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VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 3 MARCH, 1962
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WINTER SNOWS on the Ambassador College grounds near london . Me-
morial Hall is lit up in the background and, to the right , one of several
beautiful cedars of Lebanon ti nted with snow.
Page 2 The PLAIN TRUTH Mar ch, 1962

VOL. XXVII NO. 3
Jack M. Pyle
Joyce F. Sefcak
" I Threw Your Booklets Away"
"Dear Mr. Armstrong:
"I have written to you twice before,
bur have always thrown your booklets
away because they were so different
from what I had ever read. I have be-
come more interested in your interpre-
tation in view of the present world
crisis. The religious group I am present-
ly affiliated with seldom mentions con-
temporary conditions. I bel ieve that
tr ue repentance and obedience to God's
laws are for today. Therefore, I would
like to know more of His laws. Please
send me the booklets and I will not
throw them away:'
Man from Fort \Vorth , Texas.
Edit or's Comment: Th e tr uth is very
di fferent and sometimes, for the natural
man, very difficult to believe unt il you
have proved it for yourself. The real
reason most people don't agree with
God is that [hey are unwilling to do
what He says.
lil y First Impression
"I heard your program roday for the
first rime. You arc [he first speaker on
any subject [hat has been able [Q hold
my atrencion for any length of time. I
never wntc letters to anyone."
\'(loman from Maryland.
First Broa dcas ts Seemed Radical
"At first your broadcasts seemed tOO
radical and I destroyed a few of the
first PLAIN TRUTH magazines I received,
but now I believe your teachings are
right and that God is using your minis-
try more than anyone else on earth. I
will appreciate all Future literature and
preserve it and pass it on to others."
Subscriber from Friedens,
Pennsylvania.
Bibl e Cha nges Read er
"It is only within the last nine months
[hat I have discovered the Bible. All my
life I've bcen an avid reader, bur had
never read the greatest Book of all. It
IS an experience that has changed me
completely. For years I have been un-
at tached to any religion, but your way
is the first that seems to be reasonable,
logical and bel ievable. I had put off
writ ing until I was sure. And this Fri-
day night past , after hearing a religious
discussion by some modern, progressive
Protestants, I know there is no place for
me in Prorcstantisrn either. I left Ca-
tholicism IS years ago."
\'(loman from Hahnville.
Louisiana
Comfort able Rut?
"These Bible Studies are amazing,
grippi ng. and full of trouble-personal
trouble. Decisions and some changes
will have to be made. I am in such
a comfortable rut! However. many
thanks."
Queenstown, Australia.
Comment: Never stay in a rm! Better
yet, avoid getti ng into one in the first
place!
Accident in Irel and
"It was by accident that I happe ned
to tune in and hear you for the first
time. At firsr I must confess I thought
you a bit of a crank. Th ere was some-
thing in your message that made me
trant to listen agai n, and now I'm a
regular listener twice weekly. I have
come to respect and admire the way in
which you so fearlessly and courageously
discuss the Bible. You present it clearly
and logically. offering proof Step by
step. You speak positively and with as-
surance, and this in itself is refreshing
after hearing ministers and church
leaders givi ng us their views and
thoughts on the subject, instead of
Almighty God's true, precise and defi-
nite word."
'Man from Co. Antrim,
Northern Ireland.
Comment: We are glad [Q not ice more
and more listeners in Europe writi ng
in. And now new radio doors are being
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Published momhl v at Pasadena. California; Londo n,
England; and Melbour ne. Ausu alia. by Ambassador
College. Germa n edmon published momhly at
Pasadena. Californil. () 1962, by Radio Ch urc h
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EDITOR
HERBERT W . ARMSTRONG
EXECUTI VE EDITOR
Garner Ted Armstrong
MANAGING EDITOR
Herman 1. Hoeh
SENIOR EDITOR
Roderi ck C. Meredith
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New! Bu reau Direct or
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Research Staff
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Ronald D. McNeil
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In This Issue:
What our Readers Say 2
Personal from the Editor _ 3
Y
OU HAVE noticed. of course, that
the pr ice of a postage stamp has
gone up [0 5 cents, This new law
increasing postal rates is import ant [0
both you, and also to me as Editor of The
Plain Tru th.
Did you read claims by proponent s
of this new postal increase that large-
circulation magazines like The Plain
Tmtb are nor paying their own way
through the mails? And especially a
magazine like this, publi shed by a NON
profit institution?
The publisher of LIFE magazine
thought his readers would be interested
in knowing the facts-and I am sure
our readers will be interested in know-
ing the plain truth about how your let-
ters are handled, and how this maga-
zine is transported, through the United
States mails. It is interesting to note
that the United States edition of T he
Plain Truth and the Pacific Coast edi-
don of LIF E are both printed in the
same printing plant-Pacific Press in
Los Angeles.
Of course The Plain T rut h, with a
million readers, is published in three
edit ions around the world. The edition
serving Britain, Europe and Africa is
published in London. The edition serv-
ing Australia, New Zealand, and Asia
is published in Melbourne. The three
editio ns are ident ical, except for one
page reserved for necessary local notices
in the British and Austral ian editions.
What I am explaining to you here
about mailing procedures applies only to
the North American edition, but postal
methods affecting the ot her editions are
quite similar, if nor ident ical.
The plain truth is that, although the
United States Post Office Department
has granted this magazine the lower-cost
second-class pri vileges, saving us from
35,000 to $50,000 per year in postage
ills, this magazine does pay its own
way! Further, and import ant, even
though you cannot pay for your own
subscription to this magazine (is there
any other like it? I think norl! ) -it defi-
nitely if paid by others, and goes only
to those who subscribe personally for
their own subscriptions . This fact had
to be established to the satisfaction of
the postal authorities before we could
be granted the second-class privilege.
And it is a privilege for which we of
The Plain Truth staff are very grateful,
and you, as a reader ought to he, also.
But how can I say that we do pay our
1lJay, even at this low-cost second-class
mailing rate? Your copy of The Plain
Truth, now increased to 48 pages, is
larger and heavier than the letter you
can mail for a 5 cent postage stamp.
And, pound for pound, and size for
size, we do pay a lower rate than the
individual citizen mailing first-class a
personal letter. You will be interested
in the plain facts. We do pay our way!
When you mail a letter with a 5 cent
postage stamp by dropping it in your
rural mailbox, or your corner mailbox
in the city, a postman must drive by in
a car or a truck to colleer it. In a city
he takes it to a station or substation.
There Other men must handle it. It must
be canceled, then sorted, then, probably
by still another clerk, bundled with
other mail addressed to the same town
or city, then put into a mailbag, after
which, in most cities, it is taken by
truck or helicopter to a central postal
station. There the mailbag containing
it is SOrted with Other bags, and taken
to the train or the plane.
If your rural mail carrier takes it to
a small-town POSt office, it is there can-
celed. sacred, bundled, and put in a mail-
bag. Then it may be taken by truck or
train to the nearest city. There it may
have to be sorted, re-bundled, bagged
again, then taken to the train or plane.
In many cases, depending on location,
there may be several other steps. Your
first class letter may need handling by
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What Is Germany's Destiny? .. ._.... 5
Radio lag 6
Just What do You Mean
- Kingdom 01 Gadl 9
This Idiot ic, Modern Psychology J I
The World Didn't Came to
an End! 13
The Key to Goad Health (special
interv iew with Eric Eweson,
noted Swedish biochem;stJ.. _..... J5
Autobiography 01
Herbert W. Armstr ong _ 19
Short Questions _. 2 J
How to Teach Your Children Right
Hab its 29
The Bible Story 33
Histor ians Confess: We Were
Nat Seeking the Whale Truth... A I
German Rationalism Exposed ..... .43
OUR COVER
On our from cover of this issue we show
you a rare picture of the Richard David
Armstrong Memorial Hall , on the grounds
of Ambassador College at Bricker Wood,
in England .
This was photographed at the time of
the heaviest snow this section of England
had seen in many a year-a hundred years
or more. This night shot , with its flood-
lights gleaming in the heavy white snow,
shows thi s ornate main class-room building
in rare dress.
Richard David Armstrong, elder son of
Herbert W. Armstrong, pioneered and es-
tabl ished our work in Britain. He estab-
lished our first office there. He baptised the
first convert in Britain resulti ng from The
World Tomorrow program, and The Plat"
Truth. This fabulous main building of the
new college in Bri tain has been named in
his honor to perpetuate his memory.
Your copy of the February issue of th e PLAI N TRUTH was here! The se
345,000 copies of the American and Canadian edi ti ons a re brought in to
the Press building and run t hroug h the ne w Magnacraft Mail ing Machine,
which addresses at the rate of 18,000 per hour!
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as many as 20 men and carried suc-
cessively by as many as three or four cars
and trucks or a helicopter. All these
man-hours COSt the post office depart-
ment money. You get a lot for a nickel.
Now compare that to the manner in
which your COP}' of The Plain Truth is
handled. In the two-story ultra-modern
building that houses the Ambassador
College Press, your name and address is
kept on a punched card of the very
int ricate IBM electronic maili ng sys-
tem. \Vith more than 300,000 Others,
your card runs at lightning speed through
a machi ne which prints your name and
address on a long stri p, or roll , of tape.
This modern elect ronic system, t hro ugh
another machine, already has sorted
your card wit h others in your state, and
even in your town. As the names and
add resses arc rapi dl y pr inted on these
stri ps of paper tape, an impression is
made on the last name in each town or
ci ty. All t his is done on days prior to
receiving the several large tr uckloads
of copies of each month's Plain Truths.
Then when an issue of T he Plain
Truth is off t he press in Los Angeles,
large tr ucks deli ver the magazi nes to
our Press bu ildi ng in Pasadena.
Then a large trained staff goes to
wor k. The hundreds of thousands of
cop ies are run through a large address-
ing machine at the speed of 18,000
copies pe r hour, stampi ng the tape con-
taining name and address on each. As
these copies are carr ied down a con-
veyer belt, those goi ng to each town
or city are pulled our by workers. They
ate bundled by being placed on a str ing-
tying machine. These mac hi nes rapi dly
wrap stri ng around and tie each bundl e
rogerher in a tight bowknot . In the
case of magazi nes going to cit ies having
local postal zones, we actually SOrt our
and bundle sepa rately t hose goi ng to
each local zone. Then our own staff
places them in ma ilbags in exactly the
same mann er post al clerks sort and bag
ordinary first-class mail in the POSt
offices.
The PLAIN TRUTH
Finally these many tru ckloads of
mai lbags arc transported to t he Pasa-
dena POSt Office-s-uer at gove rnment ex-
pense by Post Office ma il trucks, bur by
our own transporta tion department
trucks.
So you sec, in the case of Tbe Plain
Trstb, all these many steps of handl ing
mai l to get it finally imo ma ilbags
labeled for the rown or city to which
each bag is to go, is done by w! All
the POSt Offi ce has left to do is to pur
the bags on t he trains. That is the rea-
son the POSt Offi ce Depart ment grams
us the lower-cost second-class postage
we. We do probably the largest part
of the Post Office work for them, so that
the case to t he Government of del iver-
ing your copy of T he Plain Trmb is
grea dy reduced.
And so it is t hat alt hough we are
granted the lower-rate second-class
pr ivilege, saving us upwards to 550,000
per year , 1t'C do pay our way,
And if some of our readers are in-
clined to gripe about having to pay 5c
postage for one letter, we should re-
member that the Post Office Depart-
menr is really nor a business. Nobody
makes any profit from the postage
stamps we buy. The POSt Offi ce Depart -
ment has been losing large sums of
money- mill ions upo n millions of dol-
lars. In ot her words, it actua lly COStS
more than 5c for the government to col-
lect your letter, put ir through all these
many tr ansactions, and deliver ir to the
person to whom you have addressed it ,
And we all, as taxpayers, make up [he
di fference in the taxes we pay.
March, 1962
Actu ally, if Congress had not passed
this new bill raising postage rates, we
woul d have been paying the difference
anyway- in hi gher taxes. 1
It may be interest ing to our readers,.....eJJ
also, to know that we arc one of the
largest customers-and we may well be
t he very Jargesr-c-of the Pasadena POSt
Offi ce.
In the month of December, 1961, we
received from radio listeners and Plain
Trutb readers the staggering tot al of
99,258 letters. The month of J anuary,
1962, [ust dosed, brought 100,939. Out
mail ing department mai led Out, duri ng
the month of November. 1961, more
tha n ONE MI LLION pieces of mail. Our
Letter -Answering staff, composed of or-
da ined mini sters, and graduate students,
with a few undergraduate seniors,
mailed OUt more than 24,500 personal
replier to answe r personal questions
from listeners and readers, dur ing the
year 196 1.
Multiple TONS of important lite ra-
ture , making the Bible PLAI N, poured
from our printing pr esses. Truck loads
rumbl ed [0 the POst office daily. And
thi s was in Pasadena alone. Our branch
offices in Australia and in England were
pr iming and mailing our their quotas,
roo.
And now we are looking for ward to
a 30% bigger yeat during 1962. Fot 28
years this great work of God on eart h
has conti nued to show an average
growt h of 30% pet year. Today its im-
pact is reaching some twenty milli ons
of people on all inhabited conti nents
every week!
What Is
GERMANY'S DESTINY?
Germany stands today at the fulcrum of world decision. The
dominant force of a thi rd world power bloc of growing poten-
tial , Germany must act! Will her decision bring peace at last
-or war?
by Da vid J a n Hill
T
HE BERLIN situat ion is bogging
down in the mire of int ernational
politics. The Uni ted States
leader of the West-long ago lost the
initiative! Yet this area still rema ins
the most volatile, the most dangerous
in all the earth-where a wrong move
on the pare of either side might plunge
this world into a consuming, nuclear
hell!
\XThether pessimists or realists , mil-
lions of Americans are frantically financ-
ing fallout shelters-the general pub-
lie beginning to be aware at last that
war may come on our soil! Grea t
Britain, finally aware of her thread bare
economic cond ition, is ignomi niously
knocking on the door of the Common
Market- seeking to join the "Inner
Six."
Yet, walking wit h confident stride
through these fearfu l times is a boom-
ing and appare ntly boundless European
economy dom inated by German drive,
init iative and leadership. The attempt
to unify Europe as one economic, mili-
tary and politica l power bloc restori ng
the "Holy Roman Empire," has been the
one aim of all the "great" men who
domi nated European history from Na-
poleon's "Waterloo" until now.
Mussolini, dom inat ing Eritrea, Italian
Somaliland, l ibya, and conquering Ethi-
opia, did officially name his weak "Em-
pire" the "Roman Empire."
Bur now the dream of a mighty,
powerful , resurrected Roman Empi re at
last is becoming a bard-driving reality.
Mo re Than Success
The pr esent six nat ions of United
Europe have succeeded in their aim far
beyond the wildest dreams of the origi-
nal signers of the Treaty of Rome. In
far less time, at a far greater pace than
anticipated, these nations of Europe
have r isen from the economic chaos of
World War II to the dizzying heights
of a standard of living never known to
tbem before!
Wi th the present success well beyond
the proportions of that expected three
years ago, wi th a future success-in a
world of peace-sure to produce a near-
utopia, Western Europe is mor e con-
cerned about war tha n any ot her eco-
nomic and poli tical ent ity on the face
of this earth!
"Th is is very probably the last Jear in
whi ch anyone except Europe will be
able to negotiate with the Soviet Un ion
for Europe!" (London Sunday Times) .
These nations are ENJOYING their eco-
nomic recovery and they will let
nothing stand in its way- they will
Stop at noth ing to keep what they beve,
and, GO ON TO MORE! SO it is that a
bluepr inr has been drawn up by the
Six, that dema nds meet ings among
tbemseloes to decide the MI LITARY AND
FOREIGN POLI CY questions that come
up regarding Europe!
Realizing the power pot encial of
this Ne w Europe, our former Secretary
of State, Chr istian Herter, says, "If the
United States does not cooperate with
the grea t new economic giant we will
be isolated on th is side of the Atl ant ic!"
Understand the significance of this
quot e! Me. Herter is saying, in essence,
that it is nor we who are goi ng to
negotiate for Europ e- economi cally or
Otherwise-but that we mHI/ negotiate
WITH Europe, lest we [IOU oursel ves out
in the cold.
No nation or group of nations of the
power and porenrial of roday's Europe
could thi"k of letting ANOTHER power
speak FOR IT!
Wide Wor ld Photo
At Essen , Ge rmany, near the close
of 196 1, some 2,000 lea ders of
German Ind ustry and po litica l life
attended th e cel e bra tions of th e
150th anniversary of the Krupp
Steel Firm. Here, former Ger ma n
President Theodor He uss, lef t, and
Alf red Krupp arrive for ce re moni e s.
Heuss said a t meeting : "Only ha-
tred spurr ed by wa r ha d created
the image of th e Krupp company
a s a n ' a nnex to he ll.' II
Real izing the timidity and inherent
weakness of a United States policy of
"wait and see," people everywhere in
Europe-and especially in Germany-
are question ing whether they ought
to leave their fut ure in the hands of
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Page 6 The PLAIN TRUTH March, 1962
RADIO LOG
"The WORLD TOMORROW"
MAJOR STATIONS-
Heard ove r wide areas
East
WINS-New York-lOto on dia l,
9:30 p.m. Sun. (E.S.T.)
W. Va.-1170
on dial, 10 :30 a.m. and 11: 15
p.m. Sun., 10 p.m. Mon.
thru Sat. (E.S.T.)
WNAC-Boswn-680 on dial , 8:30
p.m. Sun.
WJBG-Philadelphia-990 on dial,
12: 30 p.m. Sun.
N. C.-G80 on dial,
9: 30 a.m. Sun., 8 :0.5 p.m. and
.5 :30 a.m. Mon . thru Sat.
Central Sta tes
WLAC-Nashville-151O on di al ,
' 10:30 a.m. Sun., 7 p.rn. daily
and 5 a.m. Mon. thru Sat.
(C.S.T.)
WSM-NashviUe--650 on dia l, 9
p.m. Sun., 12 a.m. Mon. , tb ru
Fri., 1 a.m. Sun. ( C.S.T.)
WCKY-Cincinnati-1530 on dial,
7 and 9 :30 p.m. Sun., 5:30
a.m. Mon. thru Sat . (E.S.T.)
CKLW-DetroitWindsor-BOO on
dia l, 7 p.m. Sun.
KCMO- Kansas City-Sl0 on dial,
7:30 p.m. Sun. , 8 :15 p.m.
and 5 a.m. Mon. rhru Sat.
KXEL-Watet1oo, Ia.-1540 on dial,
- 8 p.m. Sun., 9:30 p.rn. Mon .
thru Sat.
KXE N-St. Loui s-l01O on dial,
10: 30 a.m. Sun., 12 noon
Mo n. rhru Sat .
South
KRLD-DaIlas-1080 on dial , 8 :10
- p.m. daily.
KTRH- Houston- 740 on dia l, 8 :00
p.m. Sun., 9 :30 p.m. Mon .
thru Sat.
KWKH-Shreveport-1130 on dial,
10:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Sun. , 9: 15 p.m. Mon . thru
Fri ., 11 a.m. and II :30 p.m.
Sat.
W GBS-Miami-710 on dial, 10:30
a.m. Sun.
KTHS-Liul e Rock-1090 on dial ,
- 9:30 a.m. and 8: 15 p.m . Sun.,
I ' 9:15 p.m. Mon. rhru Fri . 8
, p.m. Sat.
\VNOE-New Orleans-1060 on
dial, 9 :30 a.m. Sun.
\"V'GUN-Atlama-l01O on dial, 4
p.m. Sun., 11 a.m. Mon. thru
Sat.
KRMG-Tulsa-740 on dial, 7:30
p.m. Sun., 9 :30 p.m. Mon.
thru Sat.
XERF-Del Rio, Tex.-1570 on dial ,
7:30 p.m. daily (C.S.T.)
XEG-I050 on dial, 8 : 30 p.m. dail y.
(C.S.T.)
.Asrerisk indicat es new station or
time change.
Mount a in States
CFRN-Edmomo n, Aha.-1260 on
di al, 7:30 p.m. daily.
XElQ-800 on dial , 8 p.m. (M.S.T.)
9 p.m. (C.S.T.) daily.
W est Coast
KGO-San Francisco-c-a tu on dial ,
10 p.m. Sun ., 9:30 p.m. Mon .
thru Sat.
KIRD-Seatde-710 on dia l, 10:30
p.m. and 5:30 a.m. Mon . thru
Sat
KGBS-Los Anjl:eles-1020 on dial,
10 p.m. Sun.
KRAK-Sacramento--1 140 on dial,
9 p.m. daily .
KFRE-Fresn0-940 on dial, 10:30
a.m. and 8 p.m. Sun., 8 p. m.
Mon. thru Fri .
XERB-Lower Cali f.-1090 on di al,
7 p.m. daily .
LEADING LOCALAREA
STATIONS
East
WNTA-New Yor k area-970 on
dial, 9 a.m. Sun., 7:30 p.m.
Mon . thru Sat.
WWIN-Baltimore:-1400 on dial,
12 noon Sun., 12:15 p. m.
Mon. thru Sat.
WPIT-Pitrsbur.gh-7 :30 on dial ,
3:30 p.m. Mon . thru Sat.
WMIE-Miami, Fla.-1140 on dial,
8 a.m. Sun., 12 noon Mon .
thru Sat.
Central
WSPD-Toledo, Ohio-1370 on
dia l, 9:05 p.m. daily.
WJBK-Detroit-1500 on dial, 9 :30
a.m. Sun.
WADC-Akron, Ohio-1350 on
dia l, 9:30 p.m. daily.
WOW-omaha, Ne br.-590 on dial,
9 :30 p.m. Sun. , 10:30 p. m.
Mon. thru Sat.
KRVN-Lexington, Nebr.-101O on
dial, 10:30 a.m. daily .
WNAX-Yankron, S. Dak.-S70 on
di al, 8 :30 p.m. daily.
WEAW-Chicago--1330 on dial,
9:30 a.m. Sun., 7 a.m. Mon .
thru Sat.
\VIBC-lndianapolis-I070 on dia l,
10:30 p.m. Sun.
*W FBM - India napolis - 1260 on
di al , 7:00 p.m. daily.
KWTO-Sprin.gfield, Mo.-560 on
dia l, 7:00 p.m. daily.
KFH-Wichita, Kans.-1330 on dia l.
6:30 p. m. daily.
*KEVE-Minneapolis-1440 on dial ,
10 :30 a.m. Sun., 7:00 a.m .
Mon . rbru Sat.
. WEBC- Duluth, Minn.- 560 on
dial , 7: 30 p.m. Sun. rhru Fri.,
II :30 a.m. Sat.
KFYR-Bismarck, N. Dak.-550 on
dial, 7 p.m. daily .
CFQC-Saskatoon, Sask.-600 on
dia l, 7:30 p. m. dail y.
South
KCTA-Cor pus Chri sti, Tex.-l030
on dial, 2 p.m. Sun., 12:30
p.m. Mon. thru Fr i., 4 :30
p.m. Sat.
KCUL-Ft. Wonh-1540 on dial,
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GERMANY'S DESTINY?
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whar they consider ro be the naive, un- in asking in its banner headlines "Is
cultured, non-realise, gum-chewing GERMANY NOW TO BE SOLD OUT?"
Americans! Europeans in general, and Germans
Germany leads the rest of Europe specifically, are beginning to fear that
the U NITED STATES is going to make
a "deal" with RUJSia!
The Set. Up
Here's the age-old tric k of human be-
ings as individuals and as nati ons: Ac
cuse the other fellow of pl anning to do
what YOU are doing.' Get the other fel -
low 01) the defewive. True co form,
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delivers
German
his cool
NATO, we have done so much to help
bring into being" (Saturday Review) .
The Friendly Enemy
In the years since the war we have
Changed our mind. In 1942 the word
"German" was associated with atrocity,
bombs, Fascist, enemy--everything Ger-
man was considered war-like, cruel,
treacherous! Now, somehow all this has
been changed and the word "German,'
in 1961, brings with ir, ally, partner-
in-indestry, Bulwark of the WeIt-
Germans are considered to be berd-
Ulorking, intelligent, practical, progres-
sive, brave'!
How has thi s whole nation changed
in so short a time? Admi ttedl y, these
are fast-moving times in which we live.
But, can a leopard change its SpOtS, no
matter how [ast it moves?
One case in point will show how the
heroes of the Nazi era have lived
through defeat and conquest to become
the heroes of post-war Germany and of
the West!
Reinhard Geh/en, case history: A
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At the 150th anni versary af the Krupp Steel Firm, Alfred Krupp
address during ceremonies. During celebration, Ludwig Erhard,
Economics Minister, sa id that Allied requirement for Krupp to sell
and steel holdings is "out of date."
of Captain Otto Kretschmer, 'T he wolf
of the Atlanti c" who sank 250,000 tons
of allied shipping during World War II,
as he urges his crew of the Ll-I to have
that "traditional, famous Uvboar spirit!"
Editorials of prai se are written in
our press regarding a Germany who,
fifteen years ago was the scourge of the
earth, and yet now is our greatest ally,
our "Bulwark against the East." "By
virtue of its political strength and its
economic dynamism, the Unit ed States
of Europe can reshape the dangerous
and unhealthy polarization of the world
wherein all the power of decision-for
good or iIl--eomes only from Moscow
and WashingtOn.
''This should be welcome to the
United States!" ( Saturday Review, Nov.
4, '61.)
We are convinced that nothi ng but
good can come from our closer asso-
ciation with this dynamic new power!
"Surely we in the United Stares are not
going to neglect to do our part in carry-
ing forward the tremendous momentum
of the expanding European community
which, through the Marshall Plan and
the Uni red States of America will
naively try CO assure Germany that she
has no intenti ons of betraying Germany
in a "sell Out" co Russia-that she
does not plan co neutralize and de-
militarize Western Europe or Germany.
To sooth the ruffled fearhers and hurt
feelings, to assure our staunch allies that
we are wi th them one hundred percent,
America is now planning to add NUw
CLEAR MI GHT to the German arm!
The Unired States is planning to Jell
Polaris Submarines-with nuclear mit-
siles-to the West German government.
The West German government has
promised to pay for these submarines
with American dollars-s-rhis will help
the United States Cut its international
payment deficit. In exchange the United
States is giving West Germany more
and new assurances that it will supply
Bonn's army with nuclear delivery
capability- Pershing Missiles!
In OUf eager, youthful, naive, friendly
American manner we applaud-never
question, hesitate, wonder-when Ger-
many launches the fi rst of a new armada
of "killer V-boats" for the We st German
Navy! We are overjoyed co hear that
the West Germa n government is help-
ing co share in the cost in the "defense
of the West." We are now the [riends
-
Just What Do You Mean
-KINGDOM OFGOD?
I s if fhe CHURCH? Is i f somefhing "set up in f he hearfs of
men?" Is if fhe Brifish Empire? Is i f " t he God within you?"
Is if " f he Millennium?" Each of fhese is widely faught-yef
none is right! The shocking TRUTH is here made PLAIN!
W
HY cannot the churc hes agree
on what is the GOSPEL? Jesus
Christ came preachi ng the Gos-
pel of the Kingdom of God. Yet few
preach about the Kingdom of God to-
day, for [hey have losr all knowledge
of what it is!
A prominent evangelist said to a
world-wide radio audience that the Gos -
pel of [he Kingdom of God is not for
us today. Some denomi nations proclaim
a "Gospel of Grace;" some what they
call a "Gospel of Salvation;" some a
gospel about Christ; some a social gos-
pel; some the "Science of Mind" or
"Religious Science."
Not One is Ri ght !
Some churches claim eit her that their
particular denomination, or "Christi-
anity" as a whole, constitutes the King-
dom of God.
Not one is right! Could anything
seem more incredible? Yes, to the mind
reared in this world's concepts, one
thing is, indeed, still more incredible!
And that is the PLAIN TRUTH about
what [he Kingdom of God really is!
This truth is not merely surpr ising
-ic is shocki ng-staggering! Yet it is
truly GOOD NEWS-the most glorious
GOOD NEWS ever to enter human con-
sciousness!
CHRIST'S Gospel
What is the one and ollly Gospel
of Jesus Christ? THE WORLD DOES NOT
KNO,",'! It has nor been preached for
18Y'2 centuries, strange as that may
seem. Look into your BIBLE. Look at
it from the very beginning!
"The beginning of [he gospel of
esus Christ" you'll read in Mark 1: 1.
"Now after that John was put in prison,
J esus came into Galilee, preaching the
GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD,
by Herbert W. Armstrong
and saying, the time is fulfilled, and the
Kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye,
and believe the Gospel." (Mark 1: 14-
15) .
It is necessary to believe that GOSPEL
to be saved! And how can you believe
it, unless you know what it is?
Jesus went everywhere preaching the
GOOD NEWS of the KINGOOM OF GOD.
He taught in parables about the KING
DOM OF Goo. He sene out seventy men
preaching, and commanded them to
pr each THE KINGDOM OF GOD (Luke
10:9). He sent the Apos tles, on whom
the Church of God was founded, to
preach only THE KINGDOM OF GOD
(Luke 9 : 1-2) .
Isn't it amazing that the world has
LOST [he knowledge of what it is?
The Apostle Paul preached THE
KINGDOM OF GOD. (Acts 19:8; 20 :25;
28 :23,31). And God Almighty, through
Paul, pronounced a double curse on
man or angel that would DARE preach
any other Gospel! (Gal. 1:89) .
WHY, then, do so ma"y DARE to
preach so many other gospels? The good
news of THE KINGDOM OF GODis some-
thi ng you must underItalld
l
and BELIEVE
1
in order to be saved! Jes us Christ said
so! You had better be finding om what
it is!
Daniel Knew!
Haven't you heard men speak of the
Kingdom of God something like this:
"By Christians everywhere working to-
gether to bring about world peace, rol-
erance and brotherly love, the Kingdom
of God may at last be established in the
hearts of men."
Because they rejected Christ's Gospel
1900 years ago, [he world had to sup-
plant somethi ng else in its place. They
had to invent a counterfeit.' So we have
heard the Kingdom of God spoken of
35 merely a pretty platirude-a nice
sentiment in human hearts-reducing
it to an ethereal, unreal NOTHING!
Others have misrepresented that the
"CHURCH" is the Kingdom. Others con-
fuse it with a "millennium." Still Others
have, in our century, claimed the Brit -
ish Empire is rhe Kingdom of God.
How DECEIVED CAN THIS WORLD GET?
The prophet Daniel, who lived 600
years before Christ, knew that the King-
dom of God was a real kingdom-a
government ruling over literal PEOPLE
on the earth.
Jesus Chrisr brought addit ional
knowledge about it which the prophet
Daniel might not have known. Still ,
Daniel knew there was going ro be a
real, literal Kingdom of God on the
earth.
Daniel was one of four extraordi-
narily intelligent and brilliant Jewish
lads in the Judean captivity. These four
were stati oned in the palace of King
Nebuchadnezzar of [he Chaldean Em-
pire, in training for special responsi-
bilities in the Babyloniangovernmem.
Daniel was a prophet who had been
given special understanding in visions
and dreams (Dan. I : 17) .
Nebuchadnezzar was the first real
world ruler. He had conquered a vast
Empire, including the nation Judah.
This king had a dream SO impressive it
troubled him-moved him to tremen-
dous concern. He demanded that his
magicians, astrologers, and sorcerers tell
him beth what he had dreamed, as well
as what it meant. They could not. They
were baffied. Then Daniel was brought
before the King.
Daniel disclaimed any more human
ability to interpret dreams than the
Chaldean magicians, "BUT; ' he said,
"there is a GOD in heaven that revealerh
secrets, and makerh known to the king
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Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the
latter days." (Dan, 2.28),
First, God's purpose was to revea l to
this world-ruling human king that there
is a GOD in heaven-that GOD IS SU
PREME RULER over all nations, govern-
ments, and kings-that God RULES THE
UNIVERSE! This Cha ldean king knew
only about the many pagan demon gods.
He knew nothing of the true li-ving
ALMIGH'IY God . Like people and
rulers, even today, he did not know
that Goo is the living, REAL, active,
RULING and GOVERNING PERSONAGE
who actually and literally governs not
only what is on earth, put the UNIVERSE
ENTJRELY!
The whole purpose of this DREAM
was to reveal GOD'S GOVERNMENT-
the fact that God RULES-the truth of
THE KINGDOM OF GOD-the very
thing that is the one and only true
GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST! And, sec-
ondly, to reveal-preserved in writing
for us TODAY-what is to happen"in the
latter days"-actually withi n the next
two decadeS-THIS LAST HALF OF THE
20TH CENTURY!
For US, Today!
This is no dry, dull , dead wr iting for
a people of 2500 years ago . This is LIV-
ING, TREMENDOUS, BIG NEWS for
OUR DAY.' It is advance news for us,
NOW. News bef ore it happens-of the
most colossal event of all earth's his-
tory certain to occur in )'Ollr lif etime
--during the very next few years!
This is THE TRUE GOSPEL! It is the
very Gospel Christ preached! It is in-
tended for you and me TODAY! It is
vital that you UNDERSTAND!
Read, in your own Bibl e, verses 28
through 35. In his dream, this king had
seen a vast statue-larger than any im-
age or statue ever built by man-so
tremendous it was terrifying, even in
a dream. Its head was of fine gold, its
breast and arms of silver, the belly and
thighs of brass, legs of solid iron, feet
a mixture of iron and clay.
There was a time element. Nebuchad-
nezzar had viewed it until a supernat-
ural STONE came from heaven, smash-
ing the statue on its feet. Then the
whole of the statue broke int o small
pieces, and was actually blown away by
the wind-it disappeared! Then this
The PLAIN TRUTIf
STONE expanded miraculously and
quickly became a great MOUNTAIN-
so great it filled the whole eaarth!
What did it mean? Did it have mean-
ing? Yes, because this was God's doi ng.
Unlike ordinary dreams , this one was
caused by God to convey the message
of God's sovere ignty to Nebuchadnezzar
-and, because it is parr of the written
Word of God, to us today-to reveal
important facts of the TRUE GOSPEL!
"This is the dream," said Daniel
( verse 36), "and we wi ll tell the int er-
pretation thereof before the king."
This, then, is GOD'S interpretation.
It is decidedly not Herbert W , Arm-
strong's interpretation. Men ought nev-
er to interpret the Bible. The Bible gives
us Goo's OWN INTERPRETATION! Here
it is:
"Thou, 0 king, art a ki ng of kings:"
-he was the first real WORLD RULER
over a world empire! ". . . for the God
of heaven hath give n thee a kingdom,
power, and strength, and glory." God
was revealing Himself to this human
world-dictator as the MOST HIGH Ruler
over all.
People today, like this Chaldean king,
seem not to think of God as a RULER-
as the Supreme One who GOVERNS-as
the Head of GOVERNMENT. The Eternal
was revealing Himself through Dan-
iel to Nebuchadnezzar-and through
the Bible to you and to me TODAY-
as a SOVEREIGN, ALL POWERFUL, GOV-
ERNING GOD who is to be obeyed!
"Thou," continued Daniel to this hu-
man emperor, "art this head of gold.
And after thee shall arise another KING
DOM inferior to thee, and another third
KINGDOM of brass, which shall bear
rule over all the eartrh." (Verses 37-39) ,
What IS a Kingdom ?
Notice! This is speaking of KING-
DOMS. It is referring to kingdoms that
bear rule over the people on earth. It
is speaking of GOVERNMENTS! It is not
speaking of ethereal sentiments "set up
in the hearts of men." It is not speaking
of churches. It is speaking of the ki nd
of GOVERNMENTS that bear RULE and
AUTHORIIT over nations of PEOPLE
here on earth. It is literal. It is specific.
There is no misunderstanding, here ,
as to what is meant by the word "KING-
DOM."
March, 1962
There is no misunderstanding the in-
terpretation. Goo gives His own inter-
pretation the prophet Daniel.
The great metallic image represent ed } j
national and inter national GOVERN-
MENTs- real' lite ral KINGDOMS.
It represent ed a succession of world-
rul ing governments. First was the head
of gold. That represent ed Nebuchad-
nezzar and his Kingdom-the Chaldean
Empi re. After him-c-Iarer, in time se-
quence-was to come a second, the n a
thi rd KINGDOM "which shall bear RULE
over all the earth"-world Empires.'
Then, verse 40, the legs of iron rep-
resent a [oertb world-Empire. It was
to be strong, even iron !s
stronger mi litarily than its predeces-
SOts. Yet, as silve r is less valua ble than
gold; brass than silver; iron brass,
though each metal was harder and
stronger, the succession would det erio-
rate morally and spiritually.' The two
legs meant the fourth Empire wou ld be
divided. '
After the Chaldean Emp ire carne the
still larger persian Empire; the n the
Greco-Macedonian, and fourth, the Ro-
man Empire. It was divided , with capi-
tals at Rome and Constanti nople.
Now-verse 44! Read it! Get your
Bible. See it with your own eyes in
your own Bible. Here, in PLAIN LAN-
GUAGE, is God's explanation of what
t he KINGOOM OF GOD IS :
"And in the days of these kings, . . ,"
it is here speaking of the ten toes, pa rt
of iron and parr of brittle clay. This,
by connecting the prophecy with Dan-
iel 7, and Revelat ion 13 and 17, is re-
ferring co the new UNITED STATES OF
EUROPE which is now forming, out
of the European Common Market , be-
fore your very eyes! Revelation 17: 12
makes plain the detail that it shall be
a union of TEN KINGS OR KINGDOMS
which ( Rev. 17: 8 ) shall resurrect the
old ROMAN
SO, mark carefully the time element.'
"In the days of these kings"-in the
days of these ten nati ons or groups of
nations tha t shall, within the decade,
NOW, IN OUR TIM.E, resurrect bri efly
the Roman Empire-notice what shall
happen :
". . . shall the God of heaven set up
a kingdom, whi ch shall never be de-
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,,
This Idiotic Modern
PSYCHOLOGY
,,
pee ring victims of a vicious, diabolical
SYSTEM that grips the whole worl d
today. No wonder the whole world is

Bur we ought to take these "i ntellec-
tua l" concepts OUt, and examine them,
and see what is wrong about them, and
why.
Educat ion lists "ps ychology" as one
of the sciences. Modern science is some-
thing NEW in the worl d-still in its
infant swaddli ng clot hes, It really hasn't
learn ed much, ret! About 90% of all
the scientists who ever lived arc among
the pr esent living generation-and per
haps anoth er 9% wer e in the tWO gen -
erati ons preceding.
Science is iobolly materialistic. By
that, I mean tha t its recogni zed tool s
are observation. measurement, and rea -
son. They are confined to the physical,
material realm. Scientists arc fallibl e
human beings. Scientists kn ow only
what knowledge comes t hrough the
eyes, ears, mouth, nose, or sense of feel
and touch-e-only what they can see,
hear, taste, smell , or feel.
They know absolutely NOTHING of
the spi ritual realm. Spi ritual facts,
principles, laws, and values are beyond
their scope of vision-s-completely OUt
of [heir field.
\Vhat, then, is wrong with this 50-
called "intellectual" concept that t here
are no eternal tr uths-no fixed tr ue
values? \X'hat they are in ignorance
of is t he fact tha t spir itua l values do
exist-that spi r itual LAWS are in actual
moti on- and that these principles, these
laws, these forces are ellen more real
than matte r, and that they work on, and
effect, matter and physical action.
The basic error of all thi s modern
supposedl y educated "intellectualism"
and vain "rationalism" is that they are
Psychologists Ar e BRAINWASHED
It is a process of
These modern dignified-a ppearing psy
chologisrs wer e merely a pair of brain-
washed automatons. Of course the}' had
come to believe thi s modern so-called
"psychology." They had been inocu-
lated wi t h it, and the inoculation had
induced ment al slumber agai nst admis-
sion of trut h. They had absor bed it
without question. Now it satu rated and
permeated thei r docile mi nds.
No, perhaps we ought nor to judge
or condemn them. They are the unsus-
"There are no Eternal TRUTHS ," they say. " St ealing a car may
be wrong for you, but rightfor the car t hief. We shouldn't iudge
head-hunters. Killing people is right for them, in their society."
This article blasts away at t his " educat ed" philosophy.
by Herbert W. Armstrong
Perhaps we oughr to be "broadmi nded "
-and surely, at the very least, we ought
to consider the SOURCE! I mean t hat
lite rally. The source of such ridi culous
concepts is not erroneous thinking on
(he pan of these men. They did not
think these absurd conclusions out, in
t heir own minds. How did such non-
sense become lodged in their minds?
It is well that, first of all, we realize
once aga in the vicious system of educa-
tion employed by thi s world. From
kindergart en and the first elementary
grades on, pupils and srudenrs are 110t
trained in tbinbing, in examining, in-
vestigating, PROVING, and finding esrab-
lished, proved tru ths. Modern educati on
is a process of memor y-tr aining. I have
said it before. Ir is like teachers sticking
funnels through the tOP of t he heads,
inro the brains of their pupi ls and sru-
dents, and then pouri ng in t he t heor ies,
postulates, ideas-right or wrong---of
the teacher, or the textbook. Students are
graded on how well they memori zed and
recited, or wro te down, whatever was
stuffed in their minds. They are nor
expected to thi nk, to question, to ex-
amine or PROVE what thus enters t heir
receptive and unsuspec ting mi nds.
No Eterna l Trut h?
These rwo men appear to have ex-
pressed the accepted "edu cated" teach-
ing. There is no such thing as absolut e,
or eterna l TRUTH, they averred. \'\' hat
is true today may not be tr ue tomorrow.
W hat is truth for you, may not be tr ut h
for me,
There is no God, they assured t he
Ambassador graduate, who has revealed
eternal TRUTH, for no such truth exis ts.
Histor y, they argued, shows the evolu-
tion of man 's views. Our views today
are nat the same as the views of the
ancients. So who are we, to judge? How
can we say that another is wrong? \'{l hat
is wrong for us may be right for him,
We must learn to be broad-minded,
they dec lared . \Y/e must not condemn
a person for steali ng a car. It may be
wrong for us, but right for him!
The Ambassador man asked, "\Y/hat
about head-bunters?"
"0, we sbouldn't judge t he head-
hunt er ," t hey replied. "Killing ot her
humans is rigbt for him, i ll his society."
Perh aps we ought not to judge, or
bl ame , these modern "educated" psy-
chologi sts for expressing such ideas .
me at it .
O
NE OF our Ambassador Coll ege
graduates, now servi ng in God' s
Work in one of America's major
cmes, writes that recent ly he was in
conversat ion with tWO professional psy
chologisrs,
They broughr up the subject of
"eternal tr uth." 111is appears to be a
favori te subjec t of those who have ab-
sorbed without question the modern
uni ver sit y teachi ng in psychology. Marry
times I have wanred to wri te some thi ng
on thi s pseudo-scientific concept, but it
seems to have taken t hi s let ter to get
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able to see, comprehend, examine, or
weigh only a PART of the exist ing [acts
that bear directl y upon their problems.
In a word, the basic error is that
tb ey leave GOD out of t beir knowledge,
( Read it in Romans 1:28. ) Professing
themselves to be wise, they have be-
come FOOLS ( Rom. 1: 22 ) . That is
what the Eternal GOD says of them!
What, therefore, they cannot see is
that there are spirirual LAWS and
principles which the Eternal GOD set
inexorably in moti on-laws as real as
the physical laws of physics and chem-
istry-which act on matter and material
forces and actions.
These laws are et ernal. They are fixed,
undeviating, unchanging. Matter is sub-
jeer to constant change. As Eiben Hub-
bard said of the material world of
matter and its forces and energi es,
"not hing is permanent but change."
You are a physical person- you are
constantly changing, and you are not
perma nent . You are here, in this life,
for only a littl e whil e!
But GOD is not changing. God is tbo
same, yesterday, today, and forever! God
is ETERNAL. God 's Truth is ETERNAl..
God' s spiritual LAWS are ETERNAL-
fixed, unchanging. The TRUE VALUES,
likewi se, are ETERNAL. Bur men of "sci-
ence" confine themselves to the physical
realm. Of these ETERNAL values, laws,
principl es, facts, they are in tota l ig-
norance. Yet, in their vanity, they fancy
that they are educated! Well, the simple-
ton doesn't know he is a simpleton. And
what the strutting turk ey gobbl er or
parading peacock doesn't know; he just
does nor kn ow that he doesn't know!
And what these deluded ignorant "sci-
enti sts" don't know, they JUSt simply
don' t know that they don't know these
things!
Perh aps we ought not judge them. As
I said, they are vi ctims of a vicious and
satanic SYSTEM!
Psychologists Ignorant of
Spiritual Law
No w take a look at God 's great
Spir itual LAW. It 's principle is LOVE-
a spi rit ual love the "scienti fic" world
knows nothing about.
The whole law is summed up in that
one word, LOVE. Then it is sub-divided
The PLAIN TRUTH
into the tWO Great Laws, love to GOD,
and love to neighbor. Then it is further
sub-divided into t en points (James
2: 10, and 8-11 ) , of which the first four
of the Ten Commandments instruct us
in how to love God; and the last six
in how to love neighbor. Then thi s
inexorable Jpjrit1fal .Law is sub-divided
much fart her, until the whole BIBLE
is a magnification of it in its myriad
deta ils.
Now not ice the connect ion: The Ten
Commandments involve ph yJical acts
- but tb ey are Jpiri fttal principles! To
break the letter of the specific law by
commirring adultery is a physical act.
It involves material things-cwo people,
plus a th ird and possibly a fourt h, the
husband andlor wife to which one or
both gui lty parti es are untrue. It in-
volves physical action. But also it is a
spiritual principle.
Now modern psychiatrists and mar-
riage counsellors who see only the ma-
ter ial and physi cal factors involved are
coming more and more to the view that
in commirring adultery NO HARM: IS
DONE, provided the physical factors are
"right." If the faithful wife does not
know of her husband's infidelity with
another woman, what 's the harm? That's
about as far as they can see.
But GOD ALMI GHTY created a
spiritual LAW, and set it in moti on. God
created sex in the first place. He created
it for two major purposes, plus a third.
The rwo are 1) the magnet to dr aw a
husband and wife together in marriage,
to set up a home, and to be the source
of a physical-spiritual LOVE, and to
become the frequent supreme expression
of that love and respect and endearment
of each othe r, thus increasing this bond
of love whi ch is shared with no one else,
bindi ng the marriage, prot ecting the
horne invi olate; and 2) the means of
reproduction, and of bringi ng into the
home the God -given blessing of childre n
to love. The third purpose is the great
blessing of a means of building char-
act er--of developing /ai tb/1tlneH toward
mate and reward children; of develop-
ing a sense of purpOJc, fidelity, self-
restraint under temptation; of develop-
ing a sense of respo nsibility in providing
and keeping the home and training the
children.
Ma rch, 1962
Now take the "educated" ignoramus
who can nor sec much past the end of
his nose-who sees only physical fac-
tors-and reasons that adultery can do 4
no harm, if the circumstances are
"right," and the wife doesn't find out.
The man is very careful. He begins
"cheating on his wife"- he commits
adultery.
W hat happens? You might think
NOTHING, if his wife never hears about
it. But you are wrong!
GOD'S LAW is an invisible, spiritual
law. Th ere could be no law wit hout a
penalty. Th is law has two penalties. One,
the CURSE it imposes bere and notu, in
this li fe. Two, the final punishment ,
which is DEATH-and it is et ernal pun
ishment-c-dearh for eternity.
Penalty for Broken Law
What is the CURSE the Law will
exact, here and now? It is chis: Very
soon, this adult erous husband will be-
gin co realize that bis wife doesn't seem
the same any more. She isn't as physical-
ly at tractive as before. More and more
he begins to realize he isn't in love wit h
her any more. Her glamor-her loveli -
ness-isn't there . He doesn' t understand
it.
Poor fool--of course not-this is an
invisible 1piritlial law at work! Th is is
somet hing he can't see. If it were a
visible, physical act ion, the "scient ists"
would see it, and warn him. Bur they
can' t see it. Th is man BROKE the law
God set in moti on to preserve LOVE-
to in crease marita l love. And, breaking
rhar law, he has broken tha t love! Mor e,
he has broken his own charac ter-build-
ing. He has impaired his own self-
respect .
One tragic result of ignor ance and
violation of tbis poi nt of God's Law
is the breaking up, in divorce, of almost
a third of all Ameri can homes- and the
divor ce rate now is climbing in Other
nati ons, too! It results in children grow-
ing up without normal homes-usually
without the vital companionship and
influence of a father. It results in juve-
nile delinquency, and ruined lives of
children.
Don't think there are nor CURSES!
There are-and they are inexorable.
(Please cont inue 01J page 47)
The World Didn't
Come to an END!
But prisoners did escape from prison!
by Herbert W. Armstrong
P
AGAN astrologers in India, Malaya,
and scutheasr Asia forecast that
the world was coming to an end
the night of February 2nd, or dur ing
the ensuing week-end. It became BI G
NEWS, world wide.
Millions in Amer ica, Britain, Aus-
rral ia, and around the world displayed
interest and curiosity. Ir seemed every-
one was calking about it.
Astrol ogy a Science ?
Many people seem to be under the
delusion that astrology is a science.
Per haps many confuse it with astron-
omy. The two are totally different .
Cou ntless mi llions around the earth
believe in and follow the ideas and
prognosticat ions of the stargazers. You
probably would be astounded ro learn
how many hundreds of thousa nds of
businessmen in the United States and
Bri tish Commonwealth nati ons plan
thei r business deals and policies accord-
ing to astrology. Newsstands sell mil-
lions of copies of magazines or mont h-
ly pamphl ets on astrology-telling them
which Jays are supposed to be thei r
"luck}' days" and on which days to
avoid business deals.
So it was that when pagan astrol-
ogers of India and Malaya predicted
the end of the world for the week end
of February 2, \962, it became big
news and caught world-wide attention.
On that night, said the astrologers,
seven planets in the "House of Capri-
corn" were to be in conjunction, and
the moon was to enter the same "house"
the same nigh t. And that meant, ac-
cording to the interpretation of these
stargazers, the END OF THE WORLD!
One astrologer in India predicted the
earth would explode like an over- ripe
elon.
WHY, we ought to wonder, do the
foolish ideas and predictions of ignorant
and supersti tious astro logers catch fire
in the public imagi nation, world-wide,
while the same hundreds of millions
remain utterly heedless of the PROPH-
ECIES OF GOD ALMIGHlY, which are
absolutely SURE?
The SURE Word of God says that this
earth "abideth forever," and it shall nor
be removed forever ! But the sure Word
of God. does say something about the
END of this world-this AGE-this
present civilization and pattern of or-
ganized society.
God Labels It Fakery
Astrologers are mentioned in the
Bible. They arc classed along with
sorcerers, witches, and magicians-
[aleers all!
When King Nebuchad nezzar, 600
years befor e Christ, had a start ling
dream that troubled him (see arti cle,
"Kingdom of God," this issue ) , he first
called for the astrologers, the magicians
and sorcerers to tell him what he had
dreamed, and its interpretation. They
failed utterly (Daniel 2: \ 11) .
But then the prophet of GOD was
called in. He told the king what he had
dreamed, and gave the true meaning.
Thus the CERTAINlY of the Word of
GOD is contrasted to the ABSURDIlY of
the words of astrologers.
In Jeremiah 27:9, God comma nds:
"Therefore bearhen 1101 ye to your
prophets, nor to your diviners, . . . nor
your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers."
Again: "For thus sairh the Lord of hosts,
the Goo of Israel. Let not your prophets
and your diviners, that be in the midst
of you, deceive you" (Jer. 29: 8).
\XTherever astrologers, or the other
fakers associated with them, are men-
tioned in the Bible, God Almighry rep-
resents them as pretenders who have
no power at all.
Yet the followers of false and non-
existent gods and demo ns in India and
southeastern Asia believed these as-
trologers. So they went into an orgy
of frenzied prayers to thei r false or
non-existent gods to prevent the ex-
ploding of the earth .
In one city the officials and the
guards of the pr ison were so intent in
their prayers and false worship and
heathen ceremonies that the}' neglected
entirely the prison-and many prisoners
escaped. So, even if the world didn't
end, prison confinemem did for a few!
And now, of course, the supersri-
rious pagans arc claiming tha t thei r gods
heard thei r prayers, and their prayers
saved the world! 11 it had happened,
they would have claimed to be right.
Since it didn't happen, they still claim
to have been right- their prayers saved
them! Speaking of this false Babylonish
religious system, which, incredible
[hough it may seem, actually gri ps our
English-speaki ng peoples today falsely
called "Christiani ty," God says to OUR
PEOPLE, TODAY:
"let now the astrologers, monthly
prognosticators, the star-gazers stand
up, and save thee from the things that
shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall
be as stubble; the fire shall burn them;
they shall not deliver themselves from
the power of the flame" (lsa. 47 : 13\4).
The prophecies of your BIBLE-the
prophecies of the Creator GOD-are
absolutely SURE-but the predict ions
of astrologers are fakery. God warns
our people that our sins are fast in-
creasing, and He is soon going to
PUNISH our nat ions, unless we WAKE
UP and REPENT, and turn to Hi m and
to HIS WAYS! W! e arc to be pun ished
with fami ne and disease-with eco-
nomi c depress ion and panic-with hy-
droge n bombs that shall destroy our
cities-c-unti l two- thi rds of our people
have died or been killed!
Astrologers can' t pr event, neither
could they CAUSE the end of the worl d.
But God's warni ng handwriting is on
(Continued from page 10)
Just What Do You Me an
-KINGDOM OF GOD?
Page 14
our wall s, NOW! Prophecy is SURE! It
is as certain as the rising and setting of
the sun ! It will come upon us approx-
imately between ten and fifteen years
from now-it is FRIGHTFULLY IMMI-
NENT! IT is LATER THAN YOU THINK!
What we have been forecasti ng by
God's PROPHECIES for mor e t han 28
year s HAS BEEN HAPPENING RIGHT ON
SCHEDULE! YOU had better HEED!
Stroyed . , . but it shall break in pi eces
and consume all these kingdoms, and
it shall stand forever !"
Yes, in OUR TIME!
Now here we have descri bed the
FOUR universal worl d-Empires-the
on1'Y four that eve r existed! Revelation
13 and 17 show that, aft er the fall of
the or iginal Roman Empire, t here would
be te n revivalS-SEVEN of wh ich would
be ruled over by a Gentile CHURCH-
the "daughter" of anci ent BABYLON-
a Ch urch claiming to be Chri stian, but
acrually named by God '/MYSTERY BABY-
LON the Greac't-c-or, more pl ainl y,
BABYLONIAN MYSTERIES!
Six of those have corne and gone.
The seve nch is now forming-the last,
final , brief resurrecti on of the Roman
Empire by ten European groups or na-
tions . These are the ten toes of iron
and clay mixed.
In their days-and they shall last but
a l 'ery shaft space, possibl y no more
t han t wo to t hree-and-a- half years-
shall the GOD OF HEAVEN SET UP A
KI NGDOM.
This, then, shall be THE KINGDOM OF
GOD!
Compare with Revelati on 17. Here
is pi ctu red a Church. N ot a small church
- a GREATChurch. She rules over "many
water s" ( Verse 1) wh ich are described
in verse 15 as di fferent nat ions spea k-
ing different languages. She posed as
The Church of Goo-whi ch Scr ipture
says ( Eph. 5: 23; Rev . 19 :7 ; Mat. 25 : 1-
10, et c. erc. ) is the affianced "br ide" of
CHRIST, to be spir itu ally MARRIED to
Him at His second COMING.
The PLAIN TRUTH
A FINAL WARNING from God, JUSt
before He putS an END ro the present
world, and ushers in the WORLD TO-
MORROW, is to be signs in the sun ,
moon, and stars. This event proclaimed
by the astro logers was NOT the prophe-
sied signs in the heavens-but we might
do well to take warning that it was a
preliminar'}' SIGN IN THE STARS, MOON,
and SUN, as a fore-runner!
But she has committed forn ication.
How? By having direct political inter-
course with HUMAN GOVERNMENTS of
THIS WORLD! She "sat on" ( Rev. 17: 3 )
all seven of these resu rr ectio ns of the
Roman Empire-s-called the "Holy Ro-
man Empire." She RULED OVER the
human kingdoms-as a common-law
and unmarried "wife" ruling her para-
mour husband-a totally unnatural and
ungodly relationship.
She is, therefore, to "sit on" this last
"head of the Beasr't-c-rhis final resur -
recti on of the Roman Empire. It is to
endure but a tier)' shorr time. It is to
FIGHT AGAINST CHRIST at His SECOND
COMING! That will be its END.
\VIe see it in process of ri sing, now.
Therefore we are CLOSE to the coming
of Christ ! W e are now very near the
END of this world.
When Christ comes, He is coming as
KI NG of kings, ruling the whole earth
( Rev. 19: 11-16 ) ; and HIS KINGDOM
- the KINGDOM OF GOD-said
Dani el , is to CONSUME all these worldly
ki ngdoms.
Revelat ion 11: 15 states it in these
wor ds: "The kingdoms of thi s worl d
are become THE KINGDOMS OF OUR
LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST; and He
shall reign for ever and ever!"
Thi s is THE KINGDOM OF GOD. It
is the ENDof present governments-the
gov ern ments th at rule Ru ssia, China,
Japan, Italy, Germ any-yes, and even
the United States and the Br iti sh na-
t ions. They then shall become the king-
doms-the GOVERNMENTS of the Lord
JESUS CHRIST, then KING of kings over
the enti re earth.
March, 1962
Thi s makes complet ely PLAIN the
fact that the KINGDOM OF GOD is a
li teral GOVERNMENT. Even as the Cbal -
dean Empire was a KINGDOM--even ~
the Roman Empire was a KINGOOM-
so t he KINGDOM OF GOD is a govern-
ment. It is to lake over the GOVERNMENT
of the NATIONS of the world.
Jesus Christ was BORN to be a KING
- a RULER!
When He stood, on trial for His life,
before Pilate, "Pilate the refo re said un-
to Him, Art thou a King then? Je sus
answered, Thou sayest that I am a King.
To thi s end was I born, and for thi s
cause came I into the world." But Jesus
also said to Pil ate: "My Kingdom is
na t of this world"-(John 18 :37, 36).
His Kingdom is of THE WORLD To-
MORROW!
Have you not read wha t the angel
proclaimed to Mary, the mother of Je sus,
prior to His birth? Jesus told Pilate He
was born to become a KING. The angel
of God said to Mary : ".. . thou shalt
conceive in thy womb, and br ing forth
a son, and shalt call His name JESUS.
He shall be great, and shall be called
the Son of the Highest: and th e Lord
God shall give unto Him the THRONE
of Hi s father David : and He sball
reign over the House of Jacob forever ;
and of His Kingdom there shall be NO
END. " ( Luke 1: 31-33 ) .
These Scriptures tell you PLAINLY
that GOD is supreme RULER. They tell
you in plain est language that Jesus was
born to be a KING-that He is going
to RULE Al.L NATIONS OF THE EARTH
-that His Kingdom shall rule eternall y,
But all t his is only part of rhe fantas-
t ic, amazing, actu ally SHOCKING TRUTH
about the KINGDOM OF GOD.
The KINGDOM OF GOD will rule over
the peop les and nations of the eart h.
Yet these mortal peoples and nations
will NOT be the Kingdom, nor even
in the Kingdom of God. They shall be
merely RULED OVER BY IT!
We have established that the KING-
DOM OF GOD is a ruling GOVERNMENT,
W e still have to learn OF WHAT, or OF
WHOM it is composed. Can YOU, as an
individual, ever become a part of th
i
Kingdom? The BIGGEST PART of t
tr emendous subject is yet co come, It
is startl ing!
(To be continued next momh)
Special Interview
The KEY to Good Health
If is UNNATURAL to be sick- yet millions take sickness for
granted. Why? Because the KEY to good health has been
thrown away! Few know what that KEY is! You probably
have been walking on it all the time and never noticed it!
by Eric Ewe son
I
WANT to talk t onight as a biochem-
isr about your healch-and how
fertile 10i/ affects it. Few people
really know much about the very ground
they walk on. If they did, mill ions of
sick and crippled would be in radiant
heal th today.
From soil we derive our food, OUI
climate, and the pleasure of an aurae-
rive landscape. Soil has accumu lated by
the diver s forces operati ng in nature.
As every schoolboy should know, it con-
sists of finely ground rock elements and
decayed organic matter. FERTIL E SOIL
accumulates very slowly, but it can be
destroyed very rapidly. Even under
favorable cond itions in our climate it
would take three or four hundred years
to accumulate an inch of it !
T
HIS eye-opening article is a
special report by the noted
Swedish biochemist , Eric Eweson.
Mr. Eweson's lecture, delivered at
Ambassad or Coll ege, is so vit al
that, wi th hi s approval, we decid-
ed to publish it in th is issue.
world. But one important fact war over-
looked!
Life Was Missing!
In mor e recent years we have dis-
covered that even if we add to the soil
these chemicals which arc the ones used
in the largest quantities by planr life,
we still use up the organic living pac-
tion of the soil. And the greater the
quantity of chemical fertilizer that we
apply, the faster is the organic, living
portion used up!
As the organic matter diminishes, we
must increase the quantity of chemicals
to obtain the same yields-not to men-
tion the loss of qualit y, Graduall y we
will arrive at the point when there
isn't enough of the humus fertility left
in the soil to sustain a crop, NO MAITER
HOW MUCH CHEM ICAL FERTILIZER WE
APPLY, In common terms , the soil is
then said to have "died."
The death of soil is a phenomenon
that has occurred from early historical
times. The earliest example is probably
in China, some 1000 years before Christ.
Such "soil death" was also a domi nant
W hy Soil Is Losing Its Fert ility
It has been in the last fifty years-
and, I would say, notably in the New
World-that there has been grea ter de-
mands on the land than the land can
give without losing its natural fert ility.
This situation cannot be remedied by
chemical-c-or commercial- fert ilizers,
as we call them, which are being used
so extensively in modern times to in-
crease the yield from the soil.
As you probably all know, the the-
ory of chemical fertilizers was born of
tear. It was conceived in Germany dur-
ing the lat rer part of the nineteenth
century by a gentleman whose name
was Baron Jusrus von Liebig. He de-
veloped his theory by analyzing organic
matter and noticing the predominance
of nit rogen, phosphorus, and potash. He
then conceived the idea of addi ng those
major elements to soil in the form of
water-solu ble chemicals to increase pro-
ducti on.
The idea seemed to work like magic
and was gradually adopted all over the
Soi l in the pr oce ss of dying ! Bar el y visible is a grope a r bor, now cove red
by sand a nd blown topsoil. Poor soil management has ca used millions of
once -fertile a cres a round the worl d to di e. Wid, World Phot o
. ,
P a ~ e 16 1'1>. PLAIN TRUTH March, 1962
Wi de Wor ld Pho to
Good soil covered wit h plush grasses or crops prevents grasshopper
damage illustrate d here. Insect s attack weak plants-but weak plants
would not exist if so il we re oli ve and rich wit h plant nutriments. Notice
that grasshoppers have eaten a way at the stalks! Commercial chemicals
ha ve created p la nts that exter na lly appear healthy, but they are internally
weak, lacki ng in proper fo od va lue. Insects can taste the diff ere ncel Healthy
plants by natur e repel insects! Weak plants attract insects. Insects we re
mode to choo se, by instinct, wea k plants f or their food . They find that plants
whi ch a re he a lthy a r.d good for man a re too strong for them-are, in a
se nse, tox ic to ins ects.
What Living Soil Is Like
Decaying organic matt er is called. bu -
mus. The greatest proporti on of fertile
soil is rock material-inorganic mare-
rial-so that only a very small propor-
tion of fertil e soil is humus. Even very
fert ile soil may well contai n as little as
from the Mediterr anean to condense
and br ing some rain. Land in many other
places has been affecred simi larly by
drastic soil abuse.
In California you have large areas
that were very fert ile as late as 15 to 20
years ago but which are now no longer
productive, in spite of the adequa te
irrigation, much like in the Euphrates-
Tigris valley.
This is, in few words, the sad state
of the soil fertility in large parts of the
world today. WE HAVE MUCH LESS
ARABLE LAND TODAY THAN WE HAVE
EVER BEFORE HAD IN HISTORICAL
TIMES . And it now has to do for a much
larger population!
Before we go fuerher, let me explain
what living soil is, and why good soil
must have humus.
ous dust storms. Such dust storms are
possible 011/Y after the soil bas IOIt its
humus, because it's the humus which
holds the soil panicles rogerher in larg-
er aggregates so that they don't blow
away.
When rhe quantiry of the humus is
inadequate ro hold the soil, what little
is left of organic matter blows away,
leaving nothing but the dead sand and
rock. The land after that is completely
useless for agriculrural producrion, and
the rehabilitation of ir is no simple
problem.
For example, the Sahara desert did
nor extend nearly so far north even 500
years ago as it does now. Today the
Sahara in many places extends righ t to
the Mediterranean. \Vhereas, in the
times of the Romans, the coastline along
the Medi terranean was very fertile, it is
now fertile ani)' in small isolated areas
and then only wi th irrigation.
The movi ng up north of the desert
has also changed the climate so that
there is now hardly any prec ipitation.
This was nor the case when it was still
fertile land that could cause the vapors
Wide Wo rld Photo
A hea lthy, pl a nt-cov e red soi l at-
tra cts rain and good weather. An
abused land cannot retai n mo istu re,
become s ever dri er-and soon the
rains ha ve fled. Hundreds of thou-
sa nd s of acres in Au stralia a nd the
USA a nd the Sov iet Union are an-
nu a lly becoming dese rt due to
destruct ive farmi ng methods.
factor in the decline of the Persian Em-
pire afte r 500 B.C. It was previously the
principal cause of the decline of the
Babylonian Empire which flourished on
the rich but thin soil in the valley of
the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. \X'hen
the humus was used up, the topso il
could no longer resist erosion. It dis-
appeared into the rivers. \'V'ith the dras-
tically reduced quanriry and qualiry of
food the civilization decli ned and finally
disappeared. The same happened later
in Greece. Again in the Roma n Empire,
which, at the time of the birth of Christ,
had to go across the Mediterranean to
obtain irs grain.
All these developments, of course,
took a long time . In Greece it probably
took three to four hundred years. In
North Afri ca it took less, because by
that time the Romans had introduced
one-crop agriculture, growing the same
crop year after year on the same land
urithont letting it rest, The agricultural
land was thus in process of death for a
much shorter time than, for instance,
in China, Persia and Greece.
Our Land Today
The problem has developed very simi-
larly, but very much faster . in America!
We have seen it in the Middle West
where for many years we have had sed-
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Substi tute Nutrients Tried
As you probably all know, papet mills
have a very objectionable waste that
pollutes rivers and spoi ls the water for
fishing and bathing. It has long been
considered to be a useless waste prod-
uct, but it isn't so at all!
An old Swedish friend of mine con-
ceived, many years ago, the idea of
manufacturing baker's yeast from this
very serious polluting agent. After some
experiments a factory was built in Fin-
land-it was a great success-where-
upon I built two similar facrorles in
Canada.
This paper mill waste, usually re-
ferred to as sulphite liquor, is a much
worse polluting agent even than sew-
age, although the latter is probably the
one that we are most generally dis-
turbed by, since now most of our rivers
are polluted by it. I am making this
introduction to show you that "waste
products" is really not the proper name.
They should betrer be called "by-prod-
ucrs" because they are seldom useless
siderable experie nce from large-scale
manufacture of fungi which may help
to throw light on the problem. Let me
'ell you 'he background.
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a water solution of the major plane nu-
tri ent elements. No doubt one can grow
planes that way-l have grown some
myself-but there are some very signifi-
cam consequences. The plants will, for
instance, not produce seeds capable of
germination. They are also extremely
frail and spnil quickly.
The Illttritiol1dlt:al"c is, however,
where the changes are the most fatal, as
the plants contain practically 110 protein.'
\X!hile you will find nitrogen in them,
it has not combined to build up proteins
but remai ns in the form of nitrate or,
sti ll worse, nitrite.
Our bodies can't produce protein
from these simple elements. We must
have the proteins more or less ready
made for us as all we can do is to mod-
ify them to suit our particular require-
menrs. The same holds true of Out
animals since only plants and microbes
can build proteins.
If plams are grown in a manner that
[hey lack in protein, as hydroponically
grown plants do, then there isn't much
use in growing them! Other ideas have
been proposed lor producing load.
Growing fungi or algae would seem
both logical and sensible unti l you begin
to scrut inize what it implies. I have (on-
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Wide World Photo
Wi th this 60-foo t d isc plow which turns a stri p of earth 42 feet wide at a
rate of 14 acres an hour, man can de st roy th e life of th e land much faster
tha n did his ance stors if he does not fo llow th e rig ht fa rming method s.
Chemicals Not the Solution
What can be done to correct this sit-
uation is of course the big problem.
There is a great deal of difference in
opinions. There are still some people
who believe rhat wit h more and better
chemicals we can restore our soil. There
are even those who think that by new
methods of growing-producing more
or less synt hetic food- we can solve the
problem. Bur there are others of us who
believe this to be wishful thinking.
You have probably heard 01 hydro-
ponics, a method of growing plant s in
5% humus in the tOP six inches. Th e
rest is inorganic mineral matter.
Many soils can be enor mously pro-
ductive if thi s humus is maint ained in
these proporti ons, and if this humus
consists of well-decomposed organic mat-
ter. Unfortunately, the humus wears Out
- or is consumed- by cropping. If you
take from the land more than you put
back
l
what you remove is part of the
quanti ty of bemus.
New mineral nutrient matter is can-
scantly being made available. In fertile
soil it is manufactured, you might say,
by means of microbial activities and the
various effects of the weather. Rock is
ground in many ways by nature and can
then be decomposed by microbial ac-
tiviti es. That is the reason why humus
cont ains mineral nutrients of all kinds.
There is seldom any shortage of nu-
trient minerals in fertil e soil because
those minerals are constantly liberated
by the soil microbes and incorporated
in thei r cell tissues. In that form they
are not water-solubl e and thus cannot
be leached out by the rain as is done
with man-made chemi cal fertilizers.
Bur they can be utilized by the plant s
that are growi ng in the soil. Th is in-
volves breakdown and using up of soil
microorganisms and humus and is the
reason why humus has to be renewed.
If agriculture is not int ensive-if, for
instance, it is based upon lett ing the
land rest once every three or four years
in countr ies of temperate climate, then
there is a very good chance that the soil
can maint ain fair productivity. That has
been the case in some parts of the
world, especially in the northern half of
Europe. They still have some land with
a fair amount of natural fert ility.
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and become objectionable uiaste pr od-
ucrs only when we fail to use them
properly.
In producing fungi-or baker's yeast
- to bake bread, we were not involved
wirh its nutritional value. All we were
concerned about was to produce a yeast
that would raise bread, which is largely
a function of generating carbon dioxide
and other gases to help br eak down t he
flour and ma ke the br ead more porous
and digesti ble. We were, ther efore, not
concerne d abour how the pr otein was
built up in the yeast cells.
In modern yeast manufacrur ing meth-
ods one uses cheap chemicals for most
of the nutrient s instead of the more
expe nsive organic materia ls like malt or
grain, from wh ich yeast was originally
made in bygone days. In other words,
0 1 ~ e substitutes inexpensive CHEMI
CALS f or expensive ORGAN IC materials!
This has a very drast ic effect on the
fungi .
One effecr is that they become weak
and lose much of their viri lity and te-
sisrance co infecti ons, so t hat a yeast
factory has co be conducted under ster-
ile conditions much like an operati ng
room in a hospital. There must be no
wild yeast or ot her microbes in the air,
because if any such mi crobes-a-especially
wild yeast which has bee n pr oduced
naturally and the refore is very t'irile-
should get into a mash of IJmhetically
t ed yeast, rhey would quickly devour the
who le batch!
Another very significam poi nt is tha t
after a number of generations the chem-
icall)' groton yeast fung i lose their P Oll-'
ers of reproduction. The yeast is then
no longer usable as seed and one has co
stan with a fresh culture of naturally
grown yeast every two or three weeks.
The above is part icularl y significant
from t he po int of view of plant nutri-
tion, as we know rhar exactly the same
tbing occurs in modern agriculture in
respect ro corn . Few farmers today can
use thei r own grain as seed. They have
to buy special seed because thei r own
grai n, if grown many years on poor,
chemically fertilized soil, won' t germi -
nate. This may be looked upon by many
as comparat ivel y unimportant. Bur it
is of basic importance far understandi ng
that what we produce as food and what
man has been accusto med to existing on
The PLAIN TRUTH
for so many thousands of years cannot
suddenly be changed wi thout seriou s
consequences m man's health.
By not giving back [0 the soil t he
by-pr oducts of life, li ke our city was tes,
and by soi l nor deriving any benefit
from the "droppings" of tractors and
other machi nery, there is a new situa-
rion in modern agricult ure whi ch neces-
sita tes a dras tic change in poi nt of view,
\X'e have to find some way of return-
ing our organic byproducts-nor wast e
products-to the land. In our urbanized
civilizat ion, with the great er part of the
population living in citi es and only a
very small part on the land , it is becom-
ing simply a que stion of "to be or nor
to be."
Composting an Ancient Solution
In ma nuscripts from the 8th and 9t h
centuries, we find descriptions of t he
methods they used to convert t heir by-
pr odu cts imo soi l. They had seen that
organic matt er would disappear if it was
put in the soil and they took rhe him
from t hat and developed it in a very
efficient and a ver y systematic way.
In densely popul ated countr ies rhey
could not well afford to conduct t he
process of by-produc t conversion on the
crop land . Thus they always built their
compost pi les away from the produc-
rive fields and nor umi l the compost
was ready did they pUt it on t he land ,
This was quicker and more efficient
than our ways.
\,(!hen our farmers do have a fai r
supply of manure, it is put direct ly on
the land to let it slowly decompose there.
Naturally rhar is a good met hod, tOO,
but if product ive land is short in sup-
ply, it is well to prepare the fertilizer
away from rhe field and not put it on
the land unt il it has been fully conve n -
ed imo humus, and rhus is immedi ately
available to plant lif e.
Ir is to be noted that as long as the
ancien t agriculrurisr used his "wastes"
in the described manner, as was done in
China, Persia and Babyl onia over long
periods, his soil would nor lose, bur in-
crease, in ferti lity. It was usually as a
result of prosperity gai ned rhrough wars,
conquest and commerce that neglect of
the soi l and irs "law of reru m" devel-
oped and the land gave Out .
Com ing back now ro th is Ier men-
March. 1962
rati on pr ocess whereby organic wast e
marer ials are convened int o humus by
soil microbial activities : Pasteur was
first to teach us what was goi ng on in
those old compost piles. Today, we know
be tter how to pr ocess ga rbage and sew-
age and how to inoculate with the right
kind of soil microbes for the best utili-
zati on of t hese materials to pr oduce a
high -grade narurai compost or humus
t hat looks and smells like very fertile
topsoil.
It will be startling to many to learn
that t his pr ocess can now be completed
in less days t han it formerly took
montbs. It can be done on a ver y large
indust rial scale to sui t any size of com-
munity. Costl y-tO-dispose-of city refuse
and sewage now causing serious air and
wate r poll ution can thus be [he means of
reha bilitati ng our abused soil !
I sha ll StOp here to have the rest of
the time for questions . Through such
quest ions we'll probabl y get in on Other
help ful aspects of this problem.
[Following are some of the quest ions
Mr . Eweson answered during t he latter
porti on of hi s lecture-c-Editor .]
Questions Answered
QUESTION: "How are you planning
on educating the peopl e about the need
for soi l imp rovement ?"
ANSWER: Well, look what I' m doi ng
now! ! You are going to do the same
th ing, I hope. This is a slow process
and if I were impatient, I would prob-
ably have succumbed from disappoint-
mem by now.
QUESTION: "How can you tell when
you are 'pushing' the soil or overwork-
ing it ?"
ANSWER: The yields go down and
the pelt! increase,
QUESTION: "You mentioned a while
ago that the key to a healthy nation is
a healthy soil. Does this explain mod-
ern dege nerative diseases?"
ANS'X'ER: You may be surprised to
hear that the death rate from degen-
erative disea ses-a-cardiac and liver rrou-
ble, cancer and mental deficiencies- is
alarmi ngly high in thi s country and that
110 nati on in If/ est ern Europe has as
hig h a rare . But you do enjoy an ex-
ceed ingly low deat h rate for infa nts, so
rhar when the death rates for all causes
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The Autobiography of
Herbert W. Armstrong
And now-the biggest leap ahead-The WORLD TOMOR-
ROW heard in every state! Once again the impact of Christ's
Message more than doubled!
INSTALLMENT 43
T
HE YEAR 1942 was by far our
biggest year of progress so far.
In April that year we wenr on
the air in Hollywood, in addition to
the stations in Eugene, Portland, and
Seattl e.
It was also in that year. only about
two weeks after start ing on stati on
KMTR ( now KLAC) with the weekl y
Sunday program, that dail)' broadcasting
was starr ed for the first time. All through
May, June and July Th e WORLD TO
MORROW wenr on the air Monday
thrnugh Saturday at 5:30 p.m., in ad-
dition to the 9 : 30 Sunday morning pro-
gram,
Pl anning Expans ion
The response to thi s daily broadcast-
ing was an eye-opener to me. The ef-
fectiveness appeared to be more than
seven times that of the once-a-week
program. Response was immediate. And
even though no requ est for conrribu-
dons ever was made, voluntary con-
tributions were sufficient. from the very
first week, to pay the multiplied ex-
pense.
But after the three Sunday afternoo n
evangeli stic meetings held at the large
Biltmore Theatre in downtown Los
Angeles , rhe last three Sundays of July,
it was necessary to rerum to Eugene,
Oregon.
Ar that juncture 1 had ro drop off the
daily week-night broadcasting. Record-
ing facilities in Eugene were not ade-
quat e to carryon a seven-programs-per-
week schedule from our home office in
Eugene. Yer I had learned by rhis ex-
perience the tremendous POWER and
tmpacr of daily broadcasting.
Back home in Eugene, after almost
four months in Hollywood, our Co-
\X'orker list had grown to at least dou-
ble. In other words, twice as many or
more were now Co-Workers wit h me,
supporting God's Work regularly wit h
their tithes and offerings.
Alth ough I was unable, because of
lack of facil ities, to cont inue the daily
broadcasting at the time, it was most
gr atifying to be able to now make a
big expansion in ot her directions.
Our readers will remember, as re-
lated in the J anuary, 1962, number,
that super-power station W HO, Des
Moines, had offered me time. On our
trip to Des Moines and Chicago, the
summer of 1941, this tremendous op-
port unit y had opened.
Stati on WHO was, at the time, prob-
ably the ,'ery MOST valuable single
radio sration we could have hoped to
use. It was a 50,OOO-wan rep-ranking
stat ion. It was one of 01lt )' eigbt, of all
radio stations in Ameri ca, that still had
an absolutely exclusive channel. Th ere
were many high-prestige stat ions from
New York to Los Angeles termed
"cleared-channel" stations. Th ese were
all non-directi onal, beaming Out in all
direct ions, yet all but eight had Other
smaller stations, even at great distances,
on the same channels. Station \VHO
had a tremendous signal. Located near
the center of the Un ited States, it could
be heard at that time in every state .
No station has such vast coverage
roday, Th e FCC has licensed several
times as many stations operat ing on
the air today. Th ese tend to CUt in on
one anot her, so that none of the giam
major stations enj oys the tremendous
coverage that \X'HO had then.
Of course, in 1941, rhis giant WHO
was still compl etely beyond our reach.
But by early August 1942, with our
income doubled, and wi th the very low
rate offered b)' the manager of \X'HO,
I felt ready to take thi s leap.
Our readers will reme mber that my
Uncl e, Frank Armstrong of Des Moines,
leadin g advertising man of Iowa, had
used his influence wi th the manager of
WHO in my behalf. Mr . Mailand had
expl ained that the owner of the station,
Col. B. J. Palmer of the famous Palmer
Chiropract ic Institute at Davenport,
reser ved one half hour , 11 to 11: 30, on
one Sunday night each mont h, for a
personal talk of his own. Because this
time not only was very late, but un-
available once each month, it had nor
been sold. Mr . Mailand had offered me
the remain ing Sunday nights at this
hour , at a remarkably low rate for such
a powerf ul station- a li ttl e over S60
per br oadcast.
And so, in August, 1942, by dropping
the six night s a week on KMTR, I felt
we were read)' to walk through the
mi ght)' door God had opened on station
WHO.
Our Own Network
\X' e returned ro Eugene around July
31st or August l st from Hollywood.
Before going to Des Moines, I decided
to reinforce our radio coverage of the
Pacific Northwest. Station KGA, Spo-
kane, had offered us rime at the early
Sunday morning time of 8 a.m. In Seat-
tle stati on KRSC had moved us to the
earl ier time of 8 a.m. from the better
time of 8: 30. Once again I employed
the old Postal Telegraph lines for a
Network broadcast bet ween Seattle and
Spokane. W e called it the Liberty Net -
work.
I overlooked menri oning that, before
leaving Hollywood , I had arranged ro
release the program Sunday mornings
over station K F ~ f f i , San Di ego. At that
time the old KMTR signal was SOstrong
in San Diego, more than 100 miles
distant . that KFMB was able to pick
the program our of the air and re-
broadcast it at the same hour, 9: 30 a.m.
And so now, wi th coverage on the
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Pacific Coast over stations in San Diego,
Hollywood, Eugene, Portland, Seattle
and Spokane, I cook the trai n to De s
Moines, Iowa. This 11 p.m. Sunday
nig ht time was Still open.
And now NATIONAL!
On Sunday night, August 30, 1942,
for the first time in my life I was speak-
ing, from the studios of W HO, to a
nati onwide audience.' I have before me,
now, the script of that program.
Ir was just like the program today,
except that we were then in the very
midst of World War II.
The announcer's voice, recorded-
and I think it was the voice of famous
Network announcer Art Gilmore, as it
is today, heard in all pans of the na-
tion , was saying:
'The WORLD TOMORROW! At thi s
same time every Sunday, He rbert W ,
Armstrong analyzes roday's world news,
with the propbecies of Tbe WORLD
TOMORROW!"
And then, for the first time heard
nat ionally:
."GREETINGS, Fri ends! We enter the
f ourt h )'ear of thi s war next Tu esday,
W e ent ered the ninth wCi!k of the su-
preme CRISIS of the war today.' In all
probability the ultimate outcome is be-
ing determined ri ght 1-JOW on the Rus -
sian front!"
Aod then followed an outline of Hit-
ler' s "Thousand-Year-Plan" for world
rule by German Nazis. On this very
first program heard nati onally the corn-
ing UNITED STATES OF EUROPE was
proclaimed. By that time it was already
becoming apparent to me that Hitler
would be defeated, and that thi s resur-
rected ROMAN EMPIRE would pr ecipi -
tate a third and final World War, at a
later time after anot her recess between
wars. But for more than 28 years now,
I have been proclaiming that prophe-
sied event over the air.
Th en, in that first nati on-wide pro-
gram, GOD'S Th ousand-Year -Plan was
expl ained from the Bibl e-the comi ng
Mill ennium! Hitler' s Plan was indeed
a satanic and clever counte rfei t, aimed
at producing diametri c oppos ite result s.
Where Christ's mil lennia! rule shall
bring freedom and happiness, Hitl er 's
would have produced slavery. Where
Christ's reign shall give eternal lif e to
The PLAIN TRUTH
multitudes, Hitler' s would have brought
torturous DEATH to enslaved millions.
12-Pag e Plai n T ru th
Before going to Des Moines to begi n
the broadcasti ng over WHO, I had writ-
ten and turned over to the printers in
Euge ne the articles for the August-
September issue of The PLAIN TRUTH.
We were now up to 12 pages , although
it st ill was coming out bi-monthly,
The leading article in that number
revealed the amazing Japanese Plan for
conquering the Un ited States. It was
based on a J apanese "Me in Kampf,"
called the Ta naka Memorial. This Plan
had been in process of deve lopment for
thr ee hundred years-growing Out of
an ancient document dated May 18,
1592. The great national hero of Japan,
Hideyoshi, had set forth in this docu-
ment the great national Plan for world
Empire and setting the Mikado on the
throne to ru le the world ,
Th is had been a Japanese national
dream for three cent uries. Then on
July 25th, 1927, Baron Tanaka, then
Premier, presented "The Tanaka Memo-
rial " as a definite blueprint for world
conquest to the Mikad o. This led di -
rectly to the bombing of Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941. It was based on the
religions conviction that the Mi kado
is the direct descendant of the Mother
of Heaven. Being, therefore, the SON
of Heaven, the Emperor had to be es-
tablished on the throne of the world
to show that he is GOD. Thus even the
Japanese att ack had vital significance
as another count erfeit of CHRIST'S
GOSPEL of the Ki ngdom of God-and
of Jesus Christ as the true SON of GOD,
who is to RULE THE WORLD!
An article captioned: "The IVAR, at
t he moment" said this:
"We entered the supreme CRISIS of
thi s war the first of J uly. It came with
the laun chin g of Hitler' s supreme gam-
ble for the Russian Cauca sus. . . . Th e
sit uation is thi s: \Y/e do not beve to
WIN the war [his year, but Hider does.'
United States power is mounting Iasr,
Ir is only a matt er of perh aps ten to
twel ve more weeks unt il thi s nati on
shall be able to hurl such crushing pow-
er again st the Axi s that, with thi s pow-
er steadily increasi ng, the ult imate Out-
come will be assur ed, with victory for
March, 1962
[he Democracies. , . . It might, even
then , take us until 1945 to end it, but
the outcome wou ld be pre-determi ned,
.. From now on Axis power cannot
increase, while Allied power wil l. . . ,
"And so it is A RACE AGAINST TIME.
. . . Th e Germa ns, to wi n, must win
bef ore we get set with the power we
shall have by approximately November
l sr. They musr knock Russia out of [he
war. They must take Suez and drive the
British Out of the Medi terr anean and
[he Near East , Th ey must be ready to
turn west , agai nst the Brit ish Isles,
without fear of attack from behind,
free to hurl thei r WHOLE POWER
against Britai n in one supreme final
victory, bef ore we can launch the
much-talked-of offensive agai nst Hil -
ler' s Europe. . . . Hitler staked every-
thing on his death-gamble that he could
knock OUt Russ ia bef ore the Allies can
open the second European front."
There, in summary, was the analysis
of the war as of August, 1942, as re-
ported in Tbe Plein Tnab. Looki ng
back in retr ospect, the analysis was ac-
curate. Hitler did take tOO big a gamble.
Un ited States might did tu rn the tide
before the end of that year . And it did
take until 1945, JUSt as pr edicted, to
END it !
Now POWERFUL Pressures
The Work of God was now really
begi nning to "go places!" The Message
for which Jesus Christ was crucified-
the Message the world has rejected ever
since-was for the first time being
heard in every state in the Un ion!
But if God now was gr ant ing us (Q
grow in power, He also allowed the
persecuti on , opposit ion, and pres sures
aimed at STOPPING God 's Work to in-
crease in power. Never before had we
felt any truly MAJOR-power opposition.
But now we did ,
Along about the end of J anuar y,
1943, I received noti ce of cancellation
from radio station WHO. I was in Holly-
wood at the time, broadcasting dai ly
again for a few weeks on KMTR.
Const ernation seized me. To be
thrown off \VHO at this stage mig ht
prove fatal to the whole work. Even
though the charge they made for time
was exceedi ngly low for such a station
-because of my uncl e's local influence,
March , 1962
I had been given a local rate-and a
religi ous rate at that, which was, as I
remember, JUSt half of the local corn-
me rcia! rate-yet it seemed ver y large
to us at the time. Af ter five months we
had spent quite a sum of money, f or
1U at that time, as an investment in
W HO broadcasti ng. We had not been
on long enough, as yet, with only three
programs a month, to have established
a financial supporr from new Co-
\Vorkers hearing the program on
\VHO. Remember, we made no request,
even indi recdy, for financial support
over the air . Nor was the re any in the
free li terature we sent to listeners.
The WHO broadcas t, our most COSt
Iy so far, was being supported by Pa-
cific coast Co-\Vorkers. It was nor pay-
ing its own way-yet ,
Immediately I obtai ned train reserva-
dons for Des Moines. Then I wrote our
a letter addressed to W HO listeners
who had wri tt en me in respo nse to the
program. In t he let ter I told our lis-
teners wha t had happened, and asked
them, if t hey wanted The W orld
Tomorroto prog ram to conti nue on the
stati on, to wri te the station and tell
them how they felt. Then I dictated
the lett er to my secretary in Eugene
by long-distance telephone , and asked
her to mimeograph it and mail imme-
diately to the ent ire \VHO mailing list.
T re me ndous Respon se
That list had mou nted and mult iplied
int o man y thousand s. By t hi s time we
had received letters from all 48 states.
1 remember one \VHO broadcast in
pa rt icular. I had recorded it at the
Studio & Art ists recording studios at
Columbia Square, Hollywood, on a
Thursday night. 1 had been overworked,
losing sleep, and was tir ed. I was not
up to usual broadcasting form t hat
nigh t. I knew it, and felt very badly
about it. 1 t ried, but for a half hour of
speak ing int o the microphone it just
seemed the usual spont aneous enthu-
siasm, dri ve, and energy wasn' t there.
"Mr. Armstrong," said the owne r of
the recordi ng stud io af ter I finished,
"you ought to remember that WHO
is a very important station. You ought
to rake it more seriously, This broad-
case we JUSt recorded was not good
(Please continue 0 11 page 45)
The PLAIN TRUTH
THE BIBLE ANSWERS
I have been taking my boys to school
and escorting the m home again to keep
gangs 01 hoodlums from beating them
up. My nei ghbors tell me this will make
sissies of them, ond that I sho uld let the
bo ys shift for themselves. What should
I do?
Give your children every possible op-
porruniry to make decisio ns for them-
selves; and teach t hem t o think quickLy
so they can learn to avoid strife by om-
thinking other boys. Provide only the
bare minimum of protecti on in danger-
ous streets.
Teach rhe boys also that they should
str ive to become strong and healthy.
Have them eat a well-bala nced diet of
wholesome, nourishi ng food for the de-
velopmenr of strong bod ies and mi nds .
Make sure they get suffi cient sleep and
as much strenuom exer cise as needed.
Good body-buildi ng exercises are
wrestling, rumbling, swimming, calis-
thenics, and track work . If they can
excel in some form of clean sport, that
accompl ishment will diminish t heir
troubles at school because everybody
li kes a champion.
The path to championship will also
develop in them character istics wh ich
will help them to become staunch, per-
severing. dynamic Christians after they
arc mature.
In Proverbs 22 :6 we are commanded
to train our chil dren in t he way they
shou ld live whe n t hey are mature.
We are also commanded to "Do
violence to no man" ( luke 3:14 ) . God
req uires, then, that you reach your sons
not to become involved in fights.
They should do nothing more tha n
to pur up a guard to ward ofT a blow, or
take other protective action t hat will
harm no one.
In Deuteronomy 6:49 we are corn -
manded to diligentl)' teach God's W ~ \ y to
our c.: hildren--day-in and day-our-e-re
keep them and our selves constantly
aware of the benefits of God 's right way
uf life. Teach your children to be alert ,
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FROM OUR READERS
dynamic, to influence others by thei r
example-to be respected by others, nor
to be sissies.
Do nor JUSt StOP at teaching your sons
to be peacemake rs. Teach them the rea-
son for God's way-that we are to love
all me n, even those who hate us.
Remind t hem t hat Christ, our perfect
example, suffered abuse without fighting
back ( I Pet . 2: 2123) , even though He
was so strong and healthy that He cer-
rainly was physically able co pur up a
good fighr. He showed his manhood by
keeping self control, not losing his tem-
pe r, by [he amount of abuse He was able
co take, nor by the amount of violence
He could do.
Does Exodus 34:28 mean that Moses,
not God, wrote the Ten Com";"ond-
ments?
This verse is often misu nderstood .
Notice what thi s verse says: ".. . And
be wrot e upon the table s the words of
the covenant, the ten commandment s."
Some have assumed the word "he" in
[hi s verse ref ers co Moses-that Moses
wrot e [he Ten Commandmems on the
tables of scone.
Th is assumption is absolut ely untrue!
Notice Exodus 24: 12. God told
Moses: "Come up co me into the mount
. .. and I will give thee tabl es of stone
. . . and commandments whi ch I have
written." God. "gave unto Moses, when
he had made an end of communing wi th
him upo n mount Sinai, tWO tables of
resrimony, rabies of stone, written with
t he finger of God" ( Ex. 31: 18) . In
Exodus 32: 16 we read : "t he tables wer e
the work of God, and tbe writ i ng was
tbe toriting of GOD, graven upon the
tabl es:' Moses broke these first tables
of stone ( Verse 19 ). Then God corn-
manded Moses: "Hew thee t wo tables
of stone like umo the first : and I will
wri rc upon these tables the word s that
were in the firsr tabl es, which thou
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tContinned from page 8)
What Is
GERMANY'S DESTINY?
Paae 22
Prussian by bi rth , Gehl en was forced by
tr adition to be a professional soldier.
He was only a junior officer in 1939 in
a Panzer division invadi ng Poland . But
in 1940 he rose to the rank of Colonel,
because-as we are mid now- t he ex-
panding Nazi mil itary juggernaut
needed experienced officers (he really
hated the Nazis, bated kill ing and in-
trigue, rorture and dea t h-BUT since
the militar y juggernaut needed expe-
rien ced offi cer s, and he uias indeed an
experienced officer, he felt that it was
his DUTY ro serve in Hi der' s Blitzkri eg! )
Through the years on t he Eastern
from, Herr Gehlen bu ilt an esp ionage
and counrer-esplcnage organization
which included 5,000 me n behi nd the
Russian line and anot her 5,000 through-
om Europe! In 1944, when most of t he
Ge rma n General Staff realized t he war
was over, Geblen suggested to Hitler
chat they pull back the ir forces on the
Eastern from. Rebuked by Hi der, he
was sent back to the Eastern from, with
only one thought in mind-to prepa re
for his and Germany's defeat-and
surt:it'al!
He infor med his agents to go under -
ground and awa it hi s call. Then he took
all of hi s maps and files, hi s intelligence
reports and buri ed t hem in a cave in
Sout hern Ge rma ny. He surrendered to
the adva nci ng American Army with
dignity, was "de -nazi fied" by 1945 and
in the summer of 1947 Allen Dulles
offered Reinhard Gehlen a job, asking
him to set up an esp ionage system to
be pa id for by the United Srares. To
this request Ge hlen gave a qualified
yes. He agreed to work for the Uni ted
States but DEMAN OED not to be
dIked / 0 "toorlz against the German
interest]"
Then, with Amer ican dollars backing
him to the rune of more than six mil-
lion dollars a year, Herr Gehlen signaled
to his underground cohorrs-"Resur-
rection in Fra,tk!lIr/f"
During the following years the in-
for mation furnished by his staff-so
familiar with the Ru ssians, having
Th e PLAIN TRUTH
served on the Russian from during t he
war-became t he BACKBONE OF A ~ t E R
ICAN \XlAR PLANS!
In 1956 it was Geblen who knew that
[here wou ld be a revolt in Hungary, who
promised the pat rio ts arms, but the
CIA never came th roug h wi th his prom-
ise! Ge hlen did all right-it was jusr
another job that the CIA bungled!
Proof was also obtained by Ge hlen
t hat Dr. Otto John, leader of a rival
intelligence service also paid for by the
CIA, was really a double agent working
for the Communists!
Now respectable, de- nazified, or ient ed
wi t h t he W eSt-Reinhard Gehlen is
the CIA's tr usted int elligence man in
Western Eur ope! It does not seem to
occur to our "intell igence" office tha t
t his Geblen may be, as he di scovered Dr.
Otto John to be, a double agent also!
We trust him even though he demanded
ncz,'cr to be asked to wor k against the
Ge rma n int erest!
In 1962 Reinhard Geblen is one of
the great est heroes in the lVeu 's fight
against Communism-in 1942 Reinhard
Gehlen was one of HITLER'S greatest
heron in the fight agains t Commun ism!
Germany De-Nazified?
Where have all the mill ions who
supported the Hitler regime gone?
Where are the millions of parry mem-
bers? Where are the hundreds of thou-
sands of teacher s who filled the minds
of youth with Nazi ideology? W here
are all the lawyers and judges, the
policemen, t he doctors who were [he
intell igentsia of the Nazi regime? Where
arc all the SS men who performed the
cruel ties of the more than 300 concen-
tration camps and annihilated six mil-
lion J ews?
Thousands of the SS and Hitler 's top
generals of t he Wehrmacht are in to-
day's Bundeswehr-c-Ger many's modern
army. The judges and policemen of
Hitler's time are on t he ben ch and in
tbe streets. The doctors and teachers of
Hitl er 's time are pract icing their pro-
fession even more lucrati vel y now in
March, 1962
the healthy economy of Euroman! The
party hacks, "old fighters," part)' memo
bers. and the general public enthu-
siasticall y sing "Deutschla nd Ueber
Alles" in public rallies numbering from
a few bn ndred t o half a million EVERY
WEEKEND in dozens of provincial Ger-
man towns at reunions of one or another
of t he Panzer di visions, the 5S forma-
tion , the Marine Bund or the Afrik a
Korps!
At a tally of 500 in 1958, in the city
of Muni ch, former SS Colonel J ulius
Zuchbold addressed his old Nazi cronies
wi th this summation of (he present Ge r-
man situat ion: "We do not int end to
go to sleep . W e will stay alert and
exp loit all rights and privileges which
the democratic system oDers t o us. Y et
u:e will be a power WHENEVER "" E DE-
CIDE TO BECOME A POWER!" ( T he New
Germany and the Old Nazir by T. H.
Tetens, page 80. )
J USt as Gehlen's intell igence agents
were asked to go underground and later
brough t our to apparently serve the
\X'est, e-very ot her phase of German
activity bas followed the same putter nl
The Krupps and the Flicks are back in
German industry, the Hermann Abs
and Robert pferdmenges are back in
Ge rma n banking, Dr. Hans Globke, one
of Hitler' s chief assistant s, is t he right-
Wide Worl d Photo
A close- up of Alfred Krupp.
Wide World Pho to
Pre side nt Heinrich l ubke, the hand- picked ca ndidate of Cha nce llor Konrad
Adenauer, accepts the Chancellor's congratu lat ion s upon election to the
presidency.
March, 1962
hand man of Dr. Adenauer in the
present German government!
The situat ion is summed up by Mr.
William L Shirer-c-author of The Rise
and Fall of the Third Rei ch-Stated in
an add ress in Seat tle on April 12, 1961 ,
"The vast majori ty ( in a poll taken in
Germany ) said that Nazism /l'a! a
GOOD IDEA, 0111y badly carried OUI . Their
comment was that, 'It lost the war for
us.' T be memory of Hit ler is far f rom
bad and far from detld."
Ger ma n Dest iny
The emphasis of German propaganda
today is to deny the war guilt "theory"
- as they prefer to call it- tOplay down
the atroci ties of the Nazi regime, and
to remin d the W estern world that it
was Germally who foresaw the Russian
threat. and was defendi ng Europe from
being engulfed in Commun ism! They
are succeeding in conv inci ng us that
t hey are the tr ue def enders of the West
aga inst Communist aggression.
Looking at it from the German paine
of view, " Y ou Americans made a bad
mi stake when you declared war on us,'
said Corporal Franz Minnich, forge tting
that it was Hider who decl ared. war on
the United Scates. 'You should have
marched It.-ith us aga inst Russia. Ger -
many would not be divided today. and
you would besafe too.''' ( Saturday Eve-
ning POSt, August 20, 1960. )
An active and organized German
unde rground wor king in close concert
wi th the Bonn government is fast taking
the ini tiative from the hands of the
Ame ricans-who have ceased to me
init iat ive at all since the Korean war-
and is moving wi th that initi ative
coward the goal rhac they have envi-
sioned historically as the dest iny of the
Ge rma n peopl e! As long ago as January
1960 Dr. Adenauer on a state visit ro
Iraly told the Pope, 1 believe that God
bas gi ven t he German people in tbese
calamitous limes a special /d1k. We are
the GUARDIANS OF THE WEST
against any mighty force whi ch would
descend upon our lines from the East."
De Gaulle. the only strong man in all
of France, sees what seems to be hidden
I
from Amer ican eyes in the behin d-the-
scenes activ ities of post-war Ge rmany.
"But it is nor West Germany so muc h
as the West Germans that must be
rs, PLAIN TRUTH
tied to the West. If the \XIest Germans
lose hope in the ultimate reunifi cation
of Ge rmany through Western efforts,
THEY soone r or later will seek retm ifi
cation by a deal with RIf!Ji (I.' ! ( U. S.
News and World Report , Ocrober 9,
196 1). A Germ any, sick of a weak and
insipid, conciliatory stra teg)', led by the
Uni ted Stares, is to the poi nt whe re she
mmt tllke mailers i11/O HER OWN
HANDS, and fulfill her role of destiny and
history.
Th e U. S. News " lid World Report of
Ocr. 9. 1961 also said " Intelligence
sources report that five major papers
prepared for the Soviet High Command
stress the point rhar , with care on
Russia's part and Ameri can mi stakes,
If!est Germouy Can be u'on Ol'er to t he
Soriet side. Stress was on the view that
there can be a basis for accommodation."
History's Lesson
The Fat her of Modern Germany,
Prince von Bismarck. even before [he
begi nning of [his century, dema nded of
his Foreign Offi ce on the Wilhelmstrasse
to always remember his cardi nal rule-
"Alu'{/ )'f keep tbe lines op e11 10 Pet ro-
grad"-The Russian capital of his day.
In 1922 Germany compl eted the in-
famous Rapallo Treaty, makin g its East-
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ern borde r with Russia safe.
Again in 1939, Hitler concluded his
non-aggression pact wit h the Russians-
still considered by the German people
to be the wisest move that Hitler ever
made. Hitler was not the first to do so.
Every conqueror in Europe, includ ing
Napoleon and Hitler, had a working
agreement with [he Russians during the
period of his success, One of the mai n
turning points in the downfall of all
these conquerors from Napoleon to Hit-
ler was a break ing of this Russian agree-
ment-a premstere attack to the East,
a bad win ter and consequent defeat!
Where \Xl ill Ge rman)' Go Now?
The present leader of West Germany,
Chancellor Konr ad Adenauer , according
to a UPI release of August 16, 1961,
promised the Soviet Ambassador Andrei
Smirnov that he would do nothing over
the Ber lin cr isis that would toorsen
Bonn -Moscow relati ons, whil e the fed-
eral press office said that Smirnov "i n-
for med the Chancellor of the next plans
of the Soviet government in the field
of foreig n affairs, and of [he possible
ways in which present relations between
the Soviet Union and the Federal Re-
f PleaJe continue Oil page 26
pictures on next t wo pages}
P a ~ e 24 n, PLAIN TRUTH March, 1962
West German na va l cadets carry out a gun
drill aboard the training corvette Eider on
a Baltic crui se . The ne w We st German
Navy, starting from scratch, now boasts
10,000 officers and men.
\
German tanks trc ln l
Isles. Here German
on ra nge a t Camp C
brokeshire.
GERMAN
RelJ
Today German militori
into NATO-but who
morrow? Only Bible p.
swer-revealed i ~ (
article. -
March, 1962
The PLAIN TRUTH
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Wid. World Photos

1 Wales, in the British
'anzer Battalion fires
Istlemartin near Pe m-
MILITARY
irth
=
forces a re integra ted
will control t hem to-
'ophecy holds the an-
h . .
C ypa nYlng surprise
Officers and enlisted men of West Germany's
new l uftwa ffe study comple xities of the
F84F jet fighter engine during a technical
tr a ini ng course at the U.S. Air Force base
at Kauf beuren in so uthern Germany.
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What Is
Germany'5 Destiny?
(Conti nued from p,'ge 23)
public could devel op! "
"There have been frequent hints in
t he Adenauer pr ess that the Chancellor
was pursu ing a 'tremendously bold plan'
of first consolida ting a United Europe
and then tu rning to t he East to make
a deal wit h Moscow' The Cha ncellor
is stubborn but he is a realist . .. he
follows the correct thesis of doing two
things at the same lime: namel y to
increase our strengt h by cooperati on
u-itb the lii' eSI , and 11 0/ neglecting tbe
other, to come to an AGREEMENT WITH
THE EAST:' ( Tbe Ne w Germany and
t he Old Nazi" T. H. Terens, p. 248) .
In 1955, when Dr. Adenaue r had asked
for hi s own invitation to Moscow and
returned, hc pr aised t he Soviet Uni on
as "an immense power that has to be
accepted as a reality," and referred to
its leaders saying, "Bulgeni n ami
Kbrmbrber are melt wbose words I
FULI.Y TRUST! "
More Than Uni ted Europe
"Fascism in Europe is about to be
reborn in respect able business att ire, and
the Treaty of Rome will finall y be im-
plememcd to its fill/est extc m , , ,
t he dream of a Holy Roman Empire
returning to power to dominate and
direct the so-called forces of Christia n
mankind of the Westcrn worl d is not
dead, but still stalks through the ante-
chambers of eve ry nati onal capital of
continental \'<'estern Europe , ' , IN THE
DETI:RMINATION OF THE LEADERS IN
THE COMMON 11ARKET N ATIONS TO
RESTORE THE HOl.Y ROMAN EMPIRE
WITH ALL THAT THAT MEANS!"
( Nort hwest Technocrat, Vol. XXV,
No. 205. )
United within the ancient boundaries
of the Holy Roman Empire; united by
t he common spiritual bond of un iversal
Cat holicism; unit ed in a burgeoning
and booming indmtrial economy that
dominates roday's world; united geo-
graphically in the most prod ucti ve and
indusrrial complex of all the earth-c-at
least TEN NATIONS OF MODER N
EUROPE WILL MARCH ONTO THE
Tbe PLAIN TRUTH
SCENE OF WORLD HISTORY AS
THE GREATEST SINGLE HUMAN
FORCE EVER SEEN BY MAN!
This Un ited Europe wi ll form a non-
aggression pact or polit ical alignment
of some son wit h the Soviet East, This
United Europe will then consolid ate its
gains, flex its muscl es and again attack
the Russians in the East.
This United Europe will be destroyed
- but this time it wi ll not be by a Rus-
sian winter, or by combined allied might
- but by the ANGELIC ARMIES OF
A RETU IiN ING CHR IST COMING
TO RESTORE PEACE AND ORDER
AND TO RULE THIS EARTH WITH
AN IRON ROD!
Bible Prophecy Reveals Future
"There is a God in Heaven that t e-
vea ls secrets , and makes known ,
what shall be in the latter days! " ( Dan,
2,28. ) Khrushchev and his minions in
the Soviet circle are pl anning and in-
triguing to conquer thi s worl d! They
would like very much to know how it
will all turn om! A European Nazi
unde rground is also planing and pla n-
ning for world domination- they toO
would like to know how it will all
come Out !
The pages of YOll r Bible reveal the
tbrilling outcome!
God. speaking to modern-day Israel
(t he United Stat es and Great Britai n
and the Democracies of Northw est
Europe-if you do not understand the
modern identity of Israel, wr ite imme-
dia tely for Mr . Ar mstrong's booklet,
"The United States and the Briti sh
Commonwealth in Prophecy" )-God
says, "Hearken unro me a house of
Jacob, and all t he remnant of (he house
of Israel, which are borne by me from
the bell y, wh ich are carried from (he
womb , , . Remember this , and show
yourselves men: bring ir aga in to mind
a you transgressors. Remember the
former things of old: for I am God, and
there is none else; I am God, ami t here
is none like me, declaring tbe end from
the beginning, and from ancient times
tbe things tbat are 11 0t Jet done, saying,
My counsel shall Stand and 1 will do all
my pleasure: call ing a raven ous bird
from the east, t he man that executes my
counsel from a far count ry: yea, I bare
spoken it , I WILL ALSO BRING IT TO
March, 1962
Wide Wor ld Phot o
Erich Mende, above, heads West
Germany' s Free Democratic Party.
Me nd e shocked Brit a in byannou nc-
ing : "We Free De mocrats are not
prepared to sa nction the division
of Ger ma ny." If the Western Pow-
e rs " brea k t heir tr eati es we ca n do
the same," he con clud ed ,
PASS; I bare purposed it, I WILL ALSO
DO IT! " {Isa. 46: 3. 8-1I. )
God, in Hi s high heaven, is bringing
to puss the prophecies He made thou-
sands of years ago regardi ng the nations
that are struggli ng on the eart h today!
He has 11 0t gone far off somewhere ,
disinreresred in human affairs, and
only contemplating the Eternal thoughts
of what is good and look ing down on
"His children," the blessed and benign,
long white-haired old man as most pic-
ture God-stuck away in t he corner of
rel igion! But the Living Creator, t he one
t hat became Jesus Christ, the Son of
God the Father, is VITALLY INTERESTED
IN TODAY' S NATIONS-ifl Israel, the
Unit ed Stutes and Great Britain; in
German)' at the head of a United
Europe; and in the Soviet Empire.' The
true God of creation sits on the cir cle
of the eart h, inte rvening from t ime to
time as He needs to, to BRING t o paH
these prophecies He declared wou ld be
fulfilled in thi s end time!
God W orks Directl y Wi ,h Hi s
People
Since the time of the exodus from
God' s Destiny for Germa n)'
Desp ite the fact that it is God who
will use Germany to destroy Amer ica,
Ger many mmt be destroyed as u.ell f or
HEl? rebellion agltimt God-"I will
pu nish the fru ir of the srout heart of
the ki ng of Assyri a, and the glory of
hi s high looks. Fot he sairh, by the
So ma ny ask: " HOW does it happen Ihal I find
my subscr iptio n pr ice for ThC' PLAIN lRUTH has
alt udy b"lfOl p"id? HOW can you publish such ;I.
h igh class magazine wirh our adveni sing revenue?"
ThC' answe r is as simp le as it is It is
a paradox . ChriSt's Gospel cannoe be sold like
mercha ndi se. You (;ln noe bu y salvati on . Yet it dOC'S
COSt money III publi sh Chnsr's TRUTH and ma il it
to all conti nents on earth. It does han' co hi: p ;JjJ
10'-' This is Christ' s wor k. \"('C' solve rhi s pr ob lem
Ch rlsr's
j esus said . ' Th is Go sPC'1 of rhe Kingdom shall
hi: preac hed ( ,md published-Mark in all
the world fur a wuness untO all nations" ( Mal.
24: 14 ) ., rhi' rlnlr. juS{ before ehe end of Ihi s age
A PRICE m,.rr br p.i.I for the ma,l: azine . Ihe broad-
cast , she Co rr espo ndence Course. or cr he r lireraru re.
BUI HO\'(' ? Chri u for bids us (0 ul/ it (0 those who
receiv e it . "Freely ve h..ve received ;" sa id ) C'iU S to
H is disciples who He was SC' nd ing to pr oclaim His
Go spe l. frC'd y GIVE!" "It is mo" blfflJrJ, " He
said , ' (0 GI VE th an to receive ."
Gods WAY is the 'l.ay of LOVE-and Ihat is
ehe way of g;,i"1;. God C'x pC'Cu child of His
(Q gi,e Iree -... ill uffC' ri ngs and 10 I;, he . as His mean s
of paying the COSts of carry ing His Gos pel to osbers,
VIe , t herefor e, simo lr fl USI ou r Lor d Jesu s Ch rist 10
lay it on IhC' minds and hearts of His fol lowe rs to
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God's way is GOOD !
so, neither does hi s hear t think so; but
it is in his hearr to destroy and Cut off
nat ions not a few" ( vs, 7), Germa ny,
those living in Germany, even t he Ger-
man go vern ment, may nor yet know
t hat they are going to join in a treat y
with the Russians to destroy the United
Stat es and bri ng it to its kne es-it is
not in his "heart " to t hi nk so, but on
t he Ot her hand it 15 in hi s "hear t" to
destTOy-t he very characte ristic of the
Assyrian, the modern Germa n, is a
harsh. cruel, iro- , dedi cation to milita-
rism and destru ction.' This is JUSt the
ki nd of nati on God needs to use as a
rod in His hand to punish His people!
Does this then mean that t he Ger-
mans at the head of a Uni ted Europe do
have a spi ritual mission to perform?
Does this mea n that t hey are right in
claiming to be the "Defenders of the
W est"' and t he champions of Chr is-
tian ityl ? No !
March, 1962
Egypt, God has been pl eading wi t h H is
people Israel, and t hey have bee n rebel-
ling aga inst H im, murmur ing and com-
pl ain ing over the: blessings that He has
showered t hem wi th, rebelling and re-
fusing [Q keep His JUSt laws, statutes,
and commandments or obey Him in
any way! As a resul t of this they wer e
denied the fulfillment of the promi ses
made [Q Ab raham for twenty-five hun -
dred and twent y years, and it was not
unti l the turn of the ni net eent h century
( 1803 ) tha t God began to fulfill to the
modern des cendants of ancient Israel
the promises He made to Abraham!
Great national wea lth and power,
blessings of every ki nd imaginable, were
given to the modern descendants of
Jacob-until they became and st ill are
the chief of t he nations on thi s eart h in
standard of living, weal th and nati onal
powe r!
J usc as God sent ancient Israel int o
capt ivity for disobey ing H is laws and
refusing to recognize Him as the Creator
and Rul er, so God now accuses modern
Israel, t he United States and Great
Brit ain, of nor recogni zing H im or liv-
ing by His laws- and condemns them
t o c(lpti vity and conquest i n t he bands
of a modem end united Europe.' As God
explai ns in Psalm 33, "The Lor d brings
the counsel of [he hea then to nought:
He makes the devices of the people of
none effect. The cou nsel of the Lord
stands for ever , the thoughts of His hear t
to all generations . . . from the pl ace of
His hab itation He looks upon all the
inhabitants of the eart h . .. There is no
king saved by the multitude of an host :
a might )' man is 110t delivered by mil ch
strengtbt " Psalm 33:10, I I, 14, 16. )
I T IS THE GOD OF HEAVEN WHO
WILL GAIN THE VICTORYI
Modern Europe is counsel ing and
making treat ies and alliances and agree-
ments to conquer thi s earth! The Com-
mu nis ts on the other hand are pl aning
and conniving for thei r own par t to
rule t his world! But the one who will
acbiere victory and finall}' conquer and
rule tbis earth is neither of these , but
the J esus Christ of your Bibl e returning
to t his ear th as its ttltimate ruler-its
KIN G OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!
He is- the same On e who explains
what will happen in t hi s modern sit ua-
(ion wi th a Un ited Eur ope, a United
The PLAIN lllUTH
States and a Soviet Empire! Anciently,
God used the nat ion of Israel to punish
[he inh abitants of the land of Canaan
for thei r sins ! The whole nati on of
Israel became a SWORD in. t he hand of
God to bring H is vengeance and execu-
tion upon the sons of men who had
sinned agai nst Hi m! Then, t he same
nation tha t He used to execute H is
judgment , rebelled aga inst His rule and
went cont rary to H is ways. They have
gone cont rary [Q His ways for t housands
of years despi te H is blessings and de-
spi te His warn ings! Now, at t he close
of man's t ime of tr ial on this earth, God
solemnly warns His people Israel that
He is going to punish them, and execute
judgment IIpon T HEM .
As God of the ent ire universe-a
Being to whom all the nat ions of [hi s
eart h are but dust on a balance, and a
drop of water in a bucket-God. is able
at any time to use any nation for any
purpose that He wi shes!
If you wer e God, and the nat ion of
Israel had rebelled aga inst you, and you
wi shed [0 p uni sh t hem for t hat rebellion
- and you were goi ng to use another
nation as a rod in your hand to punish
them-what nat ion would you pick?
What nation would be best equipped
to deal the crus hing blow, that would
grind us under its heel in cruel oppres-
sion until we turned our heart s to God
and asked Him to forgiv e us for our
sins, and asked H im to save us?
T he nati on God picked uras German)'.'
J USt as the modern nat ions of the
United States and Great Britain are re-
ferred to in the Bible as Israel , so the
modern nati on of Germa ny is ref err ed
[0 as ancient Assyri a! ( Please wri te for
our article "Germany in Prophecy," ex-
plaining Assyr ia's modern Ident it y. )
"a Assyrian, the rod of MIN E anger,
and the staff in t hei r ha nd is MIN E in-
dignation. I WILL SEND HIM aga inst an
hypocr irical nat ion, and aga inst t he
people of my wrath ( rebellious Israel )
will I give him a charge (command ) , to
rake the spo il, and to take the prey, and
to tread tbem down like the mire of
the streets" (l sa. 10: 5, 6 ) .
Yes, God is going to take the nat ion
of Germa ny at the head of a United
Europe into his hand as a dn b ro pu nish
the nat ions of Israel for their rebelli on
against Hi m' "Howbeit he mea net h not
HOW
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strength of my hand I have done it, and
by my wisdom; for I am pru dent! "
( Isa. 10: 12,13)
The leaders of a United Europe,
when they succeed agains t the Un ited
States, will begi n to think THEIR
prudent planning, T HEIR wise ideas
and THEIR powerful mlghl have made
them successful ! They will not reali ze
that they have only been used as a base
tool of dest ruct ion in the hand of the
Almighty God! "Shall the axe boast
itself against him that hews therewith?
Or shall the saw magnify itself against
him that shakerh it? as if the rod should
shake itself against them that lift it up,
or as if the steff should lift up itself, as
if it were no wood" (Isa. 10 : 15) . God
explains here that desp ite the fact that
He has rued Assyria to puni sh Israel,
Assyria is also rebellious against His law
and government, Hi s way, and si nce it
will magni fy itself against the very God
of creatio n, as Dan. 11: 36 and 37
explain, GOD WILL HAVE TO PUN-
ISH IT FOR THIS!
So GOD says, "The Lord of hosts has
sworn, saying, Surely as I ha-ve thought,
so SHALL IT COME TO PASS: and as I
beve purp OJ ed, so SHALL IT STAND;
That I wi ll break th e Assyrian i n lWy
land, and upon my mountai ns TREAD
HIM UNDER FOOT: then shall his yoke
depart from off them, and his bur den
depa rt from off their ( the Israelites )
shoulders" ( lsa. 14 : 24,25 ). J ust shortly
befo re Jesus Chris t Himself intervenes
in this world' s affairs, He will take
another nation as a punish ing dub in
Hi s hands and punish th e proud Assy-
rians, the modern Germa ns at the head
of the Uni ted States of Europe. "Behold,
I will st ir up the Medes against them,
which shall not regard silver; and as for
gold they shall not del ight in it ( Here
the Communist system is described,
which does not believe in cap italism and
exer cises only a lust for power ) Th eir
bows also shall dash the young men to
pieces; and they shall have no pity on
the frui t of the womb; their eye shall
not spare children. And Babylon ( the
modern resurrected and revived Roman
Empire, dominated by a fascist Ger-
many ), the glory of kingdoms, the
beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall
be as when God overt hrew Sodom and
Gomorrah!" (Isa. 13:17-19. )
The PLAIN TR UTH
God warns us, "Put 110t your trust in
Pr inces, nor in the son of man, in whom
there is no help! His breath goe rh
forth, he returneth co his eart h; in
tbat very day bis tbosgbts perish.
HAPPY is he tbat batb tbe God of Jacob
for his help, WHOSE HOPE IS IN
THE LORD HIS GOD: wh ich made
heaven and earth , the sea and all that
therein is!" ( Psalm 146 : 3-6. )
Who Call You Trust ?
It must be very evident to the mi nds
of thi nki ng men today that you CANNOT
TRUST the Commnnist s nor Commn-
nismt God is goi ng to bury this system!
( Ezek. 38, 39). In God's eyes, the thri v-
ing, bustling Commonwealt h of Europe
is a system in which man should not put
his trust either ! God will bring an end to
this also! Since God himself has pro-
nounced a cur se on modern Israel, and
is going to hand us over ro the Assyrians,
it is evident that we CANNOT TRUST i n
the American way of lif e eith er!
Nothing is left outside these three
great systems and powers on earth, under
man, except Anarch y!
MAN'S ONLY HOPE LIES IN
TURNING TO HIS CREATOR GOD!
"At what ins/am I shall speak con-
cerning a nation, and concerning a king-
dom, to pluck up, and to pull down , and
to destroy it ; If that nation, against
whom I have pronounced, TURN FROM
THEIR EVIL} I will repent of the evil
that I t hought / 0 do unto them , ..
Behold, I frame evi l against YOU, and
devise a device against YoU: return j'e
1l0W EVERY ONE from his eL1ilway and
make .volt r ways and )'Ollr doings good"
( j er. 18:7.8,11 )
The case of America and Gr eat
Brit ain is hopel ess!
Nothing can save them from the
hand of puni shment from their God!
Th e hope of the German, and a Un ited
Europe is equally hopeless, they are
deceived and vainly puffed up in their
own eyes-they will nor repent and
turn to God! Certainly the hop e of the
Communi st is most hopeless of all! How
can he turn to God who denies His
existence!?
YOUR only hope as an individual is
to turn to God-to the Living Creator
who is working out events here below
on this earth-u'/;o is t'er)' concerned
March, 1962
about YOU, who promises you safety
from these horrible t imes to come!
Heed the warning given by Jeremiah!
The only way to escape these sure
propbecies of God;' by REPENTANCE-
nati onally or individually.'
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How To Teach Your Children
Right Habits!
Human beings are creatures of HABIT! But habits must be
TAUGHT! Read HOW you can begin teaching your children
to AUTOMATICALLY do the right thing!
by Garner Ted Arms tr ong
"I DON'T WANT to, Mommy!"
wai ls the tearful tot of three
years when Mommy has said, "Go to bed
now!" OF COURSE he does n't toant to---
because he's not in the HABIT of goi ng
to bed when told!
How many times each day, and over
how many different circumstances is
this the picture in YOUR horne?
Do your chi ldren have the habit of
obedience? Do they respond IMMEDI
ATELY when you tell them to do some-
rhing? Do they have the habit of coming
when called, of closing the door after
them, picking up their clothes, answer -
ing you immediately, being clean and
neat? Chances are-they don 't!
How Habits Are Acquired
BAD hab its are acquired after only
Doe or two experiences! Remember, it 's
the pleasurable experience that is most
oft repeated. A little baby LI KES the
sound of his spoon hitt ing the floor, and
seeing his mother or father pick it up
for him. He likes the excitement when
he dumps his cereal bowl, or spills his
milk, and sees the flurry of motion and
sound around him.
Naturally, unless he is firmly caught
NOT to do these things, he will REPEAT
them unt il they become HABIT! How
many children have you known who are
htfbit ually noisy, unkempt, rude and dis-
obed ient ? Perhaps dozens! How many
have you known who were bdbit1tcdly
qui et, polite, neat and orderly, and al-
ways obeyed cheerfully every parental
command? If you've known ANY-you
have seen a rarity!
Never forget chi ldren are creatures of
HABIT! In the last insta llment of this
series, we saw HOW TO PUNISH your
children in love, and how to really get
result s.' Now, in this number, let's un-
dersrand WHAT are some of the results
we want, and how to USE loving pun -
ishment and correction, together with
the kind, pat ient teaching! to achi eve
them.
W hen you, as an adult, say "How do
you do?" or "Thank you!" to another
person, it is purely aut omatic. Ic is not
a carefully thought-our procedur e, rea-
soned out in your mind, and arrived at
after careful analytical consideration! So
with your work, your play, your driving,
A truly good driver is actually Ul1 COl1-
sciota of partiClllar manipulations of the
clutch, the gearsh ift ( if any, tuday ) rhe
brake and the wheel. He functions as a
dr iver aut omatically,
There are hundreds of things you will
do automatically. Why? Because you
have learned the habit of doing them.
They are not carefully thought-out ac-
tions, but automatic reflexe s as a result
of certain srimulii to the nervous sys-
tem!
When a baby is born, it knows abso-
lutely NOTHING! It is not, as the horse,
(Ow or dog, a creature of instinct! It
must be taught everything it is to know!
HOUl, rhen, can you teach your chil -
dren the correct habits of obedience,
cleanliness, proper eating, good posrur e,
orderliness, truthfulness, and respect ?
Good Habits Are Acqui red Gradually !
As I sit at my typewriter, typing this
article for this issue of the PLAIN TRUTH
Magazine, I am thinking in roo-ds. in
concepts and thoughts! I am not e01J-
scions of each letter as 1 strike the keys.
But it wasn't quite that easy back in
high school, when I was learning to
type' My fingers were stiff and clumsy,
and I had to learn the placement of the
keys. It's the same in any form of en-
deavor. Bur after weeks and months of
practice, of exper ience, of patient REPE-
TITION, you can LEARN a new talent, a
new sport, or acquire a new ability!
And so it is with your children. The
very first time your baby reaches our a
chubby littl e hand to grasp a spoon, he
may drop it several times, get it between
his fingers, and in both hands, and try
desperately to put it in his mouth, He
will trade hands with it, bang it on his
high chair tray, and throw it on the floor.
It is only after weeks and months of
patient TEACHING that a child will
gratlttally learn to hold the spoon cor-
rectly, eliminating all the unnecessary
movements and actions, and finally solv-
ing the comp licated process of all the
muscular movements involved in simply
holding a spoon!
This is learned through trial and error.
Obviously, the parem should place the
spoon in the right hand, and sbou: the
child how to hold it correctly, helping
him along until he is able to do it for
himself, The first time a baby drops a
spoon, the parent should merely say
"NO" and pick it up, placing it back in
his hand, The second time, repeat the
command, and spat the back of the hand
sharply. Ir won't bruise or injure-but
in a very SHORT time, YOll will have a
very small chi ld who will NOT EVER,
unless it is a pure accident on a very rare
instance, JUSt as any adult will do, Jrop
his silverware on the floor! But remem -
ber the principles of the last article! De
perseverant , be instantaneous, be con-
srsrent, and be SURE!
Practice Makes Perfect
Some habits are learned almost in-
stantaneously, because they give a pleas-
am reward co the chi ld. Other habit s,
and usually the most necessary ones} take
a little longer.
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For example, the child of thr ee ro four
years of age may have great diffi cttlty
lacing his own shoes-tying them in
horrifying knots , or hardly tying them
at all. However, at the age of five or six
he may he tying them smoothly and with
seemingly no effort . This is as a result
of literally hundreds of experiences with
tying and untying his own shoes. It is
the constant practi ce which has made
him finally efficient in tying his shoes.
If we want a child to hold his spoon
correctly, tie his shoes correc tly, walk,
stand or sit correctly, should not this
same desire project itself into all pha ses
of life? Your chi ld can be taught ro
pract ice right habits.
It is practi ce, in the rigbt habits,
which will bring about perfection. Thus,
teaching a child to open or close a door
softly and correc tly several t ime! in a
few minutes will begin to instill in him
the right habit of always openi ng and
closing the door correctly. Teaching him
to go to the bathroom to wash his
hands and face pri or to eating as a very
young child will instill in him such a
habit of doing this that it will carry
over into all his adult life!
You may have heard it said that chil-
dren coming from a large family are
usually more generous as adults. Why
is thi s? Simply because they wer e forced
through environmental circumstances to
learn to share as a very young child. They
had to share their toys, bedroom, dinner
table, games and, oftentimes, even cloth-
ing.
Ha bits From Satisfaction
The more pleasurabl e an experience,
the quicker the child will form a habit
of repeating the experience. Thus, the
tiny baby, when accidentally finding its
own thumb, begins to suck. This thumb-
sucking brings about a feeling of solace
and comfort which is immedi ately pleas-
urable to the child. Only one or two
times, and a fullfl edged habi t of thumb -
sucking is acquired! But this is a bad
habit, and should be br oken as early as
possible.
Some modern chi ld psychologists ad-
vocate allowing a child to suck his thumb
up unt il ages of five and six or even
seven! However, acquir ing the proper
type of nightti me covering, and dealing
with the problem firmly and diligentl y
The PLAIN TRUTH
dur ing the daytime will soon break the
child of thi s undesirable habi t-which
could, cont rary cosome popul ar opi nion,
cause sligh t damage to the gums and
even pr otruding front teeth! By using
a zipper-type sheet at night, wher e the
child's hands are nor allowed to come in
COntact with his mauch, thi s bad habit
is soon brok en.
Obviously, since a child learns much
more rapidly if the experience can be
made pleasurabl e, the probl em arises as
to how to make the desirable habit s
more pleasurable.
"Only when some success is at-
tained does the child have a feeling
of satisfaction , A few words of
praise given now and then for his
somewhat bungling attempts will
often do more toward helping a
child acquire a desirable habi t than
any amount of unf avorable com-
ment s. To point our a child's mis-
takes rath er than his successes, in
other words, is to set up in his
mind an unpleasant association wi th
the desired act. The wise parent
who wishes his child to learn to
lace his shoes will compli ment him,
even though he occasionally misses
a hole or falls short of the adult
Standard" (p. 86, Childe are and
Training, Faegre and Anderson ).
Parents who show only disgust at the
mistakes of their child ren, are present -
ing a very di fficult barrier to the forma-
tion of right habits.
These are so many and so vari ed that
only a few repr esent ative ones may be
given here. However, if the prin ciples
outl ined in thi s series are applied in in-
divi dual cases, there are many hun-
dreds of right habits whi ch may be ac-
quired without roo great difficulty. And,
whatever the difficult y-the result s are
well worth it!
Personal Cleanliness
Per haps some mothers make a "fetish"
out of personal cleanliness, always to be
seen chasing their child about with a
damp washcloth, and always horrifi ed
if they become the slightest bit dirty.
Th is is an extreme; bur never theless, per
sonal cleanliness should be early instilled
in the child as a habit .' Obviously, this
can only be don e, if the parent, in the
beginning, keeps the child meti culously
March, 1962
clean at all times.
It is cert ainly unattractive and dis-
gusting to see a child whose nose is al-
ways running, whose face and hands are
always grimy, whose hair is never
combed, and whose clothes are in a dis-
orderly stat e.
Jesus said "Ye shall know them by
their frui ts!" Our children are our fruit s!
-and you may be sure that where an
unclean child is seen, there is an unclean
p3.rent respon sible for it.
If children are al way! made to clean
up immediately upon coming into the
house after play, if they always are made
to wash and comb prior to each meal,
if the first thing they do upon arising is
to wash, comb their hair and br ush their
teeth, they will learn the habit of per-
sonal cleanliness very early. later, in the
early school years, when it becomes a
mat ter of personal self-discipline, you
will find you have a child who is acutely
aware of personal hygi ene and cleanli-
ness.
Teach Your Child ro Eat
What Is Set Before Hi m
Prepare balanced meals, and give your
child only what you feel he will be able
to eat! Then, always be sure, unless there
is some extreme case such as sickness,
that your child eats everything that is set
before him.
Frequentl y, parent s who express dis-
gust at a certain vegetable in the pres-
ence of their children find their children
form a "dislike" for that particular vege-
table. Remember, your child learns by
association! He learns by your example.'
As already outlined, spanking may be
used to teach the child to eat all that is
set before hi m, or deprivation of a re-
ward, such as letting the child go with-
Out his dessert, will somet imes gain the
desired results. Na ture will not let the
child storoel Sometimes, mothers feel a
child who is made to go without a meal ,
will "starve to death! " Th is is simply
untrue-and even spinach will acquire
a peculiarl y interest ing taste if the child
gets really hungry!
Teach Your Ch ild to COME
When He Is Called
Never, at any age, is there an excuse
for children to run away from their
parents, or to disobey when told to come
Mar ch, 1962
when called! Don' t EVER let your child
become like the "average" l 8-momher
described already who, when "asked to
' come here, dear' . .. either Stands still
or runs in the opposite direction" ( p.
22, Chi ld Behavior, JIg and Ames ) ,
Instead, as your child learns how bet-
rer to walk, begin to reach him how to
come whe n he is called. Make your com-
mands sbort and ro the point ! "Come
ro daddy!" "Corne co mama! " or, simply
using the word "Come!" is ample for an
18month child.
Obviously, the firsr time you call, the
child will nor understand what you
mean, and probably will nor come. This
should be accompanied, then, by placing
the child squarely in front of you when
he firsc learns to "toddle around," back-
ing away from him a few feer co a chair
or convenient place, and then accom-
pallJitl g his toddling coward you wirh
rhe words "Come!" or "Come ro daddy!"
I n rhis fashion, as alr eady outlined, the
child learns by association that coming
in your direct ion is the result of hearing
rhe command "Come!" Later , as he in-
creases in abi lity ro walk, rry calling him
even if he is walki ng in the opposite
direction. Ar first, when he doesn't Im-
mediarely rum around and come to you,
go co him, pick him up and rum him
around, then back away and repeat the
comma nd-holding our your hands. You
will find the careful reperi rion of thi s
practice wi ll soon instill the habit of
corning wben called in your child.
If the child beg ins to think it is all a
game, and laugh ingly runs in the ot her
direction. what shall you do? Mosr par-
ents would probably "hate like every-
thin g" co punish rhei r child at this junc-
ture, because rhey would simply reason
to rhemselves "bur he thinks I' m just
playing! "
That's jWI i l ..' How is he EVER going
to find our you are NOT playing- if you
don't tescb him?
In the fashi on already out lined, give
the command "come here!" If the child
runs in the ocher direcrion-run [Q him,
spank him by a few firm swats, enotlgb
t o be felt. Don' t just mildly surprise
he child! Place him squarely in his
tracks, facing in rhe same dir ection in
which he was going, Retire to t ~ ~
same positi on in which you were when
you made the original command. Re-
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peat rhe command. This time, the
chances are, he will come [Q you when
called. If he does not, repeat the same
procedur e again-and again- and agai1l
- UNTI L the child has t hor01l ghly 1In
de rnood whar is requ ired of him, and
has begun [Q come at your call, regard.
Less of rhe direcrion in which he is head-
ed, regardless of what he is doing, re-
gardless of how fat away he may be.
Perhaps this sounds qu ite unnecessary
to some-bur ir is exceedingly remark-
able to note the scores of parenrs with
little chil dren today who couldn't get
their children t o come t o t hem when
,bey call if ' heir t'ery lives depended
upon ie! Seeing children run from their
parents in supermarkets, on the sneers,
in their homes, or anyi o bere, for that
matter, is JO comm on roday rhar one
wonders whether the modern world has
f orgot/en that learni ng to come when
called is one of the first things they
teach their dogs.'
Teach Your Child to LISTEN
to Your Instructi ons
Sounds simple? But it isn' t! Again,
NO child will EVER list en co his parents
unless he is TAUGHT ro listen! The par
cur who constantly says "Did you hear
me?" or, "Did you understand?' or,
"Pay arrention to mama!" is rhe parem
who has never learned to teach the child
to l.I STEN.
First grade teachers could form a veri-
rable army of witnesses co tell sur prised
parents how FEW children have EVER
learned co listen co instrucrions! Ir is
anot her of the beginning principles in
childrearing.
It is rruly amazing whar a few sharp
spankings will accomplish to improve
a child's hearing! If your child does not
seem co bear you when you call, or his
mind wanders when you are instructing
him, or he pays no attentio n to you-
the followi ng measures should be ap-
plied: Speak only once. Speak suffi -
cientl y audibly so that you are Jure your
child ( if he has normal hearing, which
we are assuming, since we are deal ing
wi th the "average" case) can hear you.
In rhis way, you will be assured ar the
outset his lack of arrenriveness is nor
due to a fault on )'Oll r pan. If he doesn't
hear you, simply go [Q him and app ly a
sharp, bur comparat ively mild, spanking!
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Explai/l to the child he did not list en
co you-and tell him to be more atten-
tive nexr time!
Apply the proper methods of positive
teaching, followed by swift, never -fail-
ing and loving punishmem for infrac-
rions! I n thi s manner, you will break the
bad habit of not list eni ng CO parent al in-
structions and admonit ions, and insrill
the GOOD habir of always listening at-
remively co rhe parent. In this fashion,
whether your child is playing, or en-
gaged in some pursuit which calls for his
undivided arrenrion, he will, neverthe-
less, always, "have one ear tuned' co rhe
voice of his parent!
This is anorher point ar which many
parents fail-simply because rhcy are
never sure their child really COULDhave
heard them! Use wisdom! If your child
is outdoors, and banging on a tin pan
or playing noisily with rays, the chances
are you should nor even attempt to call
loudly from in the house, unless ther e
is an open window very near the child's
play area. Rat her, you should go to a
place where the child can l ee as well as
HEAR-and then call your child or give
whatever insrcucrions or teaching you
wish.
I know of a case where a parent
was finding herself calling repeatedly
for her son. He had a back-yard "prcj-
ect " involving his pets, and was invari-
ably "busy" and "occupied" with them,
He apparently didn't hear the calls of his
parems. He was reminded ro listen care-
fully, and sternly admonished. Nexc
time, he still didn't come. He was firmly
spanked for ir! The next day, he came
to the door several ti mes when his moth-
er HADN'T CALLED, saying "Mom, did
you call me?" Does this illustrat e the
point? Always be Jure any normal child
couldn't help but hear, and THEN, if the
child does nor respond, apply the lesson
unt il he does learn co respond.
Teach Your Child How to Answer
His Parents
Remember , one of the greatesr lessons
any of us can learn is a deep inner sense
of respect for aut hori ty! One of the
armbures of those whom God says are
rebellious 10\\ ard authority is thar they
"despise dominion, and speak evil of
dignities!" (Jude 8 ) , NOt only do many
children "speak evil of dignities" today,
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but millions are allowed to "sass" their
parent s, to talk back, to say "Yeah!" or
"Naw!" to parenta l quesnons or com-
mands! God says:
"Children, obey your parents in the
Lord: For this is right.
"Honor thy father and mother ;
which is the first commandment
with promise ;
"That it may be well with thee, and
that thou mayesr live long on the
earth." ( Eph. 6:1 -3) .
We should show honor and respect
toward God by addressing Him as "Our
FATHER." We are told to "stand in awe
of Him!" and to approach Him with
dignity and respect, calling upon Him
by the use of the titles of Hi s OFFICE!
We are co call upon Jesus as " LORD! "
Lord simply means, translated: "Mas-
ter," "Boss" or "Ruler!"
In like fashion, children should be
taught co look up to the office and au-
thority of their parents! JUSt as toe are
co LOVE Almighty God wit h our whole
heart, our mind, our 'Ver)' beings, and
Jet sboio respect-so will the child who
truly LOVES his parents be able to ex-
perience an even [uller love if he is also
taught a deep inner sense of respect
coward his parents . This may be evi-
denced in the manner in which the
child answers the parents .
It is neither "old-fashioned" nor
wrong to teach children to say "Yes,
sir!" or "Yes, ma'am!" to their parents.
Teaching the child to say "Yes, father"
or "Yes, mother" may sound, perhaps,
a little coo laborious and lengthy-and
the same purposes may be achieved by a
simple "Yes, sir" or "No, ma'am." My
child invariably answers me with a "Yes,
sir" or a "No, sir" and, in looking back, I
can recall having to apply a t'erl' mild
spanking on only ONE occasion in his
ent ire life to instill in him this habit.
It was simply a matter of the positive
teaching. He was tangbt how co answer.
You should begin at a very early age,
when a child is first learning co put
together simple phra s-s-c-learning co
talk. When asking a child a question,
such as "Did you have a good time to-
day>," il rhe child says "y-e-e-c-es-
then you should say: "Say, 'Yes, sir!' "
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and have your child repeat this a few
times. As a result of diligent teaching
in each instance, within JUSt a very few
days, or, at the most, a few week s-you
will have insti lled in your child a habit
which will last through the remainder
of his natural life! At age four, or five,
my boy was answering "Yes, sir" on al-
most every occasion. However, I began
to not ice frequent slips, and that he
would begin to drop off the "sir" on
occasion. I said: "Mark, you should al-
ways say 'Yes, sir; or 'No, sir; when
you talk to your daddy, or 'Yes, ma'am'
or 'No, ma'am' when you talk to your
mother. You have been slipp ing up on
this lately-and forgetting. I'm calling
this to your attention-now-to tell you
about it as a remi nder-so you won't
slip up on it in the future . If you do,
then I will have to give you a spanking
to help you remember-do you under-
stand?" "Yes, sir!" answered my son.
However, true to form, he did forget
within a few hours, or days-I don't
remember now, At any rate, true to my
promise, I did spank him for it! I don't
believe I swatted him more than four
or five times. He tearfully apologized,
and I put my arms around him and
loved him, telling him I was giving him
the spanking merely to help him remem-
ber-and that he sometimes needed this
help as a pare of his positive teaching-
so he wouldn't forget! He now has a
deeply engrained habit which I doubt
anyone could break-a right habit of
showing respect, not oul'J' toward his
father and mother-but coward all
adults!
Teach Your Chi ld to Peclorm
Cer tain Defini te Tasks
At a ! )C'YY early age, children may be
taught to put up their own toys, fold
and hang up clothing, help make their
beds, dean up after themselves in the
bathroom, or do ocher simple tasks about
the house or yard. This is not with the
aim of acquiri ng cheap labor about the
home-far from it! It is with the goal in
mind of reaching your child one of the
mast important lessons of life, which,
simply stated, is this: TO DO WH AT HE
IS TOLD TO DO-WHEN HE IS TOLD TO
DO' IT!
By constantly teaching your child to
perform certain tasks about the home,
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you are instilling several habits within
him at once. The habit of obedience; of
nearness; of cleanliness; of listening to
parental instruction; of answering cor-
rectly; and that of performing definite
tasks are all involved in this procedure.
At first, you will need co "spell out"
exactly what is expected of the child.
For example: With your child, bend
over and pick up one of his toys. Hand
it co him, and then, take him by the
hand, show him the proper place for
the toy. After you have done this a few
times, then you may have him pick it
up and carry it to its proper place un-
aided. After a few times, giving simple
instruct ions all the while, you will find
that your chi ld is able to pick up an
object from one part of the house, and,
progressively, going through several
rooms, pull open the right drawer and
pUt it in its proper place,
There are two different kinds of
"good housekeepers!" The one type is a
wonderful worker, accomplishing monu-
mental tasks in a short period of time,
and, by 10 or 11 o'clock in the morni ng
always seems to have a spotless home!
The ocher kind seems to breeze through
her work with consummate ease-never
struggl ing too hard, never doi ng such
mcnumenral tasks, and yet always keep-
ing a neat and spotlessly clean home,
\"{l hat are the differences between the
two? The one probably has ill trained
and unclean children- and is living in a
family which never PUtS up anythi ng
after it is used. The other simply never
allotos the house to become dirty in the
first place! Her children are following
the good examples and careful teaching
of the parents-they're' putting things
away in their proper places.
As your child gets to the age where
he can understand more than one simple
instruction at a t ime, begin to link to-
gether (WO or even three simple instruc-
tions. For example, say, "Johnnie, pick
up these toys and take them to your
room-and put them away in thei r
proper place. Then, bring daddy his
slippers from his closet." Be slow and
definite in your instructions. In this
fashion, going to his room, and then
relating the putting away of one or
two objects with the obtaining of an-
other, you have begun to teach your
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After the manner of Egyptians, the
Isra elites wept and wa il ed all night
because of those who had been killed
tr ying to reach Canoan.
(fte J!ible Story
by Basil Wolverton
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
REBELS CHALLENGE GOD'S GOVERNMENT
I E REBELS who had escaped the Amalekite ambush were a pitiful sight in-
deed.
"You who have been spared," Moses told them, "should thank God that He
chose some to be able to return here so that the rest of us can be reminded what
can happen to people who don't have God's protection. Otherwise, you would now
be captives or dead."
As was common with the Egyptians and not uncommon with the Israelites, there
was much weeping and wailing and loud expressions of sorrow and regret the rest
of the night. A parr of the people seemed
to be getting a picture of how bleak and
uncertain their lives would be without
God's guidance and protection.
The cloud and the pillar of lire were
not removed, because it wasn't God's in.
renrion to entirely forsake Israel. ( Deu-
teronomy I : 31-33 and Nehemiah 9: 19-
21. )
It was a case of the Israelites break-
ing their agreement with God, which
meant that God was no longer hound to
give them the help, guidance and pro-
tection that He had promised to give if
they would obey Him.
A man was reported to be spending
the Sabbath gathering wood for his
fire.
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From then on for nearl y forty years God decided rhe movements of Israel by
such rhings as the lack of abundance of water, the pr esence or absence of grass for
their anima ls, the state of health of the people and many other factors.
They camped at Hor-hagidgad only long enough to lick the ir wounds and then
cont inued southward throug h several more stoppi ng places to a SpOt called j orbarhah,
( Numbers 33 :32-33.) From there they moved on south to Ebronah, and from
Ebronah they journeyed once ~ g a i n back into the desert area west of the northern
tip of the Gulf of Aqaba and northeast of Mt. Sinai. This was the area where, on
their way north from Mr. Sinai, so many of them had complained so harshly against
God. ( Numbers 11: 1-3. ) They had said that they would rather die there than go
on. This was the place where a great part of them would eventually die.
Sabbath Broken Again
Fall had arrived, and the nights in the desert were becoming colder. Campfi re
material was rather scarce. For some, the collecting of fuel was fast becoming a
full -time job. The people had to go farther and farther out from the camps to obtain
it if they stayed in one spor very many days.
,
One Sabbath a man was seen spending the day busily gathering dried sticks
and branches far out side the camps. Most
Israel ites respected the Fourth Command-
ment and feared to labor on the Sabbath.
Thinking that perhaps the man wasn't
aware that it was the sevent h day of the
week, a few people went out to warn him.
"I don't care what day it is!" the
man growled, hardly looking at them. "I
worked all week getting food for my
family and animals. There wasn' t time to
gather fuel , and so I have to do it now.
If God wants me to get all my work done
before the end of the week, He'll have to
add more days to it. Meanwhil e, I'm not
going to JUSt sit in my tent and twiddle
my thumbs JUSt because some fancifull y
robed pr iest says it's wrong to suppOrt my . -*- ---,
famil y on the Sabbath!"
This matt er was reported back to
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camp. Before long two officers went Out to talk to the man.
"You are an evil example to others," rhe offi cers told him. "People who see
you freely laboring all Sabbarh without instant punishment mighr try to do likewise.
Then they would receive the punishment you will eventually receive."
The fuel gatherer glowered at the officers and swung his load of sticks from
one shoulder to the other.
"Why should I be punished for tr ying to keep my family warm?" he snapped.
"I can decide what is best for me and mine without any meddling from you or
God!"
This arrogant display of rebelli on brought on a hasty arrest by the officers, but
it was no small task to take the man back to camp. He struggled and fought and
cursed all the way.
When Moses was told of the marter, he wasn' t cerrain JUSt whar should be done.
Many Israelites had secretly wished the Sabbarh were JUSt another work day. But
none of them so far had outwardly shown such strong feeling against God and
authority as this man had shown.
Moses knew that this matter would quickly become known by all the people.
He also realized that if they found that one could succeed in being so defiant about
breaking the Sabbath without quick and heavy punishment , numberless Israelites
might at tempt the same thing.
This was a problem Moses had to take to God. As usual, God quickly made
clear to Moses what was to be done.
Next morning, acting on orders from Moses, officers led the offender back into
the desert. A huge crowd silently followed, constantly enlarged by a flow of grim-faced
people who had heard what was going on. Acting on instructions from Moses, they
stripped the offender of his ourer clothes, then stoned him to death. ( Numbers 15:32 -
36.)
The apostle Paul explains in Romans 13: 1-7 that God ordained that criminals
be puni shed. God rakes no pleasure in seeing wicked men die ( Ezekiel 33: I I ), but
He knows that lawbreakers are better dead than left around to harm others or lead
others to do evil. God in His mercy sees rhat evil men are better off puni shed than left
alive making themselves and others miserable and unhappy.
Discontentment Grows Again
Not long after the Israeli tes left Kadesh, another wretched event took place that
resul ted in another great disaster. Thi s situation developed because a state of envy ex-
isted in the minds of some of the people who wanted to be priests or who wanted cer-
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rain of their friends to be priests and leaders instead of Levi's family,
Foremost among such men was a man named Korah, one of Levi 's great grand-
sons and a first cousin to Moses and Aaron. He strongly felt that he should have been
chosen for a high office. In fact, he had the idea that he should be in Moses position
as head of Israel. He was joined in this ill attitude by three Reubenires, Dath an, Abir-
am and On . They were of the opinion that Moses was favoring his family tOO much,
and was not pr operly distributing the offices of authority. These men thought all the
congregation should have a voice in government. ( Numbers 16: 1-3. )
For a long time these men had been seething with discontent and pl anning how
they could move in to take over the priesthood for themsel ves. This scheme aga inst
Moses was the same as scheming against God ( Numbers 26: 9 ), but these men were
desperate for power. Gradually they managed to persuade high-r anking Israelites that
their cause was right. Eventually two hundred and fifty Israelite leaders agreed to join
these influenti al, smooth-calking schemers in the hope that all would move int o high-
er rank with greater power and more income.
One morning when Israel was camping at a stopping place on the way south-
ward , all these ambitious men gather ed before Moses' tent. W ith Korah, their best
speaker and worst schemer, leading them, they came to demand of Moses that some
changes he made in the priesthood. When Moses was told that a crowd of high-
ranking men had come to demand some changes in government , he wasn't surprised.
He had sensed for weeks that this kind of trouble was brewing. Now, as he came Out
of his tent he expected to see on ly a handful of men. He was rat her startled to see
more than two hundred and fifty, and he was considerably upset to recogn ize so many
trusted men of high rank among those who now stood before him with unfri endl y
exp ressions. ( Numbers 16:2.)
"W hy are you her e?" Moses asked.
Korah \X'ants More Authority
"\X'e are here because we believe you are taking on too much power for one
man," Korah answered. "You and your pr iests act as though you are hol ier than any
of the rest of us. If we are God 's chosen peop le, then till of us are hol y. Th at means
that all of us have equal rights in matters of government. However, you use your
aut hori ty to put men who are your friends in the best positions in government.
( Verse 3.) We demand that you yield some of those offices to the congregation so
we can choose our own officia ls:' Korah , being a good speaker, knew he could be elect-
ed to a high office if the people were allowed to choose their own leaders.
\X'hat Korah reall y was after was complete control of all Israel. Leaders of
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nat ions have always been the objects of envy by greedy men. Seizing leadership has
always been a selfish, bloody game, with the greatest losers generally turning out to
be the citizens. Even Israel, God's chosen nation, wasn't free of this kind of ambitious
trouble-makers.
Moses was shocked by this blunt demand from Korah. He could see that the men
weren't just bluffing. It was plai n that they were will ing to go to extremes to gain
what they had set out to do. Setting armed soldiers on them would only mean blood-
shed. Besides, mosr of the Israelites would sympat hize with victims of the soldiers,
since they were popu lar, well-known leaders, and the situarion would become worse.
\Xl ithollt even goi ng hack into the privacy of his tent , Moses knelt forward with
his head to the ground and asked God for help. A few of those assembled became
uncomfortable as they stood in the presence of a humble man call ing on his Creator
for aid. They included On, one of the Reubenites. He wanted no more of the mat ter,
and slipped alit of the scene. Other onlooke rs merely smiled at what they considered
an attempt by Moses to gain their sympathy by appea ring pitifu lly pious.
"This is no time for a show, Moses!" Korah called out . "Stand up and explain
why at least some of us shouldn't be pr iests in place of some of those who are now in
service merely because it was your whim to put them there." Korah , a Levire, al-
ready had a high office, but he wanted an even highe r office- rhe priesthood that was
given to Aaron. ( Verses 8-11.)
Moses slowly came to his feet. Those who watched him couldn't know that
God had JUSt inspired him to know what to say. Ignoring Korah, Moses addressed
Darhan and Abiram.
Moses Tries to Save Rebels
"Before you carry this ma tter further, let us discuss it In my tent," Moses said,
thus giving them an opportunity to separate from Korah.
"There is no reason to tal k with you," Dathan and Abiram replied. "We refuse
to listen to your excuses for leading us from the good land of Egypt and into a desert
where we are to die. Your only aim has plai nly been to control the people, no matter
what becomes of them." (Ve rses 1214.)
These unt rut hful charges upset Moses. He was tempted to summon soldiers to
slay every rebel before him. But he knew this was not according to God's plan of
dealing with them, and he controlled himself.
"You have started somethi ng you will have trouble finishing," Moses declared
to Korah in a voice that reached the whole crowd. "Your belief that just anyone can be
in the priesthood without being ordai ned by God is not a true one. However, if all
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"You have purposely led us out into
the desert to di e!" Dathan and Ab iram
accused Mos es .
Rebels Chall enge Moses
Next morning the crowd of two hundred and fifty, plus Kora h, Dathan and
Abiram, appeared before the tabernacle. Every man carried a censer filled with hot coals
to show his readiness to go at once into priestl y service. Korah had spread the word
throughout the camps that he was going to challe nge Moses, and that there would
be a showdown to free the people from what was wrongfu lly referred to as Moses'
unfair leadership. As a result, a growing crowd of curious people built up behind Korah's
of you insist on trying to force your way
into such offices, every one of you should
be here tomorrow morning with incense
and with a censer filled with hot coals.
Aaron and his sons will also be here with
their censers, God will make it known
which ones he will choose as priests and
theit helpe rs." ( Verses 4-7.)
Korah smiled when he heard this.
He lacked respect for God, and he felt
that he had bluffed Moses into giving in
to the extent that he and his foll owers
could gain a foothold in wresting power
from Moses.
men.
Moses came out to face Korah. \'{'ith him were Aaron and Aaron's sons, all of
whom held censers with hot coals. The elders of Israel were also present.
There were minutes of strained silence. God hadn't told Moses what to do be-
yond asking the men to show up with censers. Moses didn't know what would happen
next, bur he was certain that God would somehow make it very clear which group
would be in power from then on.
Suddenly there was a brill iant flash from the tabernacle, followed by a second
and a third . It was plain to most that God was in the tabernacle. (Verse 19. ) Some
of them drew back, fearful of what might happen. Even a part of Korah' s followers
appeared to be ready to leave, but Korah told them to stand firm. Korah had become
so rebell ious that he actua lly doubted that God would hinder him and his men from
gaining leadership of Israel, and the blinding display of light from with in the taber-
nacle didn' t move him from his ambition.
Real izing thar God wanted to give them some message, Moses and Aaron stepped
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away from the ochers and approached the tabernacle.
"Remove yourselves and the priests and elders from these people who face you,"
God commanded in a voice that only the two men could heat. "I want you at a safe
distance because I intend to wipe all the others Out of existence!" ( Verses 20-21. )
Moses shuddered at this alarming rema rk from God. The Creator had threatened
to do the same thing before, but Moses had begged him not to, and God answered
Moses' prayer. There was not hing to do now but again ask God to spate the peop le.
Moses and Aaron bowed down in fervent ptayer.
"Look at him! " Kor ah exclaimed to those about him. "He's trying again to gain
the sympathy of the people by appearing pious!"
On the cont rary, Moses wasn't concerned at that moment what the people thought.
He was concerned fat their lives, and he pleaded with God not to be angry with many
people because of the evil deeds of a few. ( Verse 22.)
God Spa res the People
"I shall do this much," God said, "I shall spare the congregation if you can suc-
ceed in gett ing the people back to their homes and away from the tents where Korah,
Dar han and Abiram live. Any who go near the homes of those three men will risk
losing their lives."
Encouraged by this merciful statement from God, Moses sent his officers out to
warn the crowd to break up and return to their tents, and not to go near the tents of
Korah, Abiram and Dathan. Slowly and a bit unwillingl y the people saunt ered away.
"You said that God would choose His priests if we would assemble with
censers," Korah called out to Moses. "You have only proved to the people that you are
not a man of your word, because noth ing has happened. Tomorrow we shall return.
The people will think this matt er over, and tomorrow they will be ready to back us
up in what should be done about your authority,"
"You should remember this in the meantime," Moses replied. "If you live till
tomorrow, then you can know that I will not cont inue to be the leader of the Israel-
ites."
This strange remark was ignored by Korah, Darhan and Abiram , who returned
to their respective homes, which were close toget her on the south side of the Taber-
nacle. ( Numbers 2 : 10 and 3:29.) Kor ah felt that he had made another successful
step, and that it would be only a matter of a day or tWObefore the mass of Israelit es
would swing over to his side. As for his two hundred and fifty followers, they also left
and went back to their various camps.
Later , Moses and Aaron and the elders went to make certai n that people were
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not congregated around the homes of the
three main offenders. They found their
residences free of visitors, which was as
God wanted it to be. Moses then warned
them that because they persisted in a
scheme to take over the government, God
would cause the ground to open up and
swallow them. (Verses 23-30 .)
Dathan and Abiram came our of
their tents, along with their wives and
children, to hear what more Moses had
to say.
"Now he's trying to threaten us with
an earrhquake," Dathan scornfully shoured
to Abiram. "Can you think of anything
more fantastic?"
'Til believe it only when it happens
-and maybe not even then," Abiram
shouted back with a grin.
Too Late to Repent!
"We have given these men fair warn-
ing," Moses said to those with him. "Per-
haps God would spare them if they would
repent, but since they refuse to repent, it's
obviously tOO late now. Ler us leave here
before something dreadful happens."
Almost as soon as their backs were
turned there was a growing rumble from
within the Earrh. The ground trembled,
then heaved upward directly between the
tents of Abiram and Dathan and the tent
of Korah, which was close by in another
camp!
IT o be continued next issue)
Korah smiled to hi mself , certain that
he was well on the way to ta ke over
the lea der shi p of Israel.
The ground near the tents of Korc h,
Dothan and Abiram began to heave
upward!
Here are his own words:
"The problem we faced was not the
histori an's discovery of the truth, the
whole truth and noth ing bur the truth;
the problem instead was the formulation
of an adequate gloss. .. _
"It was not that we were engaged in
formu lating lies; there was nothing as
crude and naive as that . But we were
using fans, emphasizing facts, bearing
down on facts, slidi ng off facts, quietly
ignoring facts and, above all, inter-
preting facts in a way to . . . 'get by . . .' ..
the segregation issue ( italics mi ne ).
This candid admission of Dr . Alfred
H. Kelly stri kes at the heart of [he prob-
lem! Many times educators and mi n-
iscers and wri ters of rexebooks are con-
fronted with the conflict between truth
and the beliefs and ideas of the society
around them. If they are to be accepted
by [he people, [hey must conf orm-by
rejecting part of the trut h!
Of course they use Iacrs-c-bur how
they use those faccs-which faces they
use, which facts they ignore or reject
and the interpretati on they place on the
facts-that is the crux of the problem!
Trapped in the vicious whirl of in-
tellectual pressures like so many ochers,
Dr . Kelly, professor of history at Wayne
State Univ ersity, admitted he was forced
unwittingly to face the question of
wheeher he would compromise his con-
science in a legal case that was to come
up before the United States Supreme
C OUrt. He report ed to fellow historians
on December 28, 1961. that he was
asked [Q pr oduce "a plausi ble historical
argument chat will justify . . " a certai n
particular enactment concerni ng publ ic
schools. "I was facing," he continued ,
"the deadly opposirion berween my pr o-
fessional integrity as a historian and"-
noti ce it !_ "a contemporary question
Time ro Think!
me.
You probably never stopped ro ques -
tion whe ther the ideas you were taught
are reall}' true, have you? How many
of you have ever considered WHY your
parent s were taught and believed dif-
ferent ideas than you have accepted?-
and WHY your children are being taught
something different than the "facts" you
were taught in school to accept as true?
It is high time we took stock of the
ideas put Inro our minds. Few people
really know how they came to believe
the things they do-and fewer st ill know
how their ideas originated! You would
be shocked if you knew! I was, when I
heard ir openly discussed a few weeks
ago.
A[ the end of December each year
many of the men and women who ioi-
mulate our thinking assemble in con-
ferences. These professional people-
teachers, mini ster s, historians, scient ists
- belong to vari ous Learned Societies
whose function is to prepare new ideas
[Q shape educati onal and relig ious in-
nrucrion. I had agai n this year the op-
ponunity to meet with four of these
Learned Societies. Whar I heard shocked
Y
OU would be shocked to hear whar
scientists, historians, theological
professors con'[ess t o each other
about the ir own professions. We prob-
ably have assumed ever since we began
school that historians and men of sci-
ence know how man originated, why
man is here and where man is goi ng.
Or at least they write as if they know.
But when pinned down, they pr ivate-
Iy confess they really do nor know-
they have been guessing!
Historians confess:
"We were NOT
seeking the whole truth!"
Much of what you were taught IS NOT TRUE! You ;ust t ook
it for granted-because you were t old it was true! Read
here what professionals admit about " facts" t hey t each.
by He rma n l. Haeh
What Hi storians Confess
In tcday's society we are taught to
accept whatever the "aut hori t ies" say or
writ e. "They know," we are told! "They
have the facts!"
But do they?
Here is what one famous histori an-s-
Hendr ik Van Loon-dared confess in
his book Story of Mankind, written for
the layman: "We live under the shadow
of a giga ntic question mark. What are
we? W here did we come from? Whither
are we bound?" he asks.
And his answer : "We still know very
little but we have reached the point
where ( with a fair degree of accuracy)
we can GUES S at many things,"
GUESS at ma ny th ings! It is these
guesses that have masqueraded as fans
- that we have been taught to assume
as proven and true!
Whar you probably did nor know is
that histori ans and scientists know that
they have been interpreting- guessing
about-the facts they find. Here is what
Professor Kelly acknowledged at the
annual meet ing of the Ameri can His-
torical Associati on on December 28
( and reported in [he Feb. 5 issue of
U.S. News & World Report"} :
"History is an as well as fact; ever y-
one in this room knows that the [acts
do not automati cally arrange tbemselves
witbont the historian's creati ve leap,
whi ch occur! i11 0 1(,f craft as tcell as in
the exact sciences . . : ' ( italics ours ).
TIle tr agedy is that most have leaped
in the wrong di recti on!
But this is nor all that Professor
Kelly revealed. To his fellow professors
he disclosed how he had been asked ro
use his histor ical knowledge to draw
up [he case for [he NAACP which
brought abour the Supreme Court de-
cision to order desegregation.
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of values, of ideal s, of policy, or par-
tisanship and of poli tical objectives. I
suppose if a man is without scruple,"
he noted as a concluding thought, "this
matt er will not bother hi m, but I am
frank to say that it bother ed me terri-
bly.. . : .
What a tragedy! A man forced to
make a deci sion between historical truth
and the whi ms, the false ideas, the po-
liti cal part isanship of society!
" Anything hut Historical Truth!"
After days and nights of hard labor,
Dr. Kelly finished a lengthy document
to be pr esented to the hig hest court of
the land. "I am convi nced now that this
interpretati on, wh ich we hammered Out
with anything but historical truth as our
obieaioe, nonetheless cont ains an essen-
tial measure of hi stori cal truth."
He was now convinced by hi s own
argument ! Th at is exactly how every
human mind works!
Thousands of educator s, scientists,
textbook writers and ministers have
faced similar situations-and finall y con-
vinced themselves they were just ified in
beli evin g what they had done. Bur even
here they privately and inwardly still
know that they hid their mind and con-
science from the whole truth. They kep t
JUSt enoug h facts to make an argument
appear as truth-when it was only a
half tr uth!
Th is world's enti re educa tional sys-
tem, its philosophy, its theological be-
liefs are all a strange mi xture of a few
facts woven over a mass of erro r to make
that error appear true . There are gener-
ally tWO reasons why we believe half
truths : 1) because we took them for
granted without questioning, or 2 ) be-
cause we want to believe what we wish
to! Educators call thei r theories "facts"
and their hypo theses "self-evident"
proofs. But that does not make them
tr ue.
In another mee ti ng of educa tors and
theologia ns in St. Louis, Mi ssouri, the
same problem confront ed the speakers.
How to jw ti fy their beliefs about Christ
when they did nor beli eve the facts
recorded in the Bible about Him, Their
answer was appalling,
Here were the gr eat theologians and
pr ofessors who teach the ministers what
to believe!
Tlu PLAIN TRUTH
Of the hi stori cal Jesus they admittedly
knew next ro nothing. The gospel
records they had quietly ignored. or in-
terpreted to suit their de nominat ional
bias. How, then , asked the editor of the
j ournal of Biblical Lit erature and Exe-
gesis, did we come to inher it so many
differ ing beliefs about the "Christ of
fai th"?
His answer- It was all added over the
centuries "rung by rung," It is only
"myth."
"MYTH"? Yes, MYTH! Thar was his
confession!
There was no other way for hi m to
expl ain so ma ny contradictory, non-
Bibl ical beliefs held by each sect about
the Chri st of faith .
"'Is it really true?' you will ask," con-
tinued editor Enslin. "Of course it is!"
These myths, he cont inued , that are
taught in Sunda y School , from the pul-
pi t, in theological seminaries, "are tr ue
and perpetually lovely. . . . Who would
deny they are true?"
And [hat was the only pr oof he cited
to justify modern rheology!
Why Not the TRUTH?
Isn't it time we faced the facts? Isn' t
it time we began to quest ion whet her
the ideas we were taught are true, in-
stead of bl indl y accepti ng myths?
In schools and colleges roday young
people are taught to accept what the
aut hor ities writ e. Evoluti on is taugh t
as if it were fact. Hi story is taught as if
it were true. Religion is taught- if at
all-as if it did nor matter wha t you
bel ieve and do, JUSt so long as it JatisfieJ
you. The Bible is usually assumed to be
myth and without authority. Where it is
discussed, passages are silently ignored
or interpreted to justify cherished ideals
people want to believe,
It is high time we recogni zed that
most so-called aut hori ties and learn ed
men do 110t even k,10Ul what tru th is!
Most of them refuse to admi t that there
is eternal truth. How, then, can they
ever find it since they would nor recog-
nize it if they heard it! They have reo
fused to ret ain God in their knowledge.
Th ey have rej ected His Word and sub-
sti tuted in its place myths of their own
invention!
You-and your children-are going
to be judged on what you do with your
March, 1962
mind and chara cter. Are you going to
fill your minds wi th myth , with hy-
potheses, with self-justificat ion? Or are -
you going ro admit it when you find you
have been wrong and have the character
to accept and do the tr uth when you
find it in your Bible?
Short Questions
{Continued from page 21)
brakes, ' ( Ex. 34: 1) .
Here God plai nly said He would
write them agai n.
Near the end of the 40 years in the
wildern ess, Moses rehea rsed in the ears
of the Israelites (he things God had done
for the m. In speaking of the great works
of God, Moses said : "These words the
Lord spake unto all your assembly in the
mount . . . And he (God) wror e them
in tWO rabies of stone, and deli vered
them unto men ( De ur. 5: 22 ). Those
were the first tabl es of stone, whi ch
Moses broke when he came down from
the mount and saw the people reveling
in idolatry. Moses then repeated to the
Israelites in Deuteronomy 10 :2,4 the
fact that God wrote the Ten Command-
ment s aga in,
G OD, not Moses, who wrote the Ten
Commandments bot h rimes and gave
them to all Israel. Those who claim that
Moses wrote the Ten Comma ndments
on the tabl es of stone are denying the
IFord of God!
KEY to Health
(Conti nued from page 18)
are combined-which are the more
widely published figures-this coumry
is still a littl e better off than Others.
Th e ques tion is how will this situation
develop in the future. Especially di s-
turbing is the increase in me ntal dise ases
in Ameri ca. I believe, and mos t phy-
sicians agree, tha t malnutrition is the
basic cause for ALL di sease! But mal-
nutrition is not primaril y inadequate
quant ity of food, but inadequate QUAL-
IlY!! In t hi s cOlmtry ure need t o b,
concerned solely wi th t he latter.
Lack of space requires tt S t o continue
t his Special Int erview next month,
GERMAN RATIONALISM
Exposed!
The " Dark Ages"
This kind of religion became of-
ficially accepted when Consta nt ine be-
came sole emperor of the Roman Em-
pire-in A.D. 323.
Th e heathen temples became the so-
called "Christian churches."
In [he "Dark Ages" which followed,
the Roman religion became sat urated
with licent iousness, corruption, and
debaucher y.
The insolence and tyranny of church
leaders, the crimes, ignorance, and moral
depravity of pr iests and monks made
men seek to reform this church- the
church they thought was the True
Church, [he church Satan had pal med
off as rhe True Church ( Mosheim,
p. 599 ).
The corruption and worldliness of
thi s church of rhe Middle Ages forced
men to accept as truth superstitious
beliefs and observances that would have
really perf ormed any divine miracles of
healing. He said the miracles of Christ
u'ere not real, bur were only symbolic
or allegorical. He said the miracle of
healing the: bl ind only meant that the
spiritually blind now saw; the mir acle
of healing the deaf only meant that
the spiritual/)' deaf now heard; the heal-
ing of the lame man that the heart of
the former heathen now leapt like a
dee r ( Hagenbcch, p. 80).
Because these philosophical scholars
were not performing any mi racles of
healing, they tr ied to RATiONALIZE
that these supernatural, divi ne mi racles
never really happened.
Understand then, that these early
"Ch urch Fathers" DECIDED that they
had the right to call whate ver phil.
osophical speculation, and whatever
heathen rite that seemed good to them
- the "truth of Jesus Chri st: '
The Facts of Hist ory
One of the early Cat holic Church
ph ilosophers was Clement of Alexan-
dria, Egypr . He said thar all Greek
philosophy [ arne from God ro man
( The Ant e.Nicene Fathers, vol. 2, p.
308 ) . He [aught [hat "PHILOSOPHY was
given to the Greeks as a school-master
to bring the Greek mind . . . to Chri st,"
and that Greek philosophy is now a kind
of training to bring men int o the chu rch
rhrough reason ( p. 305) .
These early church leaders actually
reasoned that to gai n salvation one mus t
study rhe PAGAN Greek phil osophers
( WHO THEMSELVES HAD REJECfED THE
TRUE GOD) !
They rat ionalized that it would be
"good " to substitute the worship of
Hallowe'en, Christmas, and Easter.
They reasoned that the holidays upon
which the PAGANS worshipped SATAN
would be "good" if [hey bur CHANGED
their NAMES and called them Christian
-c-rat her than PAGAN-which they
really are,
Origen rationalized that Chr ist never
ism.
Liste n! Here is amazing proof that t he God-rejecting theories
of Evolution, Nazism, and Communism were inspired by the
German Rationalists-and the shocking undercover plot they
are now perpetrating
by Lynn E. Torr ance
No wonder the German Rati onalist
Conrad Phili p Henke, the Professor of
l HEOLOGY at t he Un iversit y o f Helm-
stedr ( 1752-1809) , [aught his mi llis-
terial student s that the inspiration of
the Bible was superstition ( Hagen-
bach, History of Doctrines, p. 377) .
Rationalism is nor modern. The an-
cient Greeks had it. Th e early Catholics
accepted it from the Greeks, and the
Protestant Refor mers took it from the
early Catholic writers. From the Prores-
tam Reformers, the modern form of
Rationalism stems .
Let 's not ice, now, the astoundi ng
development of anci ent paga n ration-
alism int o mode rn German Rational-
W hat Is "Rati onali sm" ?
JUSt what is German Rati onal ism?
Hahn, a German Rati onalist , defined
Rat ionalism as "that manner of thought
by whi ch the huma n reason is consid-
ered to be the only source and the 0111y
judge of all kinds of knowledge" ( Ha hn,
De Rationalsmi, 1827) . In orher words
-e-whatcver seems reasonabl e to you is
right!
Thi s implicit belief in hu man rea-
son causes man to depend COMPLETELY
upon himself.
The Rati onali st exalts human reason
and declares that ol1ly through reason
can man find the answers to life . Th is
chi nking den ies the existence of Di vine
Revelation and the Truth of God 's
\'<ford. It even tries to do away with
God Himself.
G
ERMAN Rationalism has deceived
the ent ire modern western
world . This atheisti c phil osophy
has wormed its way into modern sci-
ence, education, and even int o modern
theology. Yet most educators and min-
isters do not know it!
It has filled. the chu rches wit h doubt-
lng skepricism abo ut the inspirati on of
the Bible, and even the ver y existence
of God. It has led this pr esent genera-
rion to "abandon reli gion as a basis of
life, and put irs confidence in science"
( Denver POst , J une 4, 1960 ) . It has
filled our schoo ls with the permissive
modernism that is fast making our peo-
ple a nation of rebelliou s cr iminals.
You need to know why thi s phil-
osophy has caused such famous men as
Dr. Schuberr ~ L Ogden, associate pro-
fessor of PHILOSOPHICAL theology at
Sout hern Meth odi st Uni ver sit y, to teach
his students that "the belief that only
in Jesus Christ can man find salvation
is MYTHOLOGICAL."
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horrified the apostles Peter and Paul !
The people of Europe began co cry
Out for relief from the political and
financial tyranny of Rome. Men like
\Vycl if, Huss, and Savanarola, who at-
tempted to reform the church from
withi n, were killed.
Revolt Against Authori ty
The principal cause of the Reforma-
tion was the obvious corruption of this
pagan church.
The Reformation was successful be-
cause by the time of Luther the power
of the Pope and the Holy Roman Em-
pire had declined, making it possible
for nationalis tic monarchs to oppose the
power of the Pope of Rome.
Most of the pri nces and nobility of
Protestant Europe backed the Reforma-
tion because they wanted to be free
from the authority of the Church
(Alzog, p. 202) . The Protestant revolt
gave them what they considered a good
excuse to plunder the monasteries and
the cathedrals of Europe in order to
enrich themselves.
Marcin Luther rebelled against doing
the penance and the ritualistic "works"
which the Catholic Church demanded.
He became obsessed with the idea of
gerring around any need for obedience
to these godless, pagan practices.
Then Marri n Luther let Saran de-
ceive him into adding a word to Ro-
mans 1: 17. He read, "the JUSt shall live
by fairh't-c-rhen rationalized that it
would be good to add the word
"ALONE." Lurher thought that the idea
of being saved by faith ALONE freed
him from the tyranny of the Catholic
Church. He merely replaced the au-
thority of the Catholic Church with his
otcn authority.
Rati on al ism in Protestantis m
The principle of Protestantism, the
belief in freedom to decide for yourself
whar is truth, differs very lit tle from
the phi losophy of Rationalism.
The Reformers tried to reject what
they believed to be error and superst i-
tion in the Catholic Church. They
espoused sets of doctrines which the
people would like and accept.
These philosophical attempts to re-
model doctrine, to reject the authority
of the Catholic Church, to reject God's
The PLAIN TRUTH
Tr uth and invent their own truth laid
tbe foundation for modem Rationalism.
Rationalism conti nued to develop, es-
pecially in Germany. German youths
who studied theology were not taught
co seek for Truth in the Scriptures.
They were taught that to the "faculty"
of reason belongs the privilege of de-
ciding man's religious faith and his
moral duty. They were taught to study
the writings of the founders of their
church and to accept whatever truth
seemed good to them.
Thus Rationalism continued to exalt
human reason and declared it sufficient
for all the necessities of life-the same
old rhing that Satan taught Adam and
Eve, "You can decide for yourself what
is good and what is evil; you can be
as God" (Gen. 3:4,5 ).
By palming off superstition as the
Revelation ~ f Jesus Chri st, Satan in-
stilled in thinking people a contempt
for God and the Bible. There is a reason
why Satan deceived his false church
inca teaching ridiculous superstitions
which it claimed to be both scriptural
and scientific truth, He knew that in
the latte r days, when knowledge in-
creased, the men of science would be
able to prove that these teachings of
the Catholic Church-assumed by rhe
public to be the teachi ngs of Christ-
were false.
He knew that when these scholars
proved these Catholic teachings to be
false, they would also assume the
SCRIPTURE was nor true either.
For example, Copernicus, in 1543,
rediscovered rhac the earth revolved
around the sun. Galileo and his tele-
scope confirmed this fact.
Bur the Catholic Church had claimed
as scriptural trut h the teachi ng of the
Egyptian monk, Cosmas Indicipleusres,
that the sun, moon, and stars were all
set in a canopy in the sky, and all re-
volved around the earth.
Pope Urban VIlI in 1632 tortured
Gal ilee until he "confessed" that he was
wrong and the earth was flat, and the
sun revolved around the earth (Schae1,
Hisioire de 14 Lineramre Grecque, vol.
vii, p. 37).
Men of learning found such ignorance
revolting!
The discovery of America by Colum-
bus and the voyage of Magellan (in
March, 1962
1519 ) around the world was a grear
shock to professing Christians who had
been taught that it was the revelarion of
Jesus Christ and Scripture that the world
was fiat. An nndercnrrent of skepticism
developed.
In the l Zth and 18rh centuries those
thinke rs who rejected Christian rheology
and the Bible were mainly influenced
by the inconsistencies, cont radictions,
and absurd superstitions preached in the
Middle Ages as the 'Truth of God."
Men of science soon made the teach-
ing of the Cathol ic Saine, Isidore, look
ridiculous. Isidore of Seville had given
the church the doct rine that "bees are
generated from decomposed veal, beetles
from horseflesh, grasshoppers from
mules, scorpions from crabs." He gave
as "proof" the Biblical account that
Nebuchadnczzar was changed into an
animal for seven years (A. D. White,
A History of the Warfare of Science
with Theology, p, 55) .
Men of learning naturally assumed
that Redi, who discovered that life can
come only from life, had disproved the
Biblical account, when actually all he
had dispro ved was the ignorant super -
stition of the Middle Ages. These new
rational ists never really looked into the
Bible for themselves!
Development of Germa n Rati onali sm
Germany became the first nation in
Europe to grant religious liberty. THIS
FACT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR RATION-
ALISM TO DEVELOP IN TH AT NATION
before it could in any other.
"Religious liberty" began in Germany
when the Thirty Years' War was ended
b)' rhe Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
It was left to the ruler of each Germa n
state to impose upon his subjects which-
ever of the three religions, Catholic,
Lutheran, and the Refor med Church
of Calvin and Zwingli, he chose.
More religious liberty was granted
in 1741 when Frederick the Great
wrote that everyone should be allowed
to get to heaven in his own way.
Then full religious liberty was gram
ed in 1794 when the Prussian Terri-
torial Code guaranteed the unrest nc rec'
liberty of conscience.
The huma n REASON was then al-
lowed full sway to attack what the
Rationalists called Christian myrhology.
German Protestants, whe n discording authority of Pope, opened floodgat es
fo r new e rro rs. German Rati onali sm re sulted. Her e photographed are a
few of tens of thousands which ha ve bee n w ritten to discredit ONE Book-
the Bible . Each of these modern criti cisms in tur n becomes outdated by
new speculation-but the Bibl e live s onl
Mar ch, 1962
The scholars deliberately tried to
methodically undermine the authoriry
of the Bible through histor ical criticism
- thinking this would do away with
the superstitions and corr uption of the
Cathol ic Church.
One of the first rationalists, \Y/olf, at -
tempted to estab lish a system of natural
religi on based on the principle of rea-
son-ent irely apart from revelat ion.
John David Mi chaelis (1 716-1791)
tr ied to explain the miracles of Chri st
in a natural manner ( Hagenbach, His-
tory of Doctrines, p. 367).
John Solomon Semler ( 1725-1791) ,
the Professor of Theology in the Uni-
versity of Hall e, represent ed the Sacred
Scriptures as being a local account of
local events.
He used the history of Catholic doc-
trines to show the changeableness of
the doctrines of Chri stianity ( Hagen.
bach, p. 368 ), and to claim these doc-
trin es therefore could nor be from God,
who being perf ect could never change!
John Frederic Gruner (1723- 1782 )
proved that the doctrines of rhe Catholic
Church never originated from the Apes-
colic Church, and that the doerrines of
the Aposrolic Chrisrianity had been ex-
changed at a very early date for the
Platonic-ori ental philosophy of the
Alexandrian school ( Hage nbach, His-
t ory of Doctrin es, p. 368).
Later archeologists and geologists
blindly accepted the rebelli ous conceptS
of this peri od.
Conrad Philip Henke ( 1752-1809 ),
the Prof essor of Th eology at the Uni -
versity of Helmsredr, raughr, bur could
not prove, that the belief in Christ and
the inspira tion of the Bible was super-
srition.
Emmanuel Kant tri ed to subject the
human understanding to what he called
"searching examination." He represent-
ed the existence of God and immortali ty
as the concoction of human reason
( Hagenbach, p. 378 ) .
Schleiermacher even said, "Life to
come ... as actually conceived, is the
last enemy which speculative crit icism
has yet to encounter, and if possible to
overcome" i Cbristl icbe Glanbenslebre,
vol. II. last section ).
The modern system of speculative
philosophy, as we know it in the United
States, first made its appearance in the
The PLAIN TRUTH
University of Berlin when Fichre was
the professor of phil osophy (l ived
1762-1814 ) . Fichre's ideas were ex-
panded by Hahn.
Hahn defined Rati onalism as "rhar
mode of thought by whi ch the human
reason is considered as the only source
and the onl y judge of all kinds of
knowledge:'
Von Behlers loudly claimed that all
the supernatural event s performed by
God conta ined in the Pentateuch are
Autobiography
(COt/t i t/lied from page 21)
enough . You usually do bett er."
Now I felt worse, I knew only roo
well how poor it was. BUt I had tried.
I had done the best I could. I just was
roo tired to be at my best. But there
was no time to do it over. I had to
rush it to the airport.
Bur what I had lacked in that pro-
gram, God more than made up. Thar
Sunday night God caused the weather
to be extra ordinaril y COLD-all avec the
continent. In Iowa it was one of those
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products of the imagination of unknown
authors! Bur he had no proof!
Finally Eichborn and Machaelis tried
to degrade the Bible to the rank of the
ot her oriental religious books.
Bnr how did German Rati onalism
worm irs way into roday's colleges and
schools and churches? \X!hat are the
new German Rationalists plorring today?
And what are our own Ambassador
Colleges doing about it ?
( To be continued next issue)
20belowzero nights, wirhour wind-
cold and st ill! That is the kind of
weather in which radi o waves radiate
wi th extraordi nary sharpness. That very
"poor" broadcast, as we thought when
recording ir, heard ar 11 p.m. in the
Cent ral time zones, at midni ghr in the
East, bro ught a total of TWENlY TWO
HUN DRED lett ers- two thousand two
hundred- 2,200!
I thi nk that was some kind of a na-
tional record for response to a half-hour
speech starring at 11 p.m. on one ste-
tion only.' That one pr ogr am brought
mail from every state in the Uni on!
After rhat phenomenal record-break-
ing response, my sorrow over having
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thought I di d poor work was turned co
real JOY!
Well, that was a record, never
equaled befo re or since in my expe-
rience. Of course, today, in 1962, we
do frequently receive more than 3,000
lette rs per DAY-we have been aver-
aging over 100,000 per month these
past tWO months-but that response
is now comi ng from scores and scores
of stations world-wide, and broadcast-
ing DAILY. Nevertheless, that will give
the reader some idea of the way the
mailing list had grown from \'V'HO
broadcasts.
Many thousands of lett ers went our
from Eugene to these listeners the
same day 1 dicrared the lette r by tele-
phone.
Door Stays Open
A few days later 1 arrived in Des
Moines. The cancellat ion had come, not
from Mr . Mailand, bur from the Sales
Manager. So 1 went first to his office.
He stared at me.
"Arc you the man who has been
flooding this stat ion with all these thou-
sands of lett ers of prot est agai nst can-
celling your program?" he Jemanded-
somewhat angrily, I thought.
"Why, 1 suppose so," 1 replied, rather
starrled. "Is that wrong?"
"\VRONG? \X! hy, man, don't you know
that showe ri ng such a downpour of
'inspired' mail on any rad io statio n is
the very last way to influence the sta-
tion? That kind of mail has no influ-
ence on us at all-but it is a mighty
big NUISANCE!"
"Well 1 didn't realize that," I re-
plied. "I thought you'd want to know
how our program was bei ng received
by listeners. 1 surely didn't mean any
offense."
"Well, let me tell you, Mr. Ar m-
strong, I certainly learned [hat lesson!
A while back we were appearing before
the Federal Communications Commis-
sion in \Vashington. Before I went
down [here, we pur out an appeal on the
air for our listeners to write to the
FCC. They did! And the officials of the
FCC did n't like it."
Well," I asked, "i f I had to learn
by experience, rhe same as you, and if
you made [he same mis rake I did, [hen
do you rhink you ought to blame me?"
The PLAIN TRUTH
Well , he had to laugh at rhat .
Nevertheless I found I was really on
the spor-e-and in trouble. I had not met
[his sales manager before. Because my
uncle had known [he General Manager
and ar ranged an appointment for me, 1
had transacted business wit h him. 1 saw
immedi ately [hal this sales manager was
a very able and comperenr man for that
job-undoubtedI}' very valuabl e to [he
station. Bur he did not like our pro-
gram. He didn't say why. And 1 rather
guessed [hal he felt I had taken mat -
ters over his head in going to [he gene ral
manager of [he stat ion. Furt her, he ex-
pla ined that very powerful pressure had
been brought on him from New York
against selli ng time commercially for
religious programming.
\Vc went imo Mr. Mailand's office.
1 learned that Mr . Mailand did like the
program, and sat up Sunday nights unt il
II: 30 so he could hear it. He was on
my side, but his sales manager, a very
aggressive man, was insistent the pro-
gram go off.
1 [hen explained to the tWO men our
own position-how we were a very
small church in Eugene, Oregon, and
how hundreds of people, mostly very
poor people on the \Xl est coast, had
made great sacrifice to finance our
broadcasting on this powerf ul stati on
heard nationally.
"Mr. Mailand,' I said, '1 signed a
year's contract with you. All these Co-
\Vorkers have backed me in good fait h.
1 signed [he cont ract in good faith. I
believed that )'011 signed it aha in good
faith, and that when you ope ned the
door of [his grea t station to us, and
signed a contract to keep it ope n for a
year, that WE COULD RELY ON YOUR
""ORO BEING GOOD. All these Co-Work-
ers have backed me for 5Y2 months
feeling [hat, in due time, a sufficient
number of interested listeners would
voluntar ily join them as Co-Workers
backing [his work financially to make
the broadcasting to all [he rest of the
natio n self-supporti ng. You know we
never request conrriburions over [he air,
or in any literature. If you cancel now,
YOU WILL CAUSE VERY GREAT INJ URY
TO US! You will have given us a YEAR'S
cont ract in which we trusted, and will
have taken thi s hard-earned money con-
rriburcd by all these poor people, and
Ma rch, 1962
BEFORE we have had a chance [Q be on
long enoug h to rel ieve those people of
thi s burde n. If you had told us you'd
keep the door ope n only 5Y2 mont hs,
we sure ly never would have signed the
COntract or starred-c-or have spent any
money wi rh you. Would you want to
INJ URE a Church by breaking your
cont ract?"
"'Veil, Mr. Armstrong, of course we
wouldn't. The way you pm it , you make
it mighty hard for me. \Viould you mind
if Mr. B. (the Sales Manager ) and I
talk this over privately a few moments,
to see what we can do?"
1 was shown to a reception room om-
side. 1 was alone there. So immediately
1 closed the door, and knelt before a
chair and appealed to the God of
Heaven. He had opened this giant
DOOR, He had said no man can shut
doors He opens. I asked Him to inter-
vene and save His wor k.
When I was called back to Mr . MaiI-
and's office, I ' .... as able to tal k to him
alone. He explained that he had opened
that time and signed the cont ract in
perfect good faith- that he liked our
program and was himself one of our
int erested listeners- that he cert ainly
di dn' t want to do us any injury-bur on
the other hand, he did n't want to lose
a very able and valuable sales manager.
"Mr. Armstrong," he said, "if we com-
promise by lett ing you fill OUt your
conrracr and complete the year, will that
give you time enough to become thor-
oughly established, and possibly to get
on other stations that will maintai n
your coverage ?"
Well , of course, 1 could not be sure,
bur it certainly would be a lot better
than stopping the broadcast right then.
Well, if [ leave The World Tomar-
r oll' on the station unt il [he year's con-
tract is finished , will you agree to go
off then?"
There was norhi ng else I could do
-I certainly had no conrracr beyond
that time. Reluctantl y 1 had ro agree
to this-and actually it was a tremen-
dous victory, after all.
We Goon WOAI
have ment ioned that there were, at
that rime, only eight stations in all
Amer ica which enjoyed absolute ly ex-
elusive channels. One other, which by
March, 1962
its locati on 1 felt mi ght have a better
chance of being heard nationally than
most, was 50,000-watt \X'OAI of San
ut ronio, Texas.
From my hotel I immediately called
Mr. Hugh Halff, manager of WOAI.
Did he have 11 p.m. Sunday nights
open-s-could he clear it if he fou nd the
prog ram acceptable? He could , but
would have to know more abour the
program, and aud iti on it.
I caught the next train for San An-
tonio. I thi nk Me. Hairr might have
called Mr. Mailand, when I told him
we were on \,\'HO. Anyway, he had no
objection to the program after listeni ng
to a tra nscribed broadcast, and the doors
of \'VOAI swung ope n to us. Th e ex-
pensc of adding this station 61;2 months
before gning off W HO gave us a right
squeeze, but it seemed imperative that
we: get Our liste ners established to lis-
teni ng to \'(fOAI before we Went off
\'VHO and lost them altogether.
And so, al though through the years,
the individual doors of some radio Sta -
tions have closed to us, the ge neral giant
DOOR of radio and the priming press
has never closed- just as Christ has
said tha t NO MAN CAN SHUT IT!
And every apparent set- back has
proved. like the cocki ng of a gun-it
actually resulrs in shooting us ahead
faster than ever!
There probably are no finer, higher-
prestige radio stat ions in the United
States rhan W HO and WOAl, bur co-
day The U" orld Tomorrow is heard
on mml)' stations of the same high
calibre and pres tige.
How we finally started dtlily broad-
casting NATIONALLY will be related
in the next installment.
Teach Chi ldren
Right Habits
(C011li,1Jied from page 32)
child how to accomplish certain definite
series of tasks-how to follow parenral
insr rucr ions!
As he grows older, you may increase
re instructions pr oportionately. Agai n,
these: may sound like simp le pri nciples
-yet (here arc litera lly uast bo-des of
parents who have never taken the ti me
Tb e PLAIN TRUTH
or the effort to reach their chi ldren how
ro respond to simple commands!
Th ere arc so many parents today who
are not qu ite sure their children "under-
nand" them that, perhaps, the following
type of situat ion occurs all tOO frequent-
ly:
A small gi rl was bei ng "brought up"
or perhaps it would be berrer ro say,
was being alloued t o grow liP the "per-
missive" way-the way MOST modern
child psychologi sts advocate.
Her famil y would be talkin g to guests,
and she would appear, beat ing loudly
on a ti n pan. Her mother would imper-
turbably smile and gcnrly say, "Joan,
dea r, take your pan into the ot her room,
darli ng, so we may talk... :' j oan wou ld
shake her head and cont inue drumming.
Her mother would rcpear the request,
co which the chi ld finally repl ied, "NO'"
( But isn't [his exactl y what the parent
should have expected, according to the
psychologi srs? ) "I want to play here!"
Th en followed a long discour se by
mot her, on the rights and desires of
ocher peopl e- how the "grownups"
want ed to visit, and would she please
be a "good girl " and leave the room?
To all this, Joan merely cont inued
shaking her head and drumming.
Finally, the mother arose, and led the
guests out on the patio, retr eati ng in
full flight, leaving littl e Joan in pos-
session of the field, clearly the victo r.
The mother murmured, as she left the
house, "I 'rn sorry, folks-but )'OU know
how it is-she's so littl e, and it's so
difficult for her to understand.. . ..'
How ABOUT IT? Is this the way you
want YOUR child to be?
You see, little Joan DID really "under-
stand"! She understood that she could
gel her 0 11/11 way-that she did n' t have
to obe)' her parents' suggestions, and
[hat she could do just as sbe pleased.'
This parent. not quite sure the chi ld
was old enough to "unde rstand" thi ngs
on an adult level-and therefore to
"reason Out" what her logical course of
action should be. was actively engaged
in TEACHING her chi ld a terrible habit
of selfishness, lack of respcct for her
elders, and di sobedi ence!
This is far from an uncommon sicua-
tion-bue is almost a mle in many
homes today!
First, make sure your child under-
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sta nds the simple, direct commands and
admonit ions you gi ve-then MAKE your
chi ld obey them by pil oting him through
the first few routines-and the n havi ng
him accomplish the tasks on his own.
In this way, and in this way ONLY,
will your chi ld begin to learn to atao-
matically and habitually do the right
thing! Next mont h, we' ll conti nue with
more examples of right habits you
should teach your children!
Idiotic Modern
PSYCHOLOGY
(Continued from page 12)
Break God's Laws, and they break you!
Jesus Ch rist came magnifyi ng this
great Law, as Isaiah pr ophesied. Gett ing
to the spiritual principle, He said that
for a man even to lust after a woman
(though she may be unconscious of it
and unparriciparing ) is to commi t
adultery in hi s heart. It defiles hi m. It
curs him otI from GOD. The law works
the same curse on the adulterous
woman!
The greatest blessing that can come
to man is to KNOW GOD--ta have con-
tact and communion with God-to have
God' s SPIRIT wit hin.
Here's how this works. Once the re-
bell ion is put down-once one has really
repented, and accepted Christ, he be-
comes reconciled to God and then God
impregnates him with His Holy Spi ri t.
This is the life, the very divi ne NATURE,
the love, fait h, and POWER of GOD
ent er ing into man. But i t is not static.
It floWJ, like electricity through a light
bulb. Two wires go int o the electri c
light bulb. Th e curre nt 11 0ws in a cir cuit.
So with God's Spi ri t.
Man was made of matt er-made to
need God 's Spir it flowing int o and
through him to energize him-yet made
u-itbot this necessary Spi ri t. It can be
received only as God 's precious GIFT,
upon ut ter submission to His will, te-
penrance for havi ng broken His Law.
J esus Christ paid the penal ty IN OUR
STEAD, and when we then accept Him,
the penalties of past sins are wiped Out.
\'(Jithout God's Spirit people are rest-
less, di ssat isfied, empty. They don't
know WHY, But they need a "food" they
48
arc nor gett ing-spiritual food, Nothi ng
will satisfy until they recei ve it! They
are. literally, not all there.' God made
.Adam incomplete! He was physically
complete-but he needed God's Spir it.
God offered it . The "tree of LI FE" in
the garden in Eden simply rep resented
the Holy Spirit. Bur Adam rejected this
SPIRITUAL food. and instead st ole the
poisonous material fruit .
Yo" were born merely in the image
of Adam (I Cot. 15:49, and then 42
54) . You were born incomplete. Your
MAKER made you to need His Holy
Spirir, and real happiness rbar fully
satiJfieJ CAN'T COME OTHERWISE, No
human philosophy can impart this truly
Jatis/)i1Jg happiness. It leaves one
EMPTY.
Yes. the most important and aeces-
sary and neediul thing in all this life
is a living contact with GOD. The grear-
est penalty tha t can be inflicted on any
person is to be aa off from God ,
Take the ignorant head hunter. Of
course. in his ign orant and pitiful so-
ciety. it may seem right! in hi s ign orant
human eyes. to murder ocher people and
collect human heads, But God's inex-
arable spirituel LA W brings retribution
and CURSES on him. when he breaks
this Law, whe ther he sees it or nor !
This insane and ignorant platitude
that "what is wro ng for you may be
right for me" is merely the false phi-
losophy that ancient Israel degenerated
into----of doing whatever is RIGHT in
thei r OW1J eyes.
God commanded. them-as He corn-
mands you and me today-e-Ye shall
not do after all the thin gs that we do
here this day" ( Moses is speaking of
what God commands ) . "every man
whatsoever is right in his own eyes"
(Deur. 12:8) .
Lesson of Living Experience
See (he inevitable result-the CURSES
[his bri ngs: "These Israelites did what
was evil in the sigbt of tbe Eternal,"-
but of course right in their own eyes!
Then they fell inca the captivity of in-
vadi ng plunderers, or spoilers. Th ey be-
came unable to defend themselves from
invading nations. "They were in a sore
plight" (Judges 2: 15, Moffatt rransla-
tion ) .
TIley cried our to God to free them.
Tbe PLAIN THUTII
Th en God had mer cy. He raised up
judges (Judges 2: 16 ) - that is, generals,
admi nistrators. heroic leader s chosen by
GOD. Remember Israel was a THEOC-
RACY in [hose days. And these heroic
leaders delivered the Israelites. Th ey
enjoyed freedom again,
Bur [he Israelites refused to listen
even to these human heroic leaders God
had raised up to lead them to freedom.
They went af ter pagan gods, bowed to
thei r idols. They rerurned to doing what
was right ill their OU'1J eyes, bur evil in
GOO'S SIGHT. \Vhenever these human
leaders God chose for them died, they
relapsed into evil ways ( r ight in their
sight ) more [han ever. Th en the King
of Mesopotamia invaded and conquered
them, and they became his subjects for
eight years (Judges 3:8).
In this sore pli gh t. they cried our
to God - promised obedience if He
would only save them- just like people
in desperati on today! Th en God raised
up another champion leader from
among them. to set them free once
again , For 40 years [hey remai ned free.
then this righ teous leader di ed. Then
"the children of Israel did evil again in
the sight of the Ercrnal' ( verse 12).
Th en Eglon, king of Moab conquered
them. and they became hi s slaves 18
years. Again they cried OUt to God for
mercy. promising anything, for free-
dom. And so it wen t, round and round
--doing what was right itl their own
sight, gening into TROUBLE-then cry-
ing to God for help-gaining deliver-
ance-e- then agai n doing whar was evil
in God's sight. and br inging more pun-
ishme nt on themselves!
But it has net'er paid man or nation
to do what is righ t in human eyes, bur
evil in God's sighr! Yet 6,000 years of
human experience has failed to teach
mankind this lesson!
Modern universities persist in teach-
ing susceptible. naive youths that the re
are NO ETERNAL TRUTHS- what is
wro ng for you is perfectly O.K. and
right for me-IF I want to do it!
"Every way of man is right in his own
eyes" ( Prov. 21:2) . Also, (12 :15),
"The way of a fool is right in his own
eyes." Yes, "There is a way which
seemetb right umo a man, bur the end
thereof are the ways of death " ( Prov.
14:1 2 and repeated in 16: 25).
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