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Rhodesia Crisis ape III the world. This is obvious to VOL. XXXI NO.2 anyone who would care to look at the Circulation 740,000 Copies " I have been recently promoted from Publ ished monthly at Pasadena. Californ!a; facts." London, England; and North Sydney, Australia, Assistant Magistrate to Magistrate. 1 by Ambassador College. German and French Li stener, Clovis, New Mexico editions published monthlr at London, England. find your PLAIN TRUTH most interesting @ 1966 Ambassador Co lege, All Rights Re· served. and accurate in reporting on world af­ S(I), • IIVHAT itlcls? YOII yo/( h(lI/ell't EDITOR fairs. Your article on 'The Rhodesian read ,be Bible/ ),el claim 10 know ills HERBERT W . ARMSTRONG Crisis' in the D ecember issue is at least wrong, (met JIly ),OH "know withoM (i EXECUTIVE ED[TOR unbiased and substantially reflects the dOl(bt'1 mall comes from the apes; some­ Garner Ted Armstrong true position. I feel the article shou ld Ihing ellen evoll(tionists disclaim. Do MANAGING EDITOR be more generally published because it ),011 alw(l),s form IIIch absol1lte opinions Herman L. Hoeh is apparent that most people not living abo"t things you 't'e never sludied? SENIOR ED[TOR in Africa have but a twisted id ea of Roderick C. Meredith what reall y the position is. They don't True Womanhood-Lost Cause? Auociale Editors seem to ca re about the future of western "I have received my November issue Albert J. Portune David Jon Hill CO!ltribwing Editors civi lization in Africa. They also seem of The PLAIN T RUTH Rnd I'm now to be reluctant to inform themselves Robert C. Boraker C. Paul Meredith reading the article 'True Womanhood­ William F. Dankenbring L Leroy Neff properl y of the true position. People Is It a "Lost Cause"?' I tell you, sir, in Charles V. Dorothy Richard H. Sedliacik have become scared of the truth in Jack R. Elliott Lynn E. Torrance view of the kind of husband that I Robert E. Gentet Eugene M. Walter their own lives; scared of the truth as have, that 'yes, sir; business seems hard, Ernest L Martin Basil Wolverton Gerhard O. :Marx Clint C. Zimmerman regards world affairs and scared of the but if that's the way God wants it then Bible tru ths lest it would become plain here I go. Really though, I'm just half­ James W. Robinson, Copy Editor that they must repent of their sins [n way through the article and I have been Paul Kroll, Art Editor order to have real peace." helped immensely. Thank you." News 8l1"eafl Magistrate, South Africa Gene H . Hogberg, Director Patricia 1. G., Nassau N.P., Donald 0 Schroeder Keith A. Hoyt Blackout Bahamas SJaff Photograph.., " We who li ve here in New York Crime Lyle Christopherson have now had a water shortage, a black­ "Being a Los Angeles poJice officer, Regional Editors out, and a transportation strike, which I can ce rtainly vouch in agreement with United Kingdom: Raymond F. McNair Australia: C. Wayne Co le finally ended yesterday. I was not per­ you. Crime is certainly on the upsurge. South Africa: Ernest Williams sonall y affected. . . . I li ve in easy [n my opinion, it is high time we as Germany: Frank Schnee walking distance of work. Many others Philippines: Ge~ald Water~ou.se a nation turn to God before it is too Switzerland: Cohn J. A. WilkinS were not so little affected. That is, late. K eep up the good work. I'm SLlfe Business Manager little by compari son; for some lost jobs, that your fine magazi ne is a blessing Albert J. Portune and businesses. What will be our next to many CirculaJion Managers city-w id e disaster ?-a food shortage, or United States: Hugh Mauck Thomas M ., Los A ngeles, Calif. will the weather cripple us next?" United Kingdom: Charles F. Hunting Canada: Dean Wilson W illiam J., Brooklyn, New York Australia: Gene R. Hughes God Speaks Out . , , Philippines: Arthur Docken " I was very thankful at the receipt South Africa: Michael Bousfield From an Ape? of a copy of 'GOD SPEAKS O UT on "Th e YOUR SUBSCRIPTION has been p~id by others. Bulk copies for distribution not RIven or "After hearing several of your New Mo/,(i/;ty.'" My wife and I enjoyed sold. broadcasts, it is necessary for me to te ll ADDR.I!SS COM MMUNIClr.TIONS to the Editor at the every page and chapter of this book, nearest address belo ..... : you how wrong YOll are. Although J United States: Box 111, Pasadena, California and my wife indeed was overjoyed at 91109. have not read the Bible, I know it is the truths and new experiences we Canada: Post Office Box 44. Station A, Van­ couver 1, B.C. wrong, and if it is wrong, so are you. leamt for this wonderful book. It has United Kingdom and Europe: SCM Ambassador, Anyone can see that the Bibl ica l princi­ London. w.e. t , England. taught us many things of vital impo[­ South Africa: P.O. Box 1060. Johannesburg. ples of kindness and understanding tance, some of which we neglected. We Transvaal, R.S.A. Austr:l1ia and Southeast Asia: Box 345, Nonh ~ cannot hold true in any form of human underlined aU the interesting passages Sydney, N.S.W., Australia. The Philippines: Post Office Box 2603. Manih. society. 1 know without a doubt that so that we don't forget. This book has SECOND CLASS POSTAGE paid at Pasadena, Cali· man is descended f rom the apes of the become a kind of my instructor because fornia. 8E SUlIIl TO NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY of ~n)' jungles, and that if there is a superi or I have started instructi ng my young SIS- change in your address. Please inclose both old and new address. IMPORTANT I being, he is descended from the greatest (Contin1led on page 47) February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH Page 1 In This Issue:

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ERE IS our 32nd anniversary gift largest-circulating magazines In the NOW AT LAST­ H to you-a PLAIN T RUTH for the world. The PLAIN TRUTH first time dressed up in full We have still more improvements 10 ;n FULL COLOR ...... 3 color throughout-from cover to cover! store for our readers. That does not mean full color on every FAMINE STALKS THE EARTHI 7 page, but all fu ll color pictures are * * * * * ENGLISH-Speaking peoples are THE Rad;o Log ...... 14 printed in fuB color. supposed to be Christian. Most For thirty-two years, our readers have church denominations count their mem­ enjoyed continuous improvement in The bership loosely, including many- prob­ ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, PLAIN TRUTH. ]t started February, ably a large majority- who seldom if Christian Custom?-or 1934, as a crude, home-made, mimeo­ ever darken the church doors, Yet Pagan Superstition? .. __ . .. '7 graphed "magazine." approximately 67 million Americans ]n this issue you wi ll find an article make no profession of religion, are Ull­ Short Questions portraying, in full color, pictures of our claimed on member roll s of any church, From Our Readers ..... , ., J 8 own expanded ultra-modern printing according to the 1966 Yearbook of p lants that now print the full-co lor American Churches. INSIDE LATIN AMERICA 19 PLAIN TR UT H- in Pasadena, Ca lifornia, WHY? in Watford, England, and in Sydney, WHY are so many either disinterested THE INSIDE STORY OF Australia. or disgusted with religion? COLLEGE EDUCATION 27 ]n a later number I hope to write an Three years ago I answered that ques­ article covering the exciting history of tion in this column. It evoked an The B;ble Story . . . . . • ...... 33 The PLAIN TRUT H, showing its amazing unusual interest and brought a large mail growth step by step. And once again, as response. in the Ju ne, 1961 number, I hope to How LOYAL Are You So I reprint it here: to Jesus Christ? ... , _ . _ . . . 43 take our readers behind the scenes of HOW MANY times have you heard our enlarged editorial and mechanical non-Christians, judging one who Prophecy COMES ALIVE staff-introduce you to each with full professes Christ, say in disgust: "Well ;n Today's World News . ... 4B color pictures, show you their offices if that's Christianity, I don't wa nt and workrooms_ In fact, all this prob­ any of it!" ably wi ll reguire from two to four ar­ How many judge GOD by th e way ticles appearing in successive months. professing Christians live? How many The entire organization has expanded assume that one must live a perfect greatly since June, 1961. The circulation li fe, before he can become a Christian? of that number was 2.54,422 copies. How many say: "If I could give up This present number you arc holding smoking, I'd become a Christian," in your hands is 740,000 copies-at­ How many think a Christian is sup­ most three times the circulation of June, posed to be perfect, never doing any­ 1961. thing wrong? Suppose you do see or The PLAIN TRUTH is now skyrocket· hear about a Christian doing something ing upward toward one million copies WRONG. Does that mean he is a hypo­ every issue. All reports indicate that be­ crite-that he is not really a Christian} © Ambo.l$Odor Colle98 tween two and three million people read after all ? OUR COVER every issue. Circulation has been increas­ Is it pos.rible for one to actual ly SIN , ing consistently at approximately 30 while he is a Christian, and sli// remain This web press was custom built for Ambassador College Prcss, Pasadena, )ercent each year. At the present a truly converted Christian? by the Miehle Company. Huge roUs rate of growth we should be printing ] suppose nearly everyone would re­ of paper rush through at more than 800 feet per minute. Four printing approximately 3,500,000 copies by the ply in the negative. But here is a vital units produce the full color. a giant beginning of 1972. That would make point YOII need to U NDERST AND! oven dries the ink, and 25,000 16- The PLAIN TRUTH one of the very few It's hard to believe- but TRUE ~ Few page signarures are folded each hour. 2 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966 know just what is a Christian. Few cision. If he does repent, surrender to now been conceived within him. BUT know HOW one is converted-whether God, and in FAITH accept Jesus Christ THAT'S ALL-it is merely cOl1ceived­ suddenly, all at once, or gradually. Does as personal Saviour, then, upon perform­ not yet full grown! And his HUMAN conversion happen immediately, or is it ance of these TWO conditions, God NATURE is slill there-it has not been a PROCESS? IT'S HIGH TIME WE UNDER­ promises to put within him the GIFT of killed or removed! STAND! the Holy Spirit. This is the very life of Understand this! The TRUTH is tha.t there is a sense GOI)-SPIRIT life. It imparts to him the We were all born HUMAN. We all in which true conversion dOe! take place very divine llatllre.' were born with HUMAN NATURE. Few a/ a definite lime-aU at once. But it Then whatJ at that stage, has hap­ seem to know what human nature is. It is also true that in another sense con­ pelled? is a strong PULL-a tendency- and, verSIOn is worked alit gradHaliy-a This new convert has only been like gravity, it is a downward pulL Like process of development and growth. begotten of God-not yet BORN. He a strong magnet, it draws us in the WAY Now NOTICE CAREFULLY! has not received the full measure of OF SATAN-that is, a pull toward pride and vanity, selfishness and greed, a lack WHEN does one really become a God's Spirit Christ had-he is only a of outgoing concern for others-the Christian? It is when he receives God's spiritllal babe In Christ- he must Holy Spirit. In Romans 8:9, we read now GROW spiritually, just as a spirit of competition, opposition, strife, that unless we have the Holy Spirit, we newly conceived fetus in its mother's effort to acquire, and to exalt the self. are not Christ's- not Christians. womb must grow physically large It is a pull toward self-gratification, and jealousy, envy and resentment toward There is a definite TIME when God's enough to be BORN as a human. others. It is the spirit of rebellion Spirit enters into one. At the very mo­ This new convert has now REPENTED, against authority, hostility toward God ment he receives the Holy Spirit, he is, in his mind, from the depths of his and the Law of God. THAT is human in this first sense, C01lVel'ted. Y es, all heart. HE MEANS IT, too! In all sin­ nature. You were born with it. It is at once.' If he has Christ's Spirit, he is cerity, in his mind and heart he has still within you. CHRlsT's-he is a Christian! H e has Illmed around 10 go the other way­ been begotten as a child of God. to live a different life. He is now a Originally God created the beautiful archangel Lucifer. He sealed up the But does that mean his salvation is CHRISTIAN-he has received God's Holy sum of wisdom, knowledge and beauty. complete' Is he now fully and finally Spirit. He really wants to do what is But one thing he lacked-the righteous "saved"? Is that all there is to it? Is he right-to obey God-to live Goo's CHARACTER to choose the right way, now, suddenly, perfect? Is it now im­ WAY. and resist the wrong-to discipline the possible for him to do WRONG? YET HE FINDS HE DOES NOT DO self in the way he ought to go, instead NO! FAR FROM IT! But WHY? THIS PERFECTLY! Many, at this stage, of the way of self-desire. What's the answer? Why do so many become discouraged. Some give lip even God's PURPOSE in having created hu­ MiSunderstand? trying to live a Christian life. And manity-in having caused YOU to be Here is the PLAIN TRUTH you need WHY? Because of the false !lotion that born-is to reproduce Himself. And to know. tI Christia11 is olle who becomes PERFECT GOD, above all things, is PERFECT, First, there are TWO (Ont/ilions to at Of Ie fell swoop-or, that one cannot RIGHTEOUS CHARACTER' God is able becoming a Christian: REPENTANCE, become a Christian 1mtil he has broken to create character within us-but it and FAITH. These two we, ourselves, all wrong habits, and made himself must be done as a result of our inde­ must perform. Yet no ooe can, of him­ righteous. pendent free choice. We, as individual self, say: "Oh now I see- I must repent. It's vital to UNDERSTAND how true separate entities, have our part in the All right, I hereby repent.·· One does Christianity REALLY WORKS! process. not just decide casually, as a matter of The newly begotten Christian must What is perfect character? It is the routine, to repent. WHY? grow up, spiritually. What would you ability, in a separate entity, to come to Jesus Christ said that none can come think of a human baby, who became 6 the KNOWLEDGE of the right from the to Him, except the Spirit of the Father feet tall all at once, without growing draw him. God grtlnts repentance. God wrong-the true from the false-and lip? The growing up process requires calls one, and convicts the mind and to CHOOSE the right, and possess the TIME. There is tll1 imtallt when a per­ conscience by Hi s Spirit, working on the WILL to enforce self-discipline to DO son receives the impregnating Holy mind externall y. Usually a real struggle the right and resist the wrong. Spirit of God- when he first becomes goes on within. The person has been Like muscle, character is developed, a Christian. But he is only a spiritual shaken to knoUJ he has done wrong­ and grows by exercise. My name is he has sinned. He is not only sorry-he in/ant. He must grow up spiritually. Armstrong. I suppose I could make my abhors himself! He is brought to real The ne\vly converted person, in his arm stronger, and develop the muscle, REPENTANCE, not only for what he has mind and heartJ sincerely has ABOUT­ by constantly bending it back and forth done, but for what he now sees that FACED! He has actually gained contact at the elbow. But if I pull, or push, he is. with GOD, and received God's Holy against some heavy weight or resistance, Yet he, himself, must make the de- Spirit. God's own divine NATURE has (Continlled on page 41) NOW AT LAST- The PLAIN TRUTH • In FULL COLOR

. . . and printed on our new presses, In three editions around the world-a dream of 39 years come true!

by Herbert W. Armstro ng

OU ARE holding in your hands something I Y envisioned thirty-nine years ago--a dream come true at last! This is the f;rst e(!;/;on of The PLAIN TRUTH A reprod uction of pages 26-27 to be published in FULL COLOR-inside as well as of this first full-color iss ue of Th e PLAIN TRUTH. cover. It is also the 32nd anniversary number of this world-circulated news magazine. And at last all three international editions-Pasadena, Cali­ fornia; Watford, England; and North Sydney, --I

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Australia-are printed in our own newly enlarged printing plants-740,000 copies this edition! Ap­ proximately two million others are joining you in reading it' Envisioned in 1927

You may have heard that the world-famous comedian, Jack Benny, claimed for years (jest­ ingly) to be only 39 years old. Two years ago, however, he admitted to celebrating his 70th birth­ day. Un li ke Jack Benny, I can lay claim to being 39 years old- TRUTHFULLY. For that is my true spiritual age. My conversion and begettal as a son of God took place in early spring, 1927. February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 5

Top, left: Another view of the Miehle web press (shown on the cover) which prints the U. S. and Canadian edi­ tions of The PLAIN TRUTH . At that time I first envisioned The PLAIN TRUTH magazine. I even employed commercial Below, left: Panorama of bindery and small press sec­ tion of Ambassador College Press, Pasadena. artists to design a front cover idea. I wrote two or three articles to appear in it-( one of which was published in the June, 1965 number of The PLAIN TRUTH-and for the first time). But cir­ cumstances did not permit the publishing of The PLAIN TRUTH then. Not until seven years later­ February, 1934-was it possible, and then only as a small, "home-made" mimeographed "maga­ zine," of about 150 copies. Possibly no magazine ever had so humble and unpretentious a beginning. But The PLAIN TRUTH was born with a mission. It survived those tur­ bulent early years when repeatedly its life was threatened. Time and again it skipped one or more issues. But always it came back. And it grew. And it was constantly improved as it grew. We have not realized the maximum of that Ambassador College Press 39-year-old dream even yet. Still more improve­ ments are to come. Our constantly expanding Watford, England organization is faced with many problems in adapting our procedures to the production of a

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Ambassador College Press Sydney, Australia full-color magazine. We expect improvements. We hope, in another year or two, to step up the num­ ber of color pictures, and even the size of some, and to increase The PLAIN TRUTH from the present 52 pages to 68-that is, 64 pages plus cover, an increase of 16 additional pages. But the present 52-page magazine, full color, with a circulation of 740,000 copies is an accom­ plishment that brings rewarding satisfaction, and deep gratitude to our God, who has guided this publication and all the associated Work of God through many tempestuous years of struggle.

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Center: Main press in operation. Right, Finished copies of the August PLAIN TRUTH coming off the bindery. EARTH!

this incredible-almost unbelievable. These stark facts will chill you; they'll stagger your imagination­ but they're TRUE! Read here the TRUTH about the haunting specter of famine and starvation now spreading around the world, and what your Bible says about OUR peoples facing terrible drought and famine!

by Garner Ted Armstrong

UNGER is the world's umnber "Mass starvation will be the most pain­ most fllndamental, and most nearly hz­ H one problem. ful fact of life on this planet within 10 soiubie problem that has ever faced the Even as you read this, thou· years human race I'} stmds are starving. Before another five Every other problem of the world, no Where Famine Is years from now, unless some totall y un­ matter how immediate, how critical, Striking NOW! expected reversal in present trends oc­ how desperate, is overshadowed by At this moment, thollsands starve.' curs, MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of hu­ famine now beginn ing to envelop the The Food and Agricu ltural Organiza· mans wi ll die of starvation and dis­ earth. If there were no wars, no racial tion estimates a " low" figure of ten ease! tensions, no political differences-the thousand deaths occur daily due to star­ D r. Raymond Ewell, professor at daily march of the specter of fam ine vation t Dr. Georg Borgstrom said, would continue to haunt world leaders. State University of New York in Buffalo "Half of the one billion children alive Most world leaders are beginning to recently stated, "It is hard for us sitting right now throughout the world wi ll recognize the stark dangers of world in rich, comfortable, overfed America never reach adulthood t" famine. A group of Nobel Prize win­ to realize that the GREATEST DISASTER Recently, the United Nations Food ners said, in a joint declaration, "Un­ IN THE HlSTORY OF THE WORLD is just and Agriculture Organization estimated less a favorable balance of population around the corner!" (Emphasis mine that one person in every two in the and resources is achieved with a mini­ throughout article.) world is badly nourished, and that one mum of delay, there is in prospect a "We are fast approaching the great­ in three is chronically hungry. Nearly dark age of human misery, famine, un­ est calmtrophe in 1I)orld history/' he two·thirds of the human beings on der-education and unrest which would said, "Great areas of the earth are on earth know some form of hunger­ generate a growing panic, exploding in the threshold of famine." barely subsist from day to day. wars fought to appropriate the dwind­ And before a Senate subcommittee, Will iam 1. Ryan, Associated Press ling means of survival." Thomas M. Ware, head of the Freedom Special Correspondent who wrote a Dr. Ewell showed how problems of from Hunger Foundation recently tes­ series of articles on the population ex­ increased crime, juvenile delinquency, tified, "Very few grasp the magnitude plosion, said, "Frightening specters water pollution, air pollution, urban de­ of the danger that confronts us ... haunt ... the world today. These are The catastrophe is not something that terioration, noise, dirt, waste disposal, the specters of widespread famine} pes­ racial friction and others fade into "rel­ may happen; on the contrary, it is a tilence, violence and ultimately war, ative insignificance" compared with the mathematica l certainty that it WILL less than a generation from now to. food problem in many countries t happen!" Said one expert, "It is five minutes He mentioned specificaIIy Asian Overshadows All to midnight in the battle against hun­ countries, Africa, and Latin America, World Problems ger. When the clock strikes twelve, we where the threat of mass starvation may find ourselves uttering the saddest Senator George McGovern, who was hangs over the heads of two and one­ of all refrains: 'too little and too late.' .. U. S. Food for Peace director before his half BILLION people! Among the problems that cannot election to the Senate in 1962 said, Said Dr. Ewell, "This is the biggest, (Continued on page 12) Greatest Catastrophe in History Rushing Upon s

World Famine Affectinc... Millions Seen in 1970s Catastrophe for Asians, Africans, Latins Predicted by Scientist-Economist Starving of Millions Feared in Latin Areas Tragedy Looms Unless Sweeping Farm Reforms Are Made, U.N. Official Says An old woman-victim of famine in India. Slack 51..,r Pholo

THE HUNGRY MILLIONS Must Solve Population ~ of Humanity Underfed: Problem, Thant Says trophe on Hor.·zon World's Fl1tur~ Depends on It, U.N. Chief Catas Warns; Doubling Seen by Year 2000

WIDE STARVATION Mass starvation facing IN DECADE IS SEEN world, authority warns U.N. Told World Face! 'Colossal Famine

These are headlines from some of the largest news services and news­ papers in the United States. This is what Associated Press, United Family Planning Ur d Press International, The los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other newspapers are saying about the specter of famine. to Avoid World Famine •

Runaway Population Posing Greater Threat to World Than Hydrogen 80mb

Mass Starvation Predicted Food Crisis if World Fails in 'Food Gap' -Billions Doomed' Continued Population Increase Will Bring Cannibalism, Scientist Warns Old lady in crowd in Bihar, India­ a victim of famine and starvation. B. BhonJafi Photo

Hunger has suddenly be­ come the world's BIG problem. The frightening speder of worldwide star­ vation is here. Increasing droughts are hitting Africa, Asia, even Aus­ tralia. The accompanying article will SHOCK you­ but It's time you knew what is stalking the earth.

Drought

Women with pots walk miles to fetch water in drought-stricken Raiasthan area near India-Pakistan border. B. BhanJDIi Photo

Skeleton of dead calf. A victim of drought. B. Bhon$ofj Photo Indians in long queue outside a government ration shop in Bombay.

OPA Pholo left, a totally emaciated beggar lying in street in Benares. His greatest desire is a bowl of rice to satisfy an aching hunger.

Ambouador Call_g. I'hoto Starving Indians sit and lie on a dirty Calcutta sidewalk. 12 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966 wait for leaders to talk ovec is India. able! A newspaper reporter, returning STAR, Johannesburg, as "The WORST The worst famine in half a century is from another visit to Haiti after an ab­ FOR A CENTURY !" The levels of South coming upon India NOW! sence of some years, tried to explain African dams have never been lower­ A report published by the Central about the tragedy there. He said, "Here some reduced to mere inches. Even Food Technological Research Institute in are a few stark facts I learned on my hardy game is dying. Mile after mile Mysore, India, said India loses 9.66 BIL­ latest visit: one of every five children of stricken country lies under a huge LION dollars' worth of food each year, dies before it is 90 days old; only one dust cloud which "blots out the sun." twice as much as the Indi an govern­ of every two Haitian children lives until Only the largest farmers are having ment's annual budget! Insectsl rats and its first birthday; life expectancy ~ere their overdrafts extended by the banks, bad storage destroy HALF of all the food is 35 years." and many smaller farmers are sinking prodllced in India.' He went on to describe the terrible into bankruptcy. Think of it! At least twenty-five illiteracy and superstition (90 percent A1tStraiia is suffering, too ! A vast percent of all food grown for human cannot read or write), and said doctors pall of red dust covered ONE-SIXTH OF consumption is destroyed each year by report more than 9.5 percent of Haitian THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT recently, rodents alone! If India could prevent children are afflicted with intestinal finally sweeping out to sea, leaving sllch losses from pests, and losses due parasites. thousands of suffocated sheep in its to inefficient processing and storage, In Haiti, both hunger and hookworm wake. Birds hovered on the ground, she could not only become completely contribute to the national inertia. Starv· unable to fly. Aircraft were grounded, self-supporting in food, but wou ld have ing adults and children alike are seen and entire townships slowed to a stand· an annual surplus! ac/tlally eating dirt-scooping raw soil still as the huge clouds of dust covered The stark facts of the enormous crisis and dirt into their motlths-in an at­ more than a half-million square miles of in India are appalling! Presidential tempt to stave off pangs of starvation! Queensland and northern New South aides have worked out a paper to pre­ The dirt is loaded with larvae of para· Wales. sent to President Johnson warning that sites, which infest the bodies of Hai­ The dust storm resulted from a five· India wi ll need the ENTIRE U. S. tians. Naturally, their resistance to any state drought which has held its WHEAT CROP to make up for its food disease is low. parched grip on Australia for the past shortages within another five yea rs . Unbelievable as it sounds, more than year-and which resulted in an "alarm· Pests alone consume MORE than the 6 FIFTY PERCENT of the population suf­ ing drop in farm production" according million tons of grain we send annually fers from active tuberculosis! Women to Charles Adermann) Australian Minis· to India-and this year EVERY THIRD give birth to babies in fields, or road· ter for Primary Production. BUSHEL OF WHEAT goes to India! side ditches. Only five to ten percent Australia can't be called upon for Yet such extensive aid from the of Haitian people take in anywhere near helping the rest of the hungry world, United States will not solve the prob­ a normal amount of food . The condi­ when more than ONE HUNDRED MIL· lem. Rather, it further depletes sur· tion of the other 90 and more percent LION BUSHELS LESS WHEAT will be pro­ pluses within the United States, while IS pitiable-wretched! duced this yea r! not even making up for the amount And in Rhodesia, already under eco­ Where DROUGHT Promises of foodstuffs lost in India through nomic siege from Great Britain and the Even MORE Famine rodents and poor storage. United States, DROUGHT was described How would you like to live in a city o South Africans of all reJigions, in a as a greater threat than the trade sanc­ of three million people-and know completely unprecedented move, gath­ tions! Crops there were withering in only 650,000 ration cards were being ered in their churches to pray for rai n the summer sun. GraZing lands were so issued for the purchases of staples? The recently. The reason: prolonged bare that the government attempted to people of New Delhi find themselves drought that was threatening their very move 200,000 head of cattle from in this exact condition. One pound of national security! Matabeleland northward. wheat sells on the Black Market for As if miraculously, scattered rains Said Lawrence Fellows, in a special approximately $21! At least two fami­ came-but caused flooding in some article to the New York Times, "... lies offered Iheir children for sale in areas, including cave-ins and eroding of unless the drought is broken th is month exchange for food. Government offi­ highway and railway embankments. many thousands of Rhodesian families cials, trying to apprehend those guilty For years, South African ranchers and ­ may face starvation!" So SERlOUS is the of hoarding, found one cache of wheat farmers have been desperately afflicted situation that it is taking more of the weighing one ton! That's about 42 by drought. Massive truck lifts of cattle time and energy of the Rhodesian gov­ thousand dollars' worth on the New were begun. Ten thousand cattle were ernment than their defensive measures Delhi Black Market! to be moved by road and rail away from against the economic warfare being India is in serious trouble! parched Transvaal, in an effort which waged against them by much of the But India is not the o11ly nation be· was described as the "salvation of the world. ing afflicted by famine. In little Haiti, cattle .. . and ultimately the country's And in Canada, it was announced In· in the Caribbean, conditions are so ap· meat supplies for many years to come." dia would get an additional 15 million palli ng so as to be virtually indescrib- The drought was described by THE dollars', worth of foods, increasing to February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 13

nearly 70 million dollars the total value two handfuls of food once each 17 days be "inevitable" if the earth's population of outright gifts and credits extended for every person. continues to rise! India since 1965 began. You may not realize the U. S. has Harry Ferguson, UPI National Re­ In the midst of it all-with jamine shipped food to FIFTY food-short na­ porter, said, "The relentless rise of pop­ stalking Asia, Central and South tions over the past 11 yea rs, amount· ulation in the under-developed nations America, parts of Africa-much of the ing to a gross investment of FOURTEEN seems to make (all) efforts (to feed world looks to the "great surpluses" of AND ONE· HALF BILLION DOLLARS! In an the world's hungry) as futile as sprink­ the United States to keep the food com­ article asking, "How Long Can America ling water on the hot desert sands. An ing! But how long can America feed Feed World's Hungry?" The Los An­ unequal race is being run between food the world? geles Ti'mes said, " ... even as they and the numbers who need to be fed." Here are the stark facts! [send food abroad} that means daily Maybe it's difficult for you-if your bread to millions on three continents, grocery stores and supermarkets still fill Surpluses Disappearing officials know that something mote their shelves with food-to grasp the Today, large shipments of wheat to than U. S. surpluses is needed if the chilling meaning behind these over· India, Japan and South America are specter of famine is to be stilled." whelming conditions! YOU'VE NEVER gobbling up American wheat reserves Pointing out the really GR1M and SEEN SUCH HEADLINES BEFORE! You at a frightening rate. FRIGHTEN ING part of the problem, the have NEVER lived in times like these Said warehouse owners in Topeka, Times said, "Even if money and pressure before! You live in a day of CRISIS! It's Kansas, "The awesome farm surplus is and co·operation from local govern· a time of impending DOOM-unless the NEARLY GONE!" Grain warehouses in ments succeed in producing real ad­ day-by-day march of events is halted! the sprawling American Midwest, once vances in the underdeveloped world's These conditions are REAL - filled to bursting with ripe grain, are food production, the prospect will still frighteningly so-and you can't afford being drained, and drained FAST, for be grim if populations keep explod­ NOT to face them squarely! export! ing." The MONTHLY increase in population Officials report the huge storage fa­ The POPULATION explosion IS the in India is ONE MILLION PEOPLE! That cilities in Kansas, heart of the nation's overawing danger now looming In the means the malnourished and starving wheat country, are only about 40 per· near future! Indian population will have increased cent filled. As you read this articie, they And remember one vital fact! The by more than the present total popula­ were predicted to be down to about 20 attempt of the U. S. , Canada, and some tion of the United States-and within percent. If conditions continue at the other countries to feed the world's hun· 15 short years! present rate-they will soon be EM PTY ! gry millions is based on the assump­ For you Australians-that means The growing problems in Kansas tion WE WILL NOT BE STRICKEN BY India's YEARLY INCREASE matches your echo those of every other wheat-belt DROUGHT-that we will be able to pro­ TOTAL POPULATION! Think about it. state. Warehouse owners worry that un· duce at least as much food this year as Chilla adds to her population yearly less a change in government policy last, and even MORE and MORE food­ the same nwnber as Canada's total pop­ comes, prospects for ever fiHing their stuffs in the future! ulation! huge storage bins again are very dim. That is a mighty dangero/IJ aSJ1lmp· Take a look at the staggering figure.s Accenting the problem is the fact lion.' of total world populations-the relent­ that, from July to November, more than less pressure of people that will mean PEOPLE-PEOPLE-PEOPLE ONE QUARTER of the national reserves awesome food wars unless the course were drained from the bins, and about Believe it or not-if all the food of is reversed. ninety percent of that was for export­ the world, including all available sur­ The world didn't reach its first bil­ mainly under the "Food for Peace" plus stores, were equally distributed lion people until comparatively modern program. among each man, woman and child­ times- 1850. But then it took only 80 The attempt to feed the hungry every human being on earth would be years to reach the second billion. Then world is defeating. One staff econo· undernourished! came another BILLION people; this time mist of the Department of Agriculture We don't grow NEAR enough food to in only 30 years. This brings us to says, "Food shipments from developed feed the population of the world NOW! 1960. But now look at the figures sky­ countries can help" (alleviate the con· But today's population is only a rocket! HALVE the 30 years for the next ditions in India, Latin America, etc.) fraction of what it will ultimately be· BILLION people, bringing us to 1975! "but they cannot account for more than come-unless the trend is stopped, Then additional billions keep coming a very small fraction of the projected and reversed. Said the editor of Hatper's in ever.decreasing spans of time until increases in (world) food needs over !I{agazil1e, "In the future the chief several BILLIONS could be added EACH the next several years." danger of war seems likely to come, not MONTH! The cold facts are, that if the from an arms race or even from the Could be-that is-unless MILLIONS United States were to donate its entire classic causes, but from an element new OR EVEN BILLIONS DIE FIRST! The rising surplus for one year to feed the world's in history: the pressure of population." curve of population seems to streak hungry people-it would mean only He showed how major wars appear to (Continued on page 31) 14 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966 RADIO LOG "The WORLD TOMORROW"

MAJOR STATIONS­ WINQ-Tampa-l010 on dial, WMAS - Springfield, Mass. - 1450 Heard over wide areas 12:00 nOOD Mon. thru Fri., on dial, 94.7 FM, 8:30 p.m. 12:10 p.m. Sat. and Sun. Sun. East KRMG-Tulsa-740 on dial, 10:00 WEIM-Fitchburg, Mass.-1280 on WHN-New York-IOSO on dial, a.m. Sun. dial, 8:30 p.m. SUD. 9:00 a.m. Sun. XEG-1050 on dial, 8:30 p.m. daily. *WJAR-Providence. R.1.-920 kc., WWVA-Wbeeling, W. Va.-1170 (CS.T.) 6,30 p.m. daily. kc., 98.7 FM, 10:30 a.m. and WNLC-New London, Conn.-15l0 8:30 p.m. Sun., 5 a.m. & 8:30 Moun'a'n States on dial, 8:30 p.m. SUD. p.m. Mon. cheu Fri. (E.S.T.) KOA-Denver-850 on dial, 9:30 'WNAC-Boston-680 kc., 98.5 FM a.m. Sun. Central (WRKO·FM), 8,30 p.m. Suo. KSWS - Roswell, N . Mex. - 1020 WSPD-Toledo, Ohio-1370 on dial, 101.5 FM, 9,00 p.m. WIBG-Philadelphia-990 on dial, on dial, 6:30 a.m. daily. 94.1 FM, 12,30 p.m. Sun. XEL0-800 on dial, 8 p.m. Sun .• 9:05 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. *WIXY - Cleveland, Ohio - 1260 WLKW-Providence, R.I.-990 on (M.S.T.) 9 p.m. (CS.T.) dial, 6:30 a.m. Mon. thru Sat. daily. k.c., 11:00 p.m. daily. WPTF-Raleigh, N.C.-680 on dial, West Coast WSLR-Akron, Ohi~1350 on dial, 94.7 FM, 9:30 a.m. Sun., KIRO-Seattle-710 on dial, 100.7 7:00 p.m. datIy. 10:30 p.m. Mon. theu Sat. FM, 10:30 p.m. Mon. thru WJW-Cleveland, Ohio-8S0 on Sat., 5:30 a.m. Tues. thru Sat. dial, 10 a.m. Sun. Centl'al Stat•• KRAK-Sacramento-1140 on dial WBRJ-Marietta, Ohio-910 on WLAC-Nashvil1e-1510 kc" 10:30 8 p.m. daily. ' dial, 12:30 p.m. daily. a.m. Sun., 7 p.m. daily and 5 a.m. Mon. thru Sat. (CS.T.) XERB-Lower Calif.-l090 on dial, *WBNS - Columbus, Ohio - 1460 7 p.m. daily, 9:30 a.m. Mon. kc., 8:30 p.m. daily. WSM-Nashville---650 kc., 9 p,m. thru Fri. WBCK - Battle Creek, Mich. - 930 Sun. (CS.T.) on dial. 12:30 p.m. Sat. and *WCKY -Cincinnati-1530 kc., 7 LEADING LOCAL-AREA Sun., 7:00 p.m. Mon. thru Fri. and 9:30 p.m. Sun., 5:30 a.m. STATIONS WJBK - Detroit, Mich. - 1500 on Mon. theu Sat., 12:00 mid· dial, 5:30 a.m. Mon. thru Sat. night Tues. thru Sun. (E.S.T.) Eas, W]RZ-Newark, N.].-970 on dial, KRVN-Lexington, Nebr.-IOlO on WLW-Cincinnati-700 kc., 11:05 dial, 10:30 a.m. Sun., 3:00 p.m. daily. 11:00 p.m. Sun., 10:00 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. p.m. Mon. tbm Sat. WJjO-Cbicago-1160 on dial, WBMD-Baltirnore-7S0 on dial *KMMJ-Grand Island, Nebr.-750 11:00 a.m. Sun. kc., 4:00 p.m. daily. KSTP - Minneapolis·St. Paul- 1500 12 :30 p.m. daily. ' WPEN-Philadelphia, Pa.-950 kc., WNAX-Yankton, S. Dak.-S70 on on dial, 8:00 a.m. Sun., 5:00 dial, 7:30 p.m. daily. a.m. Mon. thru Sat. 7:00 a.m. Sun., 10:30 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. WEAW-Chicago-1330 on dial, KCMO-Kansas City-810 on dial, 105.1 FM. 9:30 a.m. Sun. 7:30 p.m. Sun., 8: 10 p.m. aDd "'WPIT - Pittsburg - 730 on dial, IOI.S FM, 11:00 a.m. Sun., (also 8:00 p.m. Sun., FM) 5 a.m. Mon. thru Sat. 8:00 a.m. Mon. thru Fri., 7:30 KXEL-Waterloo, la.-1S40 on dial, 12.00 noon Mon. thro Fri., 1:30 p.m, Sat. a.m. Sat. AM and 7:00 a.m. 8 p.m. Sun., 9:30 p.m. Mon. Mon. thru Sat. FM. thru Sat. WHP-Harrisbu rg, Pa.-S80 on dial. 7:30 p.m. daily. WJOL - Joliet, Ill. - 1340 on dial KXEN - St. Louls - 1010 on dial, 8:00 p.m. daily. ' 10:30 a.m. Sun., 12 noon WjAC - Johnstown, Pa. - 850 on dial, 7:30 p.m. daily. WITY-Danville, I11.-980 on dial, Mon. thru Fri., after football 7,00 p.m. daily. on Sat. WCHS-Charleston, W. Va.-580 on dial. 7:30 p.m. daily. WWCA-Gary, Ind.-1270 on dial. South 4:00 p.m. SUD., 6:00 p.m. KRLD-Dallas-l080 on dial, 8: 10 WCYB-Bristol, Va.-690 on dial, Mon. thru Sat. 12:30 p.m. daily. p .m. daily. WJOB - Hammond, Ind. - 1230 on KTRH-Houston-740 on dial, WWNC - Asheville, N.C. - 570 on dial, 7:00 p.m. Mon. theu Sat. dial, 4:00 p.m. Sun., 3:30 p.m. lOLl FM. 8:00 p.m. Sun., WXCL-Peoria-13S0 kc., 6:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. Mon. thru Sat. daily. WWOL-Buffalo, N.Y.-II20 kc., WOAI-San Antonio, Texas-1200 WIBC-Indianapolis-l070 on dial, on dial, 10:IS p.m. Mon. thru 10:00 a.m. Sun., 12:30 p.m. Mon. thru Fri., 4:00 p.m. Sat. 10:30 p.m. Sun. Sat. KBHS-Hot Springs, Ark.-S90 on KWKH-ShrevepOrt-1130 kc.. 94.5 WWNH-Rochester, N.H.-930 on dial, 9:05 a.m. Sun., 7:05 p.m. dial, 12:00 noon Sun., 6:00 PM, 1:00 and 8:30 p.m. Sun. a.m. Mon. thru Sat. thru Fri., 11:30 a.m. and 11:30 Mon. thru Sat. p.m. Sat. WDEV-Waterbury, Vt.-5S0 on KFVS-Cape Girardeau, Mo.-960 dial, 8:00 p.m. Sun., 6:30 on dial, 9:1S a.m. Sun., 6:1S WNOE-New Orleans-I060 on a.m. Mon. thru Sat. dial, 9:30 a.m. Sun. p.m. Mon. thru Sat. WPOR-Pordand, Maine-1490 on KWTO-Springfield, Mo.-560 on KAAY-LittIe Rock-I090 on dial, dial, 7:00 p.m. daily. 9:30 a.m. Sun., 7:30 p.m. dial, 9:00 a.m. Sun. daily. WCOU-Lewiston, Maine-1240 on KFDI - Wichita, Kans. - 1070 on WGUN-AtIanta-l010 on dial, 4 dial, 9:30 p.m. Sun. dial, 10:00 a.m. Sun., 11:30 p.m. Sun., 11 a.m. Mon. thru WORL - Boston, Mass. - 950 kc., a.m. Mon. thru Sat. Sat. 7:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Sun., KFH-Wichita, Kans.-1330 on dial, WMOO - Mobile - 1550 on dial. 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. Mon. tbru 100.3 FM, 9:30 a.m., SUD., 10:30 a.m. Sun., 7:00 a.m. Sat. 6,30 p.m. daily. Mon. thru Sat. WBET-Brockton, Mass.-1460 on KGGF-CoffeyvilIe, Kans.-690 on dial, 7:05 p.m. daily. dial, 6:00 p.m. daily "'Asterisk indicates Dew station or W AAB-Worcester, Mass.-1440 on *KXXX - Colby, Kans. - 790 kc., time change. dial, 107.3 FM, 9:30 a.m. Sun. 6:00 a.m. Mon. thru Sat. February, 1966 The PLA1N TRUTH 15 RADIO LOG "T be WORLD TOMORROW"

WMT-Cedar Rapid.s---600 On dial, KMOR - Salt Lake City - 1230 on *KFOX-Long Beach, Calif.,-1280 11:30 a.m. Sun. dial, 9:00 a.m. Sun., 6: 15 a.m. on dial, 102.3 FM, 7:30 a.m. KQR5-Minneapolis-1440 on dial, Mon. thru Sat. and 8:30 p.m. Sun., 8:30 p,m. Mon. mru Sat. 92.5 FM, 10:00 a.m. Sun., 7:00 KlDO-Boise. Idah0--630 on dial, a.m. Mon. thru Sat. 7:05 p.m. daily. KACE-San Bernardino-Riverside- WEBC-Dulurh, Minn.-S60 on 1570 on dial, 92.7 FM. 9:30 dial, 7:00 p.m. daily. KMON - Great Falls, Mont. - 560 a.m. Sun., 7:05 a,m. Mon, on dial, 8:00 p.m. Sun., 6:30 thru Sat. WMIL-Milwaukee, Wis.-1290 kc., p,m. Mon. thru Sat. 9S.7 FM, 3:00 p.m. Sun., AM KOGO-San Diego-GOO on dial, only, 7:00 a.m. Mon. thru Sat. West Coast 8:30 p,m. Sun, KFYR-Bismarck, N. Dak.-SSO on KHQ-5pokane-590 on dial, 8:05 11/ Splwisb- dial, 7 p.m. daily. p.m. daily. KALI-Los Angeles, Calif,-1430 on dial, 4:45 p.m. Sun. South KVI-Seattle-570 on dial, 8 a.m. KCTA-Corpus Christi, Tex.-l030 Sun. Alaska & Hawaii on dial, 2 p.m. Sun., 12:30 KBLE-Seattle-1050 on dial. 12 KFQD-Anchorage. Alaska-750 on p.m. Mon. thtu Fri., 4:30 noon daily. dial, 7:30 p,m. daily. p.m. Sat. KULA-Honolulu, Hawaii-690 on KMO - Tacoma, Wash. - 1360 on dial, 6:00 p,m. daily. KCUL-Ft. Worth-1540 on dial, dial, 8:30 p.m. daily. 1:00 p.m. Sun., 12:00 noon CANADA Mon. thru Sat. KWJJ-Portland-lOBO on dial, 10 p.m. Sun., 9 p.m, Mon. thru VDCM-5t. Jobn's, Nfld.-590 on WBAP-Fort Worth, Tex.-570 on Sat. dial, 6:30 p.m, Sun" 7:00 dial, 8:00 p.m. daily. p.m. Mon. thru Sat. KEE5-Gladewater, Tex.-1430 on *KYMN-Pordand-1520 kc., 8:30 p.m. daily. CJCH-Halifax, N.S.-920 on dial, dial, 12:00 noon daily. 10:00 p.m. Sun., 9:30 p.m. KTBB-Tyler, Tex.--600 kc., 12:00 KEX-Portland-1190 on dial, 8:30 a.m, Sun. Mon. thru Sat. noon Mon. tbru Sat, CFBC-St. Jobn, N.B.-930 on dial, KMAC-San Antoni0--630 on dial, KGAY-5alem-1430 on dial, 9:00 8:30 p.m. daily, 9:00 a.m, Sun., 7:15 a.m. a.m. Sun., 6:30 a.m. Mon. CKCW - Moncton, N,B. - 1220 on Mon. thtu Sat. thru Sat. dial, 5:30 p.m, Sun" 6:00 KTBC - Austin - 590 on dial, 9:30 KUGN-Eugene-590 on dial 7 a.m, Mon. thru Sat. a.m. Sun., 5:30 a.m. Mon. thru p.m. daily. CFMB - Montreal, Que. - 1410 on Sat. KUMA-Pendleton, Ore.-1290 on dial, 1:30 p.m. Sun., 6:30 KTLU - Rusk, Tex. - 1580 on dial, dial, 6:30 p.m, daily. a,m, Man, thru Sat, 1 :00 p.m, Sun. KYJC - Medford, Ore. - 1230 on CKOY-Ottawa, Ont.-1310 00 KGNC-AmariJIo-710 on dial, 9:00 dial, 6:30 p.m. daily. dial, 5:30 a.m. Mon. thru Sat, p,m. daily, CJET-Smiths Falls, Ont.-630 on KFMJ-Tulsa-l050 on dial, 12:30 KAGO-Klamath Falls. Ore.-USO dial, 10:00 a.m. Sun., 7:30 p.m. daily. on dial, 6:30 p.m. daily. p.m. Mon. thru Sat. KBYE-Okla. City-890 on dial, KBLF-Red Bluff, Calif.-1490 kc., CKFH-Toronto, 00(.-1430 on 10:30 a.m. Sun., 12:30 p.m. 6:30 p,m. daily, dial, 10:00 p.m. Sun., 6:00 Mon. thru Sat. KSAY-San Francisco-1010 on a.m. Mon. thru Sat. KWAM-Memphis-990 on dial, dial. 8:30 a.m. Sun., 12:30 CKLB-Oshawa, Ont.-1350 on dial, 10:00 a.m. Sun., 11:00 a,m. p,m. Mon. thru Sat. 10:30 p,m, SUD" 9:0S p.m. Mon. thru Sat, KFRC-San Francisco-610 OD dial, Mon. tbru Sat. WSHO-New Orleans-800 on dial, 106,1 FM. 8:30 a.m. Sun, CHIQ - Hamilton, Onto - 1280 on 12:00 noon daily. KFAX-San Francisco-1100 on dial, dial, 8:00 p,m, Sun" 7:00 p.m, WDEF - Chattanooga, Tenn, - 1370 10:00 a.m. and 10:45 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. on dial, 92.3 FM. 8:00 p,m. Sun., 10:15 p.m. Mon. thru CKLW - Windsor, Onto - 800 on daily. Fri., 4:15 p.m. Mon. thtu Sat. dial, 7:00 p.m. Sun. WAKE-Atlanta-1340 on dial, CKSO-Sudbury, Ont.-790 on dial, KFIV - Modesto, Calif. - 1360 on 5:30 p.m. Sun., 8:30 p,m. 10:30 a.m. Sun. dial, 6:00 p,m. daily. WBRC-Birmingham, Ala.-960 kc., Mon, thru Sat. 106.9 FM, 7:30 p.m. daily, or KNGS - Hanford, Calif, - 620 on CJLX-Fort William, Ont.-800 on adjacent to basketball. dial, 10:00 a.m. Sun" 6:00 dial, 6:25 p.m. Sun., 7:30 p.m. p,m. Mon. thru Sat. WYDE-Birmingham, Ala,-850 on Mon. thru Sat. dial, 10:30 a.m. Sun. *KGEE-Bakersfield-1230 kc., 8:00 CKY - Winnipeg, Man. - 580 on WMEN-Tallahassee-1330 on dial. p.m. daily, dial, 10 p.m. Sun., 6:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m, Sun., 8:00 a.m. KD~Santa Barbara, Calif.-1490 Mon. thtu Sat. Mon. thru Sat. on dial, 93.7 FM, 6:30 p.m. CKDM - Dauphin, Man. - 730 on WMIE-Miami, Fla.-1140 on dial, Sun., 5:00 p.m. MOD. thru Sat. dial, 6:30 p.m. daily, 8:30 a.m. Sun" 12 noon Mon. KUDU - Ventura, Calif. - 1590 on CJNB - North Battleford, Sask.- thtu Sat. dial, 95.1 FM. 8:00 p.m, daily. 1050 on dial, 2:30 p.m. daily. WZOK - Jacksonville, Fla, - 1320 6:30 p.m. Sun., 7:30 p,m. KRKD-Los Angeles-1150 on dail, Mon. thru Sat. on dial, 12:30 p.m, daily. 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sun., WKYX-Paducah, Ky.- 570 on CKRM-Regina, Sask.-980 on dial, 6:15 a.m., 7:00 p.m. Mon. thru 6:30 p.m. daily. dial, 93.3 FM, 12:30 p.m. Sat. 96,3 FM Sun. & p.m. daily. times only, CJGX-Yorktoo, Sask.-940 on dial, 9:00 p,m. Sun., 8:30 p.m. Mountain States KTYM - Inglewood, Calif. - 1460 Mon. thru Sat. KPHO-Phoenix-910 on dial, 6:35 on dial, 12:00 noon Mon. ~'CKSA-L1oydminster, Sask.-Alta.- p.m. daily. thru FeL 1080 kc., 7:00 p.m. daily, KLZ-Denver-560 on dial, 106.7 ':'KEZY-Anaheim, Calif., 1190 kc., FM, 7:30 p.m. daily. 7:00 p.m, daily. (Continued on next page) 16 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966 RADIO LOG "The WORLD TOMORROW"

CKXL - Calgary, Alta. - 1140 on DYCB, Cebu City-570 kc.-9,30 4AK-Oakey, Qld. - 1220 kc.-9,30 dial, 10:00 p.m. Sun., 5:30 p.m. Friday. p.m. Sun.; 10:15 p.m. Mon. a.m. Mon. tbru Sat. DYKR, Kalibo-l480 kc., 8;00 p.m. thru Thurs.; 10:30 p.m. Fri. CFCW - Camrose, Alta. - 790 on daily, except Tues. 7:00 p.m. 4BK-Brisbane, Qld. - 1300 kc.- dial, 8:30 p.m. Mon. tbru DZAL, Legaspi City - 1230 kc., 9:30 p.m. Sun.; 10:15 p.m. Fri., 8:00 p.m. Sat. 8,00 p.m. daily. Mon. thru Thurs.; 10:30 p.m. CJVI-Victoria, B.C.-900 on dial, DZGH, Sorsogon - 1480 kc., 8:00 Fri. 6:00 a.m. Mon. thru Sat. p.m. daily. 4CA-Cairos. Qld.-lOl0 kc.-l0:00 p.m. Sun. thru Fri. CKLG-Vancouver, B.C.-730 on DZLT, Lucena City-1240 kc., 9:00 dial, 7:00 a.m. Sun., 6:00 a.m. a.m. daily 4IP-Ipswicb, Qld.-1010 kc.-9,30 p.m. Sun. thru Fri. Mon. thru Sat. DZRB, Naga City-750 kc., 9:00 CKPG-Prince George. B.C.-5S0 p.m. Sun. 4KQ - Brisbane, Qld. - 690 kc.- on dial. 10:30 a.m. Sun., 6:30 10:30 p.m. Sun. a.m. Mon. thru Sat. DZRI, Dagupan City - 1040 kc. - 9:00 p.m. Sun. 4WK - Warwick, Qld. - 880 kc. - CKOV-Kelowna, B.C.-630 on dial, 9:00 p.m. Mon. tbru Sat. 8:00 p.m. daily. RADIO GUAM-KUAM-610 kc., 6,00 p.m. dilly. 4TO-Townsville, Qld.-780 kc.- CFBV-Smithers, B.C.-1230 on 9:30 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. dial, 7:30 p.m. daily. AFRICA 6KG-Kalgoorlie, WA-980 kc.- Itt Freflch-­ RADIO LOURENCO MARQUES, 10:00 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. CFMB-Montreal-1410 kc., 5 p.m., MOZAMBIQUE-3301 kc., 6PM-Perth, WA-1000 kc.-10,00 Sat. and Sun. 92 metres and 4925 kc., 60 p.m. Sun.; 10: 15 p.m. Mon. CKJL - St. Jerome, Que. - 900 kc., metres-lO:OO p.m. Mon., thru Fri. 10:30 a.m. Sun. Wed., and Sat., 10:30 p.m. GAM-Northam, WA-860 kc.- EUROPE Tues., Thur., and Fri. 10:00 p.m. Sun.; 10:15 p.m. In English- RADIO UFAC, ELIZABETHVILLE Mon. thru Fri. RADIO LUXEMBOURG-208 -OQ2AD-4980 kc. (60 m.) 7AD-Devonport, Tas.-900 kc.- metres (1439 kc.) medium -6:30 and 10:00 p.m. Sun. 8:30 p.m. Sun. thru Fri. wave, 6:00 p.m. Mon. and thru Fri. 7BU-Burnie, Tas.-560 kc.-9:00 Tues., G.M.T. WNBS-lagos-G02 kc.-8:30 p.m. p.m. Sun. thru Fri. RADIO LONDON-266 metres daily. 7HT - Hobart, Tas. - 1080 kc.- (1120 kc.) medium wave, 7:00 WNBS-lbadan-656 kc., 3380 kc., 7:30 p.m. Sun. thru Frj, p.m. daily. G185 kc. and 9500 kc.-8:30 7LA-launcestoD, Tas.-l100 kc.- RADIO CAROLINE NORTH - 199 p.m. daily. 10,10 p.m. Sun., 9,30 p.m. metre! (1500 kc.) medium AUSTRALIA Mon. thru Fri. wave, 8:00 p.m. daily. 2KY-Sydney, NSW-I020 kc.- 7SD - Scottsdale, Tas. - 540 kc. - RADIO CITY-299 metres (1000 10:15 p.m. Mon. thtu Thurs.; 9:00 p.m. Sun. thru Fri. kc.) medium wave, 6:45 a.m. 10:45 p.m. Fri.; II p.m. Sat. LATIN AMERICA daily. 2AY - Albury, NSW - 1490 kc.- RADIO SCOTLAND - 242 metres 9:00 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. In English- (1250 kc.) medium wave, RADIO BARBADOS-Black Rock, 2GF - Grafton, NSW - 1210 kc.- Barbados -785 kc., 10:30 7:00 p.m. daily. 9:00 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. RADIO 39{}-390 metres (773 kc.) a.m. Sun., 9:30 a.m. Mon. 2GN - Goulburn, NSW - 1380 kc. thru Fri., 11:00 a.m. Sat. medium wave, 7:00 a.m. and -8:30 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. 6:30 p.m. daily. RADIO REDIFFUSION - Bridge· 2GZ - Orange, NSW - 990 kc.- town, Barbados, 9:30 a.m. In French- 8:45 p.m. Sun., 9:05 p.m. RADIO LUXEMBOURG-1293 Sun., 10:30 a.m. Mon. thru Mon. thru Fri. Fri., 9:30 a.m. Sat. metces-5:40 a.m., Mon., 5:25 2HD-Newcastle, NSW-1140 kc. a.m. Tues., Thurs. and Fri. RADIO AMERICA-Lima, Peru- -10:30 p.m. Sun.; 9:00 p.m. 10lD kc.-5:15 p.m. Sat. EUROPE NO. ONE-Felsberg en Mon. thru Fri. Sure, Germany- 182 kc. HOC21-Panama City-Il15 kc.; 2KA-Katoomba. NSW - 780 kc.- HP5A - Panama City - 1170 kc.; (1647 m.)-6:00 a.m. Sun., 10:00 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. 5:45 a.m. Wed. and Sat. HOK - Colon, Panama - 640 kc.; I" German- 2LM-Lismore, NSW-900 kc.- HP5K-Colon, Panama-6005 kc.- RADIO LUXEMBOURG-49 metres 8:30 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. 7:00 p.m., Sundays. (6090 kc.) shortwave and 208 *2TM-Tomworth, NSW- 1290 kc. In French- metres (1439 kc.) medium -9:30 p.m. Mon. thru Sat. 4VBM-Port au Prince, Haiti-1430 wave - 6:05 a.m. Sun., 5:30 3AW-Melbourne, Vic.-1280 kc.- kc., 7,45 p.m. Wed. a.m. Mon., 5:15 a.m. Tues., 10:30 p.m. Suo. 4VCM-Port au Prince, Haiti-6165 5: 15 a.m. Fri. 3BA - Ballaratt, Vic. - 1320 kc.- kc., 7:45 p.m. Wed. ASIA 9:30 p.m. Sun. thru Thurs., RADIO CARAIBES-St. Lucia, 4:30 p.m. Fri. RADIO TAIWAN (FORMOSA) West Indies-840 kc.-6:45 "The 3rd Network, B.C.C."- 3BO-Bendigo, Vic.-960 kc.-9:00 a.m. Mon. thru Thurs. BED23 Taichung 1380 kc.; p.m. Mon. thru Sat. In Spanish- BED55 Taipei 960 kc.; 3KZ-Melbourne, Vic.-1180 kc.- RADIO LA CRONICA-Lima, Peru BED78 Tainan City 1540 kc.; 10:30 p.m. Sun.; 10:45 p.m. - 1320 kc.-7:00 p.m. Sun. BED79 Kaohsiung 1220 kc.; Mon. thru Fri. RADIO COMUNEROS-Asuncion, BED82 Chiayi 14GO kc.- 3MA-Mildura, Vic. - 1470 kc.- Paraguay-970 kc.-8:30 p.m. 18:00 T.S.T., Wed. and Pri. 3:30 p.m. Mon. thru Fri.; Thursdays. RADIO OKINAWA-KSBK-880 10:00 p.m. Sat. RADIO SPORT-CXA19-Monte· kc. Sundays: 12 ;OG noon. 3TR-Sale, Vic.-1240 kc. -9:30 video, Uruguay-11835 kc.- PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, p.m. Sun. thru Thurs., 8:30 2:00 p.m. Wednesday. DZAQ, Manila-620 kc.-8:30 p.m. p.m. Fri. RADIO CARVE-CX16, 850 kc., daily. 3XY-Melbourne. Vic.-1420 kc.­ and CXA13, 615G kc.-Mon· DXAW, Davao City-640 kc.- lD:30 p.m. Sun., 10:00 p.m. tevideo, Uruguay-3:30 p.m., 9:00 p.m. Sunday. Mon. thru Fri. Saturdays. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY Christian Custom?-or Pagan Superstition?

by Herman l. Hoeh

HERE OlD St. Valentine's Day to fornication. Today, the custom of have also borne the name Valentine W come from? "going steady" is thought very modern. among the heathen Romans? You might suppose SdlOOI It isn't. It is merely a rebirth of an old The Greeks called Lupercus by the teachers and educators would know. custom "handed down from the Roman name of "Pan". The Semites called But do they? How many of you were festival of the Lupercalia, celebrated in Pan "Baal," according to the Classical ever taught the real origin of Valen­ the month of February, when names of Dictionaries. Baal- mentioned so often tine's Day?- were ever told in school young women were put into a box and in the Bible-was merely another name why you should observe the custom drawn out by men as chance directed." for Nimrod, "the mighty hllnter" of exchanging va lentines? That's the admission of the El1cylope­ (Genesis 10:9). The hunter Nimrod dia Americana, article, "St. Valentine's was the Lupercus- or wolf hunter-of The Silence of Educators Day." the Romans. And St. Valentine's Day Teachers are all too often silent about When Constantine made Christianity was originally a day set aside by the the origin of the customs they are the official religion of the Roman Em­ pagans in his honor! forced to teach in today's Sdlools! If pire there was some talk in church But why should Nimrod have been they were to speak out, many would circles of discarding this pagan £ree­ called "Valentine" by the Romans? And lose their jobs! for-all. But the Roman citizens why should the celebration of this day Isn't it time we examined why we wouldn't hear of it! So it was agreed have been anciently limited to the city of encourage our children to celebrate St. that the holiday would continue as it Rome before Pope Gelasius' time? \Vhat Valentine's Day- when it is never so 'was, except for the more grossly sen­ part did the site of ancient Rome play much as mentioned in the Bible as a sual observances. in the Itfe of Nimrod? practice of the New Testament Church? It was not until the reign of Pope Valentine comes from the Latin word Today, candymakers unload tons of Gelasius that the hoLday became a Valen/iJ1Ifs, a proper name derived heart-shaped red boxes for February 14, "Christian" custom. "As far back as from the word va/ellS, meaning "to be while millions of the younger set are 496, Pope Gelasius changed Lupercalia strong," declares IV ebster' s Unabridged annually exchanging valentines. Florists on February 15 to St. Valentine's Day Dictiol7ary. It means literally "strong. consider February 14-St. Valentine's on February 14." (p. 172 of C1IJt01l1S powerful, mighty." Any connection Day~as one of their best business days. and Holidays Arollnd Ihe World by with Nimrod? We read in the Bible that And young lovers pair off- at least for Lavinia Dobler). Nimrod was the "MI GHTY hunter" a dance or two-at St. Valentine's But how did this pagan festival ac­ (Gen. 10:9). It was a common proverb balls. '1uire the name of "St. Valentine's of ancient time that Nimrod was "the Why? Where did these customs ori­ Day"? And why is the I ittle naked MIGHTY hunter before the Lord." ginate? Where do we find any such Cupid of the pagan Romans so often Nimrod UJas their hero-their strong practices in the Bible? How did we associated today with February 14? lIlan- their VALENTINE! come to in herit these customs? And why do little children and young How plain that the original Valen­ people still cut out hearts and send A Christian Custom? tine was Nimrod, the mighty hunter them on a day in honor of Luperclls of wolves. Yet another oF- °Nimrod's Did you know that centuries before the hunter of wolves? Why have we names was "Sanctus" or "Santa," mean­ Christ, the pagan Romans celebrated supposed these pagan customs in honor ing "Saint." It was a common ti tle of February 15 and the evening of February of a false god are Christian? any hero-god. No wonder that the Ro­ 14 as an idolatrous and sensuous fes­ man Lupercalia is ca lled "Saint Valen­ tival in honor of Lupercus, the "hunter Who Was the Original tine's Day"! of wolves"? "St. Valentine"? But why do we associate HEARTS on The Romans called the festival the Valentine was a common Roman "Lupercalia." The custom of exchang­ name. Roman parents often gave the a day in honor of Nimrod- the Btltll of ing valentines and all the other tradi­ name to their children in honor of the the Phoenicians and Semites? tions in honor of Lupercus- the deified famous man who was first called Val­ The surprising answer is that the hero-hunter of Rome-was also linked entine in antiquity. That famolls man pagan Romans aCCJuired the symbol of anciently with the pagan practice of was Lupercus, the h,m/e/,. But who the heart from the Babylonians. In the teen-agers "going steady." It usually led was Luperclls ?- and why should he Babylonian tongue the word for heart 18 The PLAIN TIlUTH February, 1966 was "bal " (see Y oung's or Strong's ment (see Yomlg's Concordance under save you. That was not the purpose of Concordance). The heart-bal-was "Sathar," also "sether"). His death. The blood of Christ makes merely a symbol of Nimrod-the Baal According to ancient tradition, Saturn possible the justification of your guilty or Lord of the Babylonians I (Nimrod) fled from h is pursuers to past, YOll[ reconciliation to God. But it Italy. The Apennine mountains of Italy takes the life of Christ to impart eternal Executed at Rome were anciently named the mountains of life to man. Nimrod-the original St. Valentine­ Nembrod or Nimrod. Nimrod briefly But, th is is 1tot what we are talking was also known as Saturn, the Roman­ hid out at the site where Rome was about when we say that if Christ came Babylonian god who hid from his pur­ later built. The ancient name of Rome, to this earth over 1900 years ago to suers in a secret place. The Latin word before it was rebuilt in 753 B.C., was save this world, He failed. Look around Saturn is derived from the Semitic­ Saturnia-the site of Saturn's (Nim­ you. There are over three and one-half speaking Babylonians. It means "be rod's) hiding. There he was found and billion people on this earth today. How hid," "hide self," "secret," "conceal." slain for his crimes. Later, professing many are true Christians? H ow many The original Semitic ( Hebrew) word, Christians in Constantine's day made are living as Christ did? How many be­ from which the Latin Saturn is derived, Nimrod-the St. Valentine of the hea- lieve all that He said and follow His is used 83 times in the Old Testa- (Colllilllled all page 47) commands? How many even know what a true Christian is? Here is the Bible defini4 tion: "And hereby we do know that THE BIBLE ANSWERS we know him, if we keep his command4 menls. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily FROM OUR READERS is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him" (I John 2:3-5) . Looking at it this way-Gad's way HERE are the Bible answers to -do you think that the many are being questions which can be answered briefly in a short space. Send in your saved today? Is the vast majority living questions. While we cannot promise that all questions will find space by every Word of God' (Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4.) for answer in this department, we shall tty to answer all that are vital Have Christ's teachings put an end and in the general interest of our readers. to war, crime, adultery, thievery, hatred, • I often hear you say that Christ it- Romans 5:10-"we shall be saved oppression, famine? did not come to save this world. by his life"! The death of Christ does If this is the only day of salvation, D oesn ' t the Bible teach that not impart eternal li fe. The death of if the people on the earth today are Christ came to save this world­ by dying for it? Christ justifies your guilty past. It takes now being given their one and only the life of Christ-the Holy Spirit-to opportunity for salvation, then Christ Christ DID come to die for this impart eternal life. Notice Paul's teach­ has fai led. For millions have lived and world's sins (John 3:16). We certainly ing in I Co ri nthians 15: "But if there died without any saving knowledge. know and teach the need for Christ's be no resurrection of the dead, then is But, Christ did not come to give every­ death to pay ' the penalty of sin. Christ not risen. .. And if Christ be one an opportunity for salvation at THIS But have you read Romans 5 :8·1O? not raised ... you are yet in your sins. time. "But God commendeth his Jove toward Then they also which are fall en asleep Rather, your Bible shows that most us, in that, while we were yet sinners, in Christ are perished" (verses 13, of the world has been spiritllally Christ died for us. Much more then, l7-18). blinded, deceived, yes, made spiritually being now justified by his blood, we There it is in plain language. Can drunk on false religious beliefs. They shall be saved from wrath through him. you believe it? CANNOT understand the Bible (Rev. For if, when we were enemies, we were If Christ is not living-if His life 12:9; Rom. 11 :25, 32) unless God reconciled to God by the death of his is not living in you through the Holy reveals His truth to them. This is not Son, much more, being reconciled, we Spirit, if there is no resurrection~then the on Iy day of salvation. It is a day shall be saved by his life." you r faith is in vain. You are perished! of salvation for those whom God is Christ bled and died for us. His You are yet in your sins because there ca ll ing. It is their one and only chance. death makes possible the forgiveness of is no living H igh Priest to plead But, not all are now being called. sin-the justification of our guilty past. for you. God has 110t yet set His hand to But we shall be saved by His LIFE ! Read The death of Christ cannot, of itself, (Contin1led on page 31) INSIDE LATIN AMERICA!

Beginning with the Central American "Banana Belt," this ex­ clusive report reveals the pulse of South America, and its new spokesman-Chilean President Frei. Read about a new DANGER on the horizon for the U. S. and Britain.

Ambo,uodor Colle!je Pilolos

President Frei visits Q ueen Eli za beth .

by Charles V . Dorothy Panama City, Panama OT ALL is tropical tranquility, tourist vacationing and sunlit N siesta in Central America t Not all is bananas, either. Here the Central American Common Market (abbreviated to CACM)­ quietly patterned after Europe's Common market-is a reality! But if you are like many unconcerned Americans, Central American business does not interest you. to p of page, awaits Preside nt Frei at l imo, Peru, a irport- Here and Peru's Bel au nde review troops. No matter whether you are con- Ambassador College Typi cal vendor in Ce ntral Bu s Station, Pana ma City, low Gove rn ment housin g proiect, Panama City. One-quarte r sta ndard of living increases jealousy of Am e rican super­ block away are wretched slum s. markets in Canal Zone, cerned, America is threatened with government of Spain September 15, moves the Union capital from Guate­ unseen danger from CACM ~ l82 L Thus died Spa in's "Captaincy mala City to San Salvador, 1834. From "inside" the CACM area (and General of Guatemala" which com· Cholera breaks out, 1837. The Cen­ before continuing our hemisphere tour prised all of Central America except tral American Federation finally falls

into South America) I 1 j1lJt held to be­ Panama. Thus also began the shaky under the attack of the illiterate Indian gin writhzg this wdming to the sJeepy Union of Central America which la.rted Raphael Carrera, 1838. American public! Real and present 17 yeafJ-1821-1838. Central Ameri­ T he British take over the Mosquito danger- both political and economic­ cans cherish this old "Union"; the idea Coast (l830's) and occupy San Juan del is developing here right under our very has never rea lly died. Norte (rechristened Greytown), chal· noses! Second, Central Americans "make no lenging Central America and the Recent and Ancient bones" about the fact they are copying United States, l848. a successful U. S. rival: the European In every country my wife and I The American adventurer, Will iam Common Market. have visited thus far, we found en­ Walker-whose story set to music thusiasm high for this new economIC Hair-Raising History would outdo the wildest opera---con­ marvel, MCC (Mercado Com1nlln With these two models to follow, quers Nicaragua with his personal army Ce11tro Americano) as it is caUed in can Central America overcome her hys­ (backed by the American South which Spanish, MCC, or CACM, is composed terical history, and bring about 1Ini/y? hoped to annex Nicarabrua as another of Costa Rica, EI Sa lvador, Guatemala, The whole history of Central America slave state), 1856. Honduras and Nicaragua. All kinds of reads ' like a nightmarish pirate novel, The United States is later forced to people-professional, nonprofessional, liberally sprinkled with buccaneers, intervene mi li tarily in N icaragua, 1912. working and retired-want this daring privateers, adventurers, would-be con­ (The results of that American interven· "combine" to succeed. Everyone we querors, tropical diseases and jungle tion are strange: a supposedly indepen­ J dent republic becomes the property of interviewed believes it wjJJ succeed. rot, revolts, coup d etatsJ plots and Recent progress and present enthusi­ counterplots, assassinations, intrigue, New York bankers who act forma lly for asm strongly point toward Central rebellion and revolution. Though the the American government - without American success. And that's not al l. old Central American Union started out Senate authorization!) Central America has two historic strong, it has, for more than a century, You might think unity could never precedents-full scale models of eco­ had staggering problems to override in come from Stich splotchy, patchwork nomic union-to go by. order to achieve the present un ity of DISUNITY . But through all this hair­ First, Central America would like to CACM. raising history, the one persistent strain reachieve and rebuild its former Union Look briefly at the "Union's" record is UNIFICATION-"the repeated attempt of 1821. This land of bananas and since 1821- to revive the federation [of 1821)" coffee, embracing some 220,000 square Guerrillas (!) conquer Guatemala (H erring, A History of Latin Ameri­ miles (roughly equal to New York and City, 1829. ca) . T ime and again these tiny coun· California combined) revolted from the A revolt by the priests and the rich tries- in the midst of their squabbles- February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 21

have offered and reoffered projects for planes "buzzed" our hotel. We awoke showcase, salt mines called Las Salinas reunion. sudden ly-somewhat panic-struck In de Z ipaquira, we plainly saw the gi­ Can They Change? our drowsi ness-thinking for sure we gantic contrast between rich and poor. True, Central American politics reads were in the midst of a notorious Latin On the one hand, Bogota's socia l cl ubs like a H oll ywood pirate novel. But ... revolution! The shooting and buzzing, are among the most lavish in the Hollywood novels sometimes have the muffled roar of shouts and stomp­ Americas. On the other hand, for most happy endings. In 1961 EI Salvador­ ing feet continued for three hours. Colombians, life is a daily struggle blighted with a fai li ng economy- took It did not take us three hours, how­ against cold and hunger. the lead lInder President (Colonel) ever, to learn this was a military review What is not evident from a taxi is Jose Lemus to organize the Central and ce lebration of Independence Day, the easy answer to Colombia's sad and American Common Market, hoping to Bogota, Colombia, July 20 I unnecessary one-crop eco nomy. The en­ relieve the "Banana Belt" from total Here we are in Co lombia, known as tire nation of Colombia depends on dependence on the fitful up·and-down the "Gateway to South America"-the coffee. The simple solution to this pre­ country supposed to become the "show­ prices of coffee and bananas in the carious existence is the needed develop­ world market. case of the All iance fo r Progress." If ment of Colombia's many other there is any All iance for Progress On the wildest taxi ride of our lives resources-oil, coal, timber, fruits, pre· showcase here, it must be badly bullet­ (from the ai rport to Nicaragua's capital, cious metals! For some strange reason, shattered. Colombia is experiencing a Managua). I interviewed a Pri nceton Colombia resolutely refuses to develop University student- one of hventy scnt wave of terrorism and kidnapping! her resources. Just like Panama, Colom­ from the University to study CACM. Increasing evidence of Castro-Commu­ bia is dominated by politicians who pay We discussed the important and epoch­ nist infi ltration (in the back country) lip service to reform, yet consistently making treaties which have recently punctuates the swell ing symphony of a block alld oppose change. been signed, treaties which could solve hungry and downtrodden people a good percentage of all possible prob­ caught in the throes of a serious eco­ The Salinas turned out to be im­ lems in economic cooperation. So fa r, nomic slump. pressive. Here is a huge mountain of ratification on the more del icate issues Taxiing to the nation's pri ncipal salt, with trees and grass growing on it of these treaties is slow. Slow, but sti ll coming. Central America seems to have Booming city of Cali, southwestern Colombia. Three giant crosses crown hilltop. learned that to succeed in today's worJd © Ambouodor College Pli%s of industrial g iants- sud1 as the Six, U. S. A. and Soviet Russia-you must combine or collapse.' Ce111rtd America is combining. CACM, comprising 12 mi ll ion peo­ ple, boasting the fastest growing popu­ lation rate on earth, "is developing it­ self by giant strides: Inter-Central American commerce has grown by 200 percent in four years, and a proportion of this interchange in total commerce of the five republics ... has leaped from 7 percent to 15 percent" (Vision, Nov. 12, 1965). Central America has changed. Danger lies ahead for America and Canada in the Central American Com­ mon Market, just as danger lies ahead for English-speaking peoples in the Latin American Free Trade Association of Latin America. You will see what the danger is and how God led us "accidentally" behind the scenes, when our story ta kes us as far as Peru. On we go! Colombia, here we come! A Revolution ?

B OOM1 BOOM! Swossssh ! Cannon shots roared. Fighter and bomber 22 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966 just as the other mountains in the chain. Inside, a gigantic cathedral is hewn and chiseled out, com plete with vast chambers, altars and intricate carvi ngs, a1[ of rock sa lt. W e found a remote spot and at the guide's sugges­ tion broke off and licked a chunk of the walL Sure enough, it was salt! Jllly 21. Flying out of Bogota, over the "backbone of the Andes" or the western range, we began to learn our first lesson in South American geogra­ phy-power and contrast. Rugged snow-capped peaks contrast with deep peaceful vaJleys. Its people are equally At the equator, near Riobamba, San Rafael, Ecuador. Street is Ecuador. named after John F. Kennedy. unstable. We land in Cali, a major. ai r crossing and state capital. Colwnbia brink of a high ravine, we are im­ ride such as the one we learned of at left us with some outstanding impres­ pressed with colorful Ecuador: many the last minute before leaving Quito. sions. W omen wear black hats which flowers, bright Indian costumes, euca­ We had planned to fly from Quito to look exactly like men's hats. The coun- lyptus trees, and women with those Guayaquil. It just happened that the two-time- per-week rail trip between these two cities hit at the same time we were there, and was due to arrive in plenty of time to catch our plane out of Guayaquil. Hastily we bought tickets and jumped aboard the one-car train. This allto/ eftO is a dizzy twelve-hour railroad ride which clings to tracks leaping Andean chasms and gripping narrow ledges as it passes along the "avenue of volcanoes." The snow­ capped peaks of Cotopaxi (19,347 feet) and Chimborazo (20,5 61 feet) domi­ nate the va ll eys for miles, sharing this mountainous glory with twelve slightly lesser giants. Near the li ttle town of Sibambe, the alttoferro turns west) plummets down craggy mounts through Church in Cuzco, Peru, with Volkswagens in foreground. thrilling switchbacks and tunnels, clat­ ters across spidery bridges until finally tryside displays beautiful green moun­ same masculine hats. Besides enjoying the trees thicken into an impenetrable tains with abundant trees and fl owers. the comfortable hotel, and the sharp green jungle. The capital abounds with alert, intelli­ but refreshing dai ly mountain wind If you take this trip, you have in gent-looking people. lashi ng against our veranda door, we twelve hours come from cool snow­ take a trip to the Equatorial Monu­ capped mountains all the way to steam­ The Dotted Line ment. H ere we stand astraddle that ing lush jungle. The geography IS A thrilling flight over soaring peaks illusive "dotted line"-one foot in the nothing short of overwhelming. Again, takes us along the Andes and ac ross the Northern H emisphere, one foot in the power and contrast. This railroad is equator. In vain we looked for the Southern Hemisphere! This is one of barely short of miraculous. The fact dotted li ne all good maps show mark­ the few marked places in the world that we arrived on time-without any ing the equator. No such line! where you can be in two hemispheres mountain landslides blocking tracks, In the clean, attractive airport of at the same time ! with no bridges torn out by flash Quito, Ecuador, the health official floods, striking only two pigs which Once in a Lifetime stamped our vaccination cards, making were brutally scraped out of the way­ OUr temporary unofficial documents July 22. Once in a lifetime you may probably was a miracle. look quite official. En route to the be privileged to experience an exhila­ The train stopped across the Guayas modern luxurious hotel perched on the rating and almost unbelievable train River from Guayaquil in the dirty little February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 23

thirty other rcporters snapping pictures trying to sweep away petty animosities, of the two presid ents passing inspec­ infuse a spi rit of life into the organiza­ tion. tion. This Chilean president, now only six European economists are solidly feet from me, has emerged as the most backing the Chi lea n president's efforts. prominent political figure on the Lati n Frei's 24-day trip to the continent American scene ! More than anyone (from which he is just returning as I else, the energetic Frei is pushing hard photograph him at Callao) saw him for the integration of the entirety of receive more honors there than any Latin America into another Common Latin leader in history, including a Market. Only such a vast all-encompass­ high order bestowed on him by Pope ing scheme, he believes, ca n make a Paul VI. headway in the battle against Latin Danger for America America's grinding poverty_ Market place, Riobamba, Ecuador. President Frei hopes to merge the Neither the Central American CACM already successful, but small, Central nor the Latin American LAFT A plan town of Duran. The ferryboat sinks American Common Market (CACM) to include the United States, Britain or almost to the gunnels crossing the with the bigger, but slower-moving Canada I In fact, with millions of dol­ surging Guayas, in which float fresh Latin American Free Trade Association lars of European foreign aid pouring tree and flower branches broken off ( LAFTA). This loose unit is composed into Latin America, these common mar­ further up in the jungle. of the "ABC" countries-Argentina, kets plan 10 Ctlt the English-speaking As if to offset the notable unfriend­ Brazil, and Chile-along with Colom­ peoples OUT! liness of Guayaquil, we met Mr. and bia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Everywhere we travel we see Mrs. Bill Williams and their two fine and Uruguay. America slowly, but surely losing out in daughters in the hotel restaurant. Our LAFT A has proceeded at a sluggish the face of a gigantic economic on­ first chance meeting was back at the Panama Hilton dining room, where we rate since its founding in 1960. Frei is slaught of European and Japanese in- couldn't resist commenting on their two well-mannered daughters, Li sa and Auto-rail line from Quito to Guyaquil, Ecuador. © Ambassador Call_g_ Pholol Lita. What a surprise to meet them again a week later. The Williamses were the first of our trip's "fringe benefits": a travel friendship.

Startling News in Lima

Jtlly 23. En route to our hotel In Lima, Peru, we learned that President Frei of Chile has jllSt returned from an important European tour. For Latin America his trip may turn out to be epoch-making, or at least historically important. He will arrive at the Inter­ national Airport at Callao and will be interviewed by the press. Rushing full speed to the airport, adjusting my camera in nervous haste, I prayed that my press card from the Longview News and l oltmal of Long­ view, Texas, will get me through the gate. Amazingly, it works! I arrive just in time to see the Presi­ dent disembark from the plane and join President Belaunde of Peru. The troops from all branches of the Peru­ vian military stand in ri gid Nazi-like attention while I run and dodge with 24 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966

Far left, Urubamba River, along route to Machu Picchu.

Left" Indian family resting along roadside near CUICO.

Below, town square, (UICO, Peru.

Market place at Quermesa, Indian village near Caleo, Peru. Times have hardly changed since days of Spanish conquest.

vestments, loans and market-grabbing! Will we heed the economic warn­ ing signs over all Central and South America? Will the United States and Britain rise to this threat? Or wi ll we end lip like the last outpost of the strong Inca Empire, Machu Picchu- beauti ful but dead! (To be continued next ;sItle)

Right, downtown Lima, Peru, bustles with traffic. Two views of Machu Picchu, famous Inca ruins dis­ covered in 1911 by an American, Hiram Bingham. Spaniards never learned of this Inca stronghold.

Rail station, lake Titicaca.

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© Ambanador College PhotO$ Above~ steamers on lake Titicaca, world's highest navigated lake - a popular resort and trading area. © Ambauodot College New Physical Education Facility, Ambassador College, Pasadena, California, completed autumn 1964. Right, Ambassador Hall, main class­ room building, Pasadena campus. THE INSIDE STORY OF COLLEGE EDtJCATION

There are TWO SIDES , says one educator, to the story of college or university education-the OUTSIDE story and the INSIDE story. We strip bare the FACTS, in this article, of the little-realized inside story. It's time the public knew the TRUTH . Every high school senior and college student needs to know.

by Herbert W. A rmstrong HAT DOES the public SEE of bored students being put through Dead, Unusable Knowledge when it looks at this world's the sterile, mechanized conformist fac­ Li sten to the graduate with an M.A. W college and university life? tories- absorbing useless and dead degree from one of the world's most It sees the veneer-the OUTSIDE story. "knowledge." famous, big-name universities in Eng­ It sees the huge and stately build­ One book, newly published (1965), land: ings. It sees the colorful marching is titled RobotJ ;11 the Classroom. It bands, the scantily clad, high-stepping was written by Jane Bergen and others, "Imagine the excited elation of the twirlers, the organized cheer leaders published by Exposition Press, New average high school graduate in the and shouting football fans. It sees the York. Inside the front flap is the im­ United States or Canada-or the pos­ subsidized entertainers. plication that graduates today become sessor of a G.E. ce rtificate at 'A' It·s high time we followed these "seasoned conformists or frustrated out­ level in Britain-or the eguivalent entertainers inside the ivy-covered casts." The preface makes the statement student in Australia, New Zealand or bui ldings, and grasp the eye·opening that in American education 50 percent South Africa-if offered the opportun­ picture of the INSIDE story. It's time of the program is fraudulent, and an­ ity to be educated at my Alma Mater. we behold in stark realism the millions other 25 percent is largely ineffective. H e would undoubtedly consider it The Grand Hall in Memorial Ha ll, Ambassador College, Bricket Wood, England that one chance of a lifetime. knowledge might be used in publica· all parts of the Engl ish-speaking world. " \ spent three years there acquiring tion work. I look back on it now as a Incidentally, this particular student dead, unusable knowledge. Long hours wasted three years. entered Ambassador prior to the open­ were spent in research and study of ing of the second campus in England. Different at Ambassador nonconsequential happenings of sever· WHY THIS PHENOMENON? al hundred years ag<>-or of the li ves "Then I came to America and en­ At Ambassador there are basic elif­ or wr itings of nonconsequential people. tered Ambassador College in Pasadena, ferences which have drawn here as high Neither these people nor these events Ca li fornia. There I learned to speak as 65 percent of incoming male fresh· left any mark on human progress, or French wi th a French·educated Profes· men from other educational institutions played any important part in history. sor. There I attended regular French of university level. That is a statistic It was dead knowledge. It was unusable Club dinners where all students spoke un heard of in any other under· graduate knowledge. It was worthless. When I only in Frend1. There I began for the liberal arts coll ege in the world. requested permission to research and first time to be able to put my French From World's Famous write on some important personage or to practical use. There, for the first Universities event, modern or ancient, with rea l time, I learned the rea l PURPOSE of significance and value in the problems life- learned to discern the true values Students hold ing Master·s degrees of our time, of the world, or of value from the fa lse-found the meaning of from such universities as Harvard, in my life, the request was disallowed. life, and learned how to put knowledge Northwestern, Oxford, have entered "I majored in French. But I was to work in a practical manner." Ambassador as undergraduate students. not taught to speak French. I was given That is merely one case history Some of the other universities from no opportunity to converse in French among the hundreds who have come to which stud ents have entered the Am­ with any Frenchman, or with dons or one of the three AMBASSADOR COLLEGE bassador undergraduate co ll ege include fellow students. I was not taught even campuses from more than 160 highly Yale, Carnegie Tech, University of Lon· to translate effectively so that my regarded universities and colleges from don, University of Sydney, University February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 29 of Melbourne, University of Auckland, cies wreak countless tragedies. tionalism"-which is strangely irration­ University of Mexico, University of Such basic prerequisites of the truly al; and more recently the materialism Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, educated person as emotional maturity, of modern science and tedll1o logy. University of Wisconsin, U niversity of personality development, travel, actual Spiritual values are not the educators' Michigan, Michigan State, University of experience in DOING, are unthought of. concern. Morality-I think we may Indiana, Purdue, University of Minne­ The basic, and most essential of all safely say the educators and educational sota, University of Iowa, Iowa State, knowledge: the PURPOSE and real officials look the other way. University of Kansas, Kansas State, meaning of life; the true values as d is­ At Ambassador we recognize that a University of Nebraska, University of tinguished from the false; the WAY college education should prepare the M issouri, University of Oklahoma, to peace, abundant liv ing in happi­ student for LIFE-for the happy, re­ University of T exas, Texas A & M, ness; these basics are conspicuously warding, successful, enjoyable. abml­ University of Colorado, Colorado State, absent (rom the regimented Cll rricula. dmlt life-for a life of USEFULNESS, Stanford, University of California Students come to Ambassador to of ACCOMPLISHMENT-of PURPOSE! A (Berkeley), U.CL.A., University of learn HOW TO LIVE, as well as how to college education should be prartical! Southern California, University of earn a living. Ambassador students Knowledge is of value only to the ex­ Washington, Washington State, Uni­ learn to WORK, as well as study. They tent it ca n be used! Knowledge should versity of Oregon, Oregon State, Cal also learn to PLAy-and to play hard, serve the person-not the person serve Tech, Los Angeles State, etc., etc., etc. but cl eanly. Many Ambassador students the knowledge. There is no time or I have said before- and I say again­ arc g iven unheard-of travel opportuni­ place for dead, impractical, unusable something is criminally WRONG in mod­ ties. Each year a limited number- from knowledge at Ambassador. ern education. Many educators do rec­ three or four to ten or twelve or more In my Autobiography 1 have re­ ognize that certain evil s have leavened from each campus-are given a schol­ counted how my elder son, Richard the educational system in the western arship opportunity to study for one or David. studied French four years at world. Many realize the drift into two years at one of the other cam­ Ambassador. He studied under a native­ materialism- that co ll eges and univer­ puses- in En gland, T exas, or Californ­ born Frenchman, educated in Paris, sities have become educational factories ia. There are other travel opportunities. with degrees from a Paris university. of mass production using assembly-line Last spri ng the entire student body in On graduation he was sent to Paris systems-that students virtually lose England was taken on a three-day trip on an important mission. There he was their identity. to Paris. accepted as a native-born Frenchman­ But few educators realize the real T he educational system of the occi­ there was no foreign accent in his criminal danger! dental world was spawned in paganism. speaking the language. They are failing to educate the It has perpetuated to this day pagan The predominant educational system WHOLE MAN or WOMAN. Education traditions, pagan superstitions, false in the occidental world is decadent. today generally is concerned primarily philosophies, pagan religious customs. T he World Tomorrow is going to wit­ with the mimi ol1ly . Education has be­ These things go largely unrecognized ness an entirely NE\'(' system of educa­ come narrow, speciali zed, unbalanced. and unrealized by a deceived world tion. I have said repeated ly, this world There is no effort to build CHARACTER. which confers blind but complete ac­ is the product of its leaders, and the Campus morals have taken a toboggan ceptance without awareness of the real leaders a re the product of the deterio­ slide, and premarital sex, seldom even truth. rating system of education. It is an un­ frowned upon any more, has become Into this educational system has been happy, deteriorating world. close to universal. Premarital pregnan- injected the leaven of German " ra- If utopia is to come-and it is.'.'-

Ambassador in Eng land-the Rose Garden, with Mu sic lounge room of one of the women's residences, Am­ Hall, rig ht background . bassador Coll ege, England. West side view of Dining Hall on Ambassador campus, Texas, shows glass-walled st ud e nt lounge a rea. the whole wod d will have to be com­ pletely re-educated. That statement, I realize, is shocking. It sounds incredi­ ble-but it's true.

This world faces the population ex­ Temporary portable classroom usher in PEACEJ and universal prosperi­ plosion. It faces famine and the starva­ buildings, of latest design, on ty, plenty, happiness and joy-but also tion of humanity. It faces the extinction Texas campus. To supersede them the existing paganized EDUCATIONAL are two new classroom buildings, of human life by nuclear devastation. SYSTEM wi ll be destroyed and replaced on architects' drawing boards, to It faces total insanity- with one in ten begin construction in 1967. with Goo's KIND OF SCHOOLS AND today already a mental patient, and the COLLEGES. percentage on the increase. The world against the divine SPIRITUAL POWER! The NEW·DAY educational system of doesn't want to face up to rea lity- to He will break every government of man the WORLD TOMORROW already has what this actua ll y MEANS! -as God says of Him: "Thou shalt been introduced. Like the proverbial It means that-uNLESS God Al­ break them with a rod of iron; thou grain of mustard seed, it is beginning mighty exists, and UNLESS He is about sha lt dash them 10 pieces like a already to spread around the world. to send the living Jesus Christ back to potter's vesse l" ( Psa lm 2 :9). The gov­ Today there are three campuses-Cali­ earth In total divine PO\\.:IER and ernments of this world will become the fornia, Texas, and England. GLORY to take over world ru le and save kingdom of otlr Lord and His Christ Yes, THERE IS A REASON why stu­ this wodd from itself, then this world (Revelation 11: 15). The God of heaven dents by the hundreds are leaving the cannot and wi ll not carryon another will "set up a kingdom which shall most famous of this world's universi­ generation. never be destroyed: ... but it shall ties and applying for admission at one But the Eternal GOD does exist­ break in pieces and consume all these of the Ambassador campuses. and the dynamic living Jesus Christ is kingdoms" of men on this earth Interested students in the United coming-and in A VERY FEW YEARS! (Daniel 2 :44). States and Canada should request the The nations will not welcome Him. But NOT ONLY shall existing human current college catalog. (The new 1966- The religious leaders will ca ll Him a go'vemmenls be destroyed, and re­ 1967 editions will be printed about the False Prophet. Vast armies wi ll try to placed by the KINGDOM OF GOD---a beginning of spring.) Address The fight Him- but to no avail whatsoever WORLD-RULING government that will Registrar, Ambassador Co ll ege, Pasa- February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 31 dena, California. Those in United prove His intervention in human affairs be utterly crushed and broken continu­ Kingdom, Europe, South Africa or was near! He answered, " ... You shall ally, till you are driven mad by the Australasia should request prospectus, hear of wars and rumours of wars .. sight of it all ... Much seed shall you addressing The Registrar, Ambassador nation shall rise against nation, and carry to the field, but little shall you College, St. Albans, Herts., England. kingdom against kingdom, and there reap!" (Deut. 28:33-38.) shall be famines, and pestilenceJ} and We Ask, "But WHY!" earth9uakes, in divers places." Here's God's Answer! And your newspapers are literally FILLED with THOSE SPECIFIC CONDI­ WHY? " ... Because you would not TIONS! listen to the voice of the Eternal your (Colltil/tled from page /8) Further, your Bible prophesied OUR God, KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS convert and save the whole world. If peoples would be stricken with and orders for you: ... because you H e had, we would not witness the hun­ drought, famine, and disease epidem­ have not served the Eternal your God dreds of contradicting religious ideas ics! We are the "lost ten tribes" of with joy and with a glad heart for all and competing sects. ISRAEL of your Bible-and you can your abtlJJdtlJJce/ therefore, with hu1Z ­ For 6000 years God is allowing the PROVE that to yourself by writing for ger and thirst and nakedneH and utter world to go its own way to teach man­ our free booklet, The United States and po vert)!, shall yo.u serve the foes the kind that its ways only lead to misery British Commonwealth in Prophecy. Eternal sends against you!" (Deut. and death. God will soon set His Hand Listen to what God said would come 28 :45-47.) to save this world. That is the message upon our peoples-and notice how What about you? What about the of the gospel of the Kingdom of God. exact conditions are becoming today! people ),011 know? What about our in­ For 1000 years the nations are going to "But if you will not listen to me; if stitutions, our governments, our busi­ learn the way to peace-and everyone you will not do all I order you ... J nesses and our lodges, our entertain­ will be given opportunity for sa lvation wi ll subject you to terrible woes, to ment and our industry, our scientists (II Pet. 3 :8-9). consumption and fever that waste the and our military men? You need to understand the time eyes and wear life away: you shall sow HAVE WE SERVED GOD? HAVE we? element in God's plan of salvation. seed in vain, for YOUR ENEMIES will No.' We have served our own selfish Write fo r our amazing article entitled eat YOUR crops !" (Lev. 26:14-16, Mof­ interests-we've served our vanities "Is this the Only Day of Salvation '" fatt) . and our lusts ~ We call FILTH "new It will vividly explain why God has God said, "For ten acres of vine­ morality"! We try to make pornogra­ allowed mankind 6000 years to go his yard shall yield but eight gal/ollI, and phy, swill, unfaithfulness, infidelity, own way. And how God will remove the the harvest shall only be a lellth of fornication, adultery and even homo­ spiritual blindness from the eyes of what is sown.'1) (Isa. 5: 10.) Can you sexuality into "TRUE LOVE"! We try to hlUnanity. imagine carrying a htmdred sacks of rescue OURSELVES from our terrible wheat il1tO the field to plant, and har­ farm probJems, our weather problems, vesting only ONE sack? But THIS HAS our race problems, our marital and per­ HAPPE NED-and MORE IS COM ING! sonal problems! DROUGHT was prophesied to stri ke We want God to get out of our con­ FAMINE! our peoples! Listen to the startling sciousness and our lives when the go­ (Contilltled from page 13) accuracy of these prophecies! "I will ing is EASy-and then BLAME Him make the sky hard as iron for you and when the going gets TOUGH! Farmers skyward, nearly toppling over back­ the earth hard as bronze, till you spend in South Africa recently hung out signs ward, when studied on a chart! your strength in vain/ for your land on their fences above a bucket which In another 24 years (21 have dis­ shall bear no crops, and your trees shall said, in effect, "Throw your pennies appeared since World War II !), the bear no fruit" (Lev. 26:19-20). in here, so we can buy spectacles for present population of the U. S. would " ... The Eternal will strike you with God that He might see the sufferings be 362 MILLION-DOUBLE what it is ... drought, blasting, and mildew, of both man and beast!" Days later today! that shall pursue you till you perish; they went to their churches to pray for But foodstuffs are being lost; de­ the sky overhead shall be brass and the rain! stroyed by weather; sent abroad to feed earth underfoot shall be iron; the Eter­ ARE we rebellious and disobedient? starving millions-or not produced at nal will turn the rain of your land into Do we ignore God's Word, His LAWS all! WHY? WHY are all these horrify­ powder and dmt dropping from the which He gave for our GOOD, His Christ ing troubles descending upon us at the sky upon you ... " (Deut. 28:22-24). He sent to show us HOW TO LIVE? same time? The EXACT conditions you've just read Yes! about! God sa id , "And it shall come to pass, Christ Foretold Our Times ! Further, God warned, " ... a strange when thou shalt shew this people all Jesus Christ was asked for the sIg­ nation will eat up your crops and all these words, and they shall say unto nals in world conditions that would the fruit of your labour, and you shall thee, 'Wherefore hath the Eternal pro- 32 The PLAiN TRUTH February, 1966

nounced all this great evil against us?' cnme, adultery, divorce, our lust for tion [a LESSON!] and an astonishment or 'What is our iniquity?' or 'What is VIOLENCE, and our myriad fo rms of unto the nations that are round about our sin that we have committed against our own humanly devised religions! you, when I shall execute judgments the Eternal our God?' Then shalt thou God warns, " Do they provoke me to in you in anger and in fury and in say unto them, Because your fathers anger? saith the Eternal: do they not furious rebukes I" (Ezek. 5 :14-15.) have forsaken mc, saith the Eternal, provoke themselves to the confusion of Whell would God begin to really and have walked after other gods, and their own faces? Therefore thus saith PUN ISH our peoples as never before? have served them, and have worshiped the Eternal God, Behold, mine anger and H ow can you PROVE IT MEANS US? them, and have forsaken me, and my fury shall be poured out upon this Listen! "When I shall send upon have /lot kept 1IIy law" (Jer. 16:10· place, upon man, and upon beast and them the evil arrows of FAMINE, which I t). The judgments of God are SURE! upon the trees of the field, and upon shall be for their destruction, and They're COMING! And no amount of the fruit of the ground; and it shall which I will send to destroy you: an d "reasoning" or human arguments and burn, and shall not be quenched!" 1 will incl'e(ue the FAMINE upon you, deceit will stave them off! E\'cn now (Jer. 7:19-20.) and will BREAK YOUR STAFF OF OUR peoples are beginning to fee l the Again- WHY? Because of our per­ BREAD"! (Ezek. 5: 16.) bite of the blade of famine and drought sonal and national WAYS OF LIVI NG! This means US ! --of disease and wars-just as Christ We BREAK God's Holy laws with im­ It is COM ING! It is SURE! Famine is said ! punity- we SCORN His very existence developing NOW! But There Is a Way Out! -we DENY His prophecies-we FIGHT But there is a way of escape from AND SQUABBLE over His own Holy these plagues in our "modern" age for Your Creator pull s no punches! He Word, the Bible ! All this, and still we You-if you're willing to heed-if doesn't leave his people without a wit­ "claim" to be "God's people!" you're willing to SEEK YOUR GOD! ness; nor leave them in the dark con­ Ezekiel was inspired to predict the Read the 33 rd chapter of Ezekiel. cerning H is REASONS for these impend­ conditions striking aUf peoples today! Read how God says any who will rea lly ing national punishments! Notice these Remember, his prophecies were directed HEED the voice of HIS WATCHMEN striking prophecies of Jeremiah! "Thus to ISRAEL- and were written more than will be PROTECTlm from these perilous saith the Eternal of Hosts, the God of 120 years after Israel had DISAPPEARED times ahead ! Israel, Amend you r ways and your do­ from history; supposedly never to be Write for our free articles, "What ings/ and T will cause you to dwell in heard from again! is REAL Repentance?," " What is a this place. Trust ye not in lying words) But Ezekiel meant MODERN Israel­ REAL Christian?" and "Just What do saying, 'The temple of the Lord, the he meant OUR peoples! (Write for our you Mean- SALvATION?" temple of the Lord, the temple of the free article, " WHY PROPHECY ?") Remember, God promises, "You Lord, are these! [or; We're Goo's "Wherefore as I live, saith the Lord shall not be afraid for the terror by people-This is Goo's COUNTRY­ Eternal, surely, because you have de­ night; nor for the arrow that f1ieth by surely Goo would not be against us?] filed my sa nctuary with aU your detest­ day; nor for the pestilence that walks For if you throughly amend your ways able things, and with all your abomi­ in darkness; nor fo r the destruction and your doings; if you throughly exe­ nations, therefore will I also diminish that wastes at noonday. cute judgment between a man and his yOll; neither shall mme eye spare, "A thousand shall fall at yo",. side, neighbor, If ye oppress NOT the strang­ neither will T have any pity"! and ten IhollJanti at your right hand; er, the fatherless, and the widow, and "A TH IRD PART of you shall die with but it shall not come near you! .. . shed NOT innocent blood in this place, the pesti lence [ huge continent-wide "Because you have made the ETER­ neithe r wa lk after other gods to your diseme epidemics!J and with FAMlNE NAL .. even the MOST HIGH, your hurt, Then will T cause you to dwell shall they be conswned in the midst of habitation ; There sha ll no evi l befall in the land that I gave to your fathers, you! And a third part shall fall by the you, neither shall any plagtte come for ever and ever!" (Jer. 7:3-7.) sword [always a symbol of WAR in the Ilea,. YOUR dwelling." (Ps. 91 :5-10.) But we HAVE NOT changed our ways Bible!) round about you, and I will Christ said, of those who are faith­ to Goo's WAYS (lsa. 55:7·8). He con­ scatter a third part into all the \v inds, fully pe rforming HIS Work, proclaim­ tinues, "Behold, ye trust In lying and I wi ll draw out a sword after ing H is last WARN ING MESSAGE to th is words, that cannot profit. WiU ye steal, them" 1 (Ezek. 5: 11.1 2.) world (Mat. 24: 14) , "Because you have murder, and commit adultery, and God says His own peoples, who for· kept the word of my patience, I also swear falsely, and burn incense unto got their identity, and who fefllse to wi ll keep you from the hour of trial Baal and walk after other gods whom acknowledge H im in their personal (TRIBULAT ION!) which shall come up· ye know not; and corne and stand be­ li ves, will become a byword and a ClIfse on all the world, to try them that dwell fore me in this house, which is called in the mouths of those very peoples we upon the earth"! (Rev. 3: 10.) by my name, and say, 'We are DE­ have tried so hard to feed and keep The choice is entirely yours. May the UVERED to do all these abomina­ alive! Creator who g ives you your every tions?" (Jer. 7:8-10.) "Moreover I wi ll make you waste) breath help you to have the spiritual Our peoples LEAD TH E WORLD in and a reproach and a lattnt, an instruc- courage to make the RIGHT choice! rite Hiole StOfU

by Basil Wolverton

CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT

GOD CHOOSES DAVID

WILE Saul and his soldiers were on their way back north, following their triumph over the Amalekites, Samuel received a message from God. (I Samuel 15: 1-9.) "Samuel, I am not pleased with the man I set on the throne of Israel," the Creator informed the elderly prophet. "He has rebelled. At this moment he is returning from the slaughter of the Amalekites. He performed that part of his task well whid, pleased the people, but he refused to carry out all the things he was plainly told to do on this mission. Go out tomorrow to meet him as he comes from the south. Then you will learn of the manner in which he has been disobedient in recent hours."

Saul's Self-Justification

Samuel was grieved at this report. He had a great affection for Saul, and it was discouraging to the old prophet to rea li ze that the time had come for him to inform the younger man that he could no longer be king with such a rebellious attitude, though Samuel realized that this had to happen sooner or later. He was so saddened that he spent all night praying that God would give Saul another opportunity to over­ come his willful ways. (I Samuel 15:10-11.) As dawn approached, Samuel gradually was aware that he was being too senti­ mental in this matter, and was praying for a lost cause. He ceased his petitions and prepared to go out to meet Saul. "Saul and his men passed through here very early this morning," Samuel was told by people who had been up and around before dawn. "Some of his soldiers mentioned that they had camped at Carmel, south of here, where Saul had a monu- 34 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966

When Samuel learned that God no longer wanted Soul to be king, he spent all night praying that God would give Saul another chance to prove himself a capable leader.

ment erected as a reminder of his destroying the Amalekites. They said that from there he intended to march straight through to Gilgal." (I Samuel 15:12.) At first Samuel was puzzled because of Saul's not stopping to report his triumph to him. Then he realized that Saul had done something that he didn't want him to know about. It was God's orders that Samuel contact Israel's king, so he set out at once for Gilgal. "May God's blessing be on you!" Saul smilingly greeted Samuel when the old prophet approached him in Gilgal that evening. His smile faded a little as Samuel soberly came up to him. ''I'm pleased that you are safely back," Samuel said in an earnest tone. "I trust that you carried out all the instructions that God gave me to give to you." "With God's help, I accomplished what I set out to do," Saul replied. "But why are you looking at me with a doubtful expression> As you know, we wiped out the Amalekites. Is it that you expected more than that?" "I didn't expect to hear the many animal sounds that I am now hearing," Samuel observed. "Why is our conversation being interrupted by so much bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle ? There must be some great accumulation of livestock out there in the dark." (I Samuel 15:13-14.) February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 35

"Oh-those are the herds my men brought back from the Amalekites," Saul cas­ ually answered. "They picked out the very best animals to bring back to sacrifice to God." "Rebellion Is as Bad as Witchcraft"

The king evaded the questioning look of the older man, perhaps because at that moment there was a loud braying of donkeys. "Now listen, Saul," Samuel said, lowering his voice so that others couldn't hear. "Just last night God spoke to me. He reminded me that He had chosen you as Israel's leader when you had a humble attitude and thought of yourself as of little worth. But He is not pleased witb you now because you more and mOre ignore your Creator's instructions and take matters into your own hands. You were sent to destroy all the Amalekites and all their belongings. Why haven't you obeyed?" "But I did obey," Saul argued. "I saw that all the ~malekites were destroyed except their ruler, whom I brought back as proof of our victory. It was my men who insisted on bringing back the livestock for sacrificing. I couldn't very well deny them something that had to do with the worship of God." "With God, obedience comes before burnt offerings and sacrifices," Samuel sternly reminded the king. "You know how God abhors witchcraft. Disobedience is as bad as witchcraft in God's sight, and stubbornness such as yours is as evil as the worship of heathen idols! What your conduct adds up to is rebellion against God. Now I must tell you that God is rejecting you as king of Israel !" (I Samuel 15:15-23.) Saul stared unhappily at Samuel. He knew that the old prophet spoke the truth. "It is the people who are to blame," said Saul in a slightly quavering voice. "I was afraid what they might say. I just couldn't be firmer with my men. Samuel, please go with me to offer sacrifices of repentance to God!" "I can hardly do that," Samuel explained. "I have already asked God to forgive you. He has refused to heed my prayers because you refuse to repent and do what He commands. He has rejected you as king, and nothing is going to change that." (I Samuel 15:24-26.) The old prophet turned away in ·disappointment. Saul quickly stepped after him, reaching out to detain him by seizing his coat. Samuel kept on walking, and to Saul's embarrassment the coat ripped apart. The older man stopped, turned and gazed at the piece of his coat Saul was holding in his hand . "This should be a sign to you," .Samuel pointed out to Saul. "Just as my coat was torn from me, so shall the kingdom of Israel be torn from you at this time. Besides, the rulership shall be turned over to one who lives only a short distance from here, 36 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966

and be assured that God will not change His mind about this matter!" (I Samuel 15:27-29.) Saul was shaken by this last remark. He begged the prophet not to forsake him, lest the people receive the impression that the two men weren't in accord. Samuel was greatly respected in Israel, and Saul feared that his own popularity as king of Israel would lessen if the Israelites came to believe that he and Samuel were having some serious differences. He was intent on hanging on as long as he could as king. "For the sake of the people," Samuel finally agreed, ''I'll appear with you in public from time to time until God removes you from office." (I Samuel 15:30-31.) Samuel was disappointed and angered by Saul's bringing the king of the Amale­ kites back as a prisoner. He knew that Saul had done it to build himself up as a national hero. But he didn't discuss the matter at the time Saul had mentioned the Amalekite leader because he wanted to deal directly and as soon as possible with the enemy king before there could be any interference from Saul, and before any public display of the pagan ruler could be made. Samuel demanded that Agag, the Amale­ kite king, be brought before him in a private place. When he was brought in between two soldiers, he appeared rather smug for a prisoner of war. He was wearing an expensive robe on which were fastened the insignias of royalty and power of his nation. "I understood that I was to have an audience with Saul, the king of Israel," Agag observed curtly. "Who are you?" "I am Samuel, a friend of the king," the old prophet answered after a pause. "Then you will see that I am treated with respect, as Saul promised I would be?" the Amalekite king asked hesitantly. "You shall be treated with all the respect you deserve," Samuel told him. "Men, let go of this man." The two soldiers stepped back from the prisoner, who hunched his shoulders with relief and grinned weakly at Samuel. He seemed to have little concern about the destruction of his nation. His consuming interest now was to be regarded as a guest. "There is really no reason to allow our past differences to cause further violence," the Amalekite observed as he shrugged his shoulders. "I can well pay for my free­ dom by showing you where treasures are hidden that your men didn't find during their attack on my people." "You misunderstood my motive for telling the soldiers to let go of you," Samuel frowned. "They couldn't very well execute you by standing so close!" February, 1966 Tbe PLAIN TRUTH 37

"What do you mean?" Agag snapped fearfully as he whirled to glance back at the two men who had brought him in.

Destroy the Mucderer! "I mean," Samuel pointed out sternly, "that too many women have become childless by the sword because of your cruel commands! Now-as far as you are concerned-youI' mother is to become childless!" At a command from Samuel, the soldiers whipped out their swords and leaped toward the cringing Amalekite. A minute or two later, when Samuel left, he couldn't help viewing Agag for the last time. The pagan ruler had been chopped to pieces just as he had cut to pieces infants in war. Thus Samuel had given an order for execution that Saul had refused to give. (I Samuel 15:32-33.) At this point a few overly sensitive readers-particularly parents who are reading this account to their children-will be horrified at the bloody ending of Agag. Some will even write letters to protest the printing of narratives of such violence in the Bible. Others will be offended because the illustrations are not all the peaceful, beau­ tiful type that have been shown for so many decades in church publications. , "Why do you use such horrible material ?" people ask. "Why not pick out the good and the lovely thing ?" Again it should be pointed out that the Bible is the source of this account. It

Just as the cruel Amalekite king thought he was about to be released, Samuel motioned for the two Israelite guards to quickly end his life. 38 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966

shows human nature as it really is. No part of the Bible should be kept from anyone, though many falsely believe that some areas of the scriptures are wlfit to read. That sort of warped thinking has helped to develop and promote the hundreds of so-called Christian sects that exist today. None of these churches can rightfully claim to be God's churches unless they teach all of the Bible God inspired and observe and keep all of God's rules for the right way of living. Samuel returned to Ramah. Greatly displeased by what had been done to Agag, Saul went to his home in Gibeah. From that time on Samuel never· referred to Saul as the king of Israel, though he continued to have a fatherly feeling toward the younger man. (I Samuel 15 :34-35.)

How God Selects Another King "How long must you go on feeling sorry for Saul?" God later inquired of SamueL "You know he is no longer king in my eyes, so forget about him. Fill your horn with olive oil for anointing and go to Bethlehem. I will send you to a man called Jesse. From his sons I have chosen one who will be the next king of IsraeL You are to anoint him as such." "But Saul is very angry with me," Samuel told God. "If I should be picked up by his men and if they should find out why I am going to Bethlehem, they would probably kill me." "Don't be concerned," God answered. "Take a young caw with you, and if anyone asks you questions, explain that you are taking the heifer for a sacrifice. When you arrive in Bethlehem, request that Jesse and his sons go with you to sacrifice. After that I shall let you know what to do." (I Samuel 16:1-3.) Samuel reached Bethlehem without being accosted by any of Saul's men. When it was reported to the leaders of the city that the prophet was entering the gates, the chief men hurried to meet him, but not because they were overjoyed at his coming. "We are honored that you should visit our city," they greeted him nervously. "We trust that you come on some mission of peace." "I do," Samuel answered, pointing to his young cow. "I have come to sacrifice this animaL Prepare yourselves as you should for sacrificing and come and join me, if you will. But first I must visit the home of a man called Jesse. Kindly tell me where he lives." The leaders were relieved. Bethlehem didn't have the best of reputations for an Israelite city, and they had feared that the prophet had come to pronounce some kind of curse on the people there. Samuel was directed to where he wanted to go. It turned out to be a home at the February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 39

Informed that Samuel was approaching, the leaders of Bethlehem were fearful that he had come to pronounce a curse on their city because of the evil things that took place there.

edge of Bethlehem. Jesse was a rugged, very elderly livestock grower who was surprised and pleased that the prophet had come to visit his family. "I have been told that you have several very fine sons," Samuel explained to Jesse. "I am looking for a young man to anoint into a special service for Israel-a position I'll explain later-and I hope to find the man I need in your family. Would it be possible to meet your sons?" "Indeed it would!" Jesse answered, wondering why the prophet had come all the way to Bethlehem and to his home to look for help in this special service, whatever it could be. "My sons would be honored to meet you. One of them is working just outside. I'll have him come in." Moments later a tall, handsome, muscular young man stepped into the room. Jesse introduced him as Eliab, and obviously was quite proud of him. Samuel was greatly impressed by the size and the bearing of Eliab. He concluded at once that this was the man whom God had picked as the next leader of Israel. (I Samuel 16:4-6.) "Do not be hasty'" a small voice came to Samuel, as if from inside his head. "Don't try to determine what a man is like by his appearance only. I judge men by what is in their minds. This is not the man I have chosen to succeed Saul." Jesse called in another son, Abinadab, who also impressed Samuel. But again 40 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966

the voice informed him that Abinadab wasn't the one. A third son, named Shammah, was brought in. Samuel was told not to anoint him. Four more young men appeared, but the voice warned that none of them was the right one. "These are all of your sons?" Samuel asked Jesse. "Not one of them quite fits into the work I have in mind." "I am sorry to have disappointed you," Jesse said in an apologetic tone. "I have another son, David, but he is my youngest and he is out taking care of our sheep. You wouldn't be interested in him." "But I am," Samuel insisted. "Send for him. We won't sit down until I see this David." (I Samuel 16:7-11.) A little later young David came in, having run in from some distance after being told that he was wanted at the feast immed iately. Samuel noticed at once that he was the smallest of Jesse's sons, though the most wholesome and bright-appearing. He was healthy and tanned from his outdoor task of herding sheep. "This is the one!" the voice came to Samuel. Samuel walked up to David and regarded him earnestly. "I am about to perform a brief but very important cere­ mony," the prophet informed the lad, placing his hands on David's shoulders. "I know this will come as a great surprise to you, but you are now chosen by God to be ordained to a very high office." The prophet opened his horn of oil and poured some of it on David's head. "David, in the name and by the authority of the God of Israel, I proclaim you the king of Because Saul was disobedient, he was left with an all Israel!" Samuel declared. unhappy, miserable and depfessed state of mind. Un­ protected by God, he was set upon by an evil spirit "May the Eternal guide and that threatened at times to cut off his breath! February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 41

protect you in your reign over the nation that God has chosen to use ill carrying out His divine purpose!" There was a long silence as Jesse and his family, startled by Samuel's words, won­ dered if this could be a fantastic dream. David was the most amazed, inasmuch as he couldn't imagine, at the moment, why he had been made the king of Israel. "Prepare yourselves to go with me to sacrifice to God," Samuel told Jesse and bis family before a spirited conversation could get started. "As for what bas happened here, it would be wise to say nothing about it to others. I shall be in touch with you later about the matter." After Samuel had returned to Ramah and excitement had abated in Jesse's house­ hold, a change came over David. Although he had been taught to observe God's laws, a new outlook and special understanding began to come to him. God was imbuing him with a gift of unusual wisdom, as well as with a confident, peaceful state of mind. (I Samuel 16:12-13.) At the same time a change was taking place in Saul. He became more irritable and worried. He brooded over what Samuel had told him. He had growing periods of depression, and suspected those about him as spies. God was taking from him the comfort of a sound and peaceful mind. (I Samuel 16:1.4.)

(To be continued next issue)

us HIS DIVINE NATURE-whel1 we re­ and strengthen RIGHT CHARACTER with­ pent and turn from the \XlRONG way of in us. God says plainly it is THE OVER­ THlS WOR.LD, begin to 1·eS;!t it, and turn COM ERS who shall be saved-who shall ~od TO Him through faith in Jesus Christ REIGN with Christ! from the Editor as personal Saviour! No human being is strong enough to (Continlled from page 2) God's divine nature is the nature of do this BY HIM SE LF! He must seek, and the muscle will develop much faster. love-of giving, serving, helping-of IN FAITH receive, the help and power Therefore God purposely put within us outgoing concern. It is the nature of of GOD. Even with God's power he will this NATURE that exerts a heavy puB humility. not overcome such forces easily, or all again!t that perfect ri ghteous character Now when one is converted-has re­ at once. IT IS NOT EASY! Christ plainly -to give us something to !trive agaimtl pented, and ttlrned from Satan's and said the way to ultimate salvat.ion is for THE VERY PURPOSE OF STRENGTH­ this world's false WAy-has at o'nce hard, difficult. It's a constant BATTLE­ ENING AND DEVELOPING RIGHT CHAR­ received God's Holy Spirit-his HU­ a struggle against self, the world, and ACTER! MAN nature, as I said before, does not the devil. The creation of CHARACTER God's CHARACTER travels in the di­ flee. It, too, remains. It stilt exerts a comes through EXPERIENCE-it takes rection of His Law-the way of LOVE. pull. We still live in THlS PRESENT TIME! n is an outgoing CONCERN for others. EVIL WORLD, and it exerts a pull. God THIS development is a PROCESS. It is GOD has that character! He has an out­ still allows Satan to be around-and HE a matter of GROWTH-DEVELOPMENT. going concern for you and for me. He exerts a pull. It requires, to become PERFECT, full GAVE His only begotten Son to reconcile So we now have THREE PULLS to and right KNOWLEDGE of the very Word us to Him, and make the JOYS of His RESIST-to OVERCOME! We must now of God-because Jesus taught that we character and everlasting life possible overcome these three------Satan, this world, must live by EVERY WORD OF GOD. for us. H e showers on us every good and our own SELVES. We have to battle The natural, unconverted mind can­ and precious gift. He even puts within against these three, in order to develop not fully and rightly UNDERSTAND the 42 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966

Scriptures of God. The acquisition of renewed effort to OVERCOM E, God is full measure Christ had- he is not at this KNOW LEDGE, in itself, is a pro­ rich in mercy toward that man in his once full grown spiritually- only a cedure reguiring TIME. It is the DOERS striving to overcome. spiritual babe in Christ. Yet he is of this Word, not hearers only, who Speaking to CONV ERTED CHRlSTIANS, then a changed, converted man­ shall be saved. John writes: "These things write I unto changed in mind, in attitude, in the But can any man DO, immediately you, that ye sin not. And it any man S;11, directioll he has set himself to stri ve and all at once, th is new WAY he now ." (even though he ought not) ". to travel. Even though he has not yet learns about? Can any man, all at once, we have an advocate with the Father, reached perfection-even though he break all H ABITS he now sees are wrong ? Jesus Christ the righteous: and He is may have stumbled under temptation, No, he finds he has a FIGHT against the propitiation for OUR sins ... " Yes, and taken a spiritual fall-as long as, acquired former habits. for the SINS of converted CHRISTIANS. in his mind and heart, he is earnestly He sti ll has th is PULL of human na­ Such people often are under heavier striving to travel Goo's WAY, to over­ ture to overcome. This nature is A LAW temptation than before conversion. They come and grow spi ri tually-as long as working within him. The apostle Paul are STRIVING against sin-sTRIVING to God's Spirit is in him-as long as he calls it the law of sin and death. overcome. But they are not yet perfect. is being LED BY the Spi rit of God, he Paul was cOl/verted. Paul was a real Sometimes they are caught off guard. is a begotten SON OF GOD. Christian. He had repented, accepted They may actually sin. Then they WAKE If, anywhere along this life's journey, Christ, and received the Holy Spi rit. UP, as it were, and realize what they that life is cut short, such a man will W ith his MIND, he wanted with all have done. They REPENT. They are fi lled be resurrected. his heart, and in real intense sincerity. with remorse-Im!y sorry-disgusted It is only the one who deliberately to DO God's IV AYf But did Paul DO with themselves. They go to GOD, and QUITS and GIVES u p-who REJECTS it perfectly' CRY OUT for HELP-for more power God, and God's WAY, and rej ects Christ Let him tell. LISTEN! and strength from God to OVERCOME! as his Saviour- who turns FROM this "For we know that the Law is spiri­ This is the WAY of the Christian! direction of Goo's WAY, hz his mind tual," he wrote, "but I am carnal, sold It is the way of a constant BATTLE­ and heart-in his inner INTENT- who under sin. For that which I do I allow a striving against SIN-a seeking God deliberately and intentionally in his not: for what I would, that do I not, in earnest prayer for help and spiritual mind TURNS FROM Christ, who is lost. but what I hate, that I do. . Now POWER to overcome. They are constant­ If, once having been converted, having then it is no more I that do it, but sin ly GAINING GROUND. They are constant~ received God's Spirit, and TASTED of that dwelleth in me." He is speaking of ly GRO\V1NG in God's KNOW LEDGE, from the joys of Goo's WAY, one delib­ human nature within him. H e continues, the BIBLE. They are constantly rooting erately rejects that way, makes the for to WILL is present with me: out wrong habits, driving themselves DECISION, not under stress of tempta­ but how to perform that which is good into RIGHT habits. They are constantly tion, but deliberately and finally, NOT I find not. For the good that I would growing closer to GOD through Bible to go God's way, then God says it I do not: but the evil which I would study and prayer. They are constantly is IMPOSSIBLE to renew such a one to not, that I do. .. 0 wretched man growing in CHARACTER , toward perfec­ repentance. H e would have to REPENT that I am! Who shall deliver me from tion, even though not yet perfect. of that decision. But if he WILFULLY the body of this death' .. " ·Then he With Paul, they say: ". . . Not as made it, not in a time of temptation, but thanks God-that GOD WILL-through though I had already attained, or were calmly, deliberately, wilfully, then he Jesus Christ, and by the power of His already perfect: but I FOLLOW AFTER, just WILL NOT ever repent of it. HOLY SPIRIT. BUT IT TAKES TIME.' .. Brethren, I count not myself to have But anyone who FEARS he may have T he truly converted Christian will apprehended: but this on, thillg I do, committed the "unpardonable sinn-is find that he often stumbles, IInder temp­ FORGETTING those things which are be­ perhaps worried about it, and HOPES he tatioll, and falls down-even as a physi­ hind, and reaching forth unto those has 110t committed it, and still WANTS ca l chi ld learning to walk often falls things which are before, I PRESS to have God's salvation-no such has down. But the year-old child does not TOWARD THE MARK FOR THE PRIZE OF committed it-such a one MAY repent, get discouraged and give up. He gets THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST and go right on to sa lvation IF HE up and starts out again. JESUS !" WANTS TO! THE TRULY CONVERTED CHRISTIAN But, someone may ask, what jf one's If YOU have stumbled and fallen IS NOT YET PERFECT f life is cut off, and he dies before he has down, DONJ T BE DISCOURAGED! Get GOD LOOKS ON THE HEART­ attained this perfection? Is he saved, up and press on ahead! the inner MOTIVE-the real intent! If or lost? The answer is that we shall If you see a Christian do something he is trying- if he gets up whenever never obtain absolute perfection in this wrong, DON'T SIT IN J UDGMENT AND he falls down, and in repentance asks life. CONDEMN-that's God's business to God's forgiveness, and sets out to do I said, earlier, that a person who is judge, not yours! Let's have compassion his very best NOT TO MAKE THAT MIS­ converted does receive the Holy Spirit and mercy-wE don't know the inner TAKE AGAlN-and to pe(severe with at a definite time-all at once.' Not the heart of others-only GOD does! How LOYAL Are You to Jesus Christ?

Readers of The PLAIN TRUTH are responsible for the KNOWL­ EDGE they receive! Are you ACTING on it? Do you know what JOB will be your reward in the literal GOVERNMENT of God soon to be set up on this earth?

by Roderick C. Me re dith

ORLD events are speeding up. warning or WITNESS to aLL nations God reveals that the people of Berea W Prophecy is being fulfilled (Mat. 24:14). in Paul's day were a good example of with almost terrifying ,peed! Yes, Jesus Christ is the literal, active how you ought to hear our message­ Strange thi ngs are happening in the HEAD of this Work- the WORLD To­ or that of anyone who is sincere and weather. Experts are becoming alarmed. MORROW broadcast, The PLAIN TRUTH who is following Ibe Bible. Luke Gigantic earthquakes and volcanic erup­ magazine, The AMBASSADOR COLLEGE writes: "These were more noble than tions are in the making. CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, etc. That is those in Thessalonica, in that they re· Great nations are being brought low WHY we speak and write with such ceived the word with all readiness of by drought. Literally dozens of ,pecific allthor;ty and POWER. That is why we mind) and searched the scriptures daily, p"ophecieJ are being fulfilled. Why? are able to be ,pecific with the prophe­ whether those things were so" (Acts Because the LIVING Christ is very CIes of God's Word- not beating 17:11) . much in charge. around the bush with sweet platitudes First, notice that the Bereans re· Seated at the right hand of God the of vague generalities. That is why we ceived the word with a ready mind­ Father, in heaven, is the LIVING Jesus KNOW what is about to happen in being quick to accept what was ob­ Christ. According to His master plan, world events-when} where and why. viously based on God's Word and His He is beginning, in a new way, to inter­ The living C h rist~who directs this Law. To back this up, they searched vene in human affairs. Work-thllnders to you: "Not every· the Script1l1'es daily-really STUDYING His POWER is supreme. one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, the Bible and not taking anything for granted one way or the other. Also, Christ is Our "HEAD" shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that DOETH the wit! of my seeing that Paul's message was indeed For those who truly believe In the Father which is in heaven" (Mat. 7: based on the Bible over all, they studied inspired Word of God, Christ is our 21). with a positive attitude-not nega· living Head---our Master, our Ruler, Prove the Truth and ACT tively, sarcastically or deliberately try­ our Boss. ing to "chip away" at what he was You, personally, need to be a DOER He has ascended to the right hand teaching. of God the Father. It is He who "shall of the things you hear through this In type, a modern apostle Paul is Work-through these very pages of JUDGE the quick and the dead at Hi, preaching to you through this very appearing and His kingdom" (II Tim. The PLAIN TRU TH magazine, month IVork.' You need to GRASP what is 4:1) . by month and year by year! Of course, happening and RESPOND to it with an For God "hath put all things under you need to check allY thing you hea r open heart and a willing and zealous from any source to be sure it is Gonls His feet, and gave Him to be the mind! will. But do you just sit around, year HEAD over all things to the church, God says: "For not the hearers of which is His body, the fulness of Him after year, and theorize about it­ the law are just before God, but the that filleth all in all" (Eph. 1:22-23). meanwhile following the rest of this DOERS of the law shall be j1lstified" We know that HE is the one ac­ world's society like a d1lmb sheep? (Romans 2: 13 ) . Or do you set yourself to think, tuaUy ;12 charge of world events. And Just ·realizing, understanding and He is directly in charge of this very stt/dy and PROVE what is God's will agreeing that this Work is being used Work-the Work which God has raised through His Word, the Bible? to prophesy the major events now be­ up to WARN OUR PEOPLES OF THEIR God says : "PROVE at! thing'; hold ginning to unfold in world affairs and SINS (Isaiah 58:1), and to foretell the fast that which is good" (I Thess. to teach the true way of life revealed soon-coming government of God as a 5 :21). in the Bible is not enough. God says 44 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966 you must be il DOER of the Word­ tan got Eve to think ing that God's word, do you automatically say: ttYes :lnd not a hearer only (James 1:22). ways were "unfair." After bei ng com­ sir.''' to God? Do you begin imme­ You need to rea li ze the importance of manded by God not to eat of the tree diately to DO what God's Word has the knowledge you are receiving containing a bad mixture of good AND instructed? through The PLAIN T RUTH and pHI if EVIL, the woman answered Satan's chal­ How do )'ou REACT? 10 Il'o rk ill ),0"1' life.' lengin g guestion by reminding him Any captain in the army, any boss But do YOll? that God had sa id she and Adam or superviso r over any organization wOllld die if they touched or ate of this anywhere is concerned with this prob­ You Were Born To RULE tree (verses 2-3). lem. This is 110t some strange or !w­ Actuall y, the Ivhole !)!lIpose of your "And the serpent said unto the wom­ IISI/al principle. This is the BASIC con­ human ex istence is to qualify to be an, Ye shall not surely die: For God ce rn of Almighty God about YOU, literally bom ;1110 the Kingdom of doth know that in the day ye eat there­ personallyl Once you have been shown God. That Kingdom is a family g rown of, then YOllr eyes shall be opened, and something from the Bible, will you great into a UJorid gO I/emmell/. )'e shall be tiS god.r, knowing good tInd zealously RESPOND to orders from your In the very beginning of the Bible, eNi/." Creator? What kind of "kingdom" do you God said: "Let us make man in 0111' Immediately, Satan began to put God think God has, anyway? Do you think hlltlKe. after 0111' likeJless: and let them in a bad light- implying that God was He is going to have a lot of REBELS have DOMINION over the fish of the UNFAIR. Satan gave the distinct impres­ sea, and over the fowl of the air, and sion that God was "afraid" that Adam running loose in His Kingdom for­ over the cattlc, and over all tht! cHth, and Eve would become as smart as He ever and ever ? Certainly thi s is not the way many and over every creeping thing that was if th ey experienced etlil and ate of preachers of our present society look at creepeth upon the earth" (Gen. 1 :26). this tree! Here Satan began to cause the Immediately we notice that we are made woman to "REASON" in her mind it! They have a theoretic, vague ap­ (If tel' God's likelleSJ-potentially ca­ va rious motilJeJ for what God said proad1 to a kind of sentimental, namby­ pable of RULING as does God H imself. rathe r than simply OBEYING HER pamby, fuddy-duddy, doddering old being off in the sky somewhere whom Therefore, in the ve ry beg inning MAKER ! they dub "god·' ! But the real GOD of God gave man "dominion" or RUL E This is a vital principle to under­ heaven they know not! H e is planning over every other creature on the earth. stand for hI/man beings h(lIle been do­ a literal g01!eJ'nment on this earth to be For man was being trained in righ/ ing THIS VERY THING eller since! composed of the g lorified Saints who KOllemmen/-the lessons of how to ex­ This is WHY Adam and Eve couJd not have learned to OBEY their Maker! ercise authority properly. be given eternal li fe, g lory and honor It is time you learned this funda­ Are you learning that lesson ? right then! For they would have had mental and all -im portant TRUTH! power \'\"ITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY! As The "Fall" Nothing could be more basic or more members of God's own familY--GLo­ easy to understand-for those who are The third chapter of Genesis tells the RIPIED Spirit Beings-Adam and Eve willillg. story of the so-call ed " fall " of man. might have literall y WRECKED part of Throughout His word, God tells us Actually, man didn·t "fall" at all­ this universe before being stopped by NOT to use human reason in deciding for he took the very first opportllnity God the Father! At the time of the how we want to worship Him. Rather, to sin which was given him. His human "temptation" they were obviously NOT He commands liS to worshi p Him~ nature was evil from the beginning. READY to be given eternal life and NOT "according to the dictates of our God created him with that human POWER in the Family of God! consciences"-but according to Hh nature, of co urse, but gave him the God will Ilot Sti lle au)' .r01l/ He can­ IVordl In this principle of His very mind power to ru le over it, if Adam had not RULE! character, He has always been the same wanted to. From the ve ry begin ning of creation, - yesterday, today and forever. the problem has been whether man God Almighty purposed that man And in instructing ancient Israel be all owed to lNile bitter lessons in would OBEY his God-or would argue, about their worshi p, God commanded : human suffering during this first six "reason," justjfy self, and use hwnan "When the Lord thy God shall cut off thousand years of human history. He excuses to DISOBEY hi s Maker. the nations from before thee, whither has allowed man to go his own way­ How Do You REACT to thou goest to possess them, and thou devise hi s own systems of government, God's Instructions? succeedeth, and dwellest in their land; religion, education, society, etc. In the take heed to thyself that thou be NOT end, when he has been /(11Ight the God says: "To this man will I look, snared by fo ll owing them, after that lesson he has been writi ng in human even to him that is poor and of a con­ they be destroyed from before thee; suffering, man will realize how wrong trite spi rit, and TREMBLETH at 111} and that thou inquire NOT after their arc hi s own ways and how much llIord" ( Isa. 66:2). gods, saying, how do these nations BETTER the ways of God! When something is cl ea rly shown serve their gods? Even so will I do Notice now, in Genesis 3, how Sa- you out of the Bible, God's ins/)ired likewise" (Dellt. 12:29·30) . February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 45

Here God plainly shows that it is Does Your Faith in God word only, (wd my servant SHALL be REBELLION to try to adopt the customs Produce ACTION? healed" (verse 8). of the people of this world-the an- T hen, this Roman captain described But many of you, of course, will ~ient pagans or the "educated pagans" the principle of living faith in a way say: "But I already believe in God and of today-and attempt to worship the that made Christ remark about it en­ have never doubted His existence!" living Creator according to these vain thusiastically. He said: "For I am a Fine. human traditions! man under authority, having soldiers But do yOll ACT that way? Do you Rather, as Jesus said: "Man shall not under me: and r say to this man, go, RESPOND to God's instructions in His live by bread alone, bllt by EVERY and he goeth ; and to another, Come, inspired Word? Do you reall y CHANGE WORD OF GOD" (Luke 4 :4). and he cometh; and to my servant, Do when you are shown to be wrong and Therefore, God tells ancient Israel this, and he doeth it" (verse 9). literally li've by C1)ef)1 word of God? In other words th is Roman soldier and liS today in Deuteronomy not to Do you zealously study The PLAIN fo ll ow pagan trad itions in attempting knew that when Christ gave a com­ TRUTH magazine - looking up the mand over sickness and disease, it HAD to worship H im. "Thou shalt NOT do scripture references III Ihe Bible­ so unto the Lord thy God; for every to be obe)'ed! For the Roman soldiers PROVING the truth and then reallJ liv­ abomination to the Lord, which He under him alltomaticaliy said: "Yes ing by it? Do you follow The WORLD hateth, have they done unto their gods; sir!" when they were given a com­ TOMORROW broadcast with your Bible for even their sons and their daughters mand. open-taking notes on scriptures and have they burnt in the fi re to their This man was willing to do an),­ important points-proving it and really gods. What thing soever I command thing to have his servant healed. But litlil1g by it? you, observe to do it: th01l shalt 110t he had so great FAITH in Christ that add thereto, 110r diminish from itJl For an example of the kind of he realized it was not even necessary LIVING faith which Jesus Christ taught, (verses 31-32). for Jesus to come under his roof but read carefully the example of the Ro­ simply to gille the command. Notice! man centurion found in "Matthew 8:5- "When Jesus heard it, He marveled, God commands H is people to do 13. T he centnrion had a sick servant and said to them that fo ll owed, Verily EXACTLY what He says! We are not to and he sought Christ to heal him. But, T say unto you, r have not found so "'add" to God's word or instructions­ having hmnilily and realizing his Gen­ great faith, no, not in Israel" (verse bringing in foolish pagan customs and til e background, he to ld Christ that he lO) . ideas which "seem right'· to a man was not even worthy for Him to corne This Roman centllfion grasped the ( Prov. 14:12). Neither are we to take under hi s roof. He said: "bTit jpeak the fact that whatever Jesus Ch rist com- from God's word or water down or dim inish His instructions in ANY way! Yet, today, we behold the pitiful spectacle of professing ministers of Je­ sus Christ twisting, pe rverting, distort­ ing and BLASPHEMING the name of the God of heaven by openly advocating d isobedience to this or that of God's commandments, saying that cedain books in the Bible were not inspired or ought not to be there or ought not be obeyed, or even advocati ng their Satan­ inspired doctrine that "God is dead" ! That true God of the Bible who seems "dead" to some of these smart-aleck "intellectuals·' is now begi17llhlg /0 in­ tervene dr(lmatically in h1lman affairs! Soon, 11ery SOOl1, He will literally SHAKE every island and every mouo­ tain on th is earth out of its place in the greatest earthquake in human his­ tory! Before this present generation IS Wid. World past, the entire earth will truly KNOW What it mea ns to be unde r authority. This example is th e drawing of the first that the God of the Bible is very much numbe r in the first peacetime d raft in United States hi story, 1940. Almost 2000 yea rs earlie r a Roman centurion-an army captain- recognized that Jesus also ALIVE and in charge of this earth and had authority. He commanded, and it wa s done ! Few today realize, however, the entire universe ! that Jesus was also UNDER authority-of th e God of Hea ven. 46 The PLAIN TRUTH February, 1966 manded was righI-it UJoldd work­ to fo ll ow the example set by Jesus coming in our day. If that watchman and it would be BACKED U P by God in Christ and His true se rvants. FAILS to preach the truth and WARN heaven. He obviously and fervently Before God calls us and BREAKS our the people-then their blood will be BELIEVED that. stubborn wills, many of us have been required at the watchman's hand. Do yo/(? "hard heads." We have been slow, stub­ God is speaking to those of us in The point is, when Jesus Christ gives born and loath to change from OUR this very Work ! "So thou, 0 son of a command or instructions to you WAY of life and 011 1' approach to spiri­ man, I have set thee a watchman unto through His Word or through this very tual truth. W e naturally want to folJow the hOllse of Israel; therefore thou \'(fork of God-m )'0/1 pro-ve il ill the the crowd-to have the appro"al of shalt hear the word at my mouth, and Bible-do you realize that God's laws JI.'f EN. As the unconverted Jews of warn them from me" (verse 7) . This and instructions A L W t\ YS WORK OUT Jesus' day, we want to follow "the prophecy was written, of course, over RIGHT ? That you can and should have traditions of our fathers"-which are one hlmdred yearJ after Israel's first 10ltd Ft\lTH in living by them? That all too often RANK PAGANISM. We tend and only captivity. It refers to the final God stands behind them and BACKS to say: " Here is the way I LOOK AT Triblllation on the modern " house of THEM up? That whenever you have IT. . here is MY opinion." 1srael"- identified in your Bible as the realized or proved that any command or If this be your probl em, God help British Commonwealth and the U.S.A. instruction comes from God you should you to WAKE UP I God help you to today. Those of us helping to get out learn automatically to say: "Yes sir!" understand and rea lize that this is HIS The WORLD TOMORROW broadcast and and DO what J'o/(I' Creat or ins/1'IIets? VERY WORK all earth- bringing the The PLAIN TRUTH magazine are in LAST WITNESS of H is impending in­ th"t very W ork. W e will be held AC­ Follow rhe TRUE SERVANTS tervention to a rebellious and confused COUNTAB LE if we do not warn the of Almighty God society! God help YO li to REPENT and peoples of modem Israe! with clarity Somewhere along the J ine, you had to get over on His side. For He wi ll and POWER. better PRovE-and kuolU thaI Y01l knolll surely neve r get over on , '011 1' side, as "Nevertheless," God says, " If thou - where Jesus Christ is working. You such. warn the wicked of his way ·to turn need to find out where Christ's true N ever forget the example of Jesus from it; if he do NOT turn from his servants are and follow their example­ Christ sending out the seventy young way, he shall die hz his ;17iql(ily; but learn gladly from them-and ACT on men, two by two (Luke 10: l-l6) . For thou hast delivered thy sOlll" ( verse 9). these young men were ce rtainl y not the truth of God. But God does NOT rejoice-and cer­ " recog nized" by the worldly authori­ God says: "Remember them which tainly neither do we-in the fad that ti es of their day. They had no "cre­ have the rule over you, who have spok­ some re/lISe to RESPOND to the definite dentials" no approva l of any minis­ en unto you the word of God: whose warning being given them through this terial cOllncil or any organi zation of faith /01101(1, co nsidering the end of W ork to return to the true God of Is­ men. But they were preaching THE their co nversation" (H eb. l3:7). Chris­ rael! H e says: " As I live, saith the Lord WAY of God- the message of God's tians are here instructed to follow the God I have no pleasure in the death Kingdom which Jesus had taught them l example of the faithful ministers who of the wi cked; but that the wicked (verse 9). truly preach C od's IlYord. They are in­ should turn from his way and live: The ver), Son of God told these young structed to RESPOND quickly and gladly TURN VEl '"m ye from your evi l ways; men as He sent them out: fl He that to these true servants of the li ving for WHY WILL YE DIE, 0 house of hearelh )'011 heareth me; ami he that Ch rist-saving themselves much heart­ Israel? ( Verse 11.) despiJeth YOll despiJeth me; and he that ache and many mi stakes avec the long As Christ's servants we beseech you despiseth me despiseth him that sent run. in sincere love; DON'T just be an "in­ me." The margin al rendering for the "OBEY them that have the rule over terested li stener," or an "interested Greek word here translated "despiseth" reader." Diligently ltlld)" prove and you, and submit ),oursel ves : for they is rejects. In other words, those who ACT on the truth which is being im­ watch for you r souls, as they that must rej ected those you ng servants preaching parted to your mind and heart this very give account, that they may do it with "the Kingdom of God" were REJECT­ minute! joy, and not with g rief: for that is ING J ESUS CHRIST! unprofitable for YOll" (verse l7). So PROVE by real Jllld)' and prayer "Be ye DOERS of the W ord, and not Again, God instructs His people where Christ is working. Then follow hearers only, deceiving your own whom He is ca lling to RESPOND to the the true servants of the Living Christ. selves" (James 1 :22). true ministers of Christ. Learn to RESPOND, to learn! to change, HEED God's "Watchman" You need to culti vate the habit of to gro!V in the knowledge of the .r flld)'illg, of truly PROVING all things In Ezekiel 33: l-Il, God reveals that Li ving Christ. In the same manner, in the Bible-and then RESPON DI NG to the peoples of modern America and the learn to respo nd and ACT on the Truth God's servants as they teach you His British Commonwealth nations will -the entire !Vay of life-being Word. Don't just hear but ACT on the have a "watchman" to warn them of preached through His true servants instruction of God and rhallge )'0111' life the final Tribulation which is soon today ! February, 1966 The PLAIN TRUTH 47

of ancient Egypt are inscriptions that show. 1 thought the man speaking was 51. V ALEN1INE'5 Nimrod (the Egyptians called him stupid and 1 didn't like what he said. Osiris) was "the husband of his Since then I have changed my mind. I DAY mother." have listened quite often to Garner Ted As Nimrod grew up, he became the Armstrong and found that at first 1 (Contilllted from page 18 ) chi ld-hero of mauy women who de­ hated him, then 1 laughed, then 1 lis­ then-a Saint of the Church and con­ sired him. He was their Cupid! In the tened. Don't get me wrong. I am still tinued to honor him under the name of Book of Daniel he is called the (Idesire an atheist, but I'm less sure of myself a Christian martyr. of women" (Dan. 11 :37). Moffatt and I really want to believe in God because He sounds like sllch a nice per­ Why February 14? translates the word as Tammuz-a Baby­ lonian name of Nimrod. He provoked son, but I just can't." But why should the Romans have so many women to jealollsy that an idol Girl , Victoria, Australia chosen February 15 and the even ing of of him was often ca ll ed the "image of • You believe in GRAVITY, dOl1't February 14 to honor Lupercus-the jealousy" (Ezekiel 8:5). Nimrod, the YO II? Try explaining it wilhollt God. N im rod of the Bible ? (Remember that hunter, was also their Valenti ne-their days in ancient times began at sunset st rong or mighty hero! No wonder the Germany the evening before.) pagans commemorated their hero-hunter "My sister and my mother think you Nimrod-the Baal or sun god of the Nimrod, Or Baal, by sending heart­ are being paid by a German from Ger­ ancient pagans-was sa id to have been shaped love tokens to one anoth er on many the way you say a United States born at the winter solstice. In ancient the evening of February 14 as a symbol of Europe will be here by 1975." times the solstice occurred on January of him. Reader, Denver, Colorado 6 and hi s bi rthday therefore was cele­ Nimrod, the mulatto son of Cush the • IV haaat? Y ou should let them "ead brated on January 6. Later, as the sol­ Ethiopian, was later a source of embar­ om' free booklet "1975 ill Prophecy"­ stice changed, it was celebrated on De­ rassment to the pagans of Europe. They THAT shotdd challge Iheir minds. cember 25 and is now ca lled Christmas. didn't want an African to worship. It was the custom of antiquity for the Consequently, they substituted a sup­ Silenced mother of a male child to present her­ posed son of Nimrod, a white child "I am a li censed minister and find it se lf for purification on the fortieth day named Horus, born after the death of hard to find a place to preach the true after the day of birth. The fortieth day Nimrod. This whi te ch ild then became word of God in our association after January 6-Nimrod's original the "fair cupid" of European tradition. churches. When I preadl in a church bi rthdate-takes us to February 15, the It is about time we examined these a few times, they don't call on me any­ ce lebrat ion of which began on the eve­ foolish customs of the pagans now more. The majority of our church mem­ ning of February 14--the Luperca lia fa lsely labeled Christian. It is time we bers of today can't stand the truth of or St. Valentine's Day. quit this Roman and Babylonian fool­ the Bible. On thi s day in February, Semiramis, ishness-this idolatry-and get back to "Minister," Houston, Texas. the mother of Nimrod, was said to have the faith of Christ delivered once for • They dOll't call on Christ vet'y often, been purified and to have appeared for all time. either. the first time in public with her son Let's stop teaching our children these " I shall never be able to th ank you as the original "mother and child." pagan customs in memory of Baal the enough for clearing up my misunder­ The Roman month February, in fact, sun god-the original St. Valentine­ standing of the Bible. Although 1 have derives its name from the febma which and teach them instead what the Bible no more than scratched the surface, I the Roman priests used in the rites rea ll y says! am amazed at how li ttle understandi ng celebrated on St. Valentine's Day. The of the Bible 1 had, even though a coun­ febrtla were thongs from the sk ins of ci lman and Chairman of the Worship sacrificial an imals used in rites of puri ­ Committee in one of the leading f ication on the evening of February 14. Wid- our churches in the area. I am also amazed Cupid Makes His Appearance READERS SAY at how little of the truth is preached (Contil1l1ed from inside frol1t cover) from its pulpit. Why I put off enroll ing Another name for the child Nimrod in the Ambassador College BIBLE COR­ was "Cupid"-meaning "desire" (En­ ter with the truths found from it." RESPONDENCE COURSE for so long, I'll cyclopedia Britannica, art., "Cupid"). J.A.M., Rurama Full Pry. School, never know. In just the first 4 lessons It is said that when Nimrod's mother Egoji, Meru, Kenya I've learned more than in 9 years of saw him, she lmted after him-she No God? mem ber"ship in a nice, new beautiful esit'ed him. Nimrod became her "I am a 16-year-old girl and an athe­ church-with a watered-down gospel. Cupid- her desired one-and later her ist. I am writing to te ll you this. When This course is without a doubt the most Valentine! So evil was Nimrod's 1 first happened to hea r The WORLD interesting endeavor yet undertaken mother that -it is laid she married her TOMORROW by accident, 1 thought at by me." own Jon.' Inscribed on the monuments once that it was just another religious Reader, Massachusetts PROPHECY IN TODAV'S WOR WS

HY haven't you been told the The Arab states are getting closer to arms and strengthening thei [ forces. really BIG news? It's not Viet their final showdown with Israel. "D­ The Command officials hope eventually W Nam. It's not President Day" in the M iddle East is drawing to be able to fielej a co·ordinated mi li ­ johnson's war on poverty. nea r. tary force of over hatf a mi/lio11 well­ Buried on the back pages of most Despite two disastrous defeats at the drilled men. newspapers and magazines are the real· hands of the Jews since Worl d War II, The Arabs have lacked unity and ly crucial events. They have gone the Arabs-8S million of them-have leadership in their previous fiascos with largely unpublicized and unnoticed. An never given up their determination to the fierce· fighting Jews. This they hope ominous arms race-going on for drive 2 million Israelis into the sea! to achieve with their new command set­ months-is suddenly speeding up in the Even though deep-seated rivalries lip. [t was prophesied long ago in your Middle East. among themselves still exist, the Arabs Bible. Middle East Arms R ace are finally attempting to co-ordinate Notice the startling prophecy 10 their military potential They have PsaJm 83 :4·5 about the Middle East: Saudi Arabia has just concluded a now formed a Uniled Arab Command. "They have said [as the Arabs have deal with Great Britain. The Arabs It's a NATO-type directorate located repeatedly screamed], Come, and let us want new jet fighters and anti-aircraft on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Sched­ cut them off from being a nation; thaI missiles. Jordan may soon get 100 ules have been set for acquiring new the name of israel may be 110 more ill Patton tanks from the U. S. Egypt is deep in the development of medium­ range missiles for use against Israel. The Israelis are purchasing large numbers of French medium-range bal­ listic missi les. TheIr: missiles 111(IY some­ day carry nuclear weap011J. Atomic re­ search is far advanced in the tiny Jewish state. Western diplomats and correspon­ dents alike are deeply concerned over this intensifying military buildup. Where will it lead? World lead­ ers don't know! The reason? They have discarded the source of knowledge that would unlock the meaning of world news-the Bible! But you can know; Bible prophecy makes the outcome clear! From time immemorial, the worl d's big "tinder box" has been Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean. More wars have been fought, more blood has been shed there than anywhere else. Pholo: N. 8.n-Hoim Now the stage is being set again! ISRA EL DEFENSE FORCE -Centurion tank on ste ep slope durin g maneuvers. remembrance. For they have consulted toughened game animals are dying too. A recent dust storm covered one­ together with one consent: they are COil· Tens of thousands of natives are stan'· sixth of the entire Awtralian continent. (edel'ate agaillSt thee./I ing. The only ones who fatten are the The dust was so thick at one town '--' Psalm 83, verses 6 and 7, then lists ants and the vultures and the fodder along the Queensland coast that even the ancient names of modern nations 111erchants ... the birds were groundedl within the }';loslem Arab world. Yes, lillY orse, apparentLy, is stili to come. Droughts such as these are prophe­ Arab unity is on the way. But it won't Government economists forecast that if sied to afflict not only the English­ last long. Other prophecies show how the drought does not break in 1966 ex­ speaking peoples, but the world at large, God will have to rescue the Jewish ports wi ll dwindle, imports will soar unless we repent of our sins-our dis· people- and the whole human race and the balance-of-payments problem obedience to God's right and sensible from cosmocide. wi ll take longer to clear up. laws. Before the mounting crisis in the "The economists say good rains could Read it! "I will make your heaven Middle East is over, all major nations save the situation. Blit the rains seem as iron and your earth as brass," God of the earth will be embroiled: "Be­ to haJle dese rted the region.JI said in Leviticus 26:19. hold the day of the Lord cometh. Right after this report was received, Massive dust storms, as in Austral· fol' I will g(lther a/l !lations agaimt an almost unprecedented event oc· ia, were predicted: "The Lord shall l er/IIalem to battle" CZech. 14:1-2). rurred. A national day of prayer for make the rain of thy land powder and ''GIhy will they be there? One major rai n was proclaimed throughout the dust" CDeut. 28:24). reason is OIL. Western Europe's econo· Republic of South Africa. All work Keep your eye on the Middle East. my is absolutely dependent upon these stopped and the people flocked to the And on the growing worldwide famine reserves. So is that of Japan. Any major disruption of this oil supply- such as an all·out Arab-Iseael war- would bring intervention. Meanwhile another grave situation is being underplayed In the news media. The growing worldwide drought and famine! 1I1any are asleep to the implications of the spread of drought and famine. Drought in Africa Not only Ind ia, but central and southern Africa are now in the throes of a drought "unparalleled in modern times." Unless conditions change, 1966 will go down as the year of the g1'eatest famine disaster in modem Africa. The following startling report, re· ceived over our United Press Interna· tional wire service was not widely pub· lished: JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 16, 1966--"A crudely lettered sign tacked to the gate

of a dcought.ravaged Transvaal cattle Photo; N. Berl-Ho;m ranch is scribbled with a harsh and ISRAELI MILITARY READINESS - Hawk mi ss iles on firing platform. bitter blasphemy : 'No rain, no grass, no God.'. churches, led by the President and the and food shortage. Read this new fea· Prime Minister. ture next month. It wi II make up·to· "These are cries from hearts filled The next day some showers fell, but date fulfillment of Bible prophecy with despair as thousands of farmers these were not considered of too much clear. watch their livestock and their hopes help. The crops 10 lTIany areas are Prophecy is comhzg alive in to· Drow thin and die as the centm/.r beyond rescue. day's world news. Make sure you un· greatest drought devastates sOllthem derstand_ These are momentous days in Africa .... Worse Yet in Australia which YOll are living. Find out what "A half mil/ioll cattle have died so Unbe lievable though this may seem, your God says you should be doing far in the three territories and now the the drought IS even worse in Australia. about it!

• IN THIS ISSUE: ." II In ...II ... .. ::r" !''" " "'". ." " n '"0 ... 2.. )C ; . 2- ~ * NOW AT LAST-The PLAIN TRUTH :;;- Z C ...0 ... in FULL COLOR - ~ ;..'" ii''" c . .. and printed on our new presses, in three editions around .., ...:z: the world-a dream of 39 years come true! See page 3. -..,0 * fAMINE STALKS THE EARTH! You'll find this article incredible - almost unbelievable. These stark facts will chill you; they'll stagger your imag­ ination-but they're TRUE! Read here the TRUTH about the haunting specter of famine and starvation now spreading around the world, and what your Bible says about OUR peo­ ples facing terrible drought and famine! See page 7. * ST. VALENTINE'S DAY Christian Custom?- or Pagan Superstition? See page 17.

* INSIDE LATIN AMERICA! rA' Beginning with the Central American "Banana Belt," tlus o - L C U> exclusive report reveals the pulse of South America, and its ~.c­ U> new spokesman- Ch.ilean President Frei. Read about a new < 0;:;:: DANGER on :the horizon for the U. S. and Britain. See ~X» r ;0 page 19. rrn.c-rn "'~ , * THE INSIDE STORY OF COLLEGE EDUCATION There are TWO SIDES, says one educator, to the story of r college or university education-the OUTSIDE story and the L INSIDE story. We strip bare the FACTS, in this article, of a- 0 the little-realized inside story. It's time the public knew the N I '" Z TRUTH! Every higll" s( '\001 seniot and college srudent needs '" U> to know! See page 27. '" z0 * How LOYAL Are You to Jesus Christ? Readers of The PLAIN TRUTH are responsible for the KNOWLEDGE they receive! Are you ACTING on it? Do you know what JOB will be your reward in the literal GOV­ ERNMENT of God soon to be s!!t up on th.is earth? See page 43. * PROPHECY COMES ALIVE IN TODAY'S WORLD NEWS See page 48.