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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MAY 13, 1983
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grouse that we're always backing losers. When we consider oppos
ing totalitarian regimes they grouse about meddling in internal
affairs. And when we do nothing at all they grouse that the world
is going to the birds •..•
Well, all of these birds of peace had been easy to identify, but
we still had not glimpsed even the tail feather of a hawk. Had
the hawk truly become extinct? Had it gone the way of the dodo
and the Eskimo curlew? Or does it still survive somewhere in the
American political wilderness? If so, if you should happen to
spot one, you could snare it and stuff it for posterity. Or, just
conceivably, you might find a pair of hawks and decide to take
them home and breed them. We're not suggesting that hawks should
rule the roost. But someday we might wish we had just a few of
them around.
Mr. Kann might also have noted the scarcity of the American eagle in the
country which once proudly proclaimed itself as "the land of the free and
the home of the brave." Truly as God foretold through the prophet Isaiah
"Oh my people! Those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of
your paths" (Isa. 3:12, RAV).
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau