a magazine of understanding...What Our Readers Say EXECUTIVE EDITO R Herman 1. Haeh EDITOR H ERBERT W. ARMSTRONG MANAGING EDITOR Arthur A. Ferdig NO . 7 Editors Jerry Gentry Gene H.

a magazine of understanding

What Our Readers Say

EXECUTIVE EDITO R

Herman 1. Haeh

EDITORH ERBERT W. ARMSTRONG

MANAGING EDITOR

Arthur A. Ferdig

NO . 7

EditorsJ erry Gentry

G en e H . Hogb ergPaul w. Kroll

Au gu st 1972

VOL. XXXVII

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The Silent EpidemicThe articl e in Tb e PLAIN TR UTH of

January 19 72 " T he Silent Epidemic" byDonald D . Schroeder w as an excellentone a n d we infor med our peoplethrough our monthl y bulletin to orderthat issue and read it. Mr. Armstrong,you will do a g rea t favor to our n ati on ifyou wi ll p u blish this ve ry im portantarticle in a booklet as yo u did for hippies and drugs, so this will reach allfamilies of our n at io n and save m ill io nsof ignorant parents and ch ild ren . I gavetha t issue to some paren ts and teens andthey read the article and were d eeplyshocked by the truth . . . . So p lease publish it in a booklet and let it reach allAmerican families and a ll familiesthroug hout the world .

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Animal Bra in vs. Human Mind

\ XT ith res pect to yo u r article on Animal Brain and H uman Mind I am not atall worried or interested in H umanMind or Animal Bra in . I am satisfied ifGod Almighty is satisfi ed with His creat ion. \XTh v should we bother our brainabout the ' differences? \X' e can't altert hem . All I know is that mankind ha sm ad e an utter mess of the brains th atGod gave him whereby he could livepeacefu lly o n this Earth . \X' e humans area perfect insult to o ur Creator today,compared to th e animals .

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Personalfrom

He Can Who Thinks He Can

T H E OTHER DAY my personal assistantand M anaging Editor of T he P LAIN

TRU TH, Arthur A. Ferdig, handed m e a copy of abook that had exerted influence on my life as a you ngman many years ago - probably about 19 10 .

It was one of t h os e "in spir ation books "designed to inspire young men w ith ambition, desireto succeed, and confidence. This particular book wastitled He Can Who Thinks He Can. It was one ofmany such inspirational or "success" books authoredby Orison Swett Marden.

It had occurred to me, about eight or ten years ago , that weoug ht to have that book in the Am bassador College library. As Iremember, our library staff found that the book was out of print,and they searched the second-hand book stores until they found a

copy.Seeing a copy of it brought back memories. It seems that

either there is no demand for such books toda y, or there are noautho rs with the inspira tion and ability to wri te them . I am surethat this particular book con tributed its portion of ambition ,inspiration , confidence. Yet, reviewing it now, after more than 60years, brings the realizat ion that in all th ose years I have learned afew things I didn't know then .

The book has no preface - no introduction . It begins with

~ Chapter 1: " 'I promised my God I would do it.' In September , 1862,when Linco ln issued the preliminary ema ncipa tion proclamation,the sublime act of the nineteenth century, he made this entry inhis diary - ' I pro mised my God I wo uld do it .' D oes anyonedo ubt that such a mighty resolution added power to th is marvelou s man ; or tha t it nerved him to accomplish what he hadundertaken ?

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PLAIN TRUTH Augu st 1972

In This IssueIN THIS ISSUEWhat Our Readers

Say Inside Front Cover

Personal from the Editor ..

America Confronts the NewSoviet Challenge 2

Why Were You Born? 14

Advance News 20

Europe - Supergiant ofThe Seventie s? 21

Tapping Your Inner PowersIs No t Enough! 29

What You Can Do 34

The Biblica l Revela tion Animal Brain vs. HumanMind 35

Hurricane Agon y ... .... .. .... .. .... .... 41

John launois, Slacle Star

ABOUT OUR COVER

T hroug h autumn leaves rise the cu polasof the Cathedral of the Assumption atZagorsk, no rth of Moscow. Zagorsk wasrhe religious center of czarist Russia.Though atheism dominates today 's Sevierthinking. present-day Sovie t leadership isactively pursuing an age-old goal of theRussian czars - world p reeminence. TheU.S.S .R . has already achieved. as its firstgoal. a rough balance in strategic weaponswi ch the Uni ted Stares and is moving on tocontest American world influence in ocherfields. Behind Mr . Nixon's Peking andMoscow summits lies this growing chal leng e from the K remlin.

. America Confronts I

. I

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THE NEW SOVIETI

CHALLENGEby Gene H. Hogberg

Color Photography - John Launois , Black S ta r

Black & White Photography - Robert Lebeck, Black Star

Now revealed the U. S. master plan for theseventies. And the Soviet counter effort to knock

out the U. S. as the world's leading power.

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resu lt of th e arms treat ies, an apparentrough balance has been achieved between the two superpowers. Balancing th e Sov iet U nio n's numericalsuperiori ty in missiles (see box) is ag reater number of U. S. warheadscoupled wi th a present American leadin nuclear weapons technology. Mr.

ixon's chief foreign policy choreographer , Henry Kissi nger, toldAmerican newsmen in the President'sMoscow entourage that " no agreemen t [on nuclear weapons] thatbrings disadvantage to either side canpossibly last."

Why the TripW as N ecessary

Beh in d the Pres ide n t's in te nse"working summi t," as he called it,was a sober realization . Unless something was do ne q uic kly an d decisively , the Uni ted States cou ld fallalmost irretrieva bly be hind the Sov ietUnio n in raw mil it ary power.

T he Soviet Union, unrecognized infull by most Americans, had beenaddi ng to its offensive nuclear arsena lat a prodigious rate . T he Sov iets, according to a recent co unt, had bee nconstructi ng abou t 250 land-based interco ntinental ball ist ic miss iles a year,along w ith subma rine p roje ct iles a t a

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A New R el atio nship

"Mount Moscow," it is now clear,was th e ultim ate objective, after all.T he President's earl ier, an d largel ysymbolic, "side trip" to the People'sRepu bli c of Ch ina - R ussia's Communist archri val in the wo rld served primarily to unla tch the imposing ga te of the Krem lin . And theu ltra- cautious Soviet leadersh ip , susp icious o f a W ashing to n-Peking understanding, co nsidered Mr. N ixon'strip so vita l to its own nat ion al interest that it kept the door open despiteste pped- up U. S. military act io n inNorth Vie tn am .

When Mr. Nixon ret urned fromhis Moscow trip w it h a bu nd le oftr ea t ies and ag reemen ts, he proclaim ed a " new relationship betweenthe two most powe rful nat io ns in theworld ."

The most important area of agreemen t, of co urse, covers the mu tu allimi ta tio n o f st rateg ic wea po ns. As a

T H E CR ITICAL year 1972 may wellgo down in h isto ry as theYear of the Summit.

In a period o f less than fo urmonths, R ichard M . Nixon scaled thelo fty pea ks of Peki ng and Moscow inpursuit of his much-d esired "generatio n of peace."

STRUGGLE ON HOME FRONTTO CATCH UP WITH U. S.

The Soviet Union, so its leaders believe, hasnow achieved equality with the United States asa military superpower. As these pictures andthose on subsequent pages reveal , much effortstill needs to be expended before the U.S.S .R.can catch up with the U. S. in other factors ofnational power, nota bly in the fields of agriculture and industry.

Tha t the Soviets are making progress in thesefields, is borne out by a fact that should surprisemany Americans: In 1971, the Soviet steelindustry outproduced tha t of the United States- something no other country has ever done,and something Sovie t economic planners havedreamed of accomplishing for decades.

ONE WAY TO BEAT THE SYSTEM. This ingenio usgentleman is assembling his own car in the backyard of an old house. He would otherwise haveto wa it mo re than 4 years for a new car (left).

Women have not yet been liberated from hardmanual work in the Sov iet Union. The tremendously heavy losses of manpower during the Second World War is the p rinc ipal reason for sceneslike thi s (r ight) .

The farmers on the Kolkhozes (Soviet collectivefarms) are permitted to cultivate a small piece ofland for thei r own use - and keep a cow if theyw ish. Sov iet soc iety is dependen t upon the produce from these small private plots fo r about onethird of the nation 's entire food output (below) .

FIRST GRADERS in theU.S.S .R. start their firstday of school (left).They're eager to learnas are youths everywhere. However, thereare few books waitingfor them - and thereis even a shortage ofpencils.

Soviet farming (r ight)faces chronic shortagesas well. In an attemptto greatly improve livestock, the Soviets havearranged for huge purchases of surplus U. S.feed grains.

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rate of 128 a year. T he most disturbing trend of all, to Ameri can strategis ts, was the fairly rapid replacementof older Russian missiles with thehuge SS-9's, wi th their wallop ing 25megaton payload capability - farheavier than the U. S. MinutemanICBM . There have even been reportsof newer and bigger missiles of anaweso me SO-mega ton capacity.

Meanwhil e, for five years, theUnited States had added nothing toits land-based offensive missile force,except some technological improvements. Only the mobile submarinetask force, equipped with " Polaris"missiles, and now the newer "Poseidon " missiles, had been steadily imp rov ed . This d evelopm ent wascoup led with the beginning of a limited antiballistic missile (ABM) system.

The massive Ru ssian bu ildu p ledU. S. Vice Admiral Hyman Rickoverto state that " there has not been anarms race - the Soviets have beenrun ning at full speed all by themselves." O minou sly, Rickover addedbefo re a N ew York audience: "Theblunt situation facing us is that Soviet Russia is doin g all the th ings anation wo uld do if it wanted to bethe number one military power withclear, unequivocal superiority."

Obviousl y something had to bedon e - bur what ? Mr. Nixon revealed in his speech before the combined houses of Congress on June 1,immediately after his Moscow trip,th at he had "studied the strategic balance in g reat detail " with his senioradvisers for "mo re than three years."T he Chief Executive further addedwhy getting the Soviets to agree to aslowdown in the nu clear missile racewas so important :

"From the sta ndpo int of th eUni ted States, when we consider whatth e strategic balance wo uld haveloo ked like, later in the 70's if therehad been no arms limitati on , it isclear that the agreements forestall amajor spiraling of the arms race one which would have' wo rked to ourdisadvantage ."

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Shocking Panel Report

As early as 1969, President N ixonhad appointed a 16-man panel of leading private citizens - to avoid any entren ched Pent agon influence - toassess America's securi ty posit ion .Their leng thy report, issued March,1971, warned that "the convergenceof a number of trend s indi cates significant mili tary balan ce against theUnited States and in favor of the Soviet Union.. . . If these observabletrends cont inue, the U. S. will become a second-rate power incapabl eof assuring the future security andfreedom of its people."

Perhaps most significant of thecommittee's observations was thi s:" N either the facts concerni ng thesetrends nor the ult imate danger is generally u nd erst ood by the publi c,which for the most part remainsuninform ed and hence apathetic."

The more the President and hischief foreig n affairs adviser, HenryKissinger, studied the national security issue, the more the only choiceconfronting them became obvio us. Itwas to tie down the Soviet government to an arms limitati on agreement, and in additio n to th is prim arypoint, to attempt to bind the Sovietsin so many directions to the U. S. increased trade, joint space ventures,combined scientific , health and ecological research , among others - thatMoscow would find it extremely difficult not to cooperate with theUnited States.

Given the bitter Vietn am experience, the Ame rican populace wasclearly in no mood to accept a costly,rapid buildu p in strategic weapons tomeet the Sovie t challenge head-on .Besides, the ge neral publ ic had beenlulled int o a false sense of secur ity bythe so-called mutual overkill syndrome and the belief tha t the nation'sroving missile-equipped submarineswere all that was necessary to deter apreemptive attack.

Mr. Ni xon and his advisers, however, knew better. Through detailedintelligence, they realized that the po-

tenti al enemy was steadi ly gear ing upto the position where it could, if itwanted to - assuming the very worstin the Sovie t motivation - str ikefirst with a massive nuclear blow.Then it could pro tect its key positions from a counte rattack through asophisticated antiballistic missile defens e net work - and still hav eeno ugh fi repowe r left to admi nister afinal coup de grace against a virt uallydefenseless United States.

At the very least, the Sovie ts, werethe y to become the predominant military power , would be able to renderthe United States dipl om atically im potent on the world scene. The respected Center for Strategic Studies inW ashing ton , D .C. revealed in an intensive study that "achieving U. S.recog ni tion of Sov ie t sup eriori tywould permit the U.S.S.R. to pursuea more aggre ssive foreig n poli cy, todemand concessions from the UnitedStates on many issues long in contention, to inhibit U. S. resistance tocommunist inspired or exploited warsof liberation, to fracture Western alliances, to achieve more dom inantcontrol over the inte rna tiona l communist movemen t and to attaingreater suppo rt from the unalig nedth ird world."

In such a superior position, the Soviets could have their own selfish wayvirtually anywhere in the wo rld without having to back dow n beforea superior United States, as they didin the Cuban missile crisis a decadeago . (In fact, the Havana humiliat ionmarked the mo ment when the Sovietsfi nally determined to catch up withAmerican military power. At thattime, only ten years ago , the Un itedStates enjoyed a two to one missilesuperiority and an overwhelming naval ascendency on the high seas.)

Since the American public was inno mood to buy an alarmist messagein the early seventies, the Presidenttook what he felt was the only otheralterna tive - to go dire ctly to the Soviet Union and attempt to engi neer ahalt, or at least a slowdown , in therun away Soviet missile buil dup. It


was felt that the Strateg ic Arm s Limitati on Talks, begun 2 Y.2 years ago atthe behest of Washington, wouldbu y, meanwhile, preciou s time for theUnited States - time to expl oitAmerica's present technological leadover its formidable foe, while puttingthe brakes on newer and more powerful Sovie t missile emplacements .

The NuclearScore Sheet

Struggle for World Supremacy

In his June 1 speech before Cong ress, televised nati onwide, PresidentNi xon assured the Ameri can peopl ethat, as a result of SALT , and co nt inuing American vigilance, "no poweron earth is stronger than the UnitedStates o f Am erica tod ay. And nonewill be stronger than the UnitedStates of America in the future."

But the mood of America is definitely changing. The nat ion 's desireto be " numbe r one" and to be theflagbearer for freedom in a largely totalit arian world is vanishing . T wentyseven years of cold war wi th a surly,patient competito r has left it s markon th e mass Am erican psyche. Theg row ing app eal to turn the nati on inward to solve its mounting dom esticcrises is the most dramat ic manifestation of Am erica 's political temperature today. The increasing trendwi thin the United States to "dropou t" of the world does not changethe unpleasant facts of life in roday'swar-threatened world .

It has never been the habit ofAmericans, so blessed with their fabulous national riches, to think verymu ch about such concepts as "powerpolitics" or " the balan ce of power. "These are thought to be age-old" Europ ean " ideas, harkening back tothe tim e of the czars, and Bismarck.

Whether the United States likes itor not , it is sti ll in a life-or-deathcompeti tion wi th the Soviet Union.

The Soviets are determined toachieve eq uality with the UnitedSta tes in edu cation , industry, welfareand per capita wealth ; in outer space,sea po wer and land po wer. They suffer from a severe inferi ority complex.

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T H E MOST important area ofagreement reached at the Mos

cow Summit involved the mutuallimitation of strategic weapons. Onetreaty limits both the United State sand the Soviet Uni on to 200 an tiballistic missiles - 100 missiles at eachof two sites. Each nation will be permitted to defend its national capitalplu s one of its land-based offensivemissile-launchin g sites.

Along wi th the ABM accord, anaccompan ying "executive ag reement" freezes further developmento f offensive ballistic missiles - both

., land-b ased and sea-based - for fiveyears. T~is ag reement, which gu arantees a three to two missile ratio infavor of the Soviets, dismayed thePresident 's more conservat ive critics.The U. S. missile arsenal is frozen atthe level it reached five years ago 1,054 land-based ICBM s plus 656submarine-launched ballistic missiles- a to tal of 1,710 missiles. The Soviet Union will be allowed to comp le te m iss il e s n o w un dercon structio n, giv ing the Russiansultimately a total of about 2,350missiles (over 1,600 ICBMs plu saround 740 SLBMs).

O ffsetting the numerical Russianadvantage, however, is the fact thatthe Uni ted State s will cont inue tomaintain more than tw ice as manydeliverable nu clear warheads as theRussians - 5,700 to 2,500. Becauseof its early headstarr in the development of the MIRV - " multipleindepende ntly targeted re-entry vehicle" (meaning several separa telytargeted warheads atop each missile)- the United Srares is believed to

possess a two- to five-year lead innuclear weapon techn ology over theU.S.S.R.

The position of U. S. strateg icarms advisors is this: Since theUnited States presently enjoys a virtu al mon op ol y on the highly sophisticated MIRV systems, it can afford,for the moment, to let the Sovietshave more missile launchers andeven mor e tota l megatonnage -andin sheer megatonnage, the U.S.S.R .presen tly has at least a 3 to 1 edgeover the Uni ted Sta tes! Also , theUnited States outnumbers the Soviets in long-range stra tegic bo mbers, 530 to 140.

Thus the qu estion of wh ich superpower at the present time is inthe lead in the arms race, or who"won" or who "lost" in the firstround of the Strateg ic Arms Limitation Talks is rather academic.

The arms race has slowed down- or rather shifted course. Qual;tatiue improvement of the strat egicarms permitted on both sides is no tcovered by the arms ag reements.Neither is th e devel opmen t ofwholly new weapo ns systems - suchas lasers.

The Un ited States will attemp t tomaintain its lead in techn ology andweapons development - againstgrowing internal pressure to cutback military expenditures, including those for research and development.

The Soviet Union, now officiallyrecognized by the United States asits nu clear equal, will be pushingahead rapidly to close the technology gap.

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THE SOVIET WORKER'S lot has steadilyimproved. He nowworks a five-day, 41hour week with anaverage vacation ofone month. The average monthly factorywage is 127 rubles- about $154(right).

Love, Soviet style has its unique complications, the most seriousone being the country's severe housing shortage. Young coupleshave to wait for at least 5 years for an apartment of their own .Many marriages break up for lack of privacy (left) .

Leisure with a purpose. Probably no other government in the worldspends as much money on the arts and culture . The emphasis isstrictly on organized leisure - activities approved by the staterather than individualized pleasures so common to societies of thefree world (below).

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Agi ng Soviet leaders, most of themhaving had perso nal involvements inthe early years of the Ru ssian Revo lutio n, are still very mu ch imbued wi ththe belief that Communism is theinevitable "wave of the fu ture" -thatit will ul timately triumph over "decadent capitalist powers" such as theUnited States.

Based on his face-to-face talks withthe Soviet leaders, Mr. N ixon observed that "there sti ll are deep phi losophical differences" between the twosuperpowers. T hese differences are notlikely ever to be bridge d, given theclosed , regula ted society of the SovietUnio n.

T hese facts represen r the reali ty oftoday's comp lex international situation. And despi te the desire on thepart of man y Americans that their nation should no longer be the "world'spoliceman ," the fact is, in thi s harshworld of tod ay, the unasked-for responsibility for world peace still restsup on weary U. S. shoulders.

The Technology Race

Whether the Soviet s, cont rary totheir past history, remain faithful tothe terms of the new arm s limitationagreements is yet to be proved. Burassuming the y remain tru e to theirword , the whole area of qualitative,technological improvement of nuclear forces on both sides takes cent erstag e. Improved nuclear technology isin no way proscribed by the SALTTreaty and agreement.

The present leaders of the UnitedStates wo uld not have signed theSALT pacts if they had not been confident that the U.S.A. could maintainits tech nologi cal superiority over theRu ssians. But strangely, the techno log ical race is where the UnitedStates could ultimately come out o nthe sho rt end . America's present twoto five-year technology lead over theUSSR could vani sh quickly.

Th e publication Aviation IlI'eek andSpace Techn% g)' reports that the "Soviet Union is pu shing to achieve aclear technological-military superiority over the U. S. by 1974-75."

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Little wonder that famou s nu clearph ysicist Dr. Edward Teller recentl ypro claimed that " today we are not inan arms race .. . we are in a technol og ical race."

The Soviet s will never be satisfiedunl ess or until the y catch up with theUnited States in " MIRVs" - multiple independ en tly targeted re-entryvehicles. And MIR Vs atop the alreadyvastly more powerful Soviet missileswould mean a distinct military advantage for Moscow - unless U. S. scicn-

rists break in to entirely new fields ofweapon s developmen t.

Co mpo un ding America's pro blem,however, is the g rowi ng backlashaga inst tech nolog y in general in theUni ted Sta tes. Whereas technology isg reatly respected in the Soviet Unio n,both science and techn ology are beingblamed for mu ch of America's dom estic ills, fro m pollution to the dehumanizing of life. Man y Am ericanscient ists fear a dramatic cur tailme ntof both private and public funds for

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research and development is in thenear offing . Joseph c. Harsch of theChristian Science M onitor puts thewh ole techn ology issue in its properperspective:

"Obviou sly, the weapons agreement would be a military disaster forthe United States if the Russians usedthe next fi ve years to go ahead inweapo nry while the Uni ted States didnothing or little. But the Uni tedStates will have the best of the bargain if five years from now it has kept


the advantage it has now by cont inu ing to move ahead in quality."

The ques tion is, wi ll the U.S.A. determine to keep that advantage?

T emporary Peace

This age, whi ch has experiencedmore than 50 major conflicts since theSecond World War, is experiencing atemporary but hig hly illu sory peace.

The "new relationship " betweenthe Soviets and the Americans meansthat international relations will perhaps , for the next two to three years,shift out o f the icy cold-war atmo sphere into the avenues of more classic international dipl om acy.

Th e focus of world affairs will consequently and steadi ly shift back toEurope from Asia, with the exceptionof the growing role played byJapan .

Immediately after the MoscowSummit, talk was revived of earlyhopes for convening the mu ch-di scussed " Euro pean Security Co nference," a Soviet dream for nearly twodecades to solidify their hold on Eastern Europ e and expand their influ ence in the W est. With the W estGerman government's ratification ofits non aggression treat ies with Polandand the Soviet Unio n, the new FourPower Agreement on Berlin , and nowthe Moscow Summit agreements, thetrend toward an East-West de tente inEuro pe is definitely a dipl omatic waveof the future.

Frustrated Europe

The Mosc o w Summ it h ad aprofound impact up on the nati on s inW estern Europe . While dut ifully applauding any moves toward a relaxation of tensions between Washingtonand Moscow , the most general tru ereaction amo ng influenti al leaders ofWestern Europe tow ard the Summitwas one of political frustration .

The pol itical weakness of W esternEurope was again po intedly displayed.Agents of the two superpowers negotiated over the heads of the Europeansin atte mpting to achieve what oneob server called "a more stable and secure balance of terror. "

The fact remains, said on e source," that Europe cannot determine its future for itself."

One of Europe's most prominentsta tesmen , Belgium's Paul -H enriSpaak, commented on the Ni xonvisit: "What is obvious is that Europeis more and more absent from the international scene. This means that itsfuture might be determined one daywithout her having anyt hing to sayabout it. "

The Moscow Summi t may wellpro vide the impetus for W esternEurope to make determ ined efforts toachieve unity and renew its streng thin the econ omic, political and defensefields.

The Challenge of Our Age

As the world heads into a newtim e of uncertain ty, it is certa in thatthe United States, as it concludes thesecond cent ury of its nat ionhood , willbe meet ing the most severe challengeever to its world posit ion.

The challenge will come from allfi elds, not ably milit arily and ideologically from the Soviet Unio n, and increasingl y in the economic field fromW estern Euro pe and J apan.

Germany's " Iro n Chancellor" Bismarck, a balance-of-power activist inhis heyday of power a cent ury ago,looked somewhat enviously at thewealth and gro wing power of theUni ted States, and its "splendid isolation" from the turmo il of the European scene. In o ne rather crypt icobservatio n, he proclaimed that "Godlooks over dru nkards, infant s - andthe Uni ted Sta tes of America."

Despi te this sarcasm, Bismarckwasn't far from the truth.

Lon g-time readers of this magazinehave known that Americans trulycould, if they only, understood the irnat ion al heritage, rely up on Almi ghtyGod for their nation al protection.

O ur free book T he United Statesand British Commonwealth in Prophecyexplains how the United States acquired its fabu lous wealth and power- and why this posit ion is nowthreatened as never before. •

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WHYW ERE YOU BORN?

Is there any PURPOSE for human life? Does life,after all, have real MEANING you have never

realized? You need to know!by Herbert W. Armstrong

SYNOPSIS OF PART I

T AST MONTH we co mpared the twoL possibilit ies of orig ins. Either

humanity was created by an intelli gent and Almighty Creato r fo r adefinite PURPOSE - or human life developed by the process of evo lu tion.

We discovered tha t biologists andprop onents of the doctrine of evo lution fail to show any de finite purposefor th e presence of the human fami lyon thi s planet. N eith er do they tell uswhy ma n is as he is - possess ing aweso me intel lectual powers, yet utterlyhelpl ess before the o ns laug h t ofworld problems.

Nor, for that matter , have thewo rld's religions so far given any satisfactory explanatio n.

W e discovered th at the book called-the H oly Bible claims to be the revelati on of basic, necessary kn owledgefor ma n. In th e first two chap ters ofthis book, we discovered th at the Cre ator tells us clearl y and em pha tica llythat man is neither an animal nor animmortal soul and th at man wascreated to be governed by mind , no tins ti net.

W e discovered how the firsthuman beings made the very first scientific experime nt - they took toth emselves the prerogatives of deci ding what is GOOD, and what is EVIL.

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In so doing , the y rejected the G odcent ered WAY of G od's spiritual Law,which would have led to a wo rld ofpeace, pros perity and ha ppi ness. Theyrejected the vita l missing dimensionin human knowledg e.

PART II

T HERE IS much vi tal, basic andimportant kn owledge BEYONDTHE POWERS OF MAN TO DIS

COVER! Such important knowledge asw ha t man IS, WHY man is - WHY hewas put on earth and for what PURPOSE.

And if there is PURPOSE, wh at isthat purp ose? And HOW may we attain it?

W hat is THE WA Y to PEACE? Allnati ons seek and str ive for peace yet none find it - th ey have war!

What are th e TRUE VALU ES in life?T his worl d pursues the FALSE !

Those are the most basic and important th ings man needs to KNOW.Yet he may search for th e ans wers invain. He can KNOW them ONLYthrough revela tio n.

Such questions as: H ow the earthcame ; when it came - how old it is;how old is human life upo n it - themys tery of or igins - abso rb the time ,thought, research and th inking of scientists, philosophers , historians - yet

th ey can come up only wi th guesses,theories, hypotheses - but NO PROOF th e definite knowledge they couldknow ONLY by revelation.

In taking to themselves th e forbidden fru it, the first humans took tothemselves th e de termina tion of whatis GOOD and what is EVIL. I repeat in so doing, they rejected the fact thatGod's living , inexorable spir itual Lawis THE WAY of GOOD - the CAUSE ofall GOOD - and its transgression THEWAY OF EVIL - the CAUSE of all evil.Since they and humanity in generalafter them have take n to themselves thede termination of what is GOOD, theyof necessity have fo llowed THE WAYco ntrary to God's Law. T hey have fol lowed the way that has produced allthe vast mountain of EVILS that hasdescended on th is sick, SICK wo rld !

T hey made them selves com pe ti to rsof the living GOD. That is why it iswritten in Romans 8 :7: "The carnalmind is enmity [hostile} against God:for it is not subject to THE LAWaI'GOD, neither indeed can be."

W ha t IS th eMissing D imension?

So wha t, then , is the missing di me nsion in all knowledge ? It is revelation from GOD!

For even th ough rejected by thefirst humans - even though rejec ted


by manki nd in ge neral - God didbequeath to mankind H is revelation ofbasic knowledge. W e have it IN WRITING! The Hol y Bible is th at revelation. It contains history, instruction ,revelation of basic knowledge , andprophecy.

It does not co ntai n ALL kn owledge. It conta ins that basic, foundational kn owledge otherwise inaccessibleto man.'

What, th en , is WRONG w ithknowledge production tod ay? T hemost vi tal dimension is missing ! Ihave said th at erro r ge nerally comesfrom assuming a false prem ise, takencarelessly for gra nted withou t pro of,and bui lding on that premise. Andwhen th e basic hypothesis or premiseis false, the entire structure built uponit top ples with it !

I have said th at the too ls of modern science are observation, experimentation , and reason. Are th ose too lswrong? NOT AT ALL! The erro r comesfro m rejection of revelation. For revelation is the tru e starting prem ise.W hen man substitutes his own falsehypothesis, the most vi tal dimensionin th e kn owledge prod uc tion is missing !

God 's Word - H is Inst ructionMan ual for mankind - is the FOUNDAT ION of ALL knowledge. It is NOTth e sum to tal of knowledge. It is thefounda tio n - the tru e prem ise - thestarting poin t - th e concept th at directs the approach to the acquisitionof fur ther knowledge.

Man SHOU LD ProduceKnowledge

God INTENDED for man to produceadditional knowledge. He gave us thebasis - the foundation - the premise - the concept. Bu t H e also provided us with eyes with which to observe, wit h hand s and feet to explo reand measure , with means to producelabo ratories, test tu bes, and means ofEXPERIMENTATION. He gave us awesome MINDS wi th wh ich to THINK.

God in tended man to use observation, experimentation , and humanreason. He sup plied us wi th th e basis


- the foundatio n - the start in theright dire ction, with the right co ncept. But our first parents reject ed themost vi tal dim ension in all knowledge . And mankind has cont inued toreject the very FOUNDAT ION of allkn owledge . Knowledge productionhas been op erating with a foundation- based on false premises and erroneou s hypotheses.

That is the reason human kn owledge production has failed to solvehumanity's problems, and to cure theworld 's ills.

Manufacturers of mechan ical orelectri cal appliances send along an instructio n manu al with their produc t.The Bible is our Maker's InstructionManu al whi ch He has sent alongwi th the p rodu ct of His makin g human ity.

Six thousand years of human misery, unhappiness and evils oug ht to

provide sufficient PROOF for thosewi lling to see, tha t hu mani ty, starti ngwith our first parents, rejected th emost vital dimension.

Compelled to Choose

Now rem ember , I said CREATIONIS STILL GOI NG ON. Adam was freelyoffered etern al life. He was compelledto make a choice. Had he (and ofcourse Eve) made the choice to BELI EVE God - accept knowledge fromGo d, instead of taking to themselvesth e determ ination of the kno wledgeof wha t is good and wha t is evil - heand Eve could have taken of the treeof life.

That tree symbo lically representedthe Hol y Spirit of God. Ta king itwo uld have impregnated wi thin themGOD- life - SPIRIT-life. Then Adam 'screation wou ld have been completedwithin his lifet ime. H e wo uld havebeen changed from mortal to immo rtal - from physical, material composition even as God is!

But th e first humans rejected basicrevelat ion of knowledge from God jus t as humanity has done ever since .T hey rejected THE WAY God set inmotion to CAUSE peace, prosperit y,happiness an d joy. They limited the

acquIsI tion of kn owledge to the irHUM AN minds.

The CAUSE of All Evils

And ever since man has tried to gohis own way - governi ng himself living the "GET" way, with unconcern for th e good of others. Andman 's way has resulted in all themountain of evi ls th at has befallenthi s wo rld.

Therein is th e explanation of allthe illiteracy, the poverty, the disease,the filt h and squalor of the worl d'smajor ity.

Therein is the explana tio n of theEVILS that exis t in the "more advanced" and "developed" areas of theworl d. T hey have educa tion - butwith its grea t, vast missing dimension! Education with no knowledgeof th e PUR POSE of life. Educa tio n tha tcan produce computers, fly men tothe moon and back, but cannot solveman 's problems .

And why? Because the problemsare SPIRITUAL and man has rejectedthe knowledge of God's SPIRITUALLAW - the WAY of life that wou ldCA USE peace and un iversal GOOD!

But has God left stricken humanity to its fate?

By no means.G od 's SPIRITUAL CREATION IS still

In progress.

T he T rue Answer to

T hese Questi ons

The real answer was brought outby Job. "If a man die , shall he liveagain?" Job asked - and answered :" All the days o f my appointed timewi ll I wait, till my change come. Thoushalt call, and I will answer thee: thouwilt have a desire to the work of thinehands " Oob. 14:14-15).

T he latt er part of his q uo tatio n,most often overlooked, is the key tothis whole riddle. Read it again!

"Thou wilt have a desire to the workof thine hands".'

Study that ! J ob knew he wasmerely the wo rk of God 's hands ,me rely a piece of divine workmansh ipin the hands of th e Crea tor , merely a

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piece of plastic day in the hand s ofth e Master Potter.

We Are God 'sWorkmanship

The prophet Isaiah explains thi salso : " But now, a Lord, thou art ourfather; we are the clay, and th ou ourpotter; and we all are the work of thyhand " (Isa. 64 :8).

And in calling us forth from thegrave, in the resurrectio n, Go d is having a desire to fi nish the work of Hishands. The model , from which thefinished spiritual product is to bemolded, is material substance human clay.

In the creation of Genesis 1, Godformed and shaped man ph ysically,into God's image. But we do not, ashumans, have the spiritual CHARACTER of the perfect God. During thislifetime, for those whom God calls, ifthey yield and respond, God begins tore-form and shape us spiritually, whilewe become mor e and more like Hi min spir itual character.

For thi s grand and glorious purpose, Go d has marked out a durationof seven th ousand years. Each 24-hourday of the Genesis 1 creation was atype of the seven millennial days ofthe spiritual creation.

Except for those whom God specially and individually calls duringthe first six millenn ial days, Godleaves man to write his lesson inhuman experience. Man made theCHOICE of relying on himself underthe sway and influence of Satan . Godis allowing man to DEMONSTRATE beyond question his helplessness without God's Holy Spiri t - to livein a way that produces peace, happiness, and universal abu ndance.

Or, the parallel : God is allow ingSatan the six millennial days for hislabor of decept ion and evil. And onthat seventh millennial day, he shallno t be allowed to do any of h is evilwork. He shall be imprisoned, while .the living Christ brings TRUTH andSALVAT ION to the world.

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What Is Redemption?

So now let 's look briefly at redemption . What is it ?

" By grace are ye saved throughfaith . . . for we are his workmanship,CREATED in Christ Jesus unto GOOD

WOR KS, whi ch God hath before ordain ed that we should walk in them"(Eph. 2:8-10) . Notice, there are goodworks to salvation.

The "we" in N ew Testament language always means Christians thos e trul y converted. W e, then, areGod's workmanship. Yes! " Created" now being created - to what objective- to what purpose? N ote it! "Untogood works "l Unto perfect spiritualcharacter!

Now Paul here is no t speaking ofAdam's creation, six thousand yearsago. He is speaking of Christians,NOW, being created - unto goodworks.W e are H is wo rkmanship - the Creator is still creating. He is molding ,fash io ning , cha ng i ng us, t ran sforming us to H is own noble, rig hteous , hol y, spiritual character. Yes,creating in us this perfect character.

Salvation, then , is a process'!

The Purpose ofOur Living

But how "the god of th is world"(II Cor. 4 :4) would blind your eyesto that ! He tries to deceive you intothinking all there is to it is just "accept ing Christ" - with "no wor ks"- and presto-chango, you' re pronou~ced "saved."

But the Bible reveals that : " Hethat shall endure unto the end , thesame shall be saved" (Matt . 24:13) .

"Therefore if any man be in Christ,he is a new creatu re" (II Cor. 5:17) .Yes, a NEW CREATION !

" And be renewed in the spirit ofyour MI ND; and that ye put on thenew man, wh ich after GOD IS [being]CREATE D in righteousness and true holiness" (Eph. 4 :23-24).

It all beg ins in the mind . Repent.ance , the first step in salvation, is achange of mind. We believe in themind. T he receiving and indwelling

of the Holy Spirit is a renewing oj themind. Gradually, th rough Bible study,learning to live by "eve ry W ord ofGod ," being conti nually corrected,keeping in constant prayer, the verymind of Go d is placed within theyielded man . And thu s the new man- a holy, spiritual character - isbeing created in righteousness and intru e holiness.

Born Again .. . H OW?

In thi s new creation God works inman , the man must be "born again ."

God made Adam solely out ofmatter. Jesus said to Nicodemus,"T hat which is born of the flesh ISflesh" ! Then He explained we mu stbe born again to enter into the Kingdom of God, not again of the flesh no t entering our mother's wo mb , asNicodemus thought He meant - butborn of the Spirit - born oj God. Aswe were born of the flesh from afleshly human father , so now we mustbe born of the Spirit by God, theheavenly spiritual Father.

(For a more detailed and techn icalexposit ion of this process, write forour free boo klet Just What Do YouMean - Born Again?)

And this process is brough t about,in Go d's grea t purpose, by a man firstcoming to see how wrong are theways of mortal hu mans, thinking andliving contrary to the revealed laws ofGod. T he first stage is repentance.Surrender to Almighty God !

Bu t we now are the "clay mod els,"in the hands of the Master Potter.

If in this life our thi nki ng, ourways, are changed until we really dobecome - in spiritual charac ter new creatures in Ch rist Jes us, conformed to H is will, then that claymo del , worked over, fashioned andshaped as God wo uld have it , is finally turned int o the finished spiritualcreation.

Begins and En ds in Christ

T his entire creatio n begins In

Christ, and is finished by Hi m.God created all thi ngs by J esus

Christ (Eph . 3:9). J esus was the work-


man , then, who created the origina lAdam . But our spiri tual creation beg ins in H im , too. He it is who became our living example - w hocame into the world to lead the way- and becam e the Jirstbom fromamong the dead ( Ro mans 8:29) the Jin t completed, perfected spir itualman.

Christ Is Alive

N ow come to the ultimate purposeof human life on the earth.

I t is stu pe ndous, beyond the capacirv, perhaps, for many to g rasp. Butsee it , wirh your own eyes, in yourow n Bible '

Each year, on the Sun day called"Easter," millions celebrate th e resu rrect ion of Christ. But do they reallybelieve that He rose from the dead ?For th at matter , how man y bel ieveHe really was dead at all ? The Bibl esays He rose from the dead.'

WHY WERE YOUBORN? You can haveboth pa rts of this vital article free in handy booklet form by writing thePlain Truth office nearest you. See insid efront cover fo r ad dresses.


Bu t how many bel ieve He has beenalive ever since? How man y believethe very Christ who died is alive today ) How ma ny know what He hasbeen doing these past 1900 years)

DO YOWThe ent ire bo ok of Hebrews is de

vo ted to telling us what He has beendoing , what He is doing now, andwhat He will do in the future.

Read it in your Bible. Expectshocking surprises - HAPPY sur prises.

Begin at the beginning of Hebrews- chapter 1, verse 1: " God , who atsundry times and in diverse mannersspake in time past unto the fathers byth e prophet s, hath in these last daysspo ken unto us by his Son, who m hehath appo in ted heir of all th ings , bywhom also he made the worlds... ."

The "a ll things" refers to the EN

TIR E U N I VERSE ' It is so tran slated inthe Mo ffatt transl ation.

Continuing the same sentence,

" .. . w ho being the brightness of hisg lory , and the express image of hisper son .. .. " Mo tTatt translates tha t" express image" as " stamped withGod's own cha racter. " Continue:" .. . and upholding all th ings by the

word of hi s power .. ." (ve rse 3).Moffat t trans lates that as " sustains

th e uni verse with his word of pow er."In o ther wo rds, God Almighty, the

Father of the Kingdom of God whi ch is the d ivin e FAMILY o f God has appoint ed th e resurrected, livingChrist , Hi s Son, as Chief Executive inth e admi nistratio n of the Government of God over the enti re uast universe!

Several times, in the Bible, converted Chris tians, in whom is God'sH oly Spirit, are called heirs of God,and joint-heirs wi th J esus Christ( Rom . 8:17; G al. 3:29 ; 4 :7 ; Titus3:7, erc.). Now co uld th at mean weare appointed to SHA RE that rulershipof the entire vast universe withChrist )

Beg in now with Hebrews 2:6,quoting from Psalms 8 :4-6. The qu estion is asked , "What is man, that"thou art m indful of him ?"

Yes, what is th ere abo ut sinni ng ,mortal man th at God should be con cerned about him ?

What are YO U - that God shouldbe concerned about YOu ?

N ote well the in credible answer.

The TranscendentPurpose

" T hou rnadesr him a little lowerthan the angels" (He b. 2:7). Yes,now, much higher than animals, burstill lower than ang els who are composed of spirit (see Hebrews 1:5-7,13-14 ).

Continue, verses 7-8 : " . . . th oucrow nedst him with g lory and honour, and didsr set him over the worksof thy hands : thou hast pu t all thingsin subjection under his feet. For inthat he put all in subjection underhim, he left nothing that is not putun der him ."

In chapter 1, quo ted above, "a llthings" is also translated "the uru-

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verse." Could it mean God has putthe entire vast universe under man ?That has been too utterly fantastic foreven theologians to believe! But notice the last sentence in that verse:"But now we see not yet all thingsput under him. "

Inheriting theUniverse

That explains it . God has not yetput the vastness of the universe underman's contro l and go vern ing. N otwhile we are still human ! Man has sofar proved he is incapable of evengoverning himself, here on the earth!No, we don't see man yet in such fantasti c power.

But what do we see, now ?N otice the ninth verse: "But we

see J esus, who was made a little lowerthan the angels " - mortal, likewe are now - " for the sufferingof death , crowned with glory andhonour .. ." - as explained in thefirst chapter - CROWNED - the executive RULER over the universe " . .. that he by the grace of Godshould taste death for every man . Forit became him, for whom are allth ing s, an d by w ho m are al lth ings . . ." - God created everyth ingBY J esus Chri st (Eph. 3:9) - " . . . inbring ing many sons unto glory, tomake the captain of the ir salvat ionperfect through sufferings" (verse 10) .

D o you grasp what that says?" In bringing many so ns unto

glory ." We humans who repent,com e to BE LIEVE God - believe whatHe says - believe what He reveals bel ieve the KNOWLEDGE He reveals tous, now, through the Bible - insteadof rejecting know ledge from Him asAdam and Eve did - as most in science and high er education do - webecom e God 's SONS when He putswithin us Hi s Holy Spirit. W Eare theSONS He is bringing to this supremeGLORY!

How Christ WasMade Perfect

Now gras p thi s: " . .. to make theCA PTA IN of their salva tion . ... "

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Christ is the Capta in of our salvation.Or, that may be translated also as the"pioneer," who has gone on ahead ,before us, into this matchless GLORY.He already has inherited all things the universe!

But notice further : "to make thecaptain of their salvation PERFECT" HOW? How was even Christ madeperfect? - "THROUGH SUFFERINGS"!

And not ice, in verse 11: " .. . He isnot ashamed to call them brethren."Christ, in GLORY, is not ashamed tocall us - who have Hi s Spirit - whorely on and obey Him - BRETHREN!

"Though he were a Son , yet learnedhe obedience by the things which he suif ered; and being madeperfect, he becamethe author of eternal salvation unto allthem that obey him " (Heb. 5:8-9) .

There it is again. J esus is the authorof our salvation. He wrote that salvation by Hi s experience, and that wasthe first writing of it. He was the firsthuman ever to achieve it - to be perfected , fi nished as a perfect character!

Jesus learned ! He suffered! But outof it came perfect ion .

Do you begin to und erstand?Satan did not upset Go d's plan . All

th at has happened, God forekn ew andpermitted - for a purpose. Redemption is not a repairing of the damage- not a restor ing to a condition " justas go od" as Adam before th e " fall."No, that was merely the beginning the material creation. Redemption isthe gr eat spiritual creation . In it, Godis creating in us something infinitelysuperior to Adam before he sinned .

D o you see now what Go d is creating, in you and me?

He is creati ng someth ing hig herthan angels or archangels . He is creating the sup reme masterpiece of allGod 's creatio n - holy, perfect spiritual character.

And what is character?

What Spiritual RighteousCh aracter Is

Perfect character, such as Go d iscreating in us, is a person finally madeimmortal, who is a separate enti tyfrom Go d, who , through independent

f ree choice has come to know, and to

choose, and to do, what is right. Andthat means to believe and know thatwhat God instructs is what is RI GHT.

Inanimate rock will roll downhillby the power of gravity. W ater runsin its channels through creeks and rivers into oceans. Great planets, someman y times larger than the earth ,must travel in God 's ordained course.These things are marvelous examplesof the creative power of Go d. Yetthese things are inanimate - the yhave no mind, no free choice, nocharacter.

Dumb animals do not sin . They donot know enough to sin. T hey act byinstinct, or according to the trainingof others. They do not have character.

Character is the possession andpractice of love, patie nce, mercy,faith, kindness, gentleness, meekness,temperance, self-restraint, and righ tsel f-direc tion . Charac ter involvesknowledge, wisdo m, purpose, abili ty- all properly controlled and developed, through independent cho ice.

Holy, righteous character is someth ing that is develo ped only throughexperience. Experience requires timeand circumstances . And so Godcreates time and Go d creates circumstances which prod uce character.

And so God first formed out of thedust - our of matter - the fleshand-bloo d man, in the image of Go d(and " image" means form or shape,not co mpos it io n). And th rou ghseven th ousand years of experience,Go d is taking the human familythrough a process, the results ofwhich, even "as we have borne theimage of the earth y [mortal Adam},we shall also bear the image of the heavenly" - Chr ist Jesus im mortal, the"seco nd " Adam - (I Cor. 15:49).

Yes, once fashioned, shaped, andmolded accordi ng to Go d's purpose,even we "shall be LI KE HIM, for weshall see him as he is" (I J ohn 3:1-2) .

WHY All T his HumanSuffering?

T here are just two broad pri nciplesof life - God 's W ay, or Go d's Law,


summed up in the Ten Commandments, and Satan's way of competition, greed , vanity.

All suffering - all unhappiness,fear, misery, and death - has comefrom the transgression of God 's Law.Living by that g reat Law of love ,then , is the only way to peace, happiness, and joy.

God placed man on this planet tolearn th at lesson - to learn itthrough generati ons of experience.

Yes, we, too, learn by suffering.Go d has revealed the true way - Hisrevelation always has been available toman. But man, g iven the right of freechoice, always has turned his back onGod, and Go d's tru e way. And eventhough man as a whole still refuses tosee or learn the lesson , he has writtenthis lesson indelibly in the histo ry ofhuman experience.

We learn th rough experience andth rough suffering . This, then , is thevery stuff of which character is made.

What We Shall Be Like

O nce this godly CHARACTER is developed in us, what shall we be like inthe resurrection?

Already, now, in th is life, the trul yconverted Christian, having God'sHol y Spirit dwelling within , beingled by God 's Spirit, is a SON of God.In prayer he addresses God as " Father."

Notice it in your Bible: "Beloved,now are we the sons of God , and itdoth not yet appear what we shallbe ..." (I John 3:2). What we shallbe is not now apparent - does notnow APPEAR - is not yet seen . Continue, " ... but we know that, whenhe shall appear, we shall be like him ;for we shall [then] see him as he is."Our appearance, then , will be likethat of Christ now.

And what does Christ look like,now?

Hi s appearance is described in Revelation 1:14-16 : "His head and hishairs were white like wool , as whiteas snow; and his eyes were as a flameof fire; and his feet like unto finebrass, as if the y burned in a furnace ;

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and his voice as the sound of manywaters . . . and his countenance was asthe sun shinerh in his streng th."

But on ce actually born of God entering into His Kingdom - Hi sFAMILY - by the resurrection, weshall be composed of spirit. We shall belike God , and like Christ now is, completely sinless. "Whosoever is born ofGod doth not commit sin; for hisseed remaineth in him , and he cannotsin, because he is born of God "(I J ohn 3:9).

As Christ was born of Go d by H isresurrect ion (Romans 1:3-4) , so shallwe be. " For whom he did foreknow,he also did predest inate to be conformed to the image of his Son, thathe might be the firstbo rn of manybrethren" (Rom. 8:29) .

At that time we shall be changedfrom mortal to im mo rt al. "Forour . . . [citizenship] is in heaven ;from whence also we look for theSaviour, the Lord Jes us Christ: whoshall change our vile bod y, that itmay be fashio ned like unto hi sg lorious bod y . . ." (Phil. 3:20-21,marginal reading).

Do you begin to comp rehend wh yyou were bo rn ?

O ne religion believes that the finalend result of human life is to be totalex tinction of ind ividu al consciousness. How glorious is the truth promising the very opposite extreme!

Now Understand Why YouWere Born!

The purpose of life is that in usGod is really re-creating His own kind- reproducing Himself after His ownkind - for we are, upon real conversion , actuall y begotten as sons (yet unborn ) of God . Then through study ofGod's revelation in His Word, livingby His every Word, constan t prayer,daily experience with trials and testings , we grow spiritually more andmore like God, until , at the time ofthe resurrection, we shall be instantaneously changed from mortal intoimmortal - composed of spirit. Weshall then be born of God - actuallyborn into the God FAMILY!

For , remember, the word " Go d" inGenesis 1 : 1 comes to us from the Hebrew word Elohim. Elohim means ONEGOD - not many go ds. But that ONEGOD is a divine FAMILY - a KI NGDOM . There is but one true Church one Churc h, but many me mb ers(I Cor. 12:20) .

So it is with God.As an illustratio n, there is the min

eral kingdom , the plant kingdom, theanimal kingd om , the human kingdom , in th is material world. Spiri tually, there is the angel kingdom, and,high above all, the Kingdom of Go d.A human - flesh and blood - canno t enter into the Kingdom of God(John 3:6; I Cor. 15:50) , but one bornof Go d can.

The Fantasti c, IncrediblePotential

Do you really grasp it? The purpose of your being alive is that finallyyou be born int o the Ki ngdom ofGod, which is the divine FAMILY ofGod.

W hen you fully grasp this tremendous, wo nderful tru rh , yourmind will be filled with transcende ntjoy. It gives a new meaning to life sowo nderful you' ll never com prehendthe full heig hts of its splendo r.

It means, of course, total renunciation and den ial of those injuriousthings and ways which have falselyseemed so bright and alluring to th iswo rld.

But your eyes will be open at lastto the g reat decept ion - the scaleswill fall from your blinded vision you'll see the meaning of life, its g reatpurpose, as you never dreamed it couldbe. Giving up this world' s evils,temptations and pitfalls - its snaresand delusions whi ch have glitteredand then ended only in sor row andsuffering - is but emerging fromgross darkness into the splendor oftru e light, and of happiness and joyforever!

In the words of I Peter 1:8, youwill " rejoice with joy unspeakableand full of GLORY"! •

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advancenewsin the wake of today's WORLD EVENTS

With th e oil-rich Mid dle East staggering along in itspredictably un stabl e manner, some nat ion s are looking fornew oil sources closer to home. Forem ost am ong these isJ apan , which cur rently depends on the volat ile MiddleEast for some 90 perce nt of its petroleum needs.

Of late, the search has taken th e J apanese to the Senkaku (or Tiaoyutai) Islands, a group of eight tiny isletslocated some 150 miles northeast of Taiwan in the EastChina Sea and 205 m iles off the Chi nese mai nland . Petroleu m geologis ts say these un inhabited islands and theseabed surro unding them have the potent ial of becomingone of the ten major oi l-pro duc ing centers in th e wo rld.

T he Senkakus could thus become Asia's " NorthSea." In the actual North Sea, of course, several Euro peanna tions have already beg un to tap large reserves o f oi l andna tura l gas.

Rival claims to the Senka kus are complicati ng thewho le issue - and slowi ng down explora tion. As SenatorGeorge Aiken of Vermo nt has poi n ted our, " Whereveryou find oi l, you find all kinds of pol itical and militaryimplicati ons." The Senkakus are a dram atic case in poin t.

T he J apanese consider the Senkakus to be part of theRyuk yu chain. The Natio nalist Chinese govern ment o nT aiwan , however, also claims sovereignty over th e islands .Further complicati ng the issue, the Chinese Co mmunistson the mai nland agree the Senka kus belo ng to Ch ina but to their China, not to the ario nalisrs.

In mid-1970 Taiwan granted a concession for oil explora tion to Gulf Oil. Japan meanwhile tu rned over drilling rights to the J apan Oil D evelopm ent Co rporation.

In 1970, the Co mmunis t New Chi na News Agencyanno unced that "any attempt of the Ja panese m ili rarisrsto occ upy th e islands wi ll be co nsidered agg ression againstChi nese territo ry."

For the present the J apanese have chosen to take Peking's warn ing at face value and to lie low . Bur the futuremight bri ng an agreement be tween Japan and mainlandChina - wi th Taiwan pro testing, of course - over jointdevelopment of the Senkaku oi l reserves. Even a compromise on the sovereign ty issue might be wo rth it to J apa-

• Asia' s JlNorth Sea" nese industry, presently dependent on the Mid dle East forthi s most vital fuel source.

• New Ties to Europe

Co nstru ctio n is now un derway on two marv els ofengi neeri ng destined to more closely link Britain and agood portion of Asia to the growing world economicpower hub of Europe.

The first project - a long-sough t-for run nel underthe English Chan nel - is descr ibed as the most staggeringeng ineeri ng feat of the century. And at the other end ofEuro pe , construc tio n is progressing on a giant suspensionbridge - the fourth largest in th e wo rld - design ed tolink Asia to Europe across the Bosporu s Strait fo r the firsttime in 2,500 years. The Bosporus divides the Turkishmetropoli s of Istanbul into European and Asian sectors.

T he long-plann ed and oft-postponed Channel Tunnel project is scheduled for completion in the late 1970'sat an esti mated cost of some $900 million. The Cha nnelTunnel, extending from Folkesro ne in sou theas ternEngland to Calais on th e northwest coast of France, wi llfacilit ate rapidl y expanding travel and trade between Britain and the other members of the enlarged Common Market.

At the oppos ite end of th e Co ntinent, the Bospo rusBridge will be the longest suspe nsio n bridge in Europe orAsia when it is completed in late 1973. The mile-longspan wi ll be the first linking of Asia to Europe since KingD arius of Persia made a "bridge" of rafts in 513 B.C.

A bridge across the Bosporus has become an economic necessity. Overworked 50-year-old ferries presentlyprovide the on ly lin k for motorists across the strait, resulting in conges tio n of traffic and trade . T he new span willcarry six lanes for traffic and two pedestrian walkways, an dlink T ur key's major European and Asian road networks.

Eastwa rd from Turkey extends a major internationalhig hway system throughout much of Asia, now largelycomplete. And to the west are already well-developed roadand rail networks - partially across Co mmunist soil extending into the heart of Europe. The new bridge coul dmake Turkey a major wo rld crqssroa ds in the future.

- Gene H. Hog berg

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EUROPESupergiant ofthe Seventies?

The European Common Market is emerg ing toshake the world - economically and politically.Here is the dramatic story behind Europe's return

to power.

by Ray Kosanke

W o WOULD have believed itpossible , in the late 1940's,th at a U ni te d Eu rop e

would emerg e less than three decadesremoved from the ruin of W orldW ar II ? And only 15 years after thesigning of the T reaty of Rome.

Most would have thought it impossible.

Yet it has happened, and is happenin g , just as thi s maga zine has longpredicted.

Tod ay, the European Co mmonMarket stands on the threshold ofunparalleled world power. Its presence is increasing ly felt in international circles - financial and poli tical. Before the end of this decade, itmay well becom e the most powerfuleconomic bloc in histor y.

The next leap forward ? On J anu ary1, 1973, if all goes according to plan,

*T he s i .~ are \X'esr G errnan v. France. Iralv, theNetherland s. Belgium . and Luxemb ourg. .


Britain , Ireland , Norway and D enmark will o fficially join with the Six*,and the Ten will capture a whoppingone third of all intra-European andwo rld trade.

The war-torn, disunited W esternEurope of 1945 is emerging as a suPER GI A NT in the 1970's.

Europe 's Rem arkable Story

Euro pe in 1914 was the most influential continent in the world. Butby 1945 many of its cities had beentwice redu ced to massive heaps ofrubble, devastated by two wo rld wars.

On September 19, 1946 in Zurich,Swit zerland, W insto n Churchill proclaimed: "We must build a kind ofUnited States of Europe ." Reflect ingo n what h app en ed in Europe ,Churchill later said: "T his noble continent is the orig in of most of the culture, arts , philosophy and science ofboth ancient and modern times. IfEurope were once united in the shar-

ing of its commo n inheritance, therewoul d be no limit to the happin ess,to the prosperity and glory which itsthree-to-four hu ndred million peoplewoul d enjoy."

T hen, referring to the hatred andmilit ancy that have long dividedEurope, Churchill pro phesied : " Allthis cou ld be ended at a single stroke. . . the peoples of Europe have onlygo t to wake up one morn ing and resolve to be happy and free by becom ing one family of nations, banded toge ther from the Atl ant ic to the BlackSea for mutual aid and pro tectio n.One spasm of resolve!"

For Churchill, the beginning ofsuch a family of nations had to be reconcilia tio n between two age-longenem ies: " 1 am now go ing to saysomething that will astonish you. Th efirst step in the re-creation of theEurop ean family mu st be a partnership bet ween France and Germany."

Europeans who caug ht a gli mpse

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of Churchill's vision and subsequen tlyshared it with him , kn ew that Europe- the cradle of modern civilizatio n- had to change.

But first Europe, with the massiveaid of the U. S. Marshall Plan , had toface a more important challenge the im mense struggle of resur rectingthe industrial might of the conti nentso that the wheels of a vibrant industry could tu rn once again !

T he economic qu estion for thosevisionaries was inex tricably tied to thepoli tical concern : how to prevent future wars on the continent of Europe.Euro pe had to overcome the old hatreds bred by nation alism, which hadtaught "me first" and " my coun try right or wrong." Especially, Europehad to find ways to bury the age-lo ngenmity between France and Germany.

The limitations of na tional sovereignty were historically obviousEuropean unity was a mu st .

Fal se Sta rts to R eal Progress

A number of atte mp ts to achieveun ity were made in the immediateyears after Word War II , but theymet with little suc cess. Notableamong these was the Council ofEurope, established in 1949 inStrasbourg, France . The Council ofEurope failed to bring abou t poli ticalunity in Europe because it was invested with no real powers. Its meetings became inco nclusive and frus trating diplomatic con ferences.

Drawing from the failure of suchearlier attempts, a completely new approach was developed. The new idea,largel y the work of Jean Monnet, the" father of the Common Market," wasto tran sfer to a single organizationreal powers over a limited field.

On May 9, 1950 with Monnet athis side, French Foreign MinisterR obert Schuman announced to

Europe a revolutio nary idea : "Mygovern ment proposes to place thewhole of the production of coal andsteel in France and Germany under acommon high authority in an organisation open to the participation ofthe other count ries of Euro pe. . . .

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" It will change the destiny of theseregions which for so long have beenused for making the weapon s of warof whi ch th ey have been mostfrequently the victims. The solidarity . . . establi shed by joint productionwill sho w that a war between Franceand Germany becomes not only un thinkable but materially impossible."

The Schuman Decl arat ion led tothe signing of the Paris Treaty onApril 18, 1951 by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherland s and Luxembo urg . T he ParisT reaty formally established the Euro pean Coal and Steel Comm uni ty(ECSC) whic h began in July of 1952.This was the first European organization to be given supranational powersby each of the Six. It possessed thepower to operate under a single highauthori ty, apart from any of the natio nal governments of the Six.

The immediate success of the European Coal and Steel Communi ty ledto other attempts in the early 1950'sto form European defense and po litical commu nities. But the old nemesisof natio nalism halted progress.

Europeans again fell back on theoriginal Monnet idea of increasedpowers in a limi ted area. At a conference in J une 1955 in Messina, Italy, itwas proposed that efforts be madetoward possible economic un ion andjoint development of the peacefuluses of atomic energy .

O n the strength of a lengthy studyand report by the committee set up atthe Messina Conference and led byBelgian Foreign Min ister Paul -HenriSpaak , the six nations of the ESCSmet in Rome o n March 25, 1957 tosig n two new treaties . These, together, became known as the "Treatyof Rome." These treaties broughtinto effect, as ofJ anu ary 1, 1958, bo ththe European Atomic Energ y Community (known as EURATOM) andthe European Economic Community(the EEC or Common Market ) .

T he Common Market Today

Descriptions of the EEC run fromits being a "supergiant" to a "robot

with six hands" to "very little morethan a machine for making words." Acritical appraisal appearing in theBritish weekly, The Economist, statedthat " its first myth is to call itselfEurope when it is in reality a self-centered custo ms uni on ; plu s a self-centered farm poli cy, pu t together by increasingly self-centered individualgovernments."

There is a bit of truth in all ofthese claims . What cannot be denied ,however, is that the watching worldtoday is seeing in Europe's economicmiracle only a beg inning! We havesaid for years, in the pages of ThePLAI N T RUTH, tha t Europe will become equally strong politically andmilitarily - or Europe would ceaseto exist as more than a defun ct andinward-looking group of second rate ,bickering natio ns.

N orman MacRae, deputy edito r o fThe Economist recognizes thi s fact ,too: " A huge thing is happening inEurope. They are hammering out thecons titution under which more than400 million of us are likely to be governed before the end of this cent ury .And they are hammering it out whilewe all pretend that they are doin g nosuch thing. "

The eventual goa l: political union.Already the Community of Six is theworld 's leadin g trading power, with20% of the world's imports and exportS crossing its frontiers . (This figure does not include intra-Community trade.)

An Event of HistoricalSignificance

The EEC represents a revolution aryaccomplishment on a vast scale. Histori an Arnold Toynbee writes inEuropean Community magazine :

"Volun tary associations betweensovereign states are rare eno ugh to behistoric, and thi s is parti cularly trueof W estern Europe. . .. The creation,in the nin eteenth cent ury, of a un itedItaly and a united Germany wereepoc h-making even ts in Europ ean histo ry; but the Co mm unity even withinits origi nal confines, exceeds all


Commission of Europ ean Com munitie s

Individually, the small European nations have little chance of beingheard. Collec tively, they become partof a greater who le, able to makethemselves heard in a larger sou ndingboard and able to be secure in thecomfort of being a member of an international organiza tion .

A nation's or a mulrination bloc'sinfluence is based on its economicstrength, on its rate of technicalgrowth, and on the stimulus of alarge home market. But it also needsa strong central government.

Former president of the EEC Execut ive Commission, Jean Rey, explained it in an interview with thiswriter. The greatest difficulty theCommunity faces today is the factthat it does not have a strong centralgovernment, and achieving it seemsfar in the future.

What the nations of Europe wantare the benefits of being a singleunion, while at the same time retaining the individual (and often nationalistic) freedom to rule themselves asthey see fit. In other words , they wantthe fruits of being a giant economicbloc, but are not yet willing to mergetheir nations in to one solid uni r andaccept the group responsibili ty thatprosperity and economic power bring.

liTHE UNITED STATES IS ON THE DOWNWARD PATH and it will be ex tremely difficult to save them from total collapse. " So said President of the EuropeanCommunity's Executive Comm ission , Sicco Mansholt of the Netherlands, onFebruary 9 , 1972 .Mansholt further asserted that only the strengthening of the Common Market wouldenable it to come to grips with the modern world and its problems of overpopulation, ind ustria liza tio n, and pollution. Mansholt added that, if a stronger Europe could not show the world some way out of the d ilemma , the cause would belost since " the United States does not possess the necessary political strength togu ide the world toward the solution of this major problem. " The conclusion of theoutspoken Mansholt: "Europe has a mission to accomplish !"

previous voluntary European union sin a scale to a degree that amo unts toa difference in kind."

W hy is the EEC considered such ahuge achievement? Most directly because it has induced the governmentsof six independe nt nations to eachgive up a small deg ree of sovereignty- tha t is, a small amount of decisio nmaking power. Nations, like individ-


uals, tend to clutch very tightly toth em selves whateve r vestiges ofpower they individua lly hold.

T he six nations have not given uptheir sovereignty to the EEC becauseof a feeling of outgoing concern fortheir fellowmen. Rather, it's a question of their own internal survival.The wo rld is dominated by two superpowers, the U. S. and the U.S.S.R.

Why No Single GovernmentYet Possible

A single government over a UnitedStates of Europe is still too much forpresent-day European leaders to accept . As President Georges Pompidouof France said in a news conference,"The problem lies in knowing onwhat bases, by what methods and inwhat forms we shall achieve this government."

For President Pompidou, thepresent EEC Commission structurecannot be the answer: "Such a government of Europe would arise no tout of the Commission, bu t only outof national governments joining together to make decisions that werevalid for all."

In effect, this is a reiteration of the

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Interview with

Walter Hallstein

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P RO FESSO R Walter Hall srein is aformer presid ent of the Euro

pean Commission Uanuary 1958until July 1967). He is currentl y thepresident of the European Movement, dedicated to maintaining thedynamism of the European idea. Theposition gives him a platform to continue his efforts toward European integ ration and unity.

QUESTION: Has European integration been progressing fast enoughin your opinion?

ANSWER: 1 ever fast enough in myopinion. I'm a mili tant Euro pean andI wo uld like to see it do ne completely. Th at means not what onecalls econo mic integration only. butpoliti cal integration. But it's only fairto state that it has moved rather well,despite some periods in whi ch we hada slow down.

Q. Do you feel that the integration has been successful as far asit's gone?

A. Indeed, because what we wantedto do was to merge some parts ofpoliti cal sovereignty of the memb erstates. That means replacing nation alpolicies by commo n pol icies, Euro pean pol icies.

Q. One of your most widelyquoted statements is: "Weare notin business. . .. "

A. I said it at Harvard.

Q. At Harvard you said, "We arenot in business at aIL We are inpolitics." Now is full politicalunity a distant objective or is itnearing reality?

A. It is already half of the reaIi ty weare aiming at. What we are merg ingby this phenomenon which we call"economic integration" is not economy, because it's not businessmenwho merg e, not firms, not corporations. It's not a cooperative of consumers, or , let's say a European unionof workers . It is the putting together,the merger of policies in these fields.But it' s not yet complete, because theidea of the final state of thi s uni fi cation of Europe was - as it has beensaid by \'V'inston Churchill for instance. or Robert Schuman - tomerge also the fields of foreign policyand defense pol icy. If thi s merger isadded and if the structure of ourEuropean communities is widenedand re-enforced, streng thened to adegree that we can really speak of afederal state, then we have reachedour goa l.

Q . What major problems andobstacles still lie in the path ofpolitical union?

A. Habits are our main dif1iculty.Just the fact that governments andthe governmental services are notready, not willing , or not easilybrought to a point where they giveup competences they have now. Thi sfact we have to fight. and for thi sreason we have this difficulty.

Q. \Vhat is the organization thatyou now head , called the "European Movement" ? What is thatorganization doing to promote thecause of European unity?

A. W ell, being unpleasant with thegovernments when the y are movingtoo slow. alert ing public opinion if

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anything which should be done inour view has not been done. Maintaining the dynam ism of thi s European idea, gaining over for support ofthe youth for the realization of European un ity.

Q. D o yo u think it wi ll ever bepossible to co mple tely subordinatenational interests to common comm unity in te res ts?

A. I don't think that is the real aimof what we are doing , because we arenot heading for a central state. W eare headin g for a federati on . And thisnecessarily means that the composingstates of the federation do not disappear. That again means that there arestill areas, even wide areas, of competence of these states. Let 's rememb erthe situation in the Uni ted States ofAmerica, the states' rights discussion .Let's remember the cantons of Switzerland which are extremely eager tomaintai n their rights against the central power. Let 's speak of Germanywhere the composing sta tes have stilla wide area of competence . So theproblem is not to replace completelystate and nation al state competenceby commo n Euro pean competence. Itis to replace it where thi s is necessary,and th is is enough for these commo nEuropean institution s to g ive them amost important charge.

Q. Will it be possible to sublima te na tional interests enough sothat Europe can speak with onevoice?

A. I'm sure it can be done. The factthat we have reached in the last 20years as mu ch as we have is proof ofthe fact that it is possible to do so.G reat econo mic and o ther interestswhich had been taken care of on anational level so far have already beensubordinated to common competence. Agricultural polici es are onlyone example of man y.

Q . Critics of the Com mon Marke tclaim th at it is in w ardl y orientedand protec tioni st. Is th at true?

A. It is not true at all. It 's an old

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reproach and complaint. But if I mayjust give one example of the fact tha twe are outward looking and that weare doing our best to lead a liberalpolic y with the outside world . WhatI mean is the Kennedy round. Withour American friends we negotiatedtariff redu ction s really unheard of inthe history of world trade and to theprofit of everybody we did so.

But there is one grain of truth, Iwould say, in thi s idea that the merecreation of something like the European Community has a very imp ortant consequence for persons insidethis Community. They are treated differentl y from facts and persons outside. But thi s is like with a marriage.You belong together and thi s issomething which canno t be a sufficient reason for those outside to saywe have discrimin ated against them.

Q. What will be the impact uponthe world of an expan ded community?

A. If we take the program as awhole, including its last aims, including poli tical integration, foreign pol icy, defense po licy, then it reallymeans a change in the system ofequilibrium of the actual wo rld. Iwouldn 't say an other third superpower besides the United States ofAmerica and the Soviet Union. Butsomething comparable to that will becreated, and this we thi nk is verygo od in order to cont ribu te to thatcentra l goal which we are followingwith the whole construct ion, namel ypeace in the world.

Q. Looking into the future, is theCommunity dest ined to become athird force in th e world?

A. Certainly no r. The me an in gbehind th is expression "a third force,"by the people who use the term, issomething between the Democrat icworld and the Co mmunist world. W ebelong absolu tely and without anyreservations , any restricti on s to thefree world . So the result o f it underthe aspect of the relatio nship betweenEast and West will certainly be a

strengthening of the Democratic halfof the world.

Q. Relations between the Community and the Uni ted States arestrained at the moment. What isneeded to increase harmonybetween both sides of the Atlantic?

A. Sitting together, talk ing togetherand finding out that we are link edtogether by much more that we havein commo n than by the point s offrict ion in economic affairs. And let 'snot forget one th ing . Let 's no t lookat all these matte rs of g reat economicinterest only from a standpoint ofmaterial interest. Let 's see the political element in these th ings, in thesed iscussion s be tween the Europea nCo m m u nity and o ur Ame r ica nfriends.

Q. T he Com mon Marke t h asacq ui red enor m o us econo mi cpower alrea dy. It 's by far theworld 's larg est trading unit, ye tth e ultimate goal of the Com m u n ity remains political union. Arethere safeguards within the Community st ructure to m ake certainthat no su perman could co mealong and direct the re sources of aU nited Europe to the detr im ent ofother nations?

A. The European solution is almos ta pla tonic idea of a system of checksand balances. As I said already, theidea is not to create a cent ral sta te.The idea is to create a federation . Thiswould mean the survival of a certainnumber of tensions which characterized the actua l situation, tension sbetween the different member states,because they go on having their ow ninterest. And there will always be acertain tension between th e centralpower, the Com muni ty po wer, theEuropean powe r and the power of theparticular enti ties whic h are includedby th is European system. This in myview is an absolute gua rantee againstthe possibilit y that one superman cancome and make out of th is g reat andpow erfu I enri ty a weapon to achievewhat he wants to do personally.


Institutions of TheEuropean Economic

CommunityThe daily work of runn ing the

European Economic Co mmunity(EEC) is handled by Co mmun ity institutions which include a Councilof Min isters and , as its executivebranch, a permanent Co mmissionsitt ing in Brussels. T he ministers,who represent their respecti ve government s, gather in Brussels as occasions demand. T hey alone are empowered to make important po licydecisions. T he nin e-man Commission drafts or initiates policy. It thenimp leme nts the Counci l of Ministers' decisions. These decisions arebind ing on all six member nations.

The EEC also has a Court of J ustice, located in Luxembourg , and aEuropean Parliament of 142 members from the national parliame ntsof the Six. T he European Parl iamentmeets in Strasbourg , France. For thetime being, the Parliament has noreal powers over the Communi tybudget (althoug h th is is being reconsidered ). It is no t allowed toveto decisions of the Council ofMinis ters.

The language barrier is one problem the Commu nity institutionsconstantly face. It is a reflection of

(Continued from page 23)position the late Charles de -Gaulletook while boycotting the Community for 7 months in 1965. De Gaullesaw the EEC and first CommissionPresident Walter Hallsrein as movingroo rapidl y roward federati on . Indeference ro De Gaulle and France,Germany withdrew its support forHallsrein and Jean Rey succeeded himas President of the Commission.

The supranational EEC Commission is not directly responsible toindividual national governments and is, in fact, expressly forbidden ro


the various differing cultures represented in the EEC. There are fourofficial languages - French , German , Dutch and Italian - in wh ichthe Spokesman Group is constantlychurning ou t translations to keepthe people of the six nations abreastof Communi ty activities. If the fourcandidate countries do ent er theEEC as scheduled on Ja nuary 1,

1973, th is proble m will be furthercompo unded. The English languagewill, to a large extent , dominate thenew member nations because of thelarge number of Scand inavians whospeak it.

Another problem has been thefact that the Community insti tutions have not had the conventional,accusromed prestige and aut horityof a national government. A sing lenational governme nt (in most cases)has one defined set of cultural valuesto wor k with. It has orga nizatio nsand institut ions that are long standing and recognized by the whole nation. The institutions of the EEChave had ro gingerly feel their wayalong, hoping not ro tread on thesetender or sensitive national feelingsen route.

accept instructions from national governments. It is being placed in secondposition ro the Council of Ministers,who are directly responsible ro theirnational governments .

Clearly then , a strong central government for Europe is yet future;

But the Common Market is fastreaching a point where , by the verynature of its size and economicpower, more and more questions arearising of an increasingly political nature. These mus t be faced and overcome if the EEC is ro survive and ifthe nations of Europe are ro cont inue

enjoying the increased prosperity theCo mmon Marke t has produced.

Unity Coming Step by Step

This is in fact what men like Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet foresaw many years ago . Said Schuman in1950: "E urope will not be built all atonce, or through a single comprehensive plan. It will be built throughconc rete achievements, which willfirst create a 'de facto' solidarity .. ..T hese proposals will bui ld the firstsolid foundations of the Europeanfederation which is indispensable rothe preservation of peace."

Yet even Monner's federation isnot on the immediate horizon.Words flow endlessly about theneeds, bu t the political will has notyet appeared. As Jean Rey wrote inVision magazine : "W hat the Community is really suffering from roday is alack of leadership. Its insti tutions donot enable it to meet its responsibilities. It is the world 's largesttrading blo c, the largest importer ofagriculrural products from the developing countries. It has territory , laws,common policies and interests. Itshould therefore be governed as anyof our countries is governed, by a decision-making po litical authority."

But up ro the present time, the Sixhave not shown the desire or felt theneed ro create a "political authori ty."Even the invasion of Czechoslavakiain 1968 and the international monetary crisis of 1971 have not beenenough to force the Six ro form acentral political authority. The lessonro be drawn from the monetary crisis- and all the crises the Six haveexperienced up to now - is that nomember state is as yet willing to sacrifice any in reresr it considers vital.They are unwilling to give authorityro a supranational government.

EEC officials themselves take pridein the fact that they are not involvedin matters of defense and that the y arethe first international grouping in history to opera te on ly in the field ofeconomics and not in the field of political coercion or military align -

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rnenrs. As o ne EEC official stated tothi s writer: " We represent coo peration w ith out dep end ency."

\'V'hile th is reflects what the Co mmon Mark et has do ne up to th ispoi nt, it does not provide for the future in a worl d dominated by mi litarymighr where "peace" is only tenuou sly maintained by balan ces ofpower.

The Rome Treaty itself is very generally worded and does no t go in tothe question of defense. In fact, wi rhthe complet ion of the customs un ionand th e com mo n agriculture po licy,th e T reaty of Ro me is, to a large exten t, fulfill ed . N evertheless, it has setup institu tions so that th e Co mmunity migh t - as o ne writer sta ted "go on inventing itself." French Defense Minister Michel D ebre not edtha t th e Com munity mu st continuetoward integration if it is not towither away. It has no cho ice. To survive it mu st become a supers tate.

The founda tion has been laid. T heframework, the insrirurion s, the channels of co mm un ication, the manpower - all are there. The sing le lackis the crucia l spark of life - th e vitalingredient o f a political will. It is thatintangible substance Churc hi ll referred to so vividly as that "spasm ofresolve" - the inta ngi ble yet realforce th at wou ld transform a group o fmen into a strong go vern ing body.

Unfortunately wh en such decision sare no t taken in times o f peace, theymu st come abo ut in times of crisiswhen judg me nt is often deficien t.

Crises in All Spheres

Right now, th e Six (with the fourcandidate na tions as well) are movingto ward one or more summi t conferences of vital impo rta nce . There theheads of govern me nt will gather toresolve major problems now facingth e Europ ean Economic Co m munity.T hese include: (1) the pro cess of enlargement ; (2) the solving of internalprobl em s of member states; (3) th eco mpletion of eco no mic and mon etary uni on ; an d (4) the need for un ified defense and foreign pol icies.

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D efense qu estions raise th e verytouchy problem of armies and nucle;rweapons. One member of the nin eman EEC Executive Co mmission ,Jean Franco is Deni au, wro te in LeiVlonde: "To envisage a European [defense} contributio n wh ich will beonly the classic army, with th e nu clear power rem aining w ith t heUnited Sta tes only, is an outlook thathas already been condemned. But toenvisage a European atomic weaponwo uld create mo re pro blems tha n wecou ld hope to solve."

Yet these various issues mu st besolved.

The Middle EastEnigma

O ne crucial problem Europe willhave to face is the Middl e East - vital to all Europe for th e oil whic hkeeps the wheels of industry rolling .Ru ssia's military presence in the Mediterranea n an d her po litical influ encein the Arab wo rld will certai nly haveto be co untered, lest oil be cu t off atRu ssia's wi ll.

Libya's nat ionalizati on of the British Pet roleum Company was seenhere in Europe as a precedent-settingpo litical move. Iraq brok e off diploma tic relations with Brit ain becauseof th e latte r's failure to halt Iran iantroops from tak ing ove r three stra teg ically important Arab islands in thePersian Gulf.

And in Cairo, it was hinted thatthe Arabs might cur tail th eir oil prod uctio n "in order to harass WestEurope's and America's eco no my."W hile the U. S. receives only some4% of its oil resources from theMiddle East, W estern Europe receivesover 85% of her o il resources from th eMiddle East and orth Africa! By1975, the EEC Co mmission expectedtha t figure to go to 92%!

T his writer asked Herr Paul Bahr,a mem ber o f the Spo kesman Groupof th e EEC cove ring foreign affairs,w ha t wo uld happen if the Arabnat ion s severed Europe's o il supp lyo r if that supp ly we re cut off because of wa r in the M idd le East.

H e rep lied un equ ivocally. " W ewo uld be lost !"

" A Spasm of Resolve!"

At some po int in the near fu ture,the European Econo mic Co mmunityis go ing to be forced to make a gigantic lunge forward . It will have tooverride th e problems of indivi dualnati on al in reresrs while pro tectin g theovera ll pros peri ty of W estern Europe.

It wi ll have to solve the problemof defense in the presence of ATO.T he Un ited States mo nopoly o n nuclear arms within tha t organiza tio ncannot be ignored. To do so, it willhave to mo ve wi rh a swiftness andassura nce tha t will stun the world.Th e N ew York Tim es summed it up:" H ow rapidly all these will evolveinto a true United States of Europecannot be predicted, excep t that thenew entity is likely to surprise theworld by its leadership and by itsspeed more than by its delays."

The world is taking little no te ofthe European sl/pergiant.

Bur The PLAIN TRUTH dares topredict tha t th e rest of the wo rld willstand in awe in the no t too distantfuture as a g iant eco no mic, political,mili tary and religious union is finallyborn ! It wi ll be composed of ten nations or blocs of nations - but notnecessarily the present ten . It will lastfor only a short time. W hat powers itwill exe rcise during th at brief perio dwill asto und the world . T hese eventswi ll climax in the crisis at the close ofhuma n civilization when the wonderful World Tomorrow will be born.That will be the daw n of a new day- eclipsing everyth ing man has attempted to achieve in 6,000 years ofh uman misru le' •

Now vou can read abo ur th eEuropean' Common M ark er's fu t ureimpacr on Br irain and her possibleparr in it , Also find o u r how th eburg eon in g Eu rop ea n Co m rn u n iry wi ll affecr th e Un ired Staresin future years . You can learn allthis by sending for a free co py ofo u r book. Tbe United States andBrit ish Com mon u .ealth in Propbec:y. See sraff box for address nearestyo u .


Tapping YourInner Powers IsNOT Enough I

There is an OUTSIDE FORCE available which veryfew know of - and even fewer utilize. This articlemakes plain what that power is and how it can be

exercised in YOUR LIFE!by Roderick C. Meredith

T H IS GENE RAT ION does have arend e zvou s with d estin y.N ever at any time in human

history have man's powers and abi lities seemed g reater.

Yet, paradoxically , man's futurewas never more clouded. The pro spects for uni versal famine, for natio nal and racial wars, and for humanannihilation were never gr eater.

In spite of ma n's apparent techn ical and mechanical powers, his ulti mate failure in solving the real problems of life was never more eviden t.

Yet there is hope!

Man's True Hope

Men today have become so obsessed with their technical and scientific abilities th at they ima g ine G od iseither " dead" or is certa inly far off inheaven somewhere, virt ually powerless to intervene in human wo rld affairs.

You may not have thought about


it in those terms , but haven't you feltthat way abo ut God ? Be honest !

The "fruits" - the act io ns and resu lts - in the lives of nearl y all pro fessing Christians graphically demonstrate that man is unaware andunconcerned with the power of HisCreato r. Public admissio ns by countless pastors, prie sts and laymen pro vethi s stateme nt true .

But I tell you by autho rity thatthi s generatio n is destined to co mealive and awa ke to the Creator'spower!

Unless you are cut off by prema ruredeath , the vast majority of you nowreading thi s article are go ing to beshocked and stu nned by the mo st fantasti c di splay of superna tu ral power inhuman history. You are going to see- with your own eyes - giganticupset s in the weathe r, which will leadto terrible floods and famin e, massstarvation, earthquakes and huge tida lwaves suc h as have never been

dreamed of by mod ern , "edu cated "men . You will see aweso me displaysof supernatural power in the veryheavens - culminating in the dramatic return o f the very Creator toHi s Creati on in the person of the living Jesus Christ !

It will be in thi s g enera tio n!finall y, you will live into another

world - the World Tomo rrow where rhe g reat power o f God wi ll beregularly used to keep and enforcepeace, to change human lives and atti tudes, and to remove the vicio us nature from even wild animals! Itwillbe used to heal the sick, to contro lthe wea ther, and to bless hum anbeings as long as they serve and obe yth eir Creator.

These events are certa in.

Understandand Use God's Power

True Christian s today are in train ing to become kin g s and pries ts in

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the soon-coming W orld Tomorrow(Revelation 5:10). We mu st learn lessons of character and faith in God'swisdo m and power so we can qualifyto judge (o r " manag e," Moffatt translation) angels in the World Tomorrow (I Corint hians 6:2-3) .

Yo u pro bably have been to ld nothing of th is awesome responsibility.But you shou ld have been.

T here it is, right in your ow n NewTestament. Your future job is to exercise great power and authori ty in theKingdom of God to be set up on thisearth.

Jesus showed that His discipleswould Ii terally rule over the twelvetribes of Israel in the World Tomorrow (Luke 22:28-30) . He describedhow tho se fait hful Chris tians whoovercome and serve most in thi s lifewill have authority over ten cities ,and how those who have made goodbut not outstanding progress will beover five cities (Luke 19:17-19).

Where will you fit into thi s picture?

Some may sneer and scoff, but notfor long . For these plans and prophecies of God are very real. They arealready beginning to happen!

Start taking a good big-city newspaper. Start comparing what you readin it - hon estly and carefully - withwhat you read in the prophetic articles in The PLAIN TRUTH. T hen seethese happenings unfold before yourvery eyes!

JIow, then, can you become moreaware of the fantas tic reality andpower of Go d - and better prep areto ut ilize that power as an instrumentin His hands ?

To have the spiritual streng th andimpac t you need in this life and toprepare yourself to serve as a powerfulinstrument in Chris t' s gov ernment,which will soon be set up on earth,learn and use the key of exercisingGo d's power. Here are three basicsteps . you need to take :

1. Proper Fear of God

Should you fear God as some sortof monster?

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No ! Not at all.But we human beings tend not to

respect our parents, teachers, poli cemen , government officials - or anyone else - unless we become impressed with their closeness and the irpowe r.

Let me illustrate.As a grade-schoo l child , I attended

a school that had a wo man princi pal.T his principal was, I am sure, a veryfi ne lady. But she had been allowed toconti nue beyon d reti rement age andwas somewhat senile and slow movmg .

Like Go d pro bably seems to mos tof you reading this, she seemed faroff, out of touch, venerable but passive, and almos t helpless to really doanything abo ut explosive daily problems .

The point is, we did not fear thiselderly lady principal or her office.Yet we sho uld have !

The kind of " fear" I am discussingis the sense of awe, deep respect, andapprecia tion of active POWER. That isthe kind of fear we ought to have and eventually must have - for Almighty God!

An Example of Proper Fear

In my final year or two of gradeschoo l, th is lady principal, describedabove, died. She was replaced by afairly young, alert, masculine fellowwho immediately took charge of thesituation.

And how I remember!On the second or third day after

Mr. Antle became principal, a largegroup of students was com ing infrom the playground. As we lined up ,the re was the usual pu shing , shov ingand pull ing of the girls' pigtails by us"bad little boys." T here was constantg iggling and scuffl ing - few payingany atte ntion to the adm onition s andwarn ings of the women teachers.

Suddenly, I heard a strange soundjust behind me. I qui ckly turned tosee a shocked boy being jerked off hisfeet, propelled through the air, andlanding across the new principal 'sknee!

A sort of muffled moan of fear andawe emanated from the group of children wimessing this fearsom e spectacle. Clutched in the pr incipal'shand , a large wooden paddle streakeddow n and landed with a fierce"whop" on its appoi nted target. Ayowl of shock and fear came from theboy's lips - quickly giving way toreal cries of pain and peni tence.

Stand ing aghast at this strangesight, I sti ffened with fear and awe.All the children were similarly affected. Im mediately, all scuffling andmisbehavior stopped! Great peace andtranquillity descended upon W estCentral Grade School !

To us, the new principal stood tenfeet tall and seemed to be alwaysnearby, alert and powerful. Yet, hewas fair and friendly - as well as firmwhen necessary. W e soon came to admire and respect the new principaleven more than the old. He inspiredus to streng th, manhood and accomplishment .

But we knew he wo uld not tole rate misbehavior. There was to be no" monkey business" while he was principal. We respected and feared his determ ination and power to enforce hisstandard of behavior. H is "presence"was always felt with a certain awe andrespect .

The Spiritual Analogy

The great God who created theheavens and the earth is soon goingto have to in tervene - as our newprin cipal did - and show His powerto a self-indulg ent and rebellious raceof men. He is going to show suchawesom e and powerful sign s thatmen will stand in fear and awe of Hismajesty and His office. Then - andon ly then - will there be peace inth is war-torn worl d !

Since God has allowed man to gohis ow n way for six thou sand years,men have begun to assume tha t theirvery Creato r is " dead," impotent , or"way off" somew here. They haveceased to realize He is nearby and veryavailable for help . T hey have ceasedpraying to the tru e God. T hey have


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the first point given above, here is thesecond " key" which you must buildinto your life if you are to tap thegreat power of God.

II. Walk With God

Thi s key is learning to walk withGod. To walk with Go d, you mustwalk where He walks - for He willnot depart from His divine path to goaccording to the ways and reasoningsof men. To walk with Go d, you mustfollow Jesus' admo nitio n that manmust live by every word of God(Luke 4:4) .

To walk with God, you muststrive to overco me your human nature and keep His Commandments. ForJ esus, when asked the way to eternallife said: " If thou wilt enter into life,keep the com mandments." Th en Hebegan to name some of the Ten Commandments (Matthew 19:17).

Again , J esus said: " And why callye me Lord , Lord, and do not thethings which I say?" (Luke 6:46.)

Put simply , this means that youmust obey your Maker, learn to liveand act as He does, and be in constantcomm union with Him throug h thestudy of His Word, through prayer,meditation, fasting, and exercising

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arm y of heaven , and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none canstay his hand, or say unto him, Whatdoesr th ou ? . . . N ow I N ebu chadnezzar praise and extol and hon or theKing of heaven, all whose work s aretruth, and his ways judgment: andthose that walk in pride he is able toabase" (Da niel 4:35,37) .

Thi s great king learned - as themen and rulers of this present civilization will soon learn - that God isvery real and that He rules over thenat ion s according to His will !

Build thi s concept in to your mind .Deeply study and drink in of theprophecies of the Bible and provethem to yourself. If you have not yetdon e so, write for our free book let,The Proof of the Bible.

Read and study the examples ofJesu s' life and miracles. Realize thatHe is the same yesterday, today andforever (Hebrews 13:8).

Build in your min d and heart anawareness that God is very near andthat He will answer your faithfulprayers with power, as long as theyare based upon H is W ord and Hiswill. Use thi s concept and grow in itdaily!

While still learning and practicing


ceased expecting a supernatural answer, if tha t is requi red. They haveceased fearing to disobey His plainwritte n W ord and H is Commandments !

Because of thi s, mankind is in terrible trouble. Man is about to blasthimself off th is planet!

T he true God is going to stop it.

The Beginning ofTrue Wisdom

The W ord of God tells us: "T hefear of the Lord is the beginn ing ofknowledge: but foo ls despise wisdomand instruction" (Proverbs 1 :7).

Yes, fools sneer, ridicule and despise the true wisdo m and und erstanding that comes from God. Butthose who will be leaders in trul yhelping thi s world toda y and in blessing and saving it in the W orld Tomorrow will be th ose who have truewisdo m and knowledge through thedeep acknow ledgment and fear of theliving Go d!

Again : "T he fear of the Lord is tohate evil: pride, and arrogancy , andthe evil way, and the frowa rd mo uth ,do I hate" (Proverbs 8:13). Thisproper "fear" of Go d causes us to understand the nature of evil and to sincerely hate it - to turn away from itand from all the self-willed vanity andrebellion tha t causes every humanwoe and ill today, including the danger of human annihilation , if mandoesn't wake up !

A few years ago - very few as theEterna l God counts time (II Peter3:8) - God removed a great Babylonian king from his office and his majesty for seven years. This king , Ne buchadnez zar, was broug ht down andhumbled in a way that no o ther kinghas ever been.

After that tim e - and after he hadlearned a great lesson - N ebuchadnezzar was restored to his kingdom,and he lifted up his eyes to praise andhonor the true Go d. Nebuchadnezzarsaid:

" All the inh abitants of the earthare repu ted as nothing : and he [God ]doeth according to his will in the

H is character throughout your dai lylife. T he great men of the Bible haveall don e this!

Notice th is account of Enoc h'slife: " And Enoch lived sixty and fiveyears, and begat Methuselah: andEnoch walked with God after he bega t Met huselah th ree hund red years,and bega t sons and daughters: and allthe days of Enoch were three hundredsixty and five years: and Enochwalked with God: and he was not ;for God took him " (Genesis 5:2124).

Ex amples of Noah , Abraham,and Mi cah

Now notice the accoun t of Noah- for whose sake human life itselfwas preserved from the all-encompassing flood that came upon the earth inhis days: "T hese are the generationsof Noah : N oah was a just man andperfect in his generations, and Noahwalked with God" (Genesis 6:9) .

Here it is po inted out that Noahwas " just" - he lived a righteous lifeaccord ing to God 's com mandments.When called upon to do what musthave seemed at the time a ridicul ousthing - building an ark out in themiddle of a dry plain - N oah obe yedHis Creator witho ut balking or questio ning. He kept in constant communion wi th the great Spirit Personalit ywho spo ke to him and di rected hispaths. He yielded to his Maker. Hewalked with God.

Next, we come to the accoun t ofAbraham - the "fa ther of the faithful." In Genes is 17:1, God states:"A nd when Abram was ninet y yearsold and nine, the Lord appeared toAbram, and said un to him , I am theAlmighty Go d, walk before me [or"with" me], and be thou perfect[wholehearted]. " Of course, Abrahamdid not have perfect faith at everyhour of the day, nor perfect obedienceeither, but he constantl y yielded hiswill and life to Hi s Creator and grewin perfect ion and walked with God .

Th us, when the birthright whichhe received was transferred to Isaac,God declared that thi s fantastic bless-

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ing was give n Abraham, " Becausethat Abraham obeyed my voice, andkept my charge, my commandments.my stat u tes, and my laws" (Genesis26 :5). Abr aham obeyed His Maker he walked th e way Go d walked.

The prophet Micah summarizesthi s basic approach to God which wemus t have to receive H is blessing andpower :

" He hath shewed thee. 0 man ,what is go od; and what doth theLord require of thee, but to do justly,and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with th y Go d" (Micah 6:8).

If you are unsure of jus t how towalk wit h Go d - how to keep hiscommandments - wri re for our f reebook, The T en Commandments. It is infull color and fully illustrated. Thisbook shows you how the Ten Commandments apply in tod ay's modern ,technologically oriented world.

J esus ' Example

W e need the attitude wh ich J esusexemplified in what is called theLord 's Prayer: "Thy kingdom come.Thy will be do ne in eart h, as it is inheaven" (Matt hew 6:10).

To walk with God , we need tohonestly seek the revealed will of Godin the Bible - and be willing tochange where we're wro ng, to letGo d fashion us, mold us and use us asHi s instruments. W e oug ht to acheand yearn for His government to beset up on this earth - for His perfectwill to be accomplished so that therewill be peace, happiness and joy foreveryone. Because that is the onl y realway these thi ngs will ever comeabo ut !

What was the remarkable source ofJ esus' power )

N otice ' In Mark 1 :32-34 , Hehealed many sick and diseased personswho were brought to Him - castingout demon spirits as well. " And inthe morn ing , rising up a great whilebefore day, he went out , and depart edinto a solitary place, and therepr ayed " (verse 35 ) . Constan tl y,through out His life, you will fi ndJ esus leaving the multi tud es in order

to get close to God in earnest prayerand med ita tion . He walked with Godan d He talked with God - always.

Remember the account of Jesuswalking on the water? Some peopletoday make fun of this. T hey thinkit' s a big joke. But they will notlaugh when they see the returni ngCh rist coming in brilliant g lory andpower - shining with the brightnessof a thousand suns!

But, to get to the point, have youever no ticed what Jesu s did just before He walked on the water? "A ndwhen he had sent them away, he departed into a mou ntain to pray"(Mark 6 :46) . Then He walked on thewater (verses 47-52) in order to catchup with the disciples. They wereamazed and afraid.

Why?" For they considered not the mir

acle o f the loaves: for their heart washardened" (verse 52) . In oth er words,the disciples should not have been soamazed at Jesus' walking on the water. They shou ld have realized the tremendou s meaning of His other fantastic miracles - that He really wasGod in the flesh - able to use thevery power of the Creator to do Hiswork.

Not understanding this basic pr inciple, they were cont inually amazedwith each new miracle He performed- never seeming to unders tand therelation ship of one to another and thefact of Christ 's office and ability toexercise the Divine Power.

How abou t you?Will you learn from this article to

so conduct yourself - to walk withGod - that you may be constan tlyaware of Hi s reality and His powe rand be yielded to His will so that youcan be a dynamic instrument in Hishands?

III. Ex ercise God's Power

The Gospel of Mark narra tes a dramat ic incident in the life of J esus andHis disciple s. A man brought his sonto Jesus' disciples. This son, accordingto the accou nt, was possessed by a demo n, whic h caused him to frot h at

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the mou th and throw himself on thegro und in convu lsive fits. Jesus' disciples had been unable to cast out thedemon, and the distraught fatherturned to Jesus when He arrived andcried out: " Have compassion on us,and help us" ! (Mark 9 :22.)

T hen Jesus said: " If thou canst believe, all things are possible to himthat believeth !

" And straightway, the father of thechild cried out, and said with tears,Lord, I believe ; help thou mine unbelief."

Then Jesus, having mercy, rebu kedthe foul spiri t and cast it out. The disciples were sheepish and dumbfounded . They didn 't understandwhat was lackin g on their part . TheSon of God to ld them : "T his kindcan come forth by nothing , but byprayer and fasting " (verse 29).

O bvio usly, J esus had been prayingand fasting - getting really close toand communing with Hi s Father inHeaven , yielding His will to God'sand drinking in of Hi s Spirit andpower. He expected the answer - andHe go t it !

Why don't mor e of the pro fessingministers of Christ have this kind ofpower toda y?

No tice J esus' instruction just afterH is resurrection from the dead : " Andthese signs shall follow them that believe: in my name shall they cast outdevils; they shall speak with newtongues ; the y shall take up serpents ;and if they drink any deadl y thing, itshall not hurt them ; the y shall layhand s on the sick, and they shall recover" (Mark 16:17-18) .

After givi ng th is ins truction,Christ was received up into Heavento sit at the righ t hand of God. ThenHis disciples went forth and preachedeverywhere, " the Lord working withthem, and confirming the word withsigns following" (verses 19-20).

Chris t had risen. He was alive andactive. He was intervening to back upHis ministers and their prayers toGod ! This same power is activeamong the true believers in JesusChri st today!


N ot Emotionalism

No' T rue Christiani ty is not connected with emo tiona lism, whoopingand hollering , moaning , frothing atthe mou th, and shouting and screaming in the kind of " tongues speaking"so often falsely practiced today in thename of Christiani ty!

It is simp ly believing that Jesussaid what He meant and meant wha tHe said. It is follow ing His exampleof obeying the commandments ofGod, trusting God to keep Hi s promises, and privatel y - as Jesus instructed - praying, meditating andfasting to get closer to the God of theBible, the Creator, and seeking Hispower and intervention according towhat He has promised in His Word,the Bible.

In II Ki ngs 2:8-15, we find the account where the great pro phet Elijahwas taken up into heaven - turninghis office and mantle over to Elisha.Read thi s account carefully. N oti cethat Elisha expected to carryon in thepower of God as had Elijah . For heasked for a "double portion " of Elijah' s spirit to be upon him.

As Elijah ascended up to heaven,his mantle fell on Elisha. Elisha thenwent back to the bank of the J ord anRiver where Elijah had just smittenthe waters so they could walk over ondry ground. This time the young,new prophet Elisha smo te the waters,saying in faith: "Where is the LordGod of Elijah ? And when he had alsosmitten the waters, they parted hitherand thither: and Elisha went over"(verse 14).

Today, you should personall yawake to the fact that the mantle andpower of Elijah will be manifestedamong God's true servants in this age.

For as John the Bapt ist came in thespirit and power of Elijah (Luke1:17), so God says of our day: " Beho ld, I will send you Elijah theprophet before the coming of thegreat and dreadful day of the Lord:and he shall turn th e heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart ofthe children to their fathers ; lest I

come and smi te the earth with acurse" (Malachi 4:5-6). That commission is being accompli shed throughthis W ork !

Through Th e World Tomorrowbroadcast and The PLAI N T RUTHmagazine, every inhabited cont inentis now being reached with the message of Go d's coming governmentand His rule over the earth. It is notbeing preached with the thought ofconvert ing everybody, but it is for a"witness" - as Jesu s commanded inMatthew 24:14. That witness is toproclaim the true God of power, toannounce His coming world-ru linggovernment, and to turn the hearts oftho se who are will ing , back to thetrue ways of Ab raham , Isaac, Ja cob ,and most of all, Jesus Christ. Powerand miracles are already being manifested - and they will increase witheach passing year in this work of theEternal God' You readers who aregiven understanding need to realizeth at you' re living at the end of an age- and will live in to the new age ofGod 's government.

You need to become mo re deeplyaware and conscious of the spiritworld of the living God and HisChrist - of His archangels and angelswho serve His people, and of Hispower to streng then, to heal, to deliver and to bless in your life.

So we are impressed tod ay with thepower of hydrogen bombs?

Who made the hydrogen atom ?Who made the puny human brainthat finally managed to unleash itspower? Who has power millions oft im es beyond this - operat ingth roughout the vast universe?

You need to know how to properly fear and walk with thi s true God!You need to understand and appreciate the gigant ic hydrogen-bombpower He has available to help us!

And we all need to humbly use it- as He would, in His service. •

To find out more about God 'spower and how you can exercise thatpower in your life , request our freearticle. " How You Can Be Imbuedwith the Power of God."

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what YOU can dO •••TIMELY Tips and Helpful Suggestions for YOU and YOUR fAMILY

• Avo id Back InjuryDaily strains from bending, srooping, stretching, and

lifting affect the bones, nerves, and muscles of our all-roovulnerable back. Every day, one out of three adult Ameri cans is tormented by a back pain. Because of back inj ur iesro workers, industry loses almos t a billion dollars annually . For this reason, the Na tio nal Safety Council suggests following these simple precautionary procedu~es

when lifting heavy objects in order ro prevent back in

juries :1. Never try ro lift more than you can handle.2. Always crouch down to what you are going

ro lift.3. Plant your feet firmly on a surface that is

strong enough to hold you and the loadyou are lifting.

4. Get a firm grip on the object you are goingro lift. Place fingers underneath the loadwhenever possible.

5. Keep your head up , arms straight, and keepyour back in as near a straight-up-and-downposition as possible .

6. Lift gradually and push up using yourstrong leg muscles .

7. Avoid twisting motions - shift the posi tion of your feet.

8. Keep the load as close ro your body as possible .

9. Put things down by reversing the abovemethods.

• " Tro in Up Your Child"

One of the wisest men who ever lived had this admonishment for parents : "Train up a child in the way heshould go : and when he is old, he will not depart from it"(Proverbs 22:6) . T his admonishment is sti ll as true todayas it was nearly 3,000 years ago when Solomon wrote itdown. Research bears this out.

Studies reveal that a child's mind begins to be programmed for life very early, in fact before school age. Benjamin S. Bloom, Professor of Education at the Universityof Chi cago , found that fully 50% of a 17-year-old 's generalintelligence and ability ro achieve in school is developedbetween conception and age four. A child's personality

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traits are also formed at an early age.According ro psycho logist Gordon Allport, the per

sonality traits a child develops during his early years continues inro adulthood wi th very lirrle change. And manybehavioral authorities agree , saying that by the time achi ld is six, his person ality is prett y much fixed.

Even such controversial thinkers as psychoanalystSigmund Freud and conte mporary psychologist B. F. Skinner have asserted tha t, if they could control the teachingof a child during his first six years of life, nothing couldthen reverse tha t teaching.

It therefore goes without saying that it is extremelyimportant ro begin teaching such desirable traits as obedience, love, consideration, gratefulness, industriousness,and happiness ro children early in their lives. Whenlearned , they then become part of a chi ld's character , carrying on into adult life.

For the help you need ro train and teach your child,write for our free booklet, The Plain Truth Abou] ChildRearing. It is one of the most soundly based booklets onthe subject of child rearing in print today.

• Riptide

A rip tide or rip current can seize a bather in shallowwading water and sweep him as far as a quarter of a milero sea at speeds of 10 m.p.h. Hundreds of people, visitingthe beach this summer to enjoy wading and swimming inthe ocean, many for the first time , will have ro be rescuedfrom this overpowering force. For your protection youshould be aware of how a riptide acts.

Riptides are generally set up by a strong surf, attacking the beach at a slight angle . This creates a current thatflows along the shoreline. When this current meets with astatic or calm water zone, it is forced to run elsewhere, soit heads our ro sea. As it heads out, the undercurrent becomes extremely strong, creating a hazardous riptide.

You can identify a riptide while on the beach by thedisco loration of the water from stirred-up sand and bywavelets and swirlings that do not match surrounding waters.

If you ever get caught in a rip current, experts adviseswimming parallel ro the beach until you are out of thecurrent, rather than swimming immediately toward thebeach against it.

- Patrick A . Parnell


The Biblical Revelation

ANIMAL BRAINvs.

HUMAN MINDby Herbert W . Armstrong

Conclu di ng Insta llm ent

BEGINNING WITH th e Janua tynumber, The PLAI N TR UTHpubli shed five installments on

" W hy the vast differen ce betw een animal brain and HUMAN MIND?" byRob ert L. Kuhn. Dr. Kuhn dealtwit h the subject from th e physio logic al standpo int of the new science o f brain research .

Dr. Kuhn beg an his studies on thisquestion in eastern universiti es fi nally earning his Ph .D . at the Un iversity of Californ ia at Los Angeles(UCLA) .

I knew nothing of Rob ert Kuhnwhen he beg an his studies on th isbasic and im portant q ues tio n. Aboutthe same tim e, I bega n a deeper stu dythan I had before into th is same question - in the Bibli cal revelat ion .

Dr. Kuhn joined the faculty ofAmbassador C o ll eg e, Pa sadenacampus. What a surprise to learn thateach of us had come to the sameanswer - he from research in physicalscience, and I fro m Bibl ical studies.

By way of summary, in the J anu aryand February ins tallmen ts, D r. K uhndemonstra ted tha t the hum an mind isENORMOUSLY superior in output to


the animal brain . In the March-Apriland May ins tallments, he demonstrated that the human brain is justBA RELY superior to animal brain and that a nonphysical component isabso lutely essent ial to transform thehuman brain in to the human min d.In the June installment we found outwhat it all means, and beg an toanswe r the ultimate question : Whatis Man ?

In the July nu mber , I explainedthe Biblical passages showing thatthere is, ind eed, this nonphysicalcomponent - spirit - in man , andt hat man co u ld not possess thekn owledge humans possess, save bythi s spirit that is in man .

The key passage on thi s - as covered in the precedin g installment - isfound in the 2nd chapter o f I Co rinthian s. Th e Apostle Paul w asex plaining tha t the natural mind ofman cannot kn ow or comprehend"the things which God hath preparedfo r them th at love him" (verse 9) .Man, naturally, receives knowledgeonly th rou g h the five senses - sight,heari ng, . feeling , tasting , sme lling.But this verse exp lained that his eye

has not seen, nor his ear heard thesethings . Neither can he know th em ,(ve rse 14) because they are spirituaffydisce rned .

Bu t, verse 10, "God hat h revealedth em unto us by his Spirit." Then thereal explanation comes in verse 11:"For what man knoweth the thi ngsof a man , save th e spirit of manwhich is in him ? even so the things ofGod kn oweth no man , but th e Spiritof God ."

There are tw o spm ts mentionedhere - the " spiri t of man which is inhim" and " the Spiri t of God" whichmay, o n God's condi tio ns, come to bein him as God 's g ift.

Just as the natural mind of mancanno t kn ow these spiritual truths ofGod witho ut the addition wit hin himof th e SPIRIT OF GOD - the HOLYSPIRIT - so man could not kn ow could not have the KNOWLEDGE - ofthe th ings that are human kn owledge, without the spi rit of man .

T he cow, the dog, the chimp, thedo lp hin, or the elep hant does no tpossess this knowledge common to

humans, because there is no suchspirit in animals. T he animal brain is

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capab le o f a very limited amo unt ofknowledge. It is capable of a certa inlimited amo unt of memory. But animal brain outp ut is almost infinitesimal by comparison to human mindou tput.

Yet th is human mind output isLIM ITED '

It cannot come to spir itua l knowledge until another Spirit is added God's HOLY SPIRIT! It can know onlythat knowledge that, as is stated inI Corinthians 2:9, eye has seen or earhas heard - that is, knowledge thatenters the brain through the fivesenses. And WHY?

Because spiri tual things are invis ible . One cannot see spirit. One cannot hear, touch or feel, smell or tastespirit.

The natural man, as humans areborn, is limi ted to PHYSICAL, MATERIAL knowledg e - that knowledg ethat can come through the five senses.

The Spirit of ManDoes Not See

The spiri t of man does not see. Thehuman brain sees, through the eye.This spirit does not hear. The brainhears, through the ear. The spirit ofman does not think - it impartspower to th e brain to think.

Prove it ! Very well - a man meetswith an accident and loses his eyesight. He can no longer see. He canstill think . H e still has human mind.His spirit is still there, but it cannotsee. The same is true of hearing andthe other senses. His ability to receiveknowledge is reduced , for he nolonger receives knowledge throughthe sense of sig ht.

This Spirit is NOT the Man

T his spi rit that is in man is merelysomething that is IN him. It is notthe man, any mo re than a tiny marbleswallowed by a boy IS the boy. It ismerel y so mething th at is IN him.

I have covered before th e stateme ntfound in Ge nesis 2, verse 7: "TheEternal Go d formed man of th e dust

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of th e ground, and breathed into hisnostrils th e breath o f life ; and manbecame a living sou !."

What became a soul? T hat whichcame from the du st of the ground material substance. The breathingMAN, co mpose d o f MATTER, is a sou l.T he soul, then, is physical - NOTSPIRIT. It is twice stated " the sou lthat sinnerh, it shall die" (Ezekiel18:4, 20). Ada m became a sou l, andGod to ld him that if he ate the forbid den fru it he would SURELY die.

So th is spirit of man th at is IN himmust not be confused with the idea ofan " im mortal sou l" - somethingentirely foreign to Biblical revelat ion .

Life After Death?

The Biblical revelation, t hen ,makes the claim that man is madewh olly of material substance, is mortal , and shall d ie . As stated inH ebrew s 9 :2 7 , " A n d a s it i sappo inte d unto men once to die , butafter thi s the judgment. . . ."

But after death - th en what)Is there HOPE in the Bible for life

after death )T he scripture quoted above says,

"after this " - after death - "thejudgment." That certainly implies lifeafter death.

Then does the Bib lical revelat iong ive us hope for life after death ?Emphatically it does! It is th e GREATHOPE - that of the RESURRECT ION orTHE DEAD. It was for thi s Bibli calhope that the Apostle Paul was ontrial for his life (Acts 23:6).

Mo st of the W estern world celebrates Easter on ce a year. Supposedlythis is in honor o f the resur rection ofJesus Christ. Of course we don 't hearmuch about whether Chri st remainedalive, after His resur rection - or, ifso, what H e is doing toda y. Yet awhole book of the Bible is devoted towhat the living Christ has been doingsince Hi s resurrect ion - and is do ingtoday! T hat is th e book of Hebrews.

The "resurrection chapter" of theBible is the 15th chapter of I Co rin-

th ians. It plainly reveals that the resurrection is the SOLE hop e of life afterdeath. " As in Adam all die , even so inChrist shall all be made alive . .."(verse 22). But there is an order inwh ich resurre ctions occur - continuing the abo ve quote: "But everyman in his own order: Christ theIirstfruits; afterward they th at areChrist 's at his coming . Then comethth e end . . .. "

Other passages reveal two moreresurrections - Ezekiel 37 and Revelation 20: 11-12, a resur rection to physical li fe a th ou sand years after the firstresurrection, and a final resurrection(the 13th verse of Revelati on 20).

But HO\X' will God accomplish thi sresurrection ?

Prepare for some surprises.Will God, in some superna tura l

manner, cause all of the exact samematter that was in th e bod y of theperson th at died to be bro ugh t backto life? Man y have been cremated . Insome cases, the ashes may have beenscattered over wide distances by airplanes. Most of th e cremated bo dywent up in gaseous form in to the air.

D id you ever wonder how Godwould bring all th e gaseo us and ashportion s back together again, into arestored bod y?

Well first, notice what we maylearn in th e 15th chap ter of I Co rinthians. T he Corinth ians must havewondered abo ut that, because theApostle Paul was insp ired to g iveth em the answer.

" But some man will say, H ow areth e dead raised up? and with wh atbody do they come ? T ho u fool [or,

. " foo lish man," or " foo lish qu estion"} , that whic h th ou sowest is notquickened, except it die: and thatwhich thou sowes t, tho u sowes t notthat body that shall be, but bareg rain, it may chance of wheat, or ofsome other grai n; but God g iveth it abo dy as it ha th pleased him , and toevery seed his own body . . ." ( ICori nthians 15:35-38).

Yo u plan t a gra in of wheat. Whea t


stalks sprout up , with g rains of wheatgrowing . T he new grains are not th esame particle o f matter as th e g rainplanted - but wheat seeds sproutW HEAT, and not oats - every seed itsown kind of bod y.

Likewise th e resur rected body willnot be the same bod y, or th e exactsame matter th at was buried - orthat was cremated. Thou gh not thesame bod y, it wi ll be identical. Thispassage co nt inues ro show that thereare di fferent kinds of flesh - of men,of beasts, o f fishes, o f bird s. "Thereare also celestia l bodi es, and bod iesterrestrial : bu t the g lory of the celestial is one, and the glo ry of the terrestria l is ano ther" (ve rse 40) .

Then the passage co nt inues toshow wha t the resurrec ted bod ies ofthose who are Chrisr's - those inwhom is dw elling God 's H oly Spirit(Romans 8:9, 11) - will be like. Thelanguage is clearer in the Moffatttranslatio n :

"So wirh the resur rection of thedead : what is sown is mortal , whatrises is im rnorral ; sown inglorious , itrises in g lory; sown in weakness, itrises in power ; sown an animate [natural} body, it rises a spiritual bod y"(verses 42-44).

Continue, in th e Authorized Version :

"And so it is written , The first manAdam was made a living soul; the lastAdam [Christ} was made a qu ickening sp irit" (Mo ffatt : "a life-gi vingSpirit" ). " . .. The first man is of theearth, earthy" - that is to say, thesoul is of the eart h, earthy - notspirit. " .. . the second man is theLord from heaven . As is the earthy,such are the y also th at are earthy: andas is the heavenly, such are they alsothat are heaven ly. And as we haveborne th e image of th e earthy, weshall also bear the image of the heaven ly." Moffa tt trans lates it : "Thus, aswe have bo rne the likeness of materialMan ."

Those who are Christ's (Ro mans8:9) will be resurrected , at the time of


Chris t's return in power and g lory toearth , immortal, composed o f SPI RIT.

Th ose in the " G rear Wh i teThrone" resurrect ion ( Revela tio n20:11-12 and Ezekiel 37:4-6, 11-13)will rise morral, as they were before- human - of the earth - earthy.Then (Ezekiel 37:13-14) Go d willg ive them Hi s Holy Spiri t, and they,too, shall receive God 's gift of eternallife.

Now, re me mber we covered( I Cor inthians 15:38) ho w that,when a g rain of wheat is planted, thenew plants tha t spri ng up are not thesame grai n tha t was planted , bu t theyARE EXACTLY THE SAM E KIND - theyare wheat, not oats or some othergra in.

T he Bibl ical revela tion makes plainth e fact tha t, in the resurrection, weshall look exactl y as we do in this life.T he resurrected body wi ll be identicalin every way. For exa mple, Christ saidto the hypocritical Pharisees: "Thereshall be weepi ng and gnashi ng ofteeth, when ye sha ll see Abrah am , andIsaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets,in the kingdom of God, and youyourselves thrust out" (Luke 13:28).Those there will be RECOG NI Z ED .

Spirit of ManLike a Mold

T here is th e old saying, "You can' ttake it with you when you die." Youmay dr ive yourself relentlessly to pileup a finan cial fortune. But you' llleave it all behind, when you die.

There is, however, something farmore valuable in life - and you CAN

T AK E IT \VI TH YO U, when you die .And th at is a righteou s spiritual

C HARACTE R th at God the Master Pot ter wants to fashion and shape anddevelop in us.

In the resurrection, you not o nlywill look just like you do in thi s life,you will have the same knowledgeyou had in this life - and the samecharacter, good or bad.

Now how is all that possib le?It seems quite simple, once you

unders tand . I will give you an analogy .

Between the Hall of Administration and the Student Cent er buil ding o n o ur Pasad en a campus ofAmbassador College is a beaut ifu lfountain, 38 feet high. Ir is a bronzescu lpture of five graceful, huge egre ts,wheeling in flight around a jet ofwater. It was designed and sculpturedby D av id W ynne of London .Act ually, it had to be made of man ypieces, each rather large, shipped, andth en put together on our campus.

This famo us sculptor formed itoriginally of plaster. I saw it before itleft his London studio, full y assembled, made of a wh ite plaster. Later, Isaw it in its various pieces or parts, ina London foundry . For example, thewingspread of each large egret is 15feet, so each wing was cast separately.This was done by making a sandmo ld of each parr at the foun dry.Into each was po ured mo lten bronze.

The bronze pans were shipped toPasadena and assembled and weldedtogether. Result: a beauti ful bronzesculpture, of precisely the same formand shape as the original plastermodel , only now composed of a different material - beautiful, hard. andendur ing bro nze. This is merely ananalogy, nor an exact comparison inall respects - for we have to think ofthe spirit of man as perfo rming thesame function as the sand mold ,tho ug h di fferent from it.

Memory Recorded inSpirit

I hope th at illustr at ion g ivesunderstand ing of ho w it is possibleth at , though a human bod y that oncelived disintegrates, decomposes, or iscremated and scattered to th e fourwinds, the spirit preserves its form ,shape, memory, characte r. The resurrected body will be precisely like it,though co mposed of something different . In Phi lippians 3 :20- 21 itspeaks of Chri st' s coming in powerand g lory, " who shall change our vile

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[physical] bod y, that it may be fashio ned like unto his glorious [spiritco mposed] bod y."

This spirit in each ind ividual, ofnecessity, does more than merel yimparting the power of intellect tothe ph ysical brain. It becomes a spiritual " mo ld" of the entire person even to preserving memory, knowledge and character. Thus th e resur rected person , then composed of spiritinstead of ma tter as in his humanlifetime, will be immortal. He wi llhave life inherent - wit hin him self.He will not need to breathe air tosust ain his existence, nor eat food nordrink water - though Bibli cal revelation sho ws that we shalf be able toen joy eating and drinking .

What Abou t the Maimedor Crippled?

N ow comes th e question - willwe be, in every detail , exactly as weare in this human life? W ill thecrippled or maimed be so in the resurrect ion?

Biblical revelatio n presents th e resurr ected ones as having undergone aNEW BIRTH - even a NE\X' CR EATION! In this new BIRTH , th erepenta nt and believing human, as ananalogy, compares to the ovum , andthe Holy Spiri t of God to the Ii feimparting div in e " sperm ." T henucl eus in the human with whi ch theSpirit of God unites is the sp irit ofman . We shall , then, be BORN OFGOD. When we were born o f humanflesh, we inherited much from ourhuman fathers - in form, shape,appearance, as well as mental andother characteristics. Then it follow sau tomatically th at in the resurrect ionwe shall inherit mu ch from our heaven ly Father. We shall inh eri t mu ch o fHi s character - his holiness - Hi sperfection . But shall we not inh eriteven some of Hi s specific features)

In looks, it is apparen t we shall berecognized - as Abraham, Isaac,Ja cob and the prophets shall be . Butit wou ld cert ainly seem, since Jesus is

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our God-Healer, and He healed eventhe cri pp led , that imperfectionscaused by accidents and / or poornu tr it ion in thi s life would beHEALED - or missing limbs would berestored, sicknesses or diseases wouldbe healed and disappear.

Those resurrected to physical andmortal life in the judgment of theGreat White Throne will be com posed of flesh and blo od - just asbefore, bu tit will not be the SAMEbody that died - th e SAME flesh andblood. Bu t new flesh and blood willform with this spirit "mold."

In either resurre ction , each perso nwi ll KNOW what he knew in thi s life.That means that his knowledge - hismemory - is record ed and preservedin thi s spirit.

When o ne dies, it is recorded inEcclesiastes, "T hen shall th e dustreturn to the earth as it was: and thespi rit shall return unto God who gaveit" (Eccl . 12:7) .

I do not say th at memory is notstamped in "the g ray matter" of thehuman brain . Ind eed, since anima lbrain s do preserve a certa in amo unt ofmemory, th e ind icati on is thatmemory may be stamped bo th in theph ysical brain and in th e spirit ofman . But thi s mu ch is evident : wha t

ever is scamped in the ph ysical brainis corruptible and subject to decay .Only the spirit of man can preserve it .

Unconscious in Death?

Human co nsciousness resides inthe ph ysical brain . The spiri t o f manundoubtedl y imparts a far more REA Lconsciousness than experienced inanimal brain, yet this consciousnessresides in the brain , not in th e spi rit.

Proo f: Medical anesthesia operateso n th e ph ysical brain , not on thespi rit. But when one is comp letely" under," his spi rit is not engaged inconscious think ing . Yet nothing hashappened to the spirit - it is ind estruc tible and as act ive as ever.

This ex p lains what th e Biblereveals - that " . . . th e living know

th at they shall die : but the dead knownot any thing " (Ecclesiastes 9:5). Assuredly the ph ysical brain fun ct ion sno longer, after one dies. And , althoughth e person's total fund of knowledgeis preserved - stored up , as it were in the spirit, th at spirit is not co nsciously thinking , apart from th ebrain - or UNTIL united with th ebrain of the resurrected person .

Further, thi s knowledge explainssomething else.

In the "resurrection chapter" - the15th chapter of I Corint hians, it iswritten : "But now is Christ risenfrom the dead, and becom e the firstfruits of them that slept " (verse 20).

It speaks of the dead as " those th atslept." In I Thessalonians 4: 14 thedead are spo ken of as those "whosleep in J esus."

Because the Bible speaks of dea thas a sleep , some have der isively ridi culed those who bel ieve the scripturesabove about the unco nscious state ofthe dead as being "soul-sleepers."

But the soul doesn't sleep - itdies.' And the spirit of man is uncon scious, yet thi s spirit NEVER DIES. It isthe one ing redient that was IN theman which lives, yet th is spirit isun consciou s - therefore the Biblespeaks of th e dead as sleeping.

Th ere is ano the r ana logy th atmight help illu strate ho w the spirit ofman preserves man's form , shape,knqwledge, character, person ality actu ally the whole person , inta ct unt ilthe resurrection .

T hat is the tape now used inrecordi ng of bo th sound and picture,in radio, television, or home-recording sets. In sou nd recor ding, a person's voice in speech or singi ng , orthe vo ices of chorus an d/or orchestra,band , or instru men t - whateversound - is electrically recorded. Likethe spir it, your naked eye can't seeanythi ng recorded on the tape, yet it'sthere. This sound is " resurrected ," orreprodu ced, when played on a tapemach ine. Un til then , however, itmak es no sound - it is " unco n-


scious" so to speak. But wh en pla yedon the tape machine, the who lesou nd "comes to life" precisely as itsou nded when recorded thro ugh themicro pho ne.

In the case of television tape, bothvideo (pict ure) and audio (sound) arerecorded . And, in the form o f a picture, it comes back to life when pu ton the air, even in full co lor.

W e think of all thi s as somethingordinary and simple to day - we havecome to " take it fo r g ranted," as partof everyday life.

Then should it seem too difficultfor the Creator, Mi racle-working Godto preserve our very person, and allthat we are, by means of th is spiri t ofman ?

This, then, is the Bibl ical revela tion. Perhaps a comparatively smallminori ty o f the eart h's human population believes the Bibli cal revelation .Adam and Eve didn't. Most o f theirdescen dant s have not. I can only hopethat the reader does - and sta te,further, th at the time is soo n co mingwhen everybody will.'

Let me say here that wh at ispresented here is merely an OVERVIEW. There may be man y detailedaspec ts of th is subject of th e spirit ofman that we do no t as yet kn ow.There are definitely some aspects ofthe subject not g iven to us in Bibl icalrevela tio n.

Rem ember what is revealed inDeu teron omy 29:29 : "The secretth ings belong un to the Eterna l ourGod : but those things which arerevealed belon g unto us and to ourchild ren for ever. . . ." T o try to reason o ut details of th is subject notrevealed cou ld be int rud ing whereman has no right. I do not wish to

intrude on the privacy of my God.T his subjec t, it is realized, couldaro use endless questio ns, probablyunimportant or useless.

It IS important to know that it isdefinitely revealed that there IS thepromise of LI FE ArTER DEATH - and

that this life comes through the RES-


URRECTION - not th rou gh the paganmy th of the immortali ty of the sou l.It IS important to know what man IS,and \X' HY he is.

Now, with this revea led knowledge in mind, what , finally, is MAN?

Man is a creation of th e livingG od . Formed, for thi s life, of materialsubst an ce from th e dust o f th eground, man nevertheless was madein the image, likeness - form andshape - of th e Alm ighty God. Hewas made to need , and to have andenj oy if he will , a very special relation sh ip wi th his Maker. He wasgiven the wo nde rful power o f MI ND,to make possible this relationshipwith his Maker.

But th e man and wo man Godcreated were not created COMPLETE nor have their descendants been borncomplete. They were th e signi ficantpart o f the PHYSICAL CREATION, tha twas the material wi th which theirMaker might begin H is SPIRITUALCREATION.

Still, even as composed of ph ysicalmatter, Adam was not complete. Onevery vital ingredient was missing th oug h God provided it for the taking , and offered it to Adam and Eve.That is H is H ol y Spirit.

The "tree of life" in the Garden ofEden was th e symbo l of God's H ol ySpi rit , whi ch might be called the"seed" or divine spiri tual "sperm"im part ing , or leading to, eternal life.

It has been exp lained in th is articlein what manner Adam 's crea tion wasincomplete. T he spirit of man impartsth e power of int ellect to the physicalbrain, bu t at th e same tim e it limitsth e hum an mi nd to MATERIAL knowledge.

The very presence of this spiri t inman gives him a spiritual, moral, andethica l natu re - with spiritual, moraland ethical problems, b ut wit hUNDERSTANDING lim ited to the phys ical and material.

Man was made to have a specialrelationship with his Maker, yet byhis transgressions, and lack of the

Spirit of God, he is CUT OFF from hisMaker!

Yet, even though our first parentsrejected God's knowledge and Hisway, our Maker has left the dooropen. He has bequeathed to us H ISREVEALED KNOW LE DGE in the Bible.

When Ad am and Eve disbelievedH im and diso beyed H im - made thewro ng choice - God drove them outof the Garden of Eden , " lest he putfort h his hand, and take also of thetree of life, and eat, and live forever . . ." (Gen . 3:22). So Adam wascut off from God. And, since then,"all have sinned" (except J esusChrist), and cut themselves off fromcontact with God (Isaiah 59:2).

But the Biblical revelat ion showsus tha t on repentance, and faith,th rough J esus Chr ist, whose deathpaid our penalty in our stead, we maybe reconciled to God and receive H isH oly Spirit - GOD'S Spirit, added toour spiri t. So that His "Spirit itselfbeareth witness with our spirit, thatwe are the children of God" (Romans8 :16) . W e then becom e Ch rist's(Ro mans 8:9).

Now, "if the Spirit of him thatraised up Jesus from the dead dwell inyou, he that raised up Christ from thedead shall also quicken your mortalbodies by his Spirit tha t dwelleth inyou" (Ro mans 8: 11).

An d when we are ins tantaneo uslycha nge d, if living at the time ofChris t's coming (I Corinthians15:51 -54) or , resurrected to eternallife if we have died previous to thattime, we sha ll enter the very Ki ngdom of God, composed of spirit. W esha ll then be hig her than angels -weshall judge angels (I Corinthians 6 :23).

What is MAN ? He is a human whohas gone the wrong way, but who hasthe potent ial of TURNING AROUND,repenting, believing, and becoming aSON OF GOD with eternal life inpeace, happiness, joy, abundant wellbeing GLORY, for ever andever! •

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r MID-JUNE, on the heels of severestorms and flooding in RapidCity, South Dakota, the first

American hurricane of the 1972 season, H urricane Agnes, ravaged theAtlantic seaboard wi th devastatingfloods. The heavy rains and floodingin much of the eastern United Stateshave produced one of the mostextensive disasters in the nation's history - and in terms of property damage, certa in ly one of the' mostexpensive.

Thousands of homes, farms, andbusinesses from Virginia to NewYork and as far west as Ohio werewiped out by the week-long rainsdumped by tropica l storm Agnes . Thedeath to ll from Hu rricane Agnessoared over the one hundred mark. Atits peak, Ag nes forced nearly 400,000people to flee from their homes.

Most Extensive inU. S. History

" We believe the flooding from theG ulf Coast to New York is the mostex tensive in th e country's history,"announced Dr. Robert White, headof the National Ocea nic and Atmospheric Admi nistration, which oversees the U. S. Weather Service. Helater said, " Never before has theweat her service been faced with theth reat of simu ltaneous flooding oversuch a large area and affecting somany pop ulation centers. "

After a helicopter tour of the hardhit areas of Virginia and Maryland ,White added , " In man y areas thefloods are also the most severe ever, interms of height of water." He didn'tknow of any time in U. S. histo rywhen so many rivers and majorstream s exceeded record flood levels.

According to th e U. S. ArmyCorps of Engineers , 4,500 miles ofmajor U. S. streams and 9,000 milesof smaller tributaries have overflowedtheir banks .

According to White , HurricaneAgnes departed from the normal pattern of hurricanes once it hit land ."Usually, they [hurricanes] pick upspeed once they get over land , but inth is case it moved very slow ly, and ithad time to drop enormous amountsof rainfall ," he declared . "Then whenit came up the coast , it didn 't turnout to sea, as hurricanes normall y do ,because of a low pressure trough inthe North Atlantic that forced it toturn west and go into New York. . . .When nature goes on a rampage, weare its prisoners."

Damage estimates stand at about1.7 billion dollars , but the total costwill not be known for months tocome . Approximate estimates fromthe governors of stric ken states areFlorida , $35 mill ion ; Maryland, $50million ; Virginia, $160 million ; NewYork, $235 million ; and hardesthit Penns ylvania, well over

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$1,000,000,000. According ro U. S.Department of Agriculture officials,over 37,000 farms in the five-state areareceived damage. Early agriculturalloss estimates were placed at over $5million dollars.

Penn sylvania suffered the worstdamage from Agnes , with 50 knowndead and more than 250,000 residentshomeless .

" W ithout any doubr it is the worstdisaster in the history of Pennsylvania, " lamented Governor Shapp. "Ithink Pennsylvanians will have everyreason ro rename Hurricane AgnesHurricane Agony."

Personal Report

PLAI N TRUTH regional editor Dexter Faulkner, accompanied by photographer Larry Dalton, toured theflooded Harrisburg area and filed thefollowing heartrending report :Harrisburg, Pennsylvania:

W e have just left the Harrisburgairpo rt terminal. All we can thinkabout is a now famous line: " Water,water everywhere, but not a drop rodrink." Just inside the terminal, numbers of homeless peo ple are beingcared for by the Red Cross. Throughout the terminal , sig ns warn : " Do n' tdrink this water - Contaminated."

A lack of safe drinking water hasaffected at least 80 communities inPenns ylvania . For fear of large outbreaks of disease, officials haverepeatedl y warned against drinkingany water without boiling it for several minutes.

Harrisburg , from the wind ow ofour small Cessna aircraft , is, as wewrite, a sea of devastati on . We won der , " How can anyo ne possibl ydescribe such misery and destruction ?" It is unbel ievable. Th e Susquehanna River, wh ich run s th roughHarrisburg , is dark brown from therich ropsoil it has robbed from Pennsylvania's fertile farml and s. Signs ofdestructio n are evident wherever theswo llen river courses . It has slammedtrucks through facrory walls, flippedauromobiles upsid e down, leavingthem mired in the mud, and from our

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RAVAGES OF HURRICANE AGNESLeft: An old "Ha rr isburg br idge, whichhas long withstood the elements, fina llycrumbles under the pressure of thefl ood caused by Hurricane Agnes .What was usually 3 to 6 feet of watercrested upward to nearly 30 feet o rmore. Below left: Harrisburg, Pennsy lvan ia , June 26 - among the thousands o f people who had to evacuatethei r homes when floods hi t the Harrisburg area were these res iden ts of anursing home . Here an elderly patientis be ing ca red fo r by a Red Cross vol unteer. Below: All that's le ft of a bridgeat Ellicott Ci ty, Maryland, June 27,1972.

Left, Lorry Do lto n - Pla;n TruthBe lo w left, Rud y Vetter - American Red CrossBe lo w, Jock Schneider -

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AFTERMATH OF THE FLOOD

Far left : A flood victim ba ilso ut the basement of his homea t Port De posit, Maryland following the flood generated byHurrica ne Agnes . Top center:Pres ide nt Nixon visited floodvictims housed at W illiamPenn High School on June 24.He ca me by helicopter to per sonally view the destructionwrought .by Hurricane Agnes.Left: A displaced person sitt ing on a bench near theflooded Susquehanna River inHarrisburg, Pennsylvania . Below: View of Harr isburg afterthe water started to recede.The water level reached tenfeet in the stree ts.

Far left, Jack Schne ide r -Office o f Emer g ency Prepare dness.

AU othe rs, Lorry Dolton Plain Truth

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aerial viewp oint, th ey look much liketoy cars left in a little boy's backyardmudpile . T he Susqu eh ann a ha suprooted mob ile homes and createdg rotesque new neighborhoods fromtheir twi sted hu lks.

From our 900 foot altitude, we cansee tons of piled-up silt and debrisdeposited everywhere. The damagedone to railroad s, bridges, and publ icfacilitie s is appalling. Everywhere onhomes, facto ries and buildings , wecan see ugl y, mu ddy watermarks leftby the receding Susquehanna. "I t'shard to believe, isn't it," our pi lotremarked. "So much destruc tio n insuch a short period of time ."

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Our map indi ca tes the rivers and tri bu tar ies that overflowed th ei r banks in theaftermath of Hu rr ica ne A gnes .

like landing on an island , since theairport is almost surrounded byreceding water. Work crews havealready begu n massive cleanup operations. On the ground, we see dozensof peopl e removing water-logg ed person al items from their hom es andapartments and hangin g them out todry in th e sun . There exist some localproblems with spectators and looters.

In the streets , piles of lumber andtwisted metal lie scattered about assig htseers from miles around - inshorts and sunglasses - mi x with

national guardsmen who are patrolling the area.

T he rank smell of the flood andthe heart breaking scenes of miseryetch a deep impression on our minds.As we head back to Washington,D .C., we can see large black cloudsominou sly gathering again , and thethoug ht occurs about how valuablewater is to us in our everyday living,yet how mu ch utter devastation ithas caused to the northeast UnitedStates thi s third week of June, 1972.

So ends the report from Harrisburg.

It Can HappenAnywhere

What few Ameri cans realize is thatthe Agn es disaster is the latest inwh at has been the most severe periodof majo r disasters on record in theUnited States. There have been 27major disaster declarations by President N ixon during calendar year 1972- all except one for floodin g.

Most Americans are used to reading of calamitous natural disastersoccurring in remote areas of thewo rld - such as typhoons in Pakistan or the Philippines, or devastatingearthquakes in Turkey, Iran, Peru, orChile. But the recent flooding in theeastern part of the Uni ted Stat esbrings hom e the lesson that no country- no matter how affluen t, pro sperous, or wealth y - is immune toune xpected nat ional disasters.

Floods, earthquakes, and otherdisasters can happen virtu ally anywhere. Upset weathe r conditio ns can,and do, cause severe suffering andhavoc in any nat ion , leaving multiplethousands hom eless.

Su ch calam it ies are g enerallyreferred to as "ac ts of God." God mayor may not be directl y respon sible ;however, it is important that thenati on face up to the fact that suchunp aralleled flooding does provideforceful evidence that th e UnitedStates has not been blessed with providential " rain in du e season" (Lev.26:4) . God makes this promise onl yto tho se nations that obey Him ! •

PLAIN TRUTH Aug ust 1972

Personalfrom

( Continuedfrom page 1)

"Neither ridicu le nor caricature neither dread of enemies nor desertion o f friends - could shake hisindomitable faith in his abili ty to leadthe nation through the g rea tes tstruggle in its history.

"Napoleon , Bismarck , and allother g reat achievers had colossalfaith in th emselves. It doubled ,trebled , or even quadrup led th e ordinary power of th ese men . . . . Wi thout thi s sublime faith , thi s confidencein her mission, how cou ld the simplecountry maiden , Jeanne d'Arc, haveled and co nt ro lled the Fren ch arm y?This divine self-confide nce multipliedher pow er a thousandfold , until eventhe king obeyed her , and she led hisstalwa rt tro op s as if th ey were chi ldren."

I suppose not one in man y thousands would see anything but inspiration and right principle in suchexpressio ns as " his indomitable faithin his ability . . ." or " had colossalfaith in themselves," or "T his divineself-confidence ." And that is only astart . The remainder of the chap ter isfilled with th e reward s of self-confidence - co nfidence in SELF.

That is not to say th at self-confidence does not increase results. Thatis the kind of co nfidence I wasabsorbing in those days. It did inspire. It did prod drive.' It did injectperseveran ce. It did increase results.

But later in life, I learned of a farbetter, more resultful confide nce.

I have mention ed a nu mb er oftime s th at in the autumn of 1926 I

was challenge d on the theory o f evo lut ion . I was more or less fami liarwith th e doctri ne, but had neverindulged in an in-depth research intothe question o f origins. This chal-


lenge dro ve me to th at in-depthresearch.

So I delved thoroughly into thewo rks of D arwin and his spo nsors,Haeckel and Huxley, the works ofLyell befo re them , and Chamberlinand Vog t after them. This led to astudy of the other claim for orig ins. Ibegan to qu estion the existen ce ofGod . I had been brought up tobelieve in God. But now I realizedth at I had grown up assuming Go d'sexistence - simply taking it forgra nt ed - but I had never seenPROOF.

SO I entered into a study of Ge nesis and the who le Bible, to exam ineits claim s for special creation and theexistence of an all-powerful Creator.

It became frankly evident th at th edominant motive impelling man yevo lut ionists to accept th e theory was,in actual fact, their relu ctance - orrefusal - to bel ieve in a God wh obears authority over them . Humannature resents autho rity , though itloves to wield it.

I found no proof for the evo lutionary theory, though I found mu chto disprove it. And I found thatwhi ch, to me, was irrefutable scientific proof of the exis tenc e of th eliving God . But then I bega n to askmyself why had I experienced a sorto f sense of shame - or emba rrassment - in believing in G od? H owman y experience that ' Now, havingfound irrefutable PROOF, it seemedsilly that one sho uld feel any embarr assm e nt i n acknowle dging aGREATER POWER - a greater MIND who designed and brought into existen ce th e human mind - MY mi nd!Sho uld I not , rath er, be gra teful?

To my surprise, on looking intensively into it, I found the Bible aliving NO Jr/ book. It is for TODA Y. Athird of it is pro phecy, and 90% ofthat pertains to this 20t h century andbeyond.

Rati onal st u dy of t he Bi bl erevealed a direc t rela tionship be tweenman and God. Man, it is bib licallyrevealed , was formed and shaped inthe likeness of GOD - no t of ani-

mals. He was put here on earth tohave a defini te relat ion ship to andwith his Maker.

I bega n to learn of a dynamic,active NEW kind of confidence, infini tely superior to SELF-confidence. Itis somethi ng God GIVES!

It is the confidence that is FAITH.The Go d of the Bible therein

PROMISES many th ings and benefitswe humans oug ht to be receiving.Am ong them is g uidance, bestowal ofPOWER - many th ings the livingGod will do for us.

I began to learn that there is someth ing very practi cal in all thi s. I beganto learn th at , if I submitted my life toGod 's guidance, I was tappi ng asource of POWER millions of timesg reater than any resou rces within .

Oh, I was well aware that in mosthumans lie dormant abilities, powersand resources - latent talen ts thatoug ht to be aroused, brought ou t anddeveloped . I have ment ioned, in myautobiography, the case of a formerco lleague and publisher with whom Iwas connec ted for several years Clifford D e Puy. H is father died suddenl y, leaving a quality magazine inth e bank ing field, The NorthwesternBanker, surprisingly heavily in debt.Young Clifford, at that time abo ut28, inexperienced, took off his coat,rolled up his sleeves, and began putting those undeveloped latent abilities to wo rk. His father's bank backedhim , and in a few years he paid off theinde btedness and became a successfulpub lisher.

But there is a GREATER source ofpower. T here are multiplied greaterresources.

SO WHY NOT TAP BOTH?Why not ignite that spark wi thin,

dr ive oneself on to develop his OUJll

abilities, and , at the same time,replace SELF-confidence with a livingFAITH in the directio n, inspiration ,wisdo m, and resources of dynamicsupe rna tural POIPER from above ?

I decided, in the spring of 1927, todo jus t that! And worldwide enterprises affecting the lives of a hundredand fifty million people on all conri-

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nenrs have resulted. Man y thousandsof lives have been CHANGE D - tu rnedright side up - made more successful- AND HAPPY!

I learned th at there are the THR EEDIMENSIONS - the within , thearound, and the aboue.

Most people chea t themselves byu ti lizi ng onl y the first two. In theirlives there are only these two dimensions on which to rely.

Loo king int o the within is lik elook ing into a well and findi ng it hasgo ne dry. Rel ying on the wi thin , the ybecome self-centered. Their concern ispr ima rily for self. So they becomeselfish. They develop greed , desire tohave , to GET, to take, to accumulate.They measure success in terms ofmaterial accumulation. Toward othersthey are u n concerned, envious ,jealous, suspic ious. They live in aspirit of competition .

Their self-centered thinking resultsin constantly shr inking horizons.They may develop latent talents,arouse ambitio n for self-gain, developtheir own inner powers and resources,but those resources are comparativelymeagre. They try to find happiness inmaterial acquisition, but th at is notthe source of hap piness.

Then, of course, there is the pull ofhuman nature to CONFORM - toBELONG. SO th e dimension of thearound fills a big part of their lives.But those around them are self-cen tered to o, trying to get the best ofthem in every deal. They, too , cent ertheir affections on material acquisition. They constitu te an un happyworld . They are bent on g ett ing, andto o often you find th ey are jealo us, orenv ious, or resentful toward you. Youfind that thei r concern is for the mselves, rather than for your welfare orhappiness. You tru st them , and to ooften find them untrustworthy.

There's not m uch in th e way ofresources to be found in the around,but m an y di sillu si onin g di sappointments.

But wh at abou t the third dimension - the above? Could it be possiblethat mo st of humanity has been fail-

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ing to tap th e so urce o f the greatestresources and meaningful , rewardingbenefits ?

Here is what I fou nd revealed. Inth e first - the creation - chapter ofthe Bible, it is wri rten that Godfor med cattle after the cat tle kind,whales after th e whale kind - tha t isthe way God made them - the wayHe formed and shaped them . But verses 26 and 27 say He formed manafter God's ow n im age and likeness- man was MADE - formed, shaped,in the same form and shape as God.H owever, the 7th verse of th e 2ndchapter says He formed man of material substance - out of the ground while in John 4:24 it is revealed thatGod is co m posed of imma terialSPIRIT.

But WHY was man form ed andshaped like GOD, instead of like an yof the lower animals? Becau se manwas created for a PURPOSE - to havea personal and specia l relati onshipwith God .

In th e N ew Testament book ofJ o hn , it is stated th at Jesus g ave to asmany as received H im po wer tobecome the sons o f God . And in IJ ohn 1:3 it is stated that all suchactually have fellowship - actualco ntact an d fellowship wi th God, andwith Christ !

I found that th e Bibl e is literallyfu ll of PROMISES from God, in whi chHe PROM ISES to do th ings for us,bestow things on us, g ive neededthings to us.

N otice just a few :"But my God shall supply all your

need according to his riches in g loryby Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4: 19) .That does not promise to supply allyour desi res or wants - just yourneed . And it is well to realize th at theBible reveals that God do es for uswhat we are unable to do for ourselves. Usually He will supply yourneed through your own efforts - bu tif you place CONFIDENCE in Him ,He'll see that the need co mes.

In James 1:5, " If any of you lackwisdom, let him ask of God , th atg iv e th to all men liberall y, and

upbraideth not ; and it sha ll be g ivenhim. But let him ask in faith, nothingwavering ."

Very shortly after I learned th istru th abou t the Bible, 45 years ago, Ifound in a tim e o f embarrassmentthat I lacked wisdom. From a veryyoung boy I had always craved tohave UN DERSTAND ING. And I hadacqui red a fair degree of that , butwisdom is more than knowledge andunderstand ing . I t is ability to usebo th , and come to a right and wisedecision. So I to ok G od up o n thi spromi se through the writing ofJ ames. I asked for wisdom. I believed Iwo uld be given wisdom, since Godhad PROMISED it , on my asking - andGod could not break Hi s promise. Ireceived wisdom. In my positiontod ay, as th e chie f human administrator over larg e wo rldwi de activ ities,I frequ ently have to make decision sinvolving millions of dollars. I NEE Dth at wisdom !

Had I been forced to rely so lely onthe resources within, or on advice andcounsel from the around, thi s greatW ork, I am sure , cou ld never havedevelop ed. But I have had all threedimension s to tap . I most certai nly doseek counsel from others. Solomonsaid th at in a multi tude o f counsellorsthere is safety. So I call in counsello rs.I use m y ow n best judgment, basedon exp erien ce. And in addition , I relyon wisdom from God. I utili ze allthree dimensio ns - and they make ag reat team . That's the safest way Ikn ow .

Just how GREAT are these resourcesfrom above? How GREAT is th e livingGOD?

The prophet Isaiah g ives us someinformation on that. This IS wh atGod inspired him to write :

" Who hath measured the waters inth e holl ow of his hand , and metedout heaven with th e spa n, and comprehend ed the du st of the earth in ameasure , an d weighed the mountainsin scales, and the hi lls in a balance?

"Who hath dire cted the Spirit ofth e Etern al, or bein g his counsellorhath taught him ? With whom to ok


he counsel , and who ins tructed him,and taught him in the path o f judgment, and taught him knowl edge,and shewed to him the way of und erstanding?

" Beho ld, the nations are as a dropof a bucket [compared to God], andarc coun ted as the small du st of thebalance: behold, he taketh up the islesas a very little thing... . All natio nsbefore him are nothing ; and they arecounted to him less than nothing ,and vanity.

"To whom then wil l ye likenGod?" . . .

"It is he th at sirrerh upon the circleof the earth, and the inh abitantsthereof arc as g rassho ppers; thatsrrercherh o ut th e heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tentto dwell in.... Lift up your eyes o nhigh, and behold wh o hath createdthese things, that bringe th out theirhost by number. . . .

"Hast tho u no t known ) hast thounot heard , that the everlast ing G od ,the Eternal, the Creato r of the ends ofthe earth, fainrcrh not , neither isweary ? the re is no searchin g of hisunderstanding . He g iveth power tothe faint; and to them that have nomight, he increascth streng th.. . .they tha t wait upon the Eternal shallren ew their streng th" ( Isaiah 40:12

15, 17-18, 22, 26, 28-3 1).

Peopl e o ften ask me why I stayyoung - and where do I ge t myenergy? Th e above verses g ive me apromi se - pro vid e a so urce o fresources which I rely on.

Yes, I found , 45 years ago, a farmore practical and resultful confiden ce than self-confi dence. I foundthe confidence that is FA I T H . It isreliance on the supreme great God,wh ose greatness is described abov e.Hi s resources are to tal. They areunlimited . The we alth and th e

resources of the entire uni verse areH is. He is th e SO URCE of a l lpower. of all good, of all that isdesirable .

He is not only the G reat Creato r.He is th e supreme RULER of the un iverse. He is the Great Educator, theSource of basic knowledge. He is theGreat GIVER.' He g(flIe Hi s o nlybegotten Son - for our redemption .He g ives power and strength . He supplies all our needs. He g ives wisdom .He has EVERYT H ING to g ive that isGOOD.

My life has been tremen do uslyenri ched since I became connec ted tothi s Source of to tal supply, forty-fiveyears ago. And this has led to th eenr ichment of untold o ther thou sands.

What a stupendo us value mo st ofhumanity is cheating itself out of, byfailing to add the above dimension inth eir lives! •

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