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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JANUARY 17, 1986
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students not only have not been trained in the ideals and
values, the obligations and taboos of their own cultural
heritage, but the very refusal to tell the students that
certain kinds of conduct are desirable and other kinds of
conduct are not has been held aloft as a triumph of
democratic open-mindedness••••
To conclude, we have suffered greatly from the limited
understanding of those opinion-leaders who have given us�
� in which normative values and ciyic virtues lwzjl �
excluded from the evaluation of .Q.Y.I. courts,� schools, 2Y£.
literature, .Q.!!!. families and all other common undertakings.
The mass catastrophe of a drug culture gone out of control
is only one of numerous penalties we are paying for that
lack of vision••••
Yes, where there is no vision the people indeed perish (Proverbs
29:18).
And the words of Hosea 4:1-3 confirm Mr. Howard's remarks
about today's opinion leaders excluding what he calls "normative
standards": "There is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the
land.
By swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing
adultery, they break all restraint." How? By saying there are no laws
to regulate human behavior, and that everyone can do his own thing "as
long as it doesn't hurt anybody." What folly! We are indeed paying a
terrible price.
In verse 6, God summarizes the effect of such
lawlessness by saying that "My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge."
No wonder America can't stand up to its enemies in the world. One
private newsletter we receive put it simply:
"The Russians [are]
filled with a sense of mission and equipped with great force and
power--the Anglo-Saxons [are] reluctant, without sufficient military
capability, shorn of beliefs and weakened }2y much vice."
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau
Editor's Note: The copy for this issue was finalized on January 15, 1986.