrial tech-
niq ues. Pepsi-Cola is now prod uced
under license in the Soviet Union.
for exa mple. But Sov iet authorities.
I'm sure. wo uld not be happy 10 see
a "Pepsi generation" emerge on
their so il.
In sum. detente is not necessarily
synonymous with "peace" or "har-
mon y" o r "in ternationa l broth-
erhood." It is more a matter of
exped ience for the sa ke of Soviet
economic and security matters. De-
rente is common ly defi ned as a
"lesseni ng of tensions or hostility
between nation s: ' But the term is
far more me aningful when one
looks into its actual deri vation . De-
tente is a French word and origi-
nall y referred to the lemporary
release of the drawn a nd poised
string on a crossbow. The weapon
ha s been lowered 10 the bowman's
side - but its holder is still armed
and ready to fight at a moment's
. not ice. What better descr ibes t he
nuclear sta ndoff between the Un ited
States and the Sov iet Union today?
No Lessening of
Ideological Struggle
The unfortunate antagonism be-
tween the two gre at spheres of
communism and "imperialist capi-
talism" remains as fundamental as
ever.
As a leading political a nalyst in
Europe puts it: " Detente is the task
of continuing the ideological dispute
between democracy and Commu-
nism without the danger of war."
Th e So viets t he mse lves st i ll
openly profess the ultimate victory
of Communism. They believe that
the tid e of hist ory is on their side.
that the "sociali st working class"
will ye t prevail to become the
"grave-di gger of capitali sm." The
current economic sickness afflicting
the major ca pitalistic powers has
g iven puri s t Co mmunist theo-
reticians even more reason to be-
lieve that their cause is right.
A little over a year ago. an edito-
rial in Krusnayu Zvezda, the news-
paper of t he Sov iet armed forces.
said bluntly: "Class peace between
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
TOLERATED CAPITALISM : Women
shoppers, left, in a Moscow "'ree
market " examine produce which is
generally unavailable in s tate -run
gastronoms, or food stores. Some
of the sellers come from as far
away as the s unny Caucasus region,
hundreds of miles to the south. They
are able to /ly to Moscow, sell their
fruits, vegetables or flowers at un-
regulated price s over a three - or
lour-day period - then /ly home
with a profit.
LITTLE M I SS in Kiev clutches gill
of American chewing gum. Older
Soviet children make a business of
exchanging snachky, or trinkets, to
foreigners for the " forbidden fruit, ..
otherwise unobtainable in the
U.S.S.R. where authorities frown
on gum-che wing as a base habit.
The "gum traffic " flourishes under-
ground nevertheless . Sellers "cut "
the gum into smaller pieces for
resale. As one American phrased
it, "There are t wo currencies in
the Soviet Union. Both are 'soft'
but only one is freely convertible.
The lirst is the rubl e . The second
is chewing gum. "
socialism and capitalism and peace-
ful coexistence between the Com-
munis t and bourgeois ideologies
ha ve not exi sted and do not a nd
cannot exi st:'
The editorial appeared right on
t he heels of Summit Two. whic h
supposed ly sent the mach inery of
det ente on to an "irreversi ble"
course.
In testimony before a Senate For-
eign Relations subcommittee. fore-
most expert on Communist affairs,
Zbigniew Brezezinski. defined the
mean ing of detente perhaps more
cle arl y than a nyone ha s so far: "The
Sov iet view of detente - exp licitly
an d openly articulated by Soviet
leader s - is that of a limi tcd and
expedient arrangement, which in no
way terminates the ideological con-
flict even as it yields tangible eco-
nomic benefits. On the contrary. it
has been emphasized over and over
again that 'peaceful coexistence' is a
form of class struggle a nd tha t ideo-
logi ca l hostility. however. is not to
stand in the way of economic coop-
eration."
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One must conseque ntly ask the
same question that entered the
mind of one of the a ncien t prophets
of Israel : "Can two wal k togeth er.
except they he agr eed ?" (Amos 3:3,)
Who Has th e Key t o Peace?
How in thi s strife-ridden world of
ours can hopelessly divided man -
kind ever find the road to peace?
Wi ll "peace" result from the ult i-
mat e victory of one highly imperfect
human phi losophy over another.
wi th the millions of those hold ing
opposi te points of view "converted"
against their wi lls?
True peace and harmony will
never result from individual men
and nations each st ubborn ly clu tch-
ing to cherished man-made "isms"
and ideologies.
Whilc on our tri p to the Soviet
Unio n. De xt er Faulkner and I
picked up a copy of a rece nt speech
of Mr. Brezhn ev. In the 47-page
transcript. translated into English.
the Soviet leader used the words
" peace" and " peaceful" 155 times.
Yet where is the peace of which
he speaks? And Brezhn ev is by no
means the only world leader profes-
sing peaceful intentions in official
speeches a nd lengtby documents.
The plai n fact is that not one sys-
tem eve r devised by the thoughts of
ma n has eve r brought fort h the
good fruits of lasting peace. All con-
tain the seeds of their self-des tr uc-
tion , History is really not on the
side of any humanly concei ved
system of governmen t. And tha t
includes democracy in all of its
myriad forms as well as at he-
istic Marxist Leninism. which
has also fragmented int o its
several exclusivist varieties.
In our trip to the Soviet Union, I
not iced how easy it was for the 80
Americans in our tour group to spot
the weaknesses and deficiencies in
the Soviet syst em. And yet. I won-
der. how many were fully aware of
the many shortcomings of their own
political and ec onomic sys tem.
Some of the most incisive and objec-
tive reporting on the failures within
ou r highl y tout ed "American way of
l i fe" have come from visiting Sovie t
journalist s who have bemoaned
America's shocking crime picture.
its pollution a nd the greedy misuse
of our natural resources in an econ-
omy increasingly gea red to over-
consumption and wastefulness.
Only On e Way to Peace
The time is not far away now
whe n all nat ions great and small -
a nd God says tha t all nations of this
world are bu t a "drop in the bucket"
to him - will be forced to look in a
direction they have never sought in
order to find the way - the only
way - to peace. happiness and eter-
nal life for all.
As certain as the rising of tomor-
row's sun. the scene desc ribed in the
second chapter of Isaiah in yo ur
Bibl e will surely take place : " It shall
come to pass in the latter days tha t
the moun tain of the house of the
Lord sha ll be established as the
highest of the mount ains . . . and all
the nations shall flow to it. and
many peoples sha ll come. a nd say:
'Corne, let us go up to the mount ain
of th e Lord. to the house of the God
of Jacob: that he may teach us his
ways and that we may walk in his
pa ths: . . . He shall judge between
the na tions. an d sha ll deci de for
ma ny peoples ; a nd they shall beat
their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruning hooks: na-
tion shall not lift up sword against
nati on . ne ither sha ll they learn war
a ny more" (Isaiah 2:2-4. RSV).
What a contrast with the ,v'orld
today! 0
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T
ill: CHURCHES in Britain have
steadi ly and inexorably lost
their intlue nce 0 11 the lives of
the majority of the people. A recen t
poll carri ed out by the Opini on Re-
search Centre fou nd that onl y 29
pe rcent o f all Britons now believe in
a personal God. 42 percent never go
to church. and another I I percent
go less than once a year.
Thi s loss of religious influence is
no less tr ue of th e Chu rch of
England - the Angli can Church -
than it is of the other ch urches.
In suc cess io n to Dr. Michael
Ramsey. Dr. Don ald Coggan has as-
cended the throne of Augustine to
become the 10 Ist Archb ishop of
Ca nterbury a nd Pr imat e of All
England. Many are looking to him
to breath e new life into the Church
of England.
Declining Fortunes
Between 1960 and 1970 regular
church att end ance in the Church of
England decli ned by 19 percent. In
1963.632 men were orda ined to the
ministry. Ten years later ordi nations
had dropped to 373. Fort y percent
of the clergy are aged 55 or over.
and it is estima ted that 6.000 will
have ret ired by 1980. to be replaced
by only about 3.000.
Similar dismal figures could be
given for most denom inations in
Britain and We stern Europe gene r-
ally. In a Gallup poll published in
1973. 70 percent of t he British pub-
lic thought that reli gion was losing
its influence in British life .
In light of these sta tistics. many
are asking wha t has gone wrong . Dr.
Mervyn S to ck wo od. Anglican
bishop of Southwa rk. sai d in an ar-
ticle in the Times recentl y: 'Today
churchme n sho uld be concerned
wit h the survival of the Christian
fai th as a phil osop hy. a reli gion and
a way of life. "
" I t is sig nifica nt:' he conti nue d.
"that dur ing the deca de in which
the re has been an alarming decline
in Ch urch attendance and or dina-
tion candi da tes. th e Chu rc h of
England has spent more time and
money than it has ever done pre-
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
viously upon const itut ional reform.
ca non la w re v isi on. liturgi cal
changes and inter-Church relat ion-
ships."
Refe rring to the mal a ise into
which religion in Britain has fal len,
he comme nted: "T here has been a
shift of co nsciousness. a shift from a
society which felt itself depende nt
upon God to a society which be-
lie ves it can shape its own future.
Life is no longer nasty. bru tish and
short as it was unt il comparati vel y
recently and man with so many
more years at hi s di sposal believes
he can create the co nditions which
wi ll meet his needs. Of cou rse. there
arc st ill gaps to be filled but he no
longer loo ks to God to fill them..'
How has th is malai se come
about?
Religion a Thing of
the Past?
There is a very common assump-
tion among stude nts of religi on that
modern man can get along perfectly
well without an y reli gious creed to
gove rn his life. Professor Peter Ber-
ge r says in his book Rumour of An-
gels : "What ever the situation may
have been in the past. today the
supernatural as a meani ngful reality
is absent or remote from the hori-
zons of everyday life of large num-
be rs. very probabl y of the majority.
of peopl e in modern soc ieties. who
seem to manage to ge t along wit h-
out it quite wel l.'
It is against this background of
almos t total secularization that the
decli ne in the impact of religion in
Britain and the Western world as a
whole must be exa mi ned . In con -
tradict ion to the views ex pressed
above. there is no reason to believe
that the supe rna tu ral need be an y
more absent or remote from the
hori zons of everyday life of most
people today than it was six thou -
sand years ago. If there is so me thing
at fau lt. it is in the religi on .
Are the Churches on Th eir
Last legs?
In his book. "The Church i ll all
Age of Revolution," Alec Vidle r
comment ed o n the decade after
1960: "AII in all. while the Chu rches
have survived and their future is
st ill open. it can hardly be sai d that
they have revived in such a way as
to offer an assurance to the dis-
passionate observer that they will
not become mere surviva ls in a
world that will have no further use
for them . . . .
"Christopher Dawson once ob-
served that ' men today are divided
between those who have kep t their
spiritual roots and lost their contact
with the exist ing orde r of society.
and those wh o have preserved thei r
social contacts and lost thei r spiri-
tua l roots.' To survey the history of
the Church si nce the Fr ench Revo-
lut ion is to be made awa re of this
schism in the souls of mod ern man
and in the sou ls of many Christian
men. It does not enable one to say
wit h confide nce whet her or not the
schism ca n be healed."
Twenty-rive million people in
Britain are members of the Church
of England. Millions more claim
membersh ip in ot her c hurches .
whether Prot estant or Ca tholic. But
the vas t majority have chosen to
preserve "t heir social con tacts and
have lost thei r spiritual roots." They
find the Chu rch has very lilli e to
olfer them.
For those laymen who still at tend
church regularly. the re is a growing
and dangerous gulf between the ex-
perts in the universities and the
clergy on the one han d and the or di-
nary layman on the ot her.
Theol ogy in the universi ties is be-
co ming more and more remote from
the inte rests and co nce rns of the
man on the street. Small wonder.
then. th at so man y feci the churches
and religion ha ve lillie if anythi ng
to off er them .
Can Britain Claim to Be
Christian?
With declining at tendance figures
and fewer traini ng for the mi nistry .
it is obvi ou s that the chu rches are in
trouble.
Recently. Mr. Harry Morton , a
former president of the Methodi st
27
Conference and present ly genera l
secretary of the British Cou ncil of
Churches. gave a grave indictment
of the churches in Britain. The Brit-
ish chu rches were. he claimed. "ill-
equi pped to help the nation to un-
derstand its present crises and to re-
spond to them with faith an d hope."
Donald Cogga n. the new Arch-
bishop of Canterbury. is well aware
of the probl ems facing the churches
in Britain . parti cularl y the Anglican
Church. He has declared that Brit-
ai n will have a healthy society only
when "it starts living by some rules
again. and there' s a lot to be sai d for
the Ten Commandments."
But will Britain start "living by
some rules again" - in particular.
biblical rules?
With the rise of modern cri tical
biblical schol arship and the accep-
tance by theologians of the Dar wi-
n ian theory o f e vo lution. t hi s
observance of Chr ist ian standards
steadily disappear ed. By the 1920's
the erosion of religious belief had
become almos t complete.
Notice the words of eminent his-
tori an A. J. P. Tay lor: " Religious
faith was losing its strength [in the
I920s]. Not only did churchgoing
universally decline. The dog mas of
revealed religion - the Incarnation
and the Resurrection - were fully
acce pted only by a small minority.
Our Lord Jesus Chris t became. even
for many avowed Christians. merely
the supreme exa mp le of a good
man.
"This was as grea t a hap pening as
any in English history since the con-
version of th e An gl o-S axons to
Christianity."
Taylo r goes o n to say th at
"England remained Ch ristian in
morality. though not in fa ith"
(English Hist ory 1914-1945. pp. 222-
223). It was only later. after the Sec-
ond World War. that the great de-
cline in morality took place in
Britain. reaching its nadir in the 60' s
and 70s.
What Has Gon e Wr ong ?
If we exam ine the life and teach-
ing of Christ as set forth in the gos-
28
DR. MICHAEL RAMSEY
Former Archbishop of Canterbury
pels. the powerful and convictive
preaching of the apost le Paul. and
the simple. coherent faith of the
ea rly Chr istian church. it becomes
only too appa rent how much the
churches have departed from the
fai th "which was once for all deli v-
er ed to the saints" (J ude 3. RSY).
First. let us examine the Bible
de finition of a Christia n. This is fun-
da mental to any further discussion.
The apos tle Paul said: "If a ma n
does not possess the Spi rit of Christ.
he is no Christian" ( Romans 8:9.
EB). But wha t does it mean to
have the spirit of Chri st?
Notice Galatia ns 5:22-23: "The
ha rvest of the Spirit is love. joy.
peace. patience. kindness. good ness.
fidelity. gentleness. and self-cont rol"
(NEB). If a man has these fruits he
can be absolutely sure that he is a
Christian.
The apost le John said: " Here is
tbe test by which we can make sur e
that we know him: do we keep bis
commands? The man who says. "I
know him: while he disobeys his
commands. is a liar and a stranger
to the truth: but in the ma n who is
obedient to his word. the divine love
has indeed come to its perfection.
Here is the test by which we can
make sure that we are in him: who-
ever clai ms to be dwelling in him.
binds himself to live as Christ him-
self lived" (I John 2:3-6. NEB). How
clear ! A Christia n is one who fol-
lows the footsteps and example of
Jesus Ch rist.
Compare these scriptures with the
conduct of most professing Chris-
tian s a nd churches. and see for
you rself how they measure up. Ex-
amine your own life in the light of
what the New Testament says a true
Christian is.
Wh at Did the Early
Church Preach?
Next. let us look at the true na-
ture of the ea rly Christian procla-
mation. .
Jesus Christ started his mini stry
in Galilee afte r John the Bapti st had
been imprisoned. His message was
about the coming Kingdom of God
- God's supernatural intervention
to establish his rule and government
on the ea rth. He sent his disciples
out to preach the same message.
The apostle Paul preached this
very same message o r Jesus Christ.
Not ice what he preached to the Jews
at Rome : "And when they had ap-
po inte d him a day. th er e cam e
many to him into his lodging: to
who m he expounded and testi fied
the kingdom of God. persua ding
them concerning Jesus. both out of
the law of Moses. and out of the
prophets. from morning till eve-
ning. . . . And Paul dwelt two whole
years in his own hired house. and
received all that came in unto him.
preaching the kingdom of God. and
teaching those things which concern
the Lord Jesus Chr ist. with all con-
fidence. no man forbidd ing him"
(Acts 28:23-31).
The clergy today is not teaching
a bo ut t he coming world-ruling
Kingdom of God. as Chr ist. the
apos tles and the ea rly church did.
Churches ei ther don't understand or
are simply ashamed to preach the
gospel Christ and Paul preached.
The gospel as preached by Christ
and Paul had real power. But that
power is totally lacking in the estab-
lished denominati ons today. And
unless they really can be seen to be
following in the foot steps of Christ .
preac hing his gospel and directed
by his spirit. they can in no real
sense be regarded as Christian. 0
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SPO KANE - KHQ-AM & FM, 590 kc..
7:30 p. m. Mon.-Fri.. 7:30 p.m. Su n.
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THE GARNER TED ARMSTRONG TELECAST
VlEEKLY TV LOG
PLEASE NOTE '
Pacific Time
CFTK. 590 kc.. 7:30 p.m. Sun.
<:J VI, 900 kc.. 10:30 p.m.
CHARLESTON - Channel 2, WCRD-TV.
12:30 p.m. Sun.
COLUMBIA - Channel 25. WOLO-TV.
11: 15 p.m. Sun.
COLUMBIA - Channel 19. WNOK T\'.
5:30 p.m. Sat.
GAINSVI LLE - Channel 20 . \VCJRTV.
4:30 p.m. Sun.
GREENVI LLE - Channel 9. WNCT-TV.
10:30 p.m. Sun.
I NDIANAPOLI S - Chann el 4 . wr-rv.
TV. 12:30 p.m. Sat.
Many of th e times l i st ed above
fait in heavy sports programming
ti me sl ot s: therefore they will be
sub ject t o occasio na l pree mptions
by th ese spo r t s events. W e sug-
ges t that you check your loca l
TV guide or new spaper f or po ssi-
bl e ti me or da y changes .
WHI TEHORSE - CKRW, 610 kc.. 7:30
p. m. da ily.
GRAND FORKS - CKGF. /340 kc.. 9:30
p.m. Ja i l)".
KAMLOOPS - CFJC. 910 kc.. 10:30 p.m.
dail).,
KI TI MAT - CKTK. 1230 kc.. 7:30 p.m.
Sun.
NANAIMO/PARKESVI LLE - CHUB,
1570 kc.. 1370 kc.. CHPQ. 10: 10 p.m.
daily.
OSOYOOS - CKOO. 1240 kc.. 9:30 p.m.
daily.
PENTI CTON CKOK. 800 kc.. CK OK
FM. 97. 1 me.. 9: 30 p.m . dai ly.
PRI NCE GEORGE - CKPG. 550 kc.. 8:30
p.m. Mon-Fri.. 7:00 a.m. Sun.
PRI NCE RUPERT - CHT K. 560 kc.. 7:30
p.m. Sun.
REVELSTOKE - CKCR. 1340 kc.. 8:30
p.m. daily.
SALMON ARM - CKXR. 580 kc.. 8:30
p.m. dail y.
SUMMERLAND - CKSP. 1450 kc.. 9:30
p.m. dai ly.
TERRACE
VICTORIA
SUIl .-Fri.
RED DEER - CKRD. 850 ke .. 6:30 p.m.
daily.
Central Time
U.S. STATIONS
Eastern Time
AKRON - Channel 23. WAK R-TV. 5:30
p.m. Sun .
ALBANY - Channel 10, 2:30
p.m. Sal.
ATLANTA - Channel 11. WXIA-TV. 12
noo n Sun.
BUFFALO - Channel 2. WGR-TV. 10:30
a. m. Su n.
DAUPHI N - CKDM. 730 kc.. 6:30 p.m.
Jai l)".
DRYDEN - CKDR. 900 kc.. 7:30 p.m .
Mon- Fri .. 10:30 p.m. Sun.
KENORA - CJ RL. 1220 kc.. 7:30 p.m.
Mon.- Fr i.. 10:30 p.m. Sun.
PORTAGE LA PRAIRI E - CFRY, 920 kc..
6:30 p.m. daily.
PRINCE ALBERT - CKBI . 'XX> kc.. 7: 30
p.m. \Ion.-F ri.. 8:00 p.m. s,., 2:00 p.m.
Sun.
REGINA - CKRM. 980 kc.. 8:30 p.m.
daily.
SASKATOON - CFQC. 600 kc.. 8:30 p.m.
daily.
SWI FT CURRENT - CKSW. 1400 kc..
6:30 p.m. dail y.
YORKTON - CJ GX. 940 kc.. 6:30 p.m.
daily.
Mountain Time
SMI TH FALLS - CJET. 630 kc.. 7 p.m.
Mon.-Sat.. 10:30 a.m. Sun.. g:30 p.m.
Fr i.
STE. AGATHA (French) - CJSA. 1230
kc.. 6:30 p.m. Me n.. Wed.. Fri.
THUNDER BAY - CKPR. 580 kc.. 9:30
p.m. Sun.
THUNDER BAY - CKPR-FM. 94.3 mc..
8:30 p.m. da ily.
TI M MI NS - CKGB. 680 kc.. 9:30 p.m.
Mor t-Sut., 9:00 p.m. Su n.
CALGARY - CFCN. 1060 kc.. 10: 15 p.m.
Sun-Fri .. 8:30 p.m. Sat.
CAMROSE - CFCW, 790 kc.. 8:30 p.m.
Mon-Sar.. 2:30 p.m. Sun.
DAWSON CREEK - CJ DC. 1350 kc.. 8:00
p.m. da ily.
LLOYDMINSTER - CKSA. 1080 kc.. 6:30
p.m. daily.
PEACE RIVER - CKYL. 610 kc.. 6:00
a.m. vton.-Sat., 7:30 p.m. Sun .
Eastern Time
BLIN D RIVER - CJNR, 730 kc.. 6:30 p.m.
dail y.
BRANTFORD - CKPC. 1380 kc.. 6:30
p.m. daily.
CORNWALL - CJSS. 1220 kc. . 10:30
p.m. daily.
ELLI OTT LAKE - CKNR, 1340 kc.. 6:30
p.m. daily .
FT. FRANCES - CFOB. 800 kc.. 7:30 p. m.
Mon-Fri .. 10:30 p.m. Sun.
KINGSTON - CKWS. 960 kc.. 10:30 p.m.
Mon.- Fri.. II : 10 p.m. Sal.. 10:05 p.m .
Sun.
KI RKLAND LAKE - CJ KL. 560 kc.. 9:00
p.m. da ily.
LEAMINGTON - CHYR. 710 kc.. 5:30
a.m. & 6:30 p.m. dai ly.
LINDSAY - CKLY, 910 kc.. 8: 45 p.m.
Mon.-Fr i.
MONTREAL - CFM B. 1410 kc.. 6:30 a.m.
Mon-Sar.. I:30 p.m. Sun.
M ONTREAL (French) - CFMB, 14 10 kc..
5 p.m. Sat. & Sun.
MONTREAL - CFOX. 1470 kc.. C'FG \1.
980 kc.. 11:00 p.m. Mor r-Sat .. 9:30 p. m.
Sun.
NEW Ll SKEARD - CJTI. 1230 kc.. 9:00
p.m. dail y.
NORTH BAY - CFCH, 600 kc. 9:00 p.m.
daily.
OTTAWA - CKOY. 1310 kc.. 5:30 a.m.
Men-Sat.
PEM BROKE - CHOV, 1350 kc .. 8:00 p.m.
daily.
PETERSBOROUGH - CHEX. 980 kc..
10:30 p.m. Mon-Sat.
SAULT STE. MARI E - CKCY. 920 kc..
6:30 p.m. dai ly.
SHERBROOKE - CKTS. 900 kc.. 9:30
p.m. Mon-Fri .. 10: 30 a.m. Sun.
CANADA RADIO STATIONS
Atlantic Time
BAIE-VERTE - CKIM. 1240 kc.. 6;00 p.m.
dai ly.
CAMBELLTON - CKNB. 950 kc.. 9:30
p.m. Mon.cSat.. 10:00 p.m. Su n.
FRE DERICTO N - CFNB. 550 kc.. 10:05
p.m. dai ly.
GANDER - CKGA, 730 kc.. 6:00 p.m.
daily.
GRAND FALLS - CKC M, 620 kc.. 6:00
p.m. Jail y.
HALIFAX - CJCH, 920 kc.. 10:25 p. m.
Mon .-Sal.. 10:00 p.m. Sun.
MARYSTOWN - CHCM. ,:i 60 kc.. 6:00
p.rn. daily.
MONCTON - CKCW. 1220 kc.. 9:30 p.m.
Mon-Sat.. 7:30 p.m. Sun.
NEWCASTLE - CFAN. 790 kc.. 9:30 p.m.
dailv.
SAINT JOHN - CFBC. 930 kc.. 8:30 p.m.
dail y.
SAINT JOHN - VOCM. 590 kc.. 6:00 p.m.
dail y.
SYDNEY - CJCB. 1270 kc.. 6: 00 p.m.
da ily.
YARM OUTH - CJLS. 1340 kc.. 7:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. Sun.
30 PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
J OHNSON CITY - Cha nnel 11, WJHL
TV. 10:30 p.m. Sun.
LANSI NG - Cha nnel 10 . W I LX-TV.
10:00 a.m. Sun.
NEW YORK - Cha nnel 9, WOR-TV.
10:00 p.m. Sun.
PHILADELPHIA - Channel 17, WPHL-
TV. 11:00 p.m. Sun.
PLATTSBURG - Channel 5 , WPTZ-TV.
5:30 p.m. Sat.
PORTLAND - Channel 8 . WMTW-TV.
II :30 a.m. Sun.
PORTSMOUTH - Channel 10, WAVY-
TV. 1:00 p.m. Sun.
PROVIDENCE - Channel 12, WPRI TV.
2:30 p.m. Sal.
SOUTH BEND - Channel 2 2, WSB T-TV.
4:00 p.m. Sat.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Cha nne l 7 ,
12:30 p.m. Sun.
WILKESBARRE - Channel 28, WB RE-
TV. 12 noo n Sun.
Central Time
ABILENE Channel 12 , KT XS TV. 5:30
p.m. Sun.
ALEXANDRIA - Cha nnel 5, KALB-TV.
9:30 a.m. Sun.
AMARILLO - Cha nnel 10. K FOATV.
2:00 p.m. Sal.
AUSTIN - Cha nnel 7, KTBC-T V. 11:00
u.m. S UIl .
BATON ROU GE - Channel 2, WBRZ-
TV. 10a.m. Sun.
BEAUMONT - Chann el 12. KBMT TV.
2 p.m. Sun.
CHICAGO - Channel 3 2. WFLO-TV.
II :30 p.m. Sun.
CORPUS CHRI STI - Channel 3, KIII-
T V. 2:00 p.m. Sun.
DALLASFT. WORTH - Channel 11 ,
KT VT-T V. 11 :00 p.m. Sun.
DOTHAN - Ch ann el 18. WOHNTV.
6:30 p. m. Sat.
EL PASO - Cha nnel 13 . KELP-TV. 1:00
p.m. Sal.
FARGO - Channel 4 . K XJBTV. 11:30
p.m. Sal .
FLINT - Channel 12. WJRT-TV. 10 a.m.
Sun.
GREAT BEND - Channel 2 , K CKTTV.
11:00 a.m. Sun.
HATTIESBURG - Channel 7, WOAM-
T V. 12:30 p.m. Sal.
HOUSTON - Channel 39. KHTV-TV. 2
p.m. Sun .
HUNTSVI LLE - Channel 4 8 , WMSL-TV.
6:30 p.m. Sun.
KANSAS CITY - Channel 4 , WDAF-TV.
12:30 p.m. Sal.
LUBBOCK - Channel 11 . K CBO-TV. 12
noo n Sal.
M CCOOK - Channel 8 . KOMC-TV.
11:00 a.m. Sun.
MERIDAN - Channel 11 , WTOK TV. 10
a. m. Sun .
MIDLAND - Channel 2 , KMI O-TV. 12
noon SaL
M INNEAPOLI S - Channel l 1, WTCN-
T V. 5:30 a.m. T ues.
MONROE - Channel 10, KT VE-T V.
5:30 p.m. Sun.
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
MONTGOM ERY - Channel 32, WK AB -
r v . 5 p.m. Sun.
NASHVILLE - Channel 2, WNGE-TV.
6:00 p.m. Sat.
NEW ORLEANS - Channel 4 , WWL-TV.
11:00 a.m. Sun.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Channel 5 , KOCO-
TV. 11: 30 u.m. Sun.
ROCKFORD - Channel 13, WREX -TV.
9 a.m. Sun.
PEORIA - Ch annel 19, WRA U-TV.
10:30 a. m. Sun.
ST. LOUIS - Channel 11 , K PlR-TV.
9:30 p.m. Sun.
SAN ANTONIO - Cha nnel 12 , KSAT-
TV. 6:30 p.m. Sat.
SPRINGFIELD - Chan nel 2 7 . KMTC-
TV' . 10:00 p.m. Sun.
SPRINGFI ELD - Channel 20, WI CS-TV.
1:00 p.m. Sal.
STEUBENVILLE - Channel 9 , WSTV
TV. 10:30 p.m. Sun.
TEMPLE - Channel 6 . K CEN-TV. I I
a.m. Sun.
TUPELO - Channel 9 . WTWV-TV. 5
p.m. Sal.
WICHITA - Channel 3, KARD-TV. 1:30
p.m. Sal.
WI CHITA FALLS - Channel 6, K AUZ-
TV. 9:30 a.m. Sun.
Mountain Time
BILLINGS - Channel 8, K ULR-TV. 5:30
p.m. Sat .
GARDEN CITY - Chann el 11 , KGlD-
TV. 11 ;00 u.r n. Sun.
PHOENI X - Channel 12, K TAR-TV.
12:30 p.m. Sal.
PORTLAND - Channel 12, K PTV-TV.
I I a.m. Sun.
PUEBLO - ChannelS, KOAA T V. l:30
p.m. Sal.
SALT LAKE CITY - Channel S, K SL-T V.
1:00 p.m. Sat .
TUCSON - Chann el 9 , K G UN-T V. 1:00
p.m. Sun.
Pacific Time
AN CHORAGE - Channel 13 . KIMOT V.
6:30 p.m. Wed.
BAKERSFIELD - Chann el 2 3 , K ERO-
TV. 4: 30 p.m. Sun.
FRESN O - Channel 24 . KMJ TV. 10:00
a.m. Sun.
HO LLYWOOD - Channel 9, K HJ-TV.
9:00 p.m. Sun.
HON OLULU - Channel 2 , KHON-TV.
II :30 a.m. Sun.
LAS VEGAS - Cha nnel 8, K lAS-TV.
11:00 a.m. Su n.
OAK LAND - Channel 2 , KTVU-TV. 1:30
p.rn. Sal.
RENO - Channel 2 , KTVl"TV. 3 p.m.
Sat.
SACRAM ENTO - Cha nnel 13 , KOVR -
TV. II a.m. Sun.
SALINAS - Channel 8, K SBW-TV. 3:30
p.m. Sal.
SAN LUI S OBISPO - Chann el 6 . K SBY-
TV. 3:30 p.m. Sun.
SPOKANE - Channel 6, K HQ-TV. 1:30
p.m. Sun.
STOCKTON - Channel 13, KOVR -TV.
10:30 a. m. Sun.
TACOMA - Chann ell 1, KSTW-T V.
10:30 p.m. Sun.
CANADIAN STATIONS
Atlantic Time
HALIFAX - Cha nnel 5, CJCH-TV. 2: 30
p.m. Sun.
MONCTON /SAINT JOHN - Channel 2 ,
CK CWTV. 2:30 p.m. Sun.
SAINT JOHN - Channel 6, CJON. 1:00
p.m. Sun .
SYDNEY - Channel 4 , CJCB TV. 2:30
p.m. Sun.
Eastern Time
HAMILTON - Channell 1, CHCH-T V.
8:00 a.rn. Sun.
KINGSTON - Chann ell 1. CK WS-TV.
12 noon Sal.
MONTREAL - Channel 12, CFCF-T\' .
5:30 p.m. Sun.
NORTH BAY - Channel 4 . CliNB-TV. I
p.m. Sun.
PEMBROKE - ChannelS, CHOV-T V. 12
noon Sun.
PETERSBOROUGH - Channel 12 ,
CH EX T V. 12noon Sal.
QUEBEC CI TY - Channel 5, CK,\1 1 1:00
p.m. Sun.
SAULT STE. MARIE - Chan nel 2 . CJIC
TV. 9: 30 a. rn. Sat.
SUDBURY - Channel 9, CKNC T V.
1:00 p.m. Sun.
THUNDER BAY - Channel 4 . CHFO-
TV. 5:00 p.m. Sun.
TIMMINS - Chan nel 6 . CFCL-T V. I
p.m. Sun.
Central Time
BRANDON - Chann el 5, CK X- TV. 4:00
p.m. Sun.
PRINCE ALBERT - Chan nel S, CK Il I-
TV. 5: 30 p.m. Sun.
REGINA - Channel 2 , CKCK T V. 12
noon Sun.
SASKATOON - Chan nel 8, CFQC-TV.
12 noon Sun.
SWIFT CURRENT - Channel 5, CJFB-
TV. II : 15 p.m. Sun.
WINNIPEG - Channel 7. CK Y-TV. 12
noon Sun.
YORKTOW N - Channel 3, CK OS-TV. 12
noon Sun.
Mountain Time
CALGARY - Channel 4 . CFeN-TV. 4:00
p.m. Sun.
EDMONTON - Channel 3, CFRN TV.
I I a.m. Sun.
LLOYDMINI STER - Channel 2 , CK SA-
T V. 1:00 p.m. Sun.
Pacific Time
DAWSON CREEK - Chann el 5. CJDC-
TV. 5:30 p.m. Sun.
KAMLOOPS - Channel 4 . CFJC- TV.
12:30 p.m. Sun.
KELOWNA - Cha nnel 2, CHBC TV.
12: 30 p.m. Sun.
VANCOUVER - Chann el 8. CHANTV.
11: 30 a. m. Sun.
VICTORIA - Cha nnel 6, CHEK- TV.
11:30 a.m. Sun.
WHITEHORSE - Chann el 2 , 4 .5,7.9,
13, WHTV-T V. 7:00 p.m. Sun.
31

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Shige ru Y..
Osaka. J apan
Henry K..
Tucson. Arizona
Bett y An n L..
Hopwood. Pennsylvania
t hink. to make the wor ld peaceful and
ha ppy. we have to know. understand and
bel ieve each other.
I' m going to realize the current situation
all over the world through your publ ication.
I'm looking fo rwa rd to receiving you r
magazi ne. And many thanks 10 the edi tor
and staff's conce rned.
You may cancel my copy of the Plain
Truth magazine.
I have two reasons for this request. The
first is )'(lUr "grin and bare it till Chr ist gets
here" atti tude and vour "women in their
place an d that's anyplace but where me n
arc" ideas.
I realize you bel ieve in you r preac hing. I
also realize you do n't have a solution ei ther.
Mr. H. W. Armstrong ca n trace his fam-
ily to David. I suppose tha t endows him
with so me sort of enlightenme nt. Too bad I
can' t trace mine any further than Grand-
pop. Of COUTSe. that really doesn't mailer .
After all. I'm just a woman. created second.
and so doomed to seco nds for eternity.
I won 't say thank you since I wasn' t
awar e of all this until I read it in the Plai n
rna".
Correction
The quot ation taken fro m a speech by
the German Chance llor. Herr Helmu t
Schmidt. sho uld end with the words
"i nternational stabilitv policy." and not at
the conclusion of the"article: The final IwO
paragraph s are those o f the author. Ou r
apologies to Chancellor Schmidt
I consi de r your magazine, the Plain
Truth. to be one of the most outstandine in
the wor ld. It is too bad tha i its thouah ts.
opi nions and proj ec tio ns. alt hough
in rclati ve1y sim ple and clea n language.
docs nOI reach into the hearts and minds of
enough people of the world to make it
cou nt as a dec isive force for good - for
humanity - for the future of Ihe world as
we it
To me it appears that. as a nation . we
have al ready passed a "peuk" and. like the
Roman Empire. have started on the road to
decl ine. Forgive me for bei ng pess imistic.
Keep up the good wor k.
General Comments
As you say in your lette r "why h'15 my
daught er's subsc riptio n bee n prepaid?" I
have wondered abou t this for a long ti me:
knowing my daughter. I doubted she would
take the effort to subscribe to any maga-
zine. However. I did note that she would
read it on occas io n, I was cu rious abo ut the
type o f material she was readi ng and I
checked it out. to J11V amaze men t. it was
oppos ite to what I expected.
As a sci entist. economic geologist and
verteb rate paleontologist. I recognized the
high qu ality of lllany of you r articles. and J
now read each issue wh ile much of my
scie ntific literature is still not read . Ai-
though we arc no t of your fait h. we ap-
plaud yo ur elTorts at trying to reach the
young in this sad age of per missiveness.
John S..
Casper. Wyomin g
Other Early Readers
This lett er to the edito r "Earlie st
Reader'!" in the May 1974 Plain Tr uth
magazine gave me a thrill and I' ve bee n
mea ning to share that experience with you
and Mr s. Dean C. ever since!
In 4 more months. I too shall be 84. and I
al so received one o f those 1934 first
issue mi meogr aph ed " flyers:' So me th ing
prompted me to keep it and some 15 years
later to send for the magazine. enroll in
your Correspondence Co urse and become a
ded icated reader of an outstanding maga-
zine.
The article in the last issue about Ireland
is the best I' ve eve r read!
Lief W..
Baltimore. Maryland
Y OII 'n' absolute l y righl - Ollr apologi es to
the hundreds 0/dedicat ed and generolls co-
workers who helped make rile const ruction of
A mbassador A uduorium possible. .
There is a stateme nt in this mont h of the
Plain Truth that shou ld be corrected. On
page 14 at the bot tom of the seco nd col umn
it sta ted. "This aud itoriu m has bee n made
poss ible by spec ial gi fts from members of
the Worldwide Churc h of Go d:'
Aren't you forgetti ng the co-workers?
Don' t tell me that I am the on ly one tha t
gave a do nation for the audito ri um? It
wasn' t muc h but it was all I cou ld afford at
the time.
From Overseas
Very many thanks for sending me yo ur
excellent magazine. I read with great int er-
est in evcrv issue.
As you mentioned befo re. the hu man so-
ciety is now deteriorati ng in so me respect.
but I think the re is roo m for imp rovement.
for our bet ter life,
Man has grea t crea tivity ami wisdom. I
Mrs. N. J..
Yuma. Arizona
The Plain Truth - I have enjoyed it for
many years. I received the first co py I be-
lieve in 1934. Just two little sheets. I en-
joyed it t hen and I still do. I am going bli nd
slowlv but I ca n sti ll read the Plain Truth.
fat her and I are abo ut the same age . I
get yo u on TV Sun day night and I eiijoy
your tal k very much.
God bless 'lOU and the Plain Truth.
Fra nces J ..
Bann ing. Cali forn ia
possible the fret will offerings and cont ri-
butians of thousands of people of modest
means who preferred to IUJI'e a direct parr in
helping with the building. Over the tau
decade. co-workers and members of the
Worldwide Church of God set aside just five
or ten dollars per month ill a specially labeled
"Building Fund" for this purpose.
Giving /() the poor is righl and honorable
and is a dllty of el'e,:r Christian. But helping
10 build a fine auditorium dedicated to God.
used hy hundreds el'e,:r l\'eek for religious
worship, is also honorable. Should "'e do one
and neglect rile other?
While going through th is issue . your Au-
gust 1974 issue. I couldn' t help but notic e
the cover sto ry on "The Magnificent New
Ambassador Audi tor ium." I mu st com-
pli ment the archi tectu ral and engi neeri ng
firm who designed this building. Daniel.
Mann. J ohnson and Mendenhall. As Mr.
Mann stated in his letter. I am sure that the
ma terials used to bui ld il "are the finest
ava ilable."
I'm su re God looks down on this monu-
ment to his ho no r and is vcr)' impressed
with ma n's engi nee ri ng abi lity and willing-
ness to spe nd money on him. I have just
one question. wh ich I wish to ask. not out
of rudeness. but out of since re curiositv as
to what your answe r will be. Don't
th ink that God wou ld have been much
more impressed if yo u' d used all that
money - an d I' m ce rtain the amount is up
in the multi-m illions - to hel p the poo r.
homeless and starving peo ple right here in
ou r own cou ntry, instead of buildi ng a
bea utiful audi torium that. chances are. the
poor people will never get a chance to sec.
much less ever enter ?
I si ncerely ho pe you' re not angered by
my qu estion . and I want you to know that I
woul d, li ke to co n tin ue receivi ng yo ur
magaJ:me.
Robert C.
Wrenshall. Minnesota
Ambassador Auditorium
When we received our new Plain Truth. I
was really sur prise d at the pictures. I had
no idea the buildi ng "'3."so beautiful ! I'm
\'el)' pleased tha i I could have a small pan
in makin g tha i building a reality. Surely
God must be pleased.
Kath leen J ..
Seatt le. Washi ngton
The A mbassador ...t uditoriurn was made
Stephen L..
San Diego. Cal ifornia
Donald B..
Poyen. Arkansas
I have j ust completed the art icle in the
Plain Truth magazine concerning the new
Ambassador Aud itori um. an d I wish to ex-
press my most since re congrat ulations to
Ambassador College for this magnificent
architectu ral ac hieveme nt.
Having completed high school t his year. I
endeavor an architec tura l ca reer. my even-
tual goal being co mmunity and city pla n-
ning so me time in the future. And so. the
Ambassador Audit or ium was of special in-
ter est to me.
Having read the recen t Plain Truth
maeazinc. I am moved to write a few words
of comment. The sect ion telling about the
new Amb assador Auditori um'"wass erea r.
From the pictu res it is clear thai the audito-
ri um is vCI)' beauti fu l. and a 101 of work.
skill and pride wen t into the build ing of it.
There j ust isn't sufficient wor ds to describe
the pleasu re one gets from seeing t hese pic-
lures of the auditori um. Th ank vou ver v
much for sha ri ng it with the reade rs of
Plain Truth.
32
PLAIN TRUTH December 1974
Garner Ted Armstrong
QUESTION: Aren't most of the po-
sitions you've taken clearly con-
servative and pro-establishment?
ANSWER: What " positions"?
equa te tak ing a positi on with the
pett y politics and carnal-minded
conniving and chicanery of would-
be opportunists who take a "s ta nd"
on this or tha t issue only to gai n
favor or to perpetuate themselves in
pu blic offices.
It would be impossi ble to decide
whether Jesus Christ was "coo-
scrvative." " li beraI." "pro-est ab-
lishment," or "anti-establishm ent"!
To people or today. the simplest
teachings or Jesus wo uld appear to
be terribly conservative and very far
on the right. To the Pharisees or his
day. his tea chings appeared to be
ultra-liberal and iconoclastic to th e
extreme! To the peopl e during his
day. he appeared as anti-estab-
lishment ; yet. according to his own
deepest personal statements. he was
100%in favor of be ing subj ect to the
powers tha t be. paying his taxes.
and living the right example for all
in the co mmunity. God's Word
transcends and supersedes any so-
called clea rly conservative or pro-
esta blishme nt positions! I utt erly re-
ject the so-called establishment !
Jesus calls upon all to repent. and
repent means change ! As such. ad-
voca ting dyn amic change or soci al
SPEAKS
DUTI
institu tions. the who le structure of
marriage. people' s pri vat e lives. in-
cludi ng the way they manage their
private resources. their diet and ex-
ercise programs. theirchoice and se-
lect ion or friends and hobbies alike.
I would suppose people would label
me as "very liberal" and progres-
sive. Others. hearing me comment
strongly on the absolute require-
ment to observe God' s Ten Com-
mandmen ts and comment ing very
powerfully on the idiocy or tod ay's
revolving door "j ustice" in the juve-
nile courts and the light slap on the
wrist for convicted murderers and
criminals. may feel I am an ultra-
right-wing react ionary advocating
the return or capital puni shment!
The point is simply thi s: No on e
during Jesus' day ever truly " figured
out" j ust where Jesus bel onged in
that society. II'I am st ill a big ques-
tion mark in the minds of millions
as to j ust whe re I " fit" in society.
even at the time this society comes
apart at the seams as I am warning
it most surely will, then I shall be
satisfied.
LOVE AND MARRIAGE
A happy marriage is dependent upon the fulfillment of
distinctly separate roles for husband and wife.
What married people don't know can hurt them.
NEW DEFENSE FOR EUROPE?
NATO is on shaky legs. Will Europe soon begin working
toward the formation .of a new defense pact?
CRIME WAVE
Law enforcement officials are losing the fight against
crime. Can the tide be reversed? Who are the
criminals? It may surprise you.
GLOBAL FAMINE?
Are those warning of massive worldwide famine only crying.
"wolf, wolf," or are we really faced with a crisis
beyond man's ability to solve?
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