The

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PLAIN TRUTH lead to the same destination in the end.” before the New Testament was fully
AmngazineolU&Sf&~ Do you believe that? written. Jude, in writing about SALVA-
Can you tell me where you can find TION,said it was necessary to write into
VOL. XXII NO. 4
any such teaching in the BIBLE? Yes, the inspired WORD OF GOD that we
HERBERWT . ARMSTRONG sadly, it is only too true that these dif-
Publisher and Editor ferent WAYS all lead to the same desti- should earnestly contend for the faith
nation-but that destination is not what once delivered to the saints. Not new
Herman L. Hoeh they expect! and different ideas of men-but the
Executive Editor faith, the truth, once delivered. It came
There is only ONE WAY that leads to FROM GOD. God had it delivered to man-
Roderick C. Meredith everlasting LIFE, and Jesus said “FEW kind. It was delivered by his Messenger
Garner Ted Armstrong there be that find it.” Christ is that way. - C H R I S T ! It is recorded in the written
Rut Christ not only taught the condi- Word, the BIBLE.
Associate Editors tion of believing in Him-He also
taught the condition of BELIEVING HIM Why was this admonition necessary?
Sent FREE to all who request it, as -believing HISGOSPEL that H e brought Because certain men had crept in un-
the Lord provides. Address all com- from God. awares-the church members were not
munications to the editor, Box I l l ,
Pasadena, California. Our readers in The SALVATION Jesus preached is not aware of the deception - turning the
England should address the editor, a matter of destination-of geographical
B.C.M. Ambassador, London W.C. 1. location. It is a matter of inheriting grace of God into lasciviousness. Las-
ETERNAL LIFE, instead of the eternal civiousness is license-permission to be-
Copyright, April, 1057 DEATH each of us has brought upon lieve and do as a man pleases, instead of
By the Radio Church of God himself by transgressing God’s spiritual THE TRUE FAITH, as GODDELIVERED IT.
Law. It is a matter of WHAT we are to
NOTICE: Be sure to notify us immediately become, not WHERE-although Jesus Two cannot walk together except they
of any change in your address. Please in- said the meek shall inherit THE EARTH,
clude both old and new addresses. IM- not heaven. be AGREED (Amos 3 : 3 ) . A house di-
PORTANT !
But the point I want to make is that vided against itself ( i n disagreement)
Heart to Heart Talk it does make all the difference between cannot stand. When some in the Church
with the Editor death and life for eternity WHAT we departed from the faith dehered to men
believe, and WHAT we do! from God, and began to believe that
HERE is a commonly-assumed idea which seemed right in their own eyes,
T i n the world that it doesn’t make Jesus was sent from God as the mes- they soon split off from the Church into
any difference what one believes, if he senger of the New Covenant. He brought a new group of their own. During the
is sincere. One man’s beliefs are often a definite MESSAGE, concerning the GOV- second and third centuries of the Chris-
considered to be as good as another’s. ERNMENT of God-being born into the tian era, some fifty “Christian” sects and
FAMILY of God. His Message concerned denominations appeared.
The idea seems to be that it doesn’t a WAY of life-a way totally at variance
make so much difference what one be- with the ways of this world-a way Then, in the early fourth century, the
lieves, if he is sincere. based on living by EVERY WORDOF Emperor Constantine assumed command
GOD.H e said it is necessary to BELIEVE over the professing Christian religion.
For example, there is the much-used that MESSAGE!
admonition: “Attend the Church of your H e appointed the Council of Nicea. H e
choice.” Each church denomination holds Sin is the transgression of GOD‘S commanded the church leaders to de-
to a combination of beliefs that differ cide among themselves what would be
from every other denomination. Yet the LAW ( I John 3:4 ) . God alone decides the church doctrines and beliefs. What
average church member considers that came out of that Nicene Council was a
these differences are not of great im- what we must obey to be saved-to mixture of original delivered Truth and
portance. In fact, the average church qualify to receive His precious GIFT of pagan error, as decided by these human
member doesn’t know what those dif- eternal life. But God made each of us ecclesiastical leaders. The police power
ferences are. H e probably has only a a free moral agent. He decreed that each of the state forced all to accept and be-
vague and hazy idea of what his own individual must decide for himself, not lieve this same thing.
denomination believes. WHAT is right or wrong, but WHETHER
to obey. God has not left any individual Authoritative religion held sway over
You hear the explanation: “All our free to decide for himself WHA’I’ is sin, the western world for centuries. And
church denominations worship the same but compels every individual to decide during these centuries the Church re-
God, and all are on the way to the same for himself WHETHER to sin, or to obey. mained UNITE-not in the TRUTH once
place. They are just taking different delivered, but in traditions of m n .
routes, going different ways-but all WHY are there so many sects and de-
nominations professing the Christian Then at last there rose up a leader
religion? What caused all this division? powerful enough to oppose the Church
W h a t brought on this BABYLON?Why, belief and practise, and the LUTHERAN
different beliefs, of course!
Church was founded. Soon other leaders
Splits and divisions were beginning arose with still different beliefs. New
and different sects and denominations
followed-the Wesleys, Calvin, Fox and

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The RACE QUESTION

WHY are there different races? HOW and WHEN did they
originate? Is racial intermarriage wrong? Is segregation Biblical?
What should w e do about the problem of integration today?

Here is a frank, clear explanation revealing the TRUTH on this

controversial subject!

by Herman L. Hoeh

N o SUBJECT today stirs up more If man’s way is right, then I ask you: Jewish minorities, then organized labor.
emotional animosities or is WHY has the present program of inte- Now the Negro has been made the cen-
fraught with more DANGER- gration in American public schools IN- ter of political turmoil.
no subject is more challenging or more CREASED racial tension throughout
fateful-than the RACE QUESTION! much of the nation? Is DESEGREGA- Let’s recognize it! The program for
TION REALLY THE SOLUTION TO DEC- desegregation is stimulated by SELFISH
It can hardly be discussed openly with- ADES OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION? w i l l znd POLITICAL motives. It’s an at-
Gut inflaming feelings of superiority or racial integration remove the root cause tempt to take advantage of the Negro!
inferiority, or feelings of aggression and of the problem?
extreme dislike. But where is MAN’S way of solving
The Supreme Court decision, however, the race problem leading us?
Yet the f a t e of this nation-and of was merely the spark that set the race
THE WHOLE WORLD-is dependent not question afire. A World-Wide Plot!
only upon the open discussion, but also
upon the one and only right solution For the past quarter century the prob- The race question involves far more
to this provocative question! lem has smoldered almost unnoticed. than a mere domestic matter in the
The real surge toward desegregation United States or in South Africa. It in-
It is time we face this momentous had already been artificially stimulated- volves a question of international im-
subject and UNDERSTAND it. It is time by POLITICAL MOTIVES! port. IT IS THE CENTER OF THE EAST-
we control our emotions and feelings
and examine this question honestly and Politics Behind Desegregation WEST STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF ASIA

trzltbfully . Politicians know that elections today AND AFRICA-AND ULTIMATELY THE
depend on minority votes in crucial
Let’s have one fact understood! God areas. Control of such states as New WORLD!
condemns DISCRIMINATION. It is a sin! York, Illinois and Pennsylvania depends
Unfair treatment because of race or upon control of the big city minority Power politics are involved. Here’s
color is always wrong. All can agree to vote. If political aspirants are to be why. Whoever gains control and the
that. But does that mean that God ap- elected to office, or if they are to remain support of the immense non-white pop-
proves social integration or racial inter- in office, they must make a play for the ulations gains mastery of the world!
marriage? Does that mean God con- minority vote-the minority vote of the
demns segregation? Negroes living in big cities in the The controversy over race became a
North. major issue as a result of the struggle
Exactly what is the difference between BETWEEN WHITES to gain allegiance
“segregation” and “discrimination?” Is Politicians of both parties, abetted by of Oriental and African masses. The
segregation really wrong? What is God’s the Supreme Court decision, have there- colored peoples of Asia and Africa were
way-the Bible way-of removing fore campaigned for desegregation-not a t first innocent pawns.
racial tension? These questions need because they necessarily believe it, but
answering! because it will gain t h e m t h e votes of But times are fast changing!
colored people in northern cities! This During and since World War I1 the
How the Controversy Began clever, and all-too-often insincere politi- colored populations awakened to their
cal maneuvering to corner their vote own importance in this struggle between
Let’s consider, first, the background tleeds to be understood by every Negro! the two major white powers, America
of this whole problem. and Russia. Today it is more than an
The present tension would never have ideological battle between capitalism and
The recent controversy over desegre- arisen if politicians and jurists did not communism. ’l’he non-white nations
gation burst upon this nation as a result need the Negro vote! Desegregation have become a THIRD force that must
of the unanimous Supreme Court deci- -MAN’S attempt to wipe out discrim- be reckoned with. Nationalistic strug-
sion on May 17, 1954. In that decision ination-has become a cloak for politi- gles have developed almost everywhere
racial segregation in the public schools cal vote-getting.
was declared unconstitutional. to see if the non-white nutions can
It is the same old story of HUMAN wrest mastery f r o m the whites and beat
Notice: MEN have decided that inte- NATURE in politics-first it involved them at their own game! Thus far it
gration will wipe out discrimination in currying the favor of the Catholic and
public schools! involves only the yellow and brown
peoples of Asia and North Africa. But
But is this GOD’Sdecision?-is this communist propaganda is spreading
GOD’Sway? throughout the “Black Belt” of Africa.

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-Wide World Photo and belong to the true “brotherhood” WAR! But politics is only one factor
(I Peter 2:17). behind the current racial tension.
An illustration of racial tension in
America. Here i s the flaming cross The people of this world are not How Evolution Influences
of the Ku Klux Klan, a traditional brothers sp&ually BECAUSE THEY DO
symbol of white supremacy. It i s a Desegregation
warning to Negroes to move. NOT HAVE GOD FOR THEIR SPIRITUAL
There is another factor espoused by
( Continued from page 3 ) FATHER! The Bible nowhere teaches that ministers and educators alike. This fac-
Trouble is already brewing in Kenya all men from birth are spiritually tor is evolution!
and South Africa. Within another twen- brothers. Most men are ENEMIES of one
ty years Negroes in the whole of Africa another! This theory, not the Bible, is the real
will be in ferment! basis of the recent Supreme Court deci-
Then where did the doctrine that all sion. Let us understand WHY.
The problem will fast become an men are spiritually and racially brothers
international contest, not only for in- come from? Out of Moscow! And apos- No theory has played a greater part
ternational supremacy, but for racial tate Christianity! in moulding the racial attitude of edu-
supremacy! cators than has the theory of evolution.
And no wonder. For all who are a It has given a pseudo-scientific basis for
MAN’S solution is plummeting us part of this world-whether they are the present trend in race relations.
straight down the road to RACE WAR! atheistic communists or professing
Christians-have ofie father, the devil, Politicians, psychologists, jurists and
Idealists and social “do-gooders,” and hence are in a sense brothers. Jesus educators-all have been swept off their
without realizing it, have become help- said so! feet by the fable of evolution. All their
less tools in the hands of communist legal decisions on race relations are
propagandists inciting RACE WAR in The doctrine of the universal brother- based upon this unproved theory.
the name of the BROTHERHOOD OF hood of man and the Fatherhood of God
is nowhere found in the Bible. God is Yes, MAN’S attempt to solve the
MAN! It is time we fully realize the N O T the Father of every person. Only race question IS based on the atheistic
through conversion do Christians be- theory of evolution, instead of the in-
tremendous implications lying behind come brothers and have God as their spired Scripure!
the communist cloak of “HUMAN Father. Most professing Christians are
BROTHERHOOD.” Western civiliza- not really converted, and God is not Now let’s understand the astounding
tion is at stake! their Father. connection between evolution and racial
desegregation!
NOT from the Bible ! W e like to think we live in a Chris-
Communist propaganda stirring up tian world. But the world does not One hundred years ago it was fash-
racial strife masquerades under the guise preach or believe the teachings of Jesus ionable to believe that white men had
of a Christian-sounding name-“the Christ. The so-called Christian church evolved further than the darker races,
brotherhood of man.” But where did denominations are all divided. They The primitive Negro in Africa, with his
this doctrine of “the brothcrliood of don’t really live by the Bible. dark skin and broad, flat nose and his
man” originate? prognathous jaw was assumed to be
Jesus said to the Pharisees of this Communist Plans to Divide America similar to uur “bub-humm” aIicestors.
world, “If Gucl weir youi father, you Some even claimed that only whites
So the program of racial integration had “SOUIS.” All this made the white
would love me . . . You are of your is stimulated not only by so-called man feel smugly superior--he had
“Christian” politicians in America, but reached the pinnacle of evolutionary
father, the devil, and the lusts of y o w also by international communism! development!
father you will do” (John 8:42,44).
Only true Christians talled out of this The Asia-African bloc of scares in Or had he?
wicked world have God for their Father the United Nations is the political front The past century witnessed rapid
in this gigantic communist-inspired progress among the colored peoples.
conspiracy. Communists are not really That’s the reason tremendous changes
interested in desegregation. They are in- became necessary in the evolutionist’s
tent upon stirring up racial strife in
America. They originally planned for a The WORLD TOMORROW
separate and independent Negro Re-
public in the South. heard in Australia!

But the plan boomeranged. 2CH-Sidney-Sat., 10:15 P.M.
The American Negro did not want 2AY-Albury-Sun., 10:OO P.M.
to separate. The communists immediate- 2GN-Goulburn-Sun., 10:00 P.M.
ly changed thcir tunc and called for LGF--Grafton-Sun., 9:30 P.M.
total integration. They knew it would ?BO-Bendigo-Thurs., 4 :15 P.M.
provoke white reaction. Once again 4TO-Townsville-Fri., 10.15 P.M.
politiGs reveals its ugly hand in this 4CA--Cairns--Sun., 10:00 P.M.
unnecessary controversy that is taking
us straight down the road to RACE 4WK-Warwick-Tues., 9:30 P.M.

April, 1957 The PLAIN TRUTH Page 5

concepts of racial hiqtory and race re- -Wide World Photo
lations. Here is what happened.
Negro President and students a t the Meharry Medical College in Nash-
Scientists admitted that it is the ville, Tennessee. Over half the Negro doctors in America are graduates
white m n , instead of the Negro, who of this institution. Here i s what the Negro can accomplish through educa-
manifests the thin lips of the ape. It is
the white r n who manifests the ape’s tion!
heavy brow ridges above the eye. It is
the white mods hair that is like the ape’s There would be no one left to discrimi- all things therein . . . made of ow
in structure! No ape has woolly hair like nate against. All that‘s necessary, reason
the Negro! The Oriental and the African our leaders, is to “cooperate with [blood} every nation of men to dwell
-the evolutionists soon reasoned-must nature.”
have “evolved” every whit as far as the on all the face of the earth . . . having
white man. But will this plan work? Is this the
way to genuine happiness? Will it bring determined the bounds of their habita-
Of course, none of these prove evolu- tolerance and harmony? Or will it stir tion” (Acts 17:24-27).
tion true, nor do they demonstrate that up racial tensions into race war?
one race is more “advanced” than an- EVERYNATION sprang from olte m m .
other. T h e Negro is no less human than What is God’s way-the Bible way- This is a “Thus saith the LORD!” No-
the white mun. of solving the problem of racial dif- tice I Corinthians 15:45: “The first man
ferences?
But evolutionists would not admit Adam became a living soul.” There
they were wrong. They merely “altered For the answers to these questions
their view of evolution” to please their we must turn to the Bible. The Bible were no “pre-Adamites.” Adam was the
intellectual vanity. is God’s revelation of essential knowl- first man. From him came Eve. Eve is
“the mother of all living” human beings
Now they went to the opposite ex-
treme. (Gen. 3:20).
Thc Scripture is plain. All nations
They began to teach that all races
should freely intermix-since all were edge. It is God’s decision-not men’s and all races came from Adam. But
equally “advanced!” This would pre- decision-that we want. What does He what did Adam look like?
sumably wipe out color differences and say?
leave no one to discriminate against. Adam was madc by God. Thc God
HEREis MAN’S WAY of creating the Did All Races Spring from Adam?
dream of ONE WORLD. who made Adam was Jesus Christ. “All

But is this GOD’S WAY of wiping things were made by Him; and with-
out discrimination and making ONE
WORLD a reality? Here is a qucstion that has puzzled out Him was not anything made that
many! Is Adam the father of the Mon-
Intermarriage a Final Goal golian, the Hindu, the Negro and the was made” (John 1:3 ) . This is speak-
Whitc Eutopean? Or was Adam the
Here is how MEN attempt to justify father of only the Nordic people? Are ing of Jesus Christ, the Word, or active
crosszng the color lines not only educa- Negroes and Orientals descendants of Spokesman of the Father. Now notice
tionally, but socially and maritally. “pre Adarnites?”
how Christ made Adam: “And God
Competent leaders among American Notice the plain, simple Bible answer:
Negroes have generally discouraged “The God that made the world and said: Let us make man [Adam} in our
racial intermarriage. More often than image, after our libmess” (Gem 1:2 6 ) .
not, the plan for free intermarriage
among the races is fostered by whites! What is the meaning of “likeness?” The
It is a direct result of the philosophy facial expression! So Adam looked like
of evolution being applied to social
problems.

Here is how they reason: To quell
racial tension and make “the brother-
liood of iiiaii” a reality, the entire nation
must first desegregate schools and
encourage social intercourse between the
races. This would provide sufficicnt so-
cial contact to allow both races to be-
come mutually acquainted so that inter-
marriage may naturally follow. And
with intermarriage freely permitted all
our racial problems would be solved.

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Jesus Christ. Adam also looked like God inhabiting that region. The fittest and cooler Europe supposedly became con-
the blackest survived, say evolutionists, stantly whiter by natural selection!
the Father. God said, “Let US make because they could better withstand the Proof for this?-there is none. It is only
sun’s rays. Everywhere men in tropical a theory. It is wishful thinking. IT 1s
man after OUR image.” Both Jesus Christ Africa became constantly blacker, ac-
and God the Father look alike. NOT TRUE.
cording to this theory, just as men in
When Jesus was on earth 4000 years Climate or other factors in the envi-
later, He looked exactly like the Father. LOG ronment may tan one’s skin. But this
Jesus was “the express image of His sun tan is not inherited. Acquired char-
[the Father’s] person” (Heb. 1:3). Rut “The WORLD T O M O R R O W ” acteristics are not inherited. Just because
Jesus also looked like the average Jew! male Jews are circumcised does not
Judas had to kiss Jesus in order to Herbert W. Armstrong analyzes to- mean that Jewish boy babies will be
point Him out among His disciples who day’s news, with the prophecies of born circumcised! Climate did not cause
were also Jews (Luke 22:48). the change of color of a Negro’s skin to
T h e WORLD TOMORROW! black. Neither could natural selection
Since Adam looked like Christ and make a Negro black. Natural selection
Christ looked like the average Jew, then TO THE US. & CANADA could do no more than choose what d-
Adam-the first man-must have re- ready exzsted. Darwin’s theory of natural
sembled the Jew. Adam therefore was WABC-New York-770 on dial- selection can not bring anything new
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contend. The Jews are Whites. Then how did the races develop their
-time. color?
Here is the testimony of archaeological
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account for this unexpected revelation?” WWVA-Wheeling, W. Va.--t170 and in size. Some races tend to be shorter
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Mon. and Wed. thru Fri. is found in Genesis.
with the majority . . . and simply re-
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The Prophesied “BEAST”
Looms Up!

The dramatic fulfillment of what has been prophesied in the
pages of this magazine for over 20 years is NOW underway.

Read these astonishing facts!

by Roderick C. Meredith

London, England

PROPHECY was fulfilled in a meet-
ing I attended the other night
here in London! Plans were made.
A campaign was launched!

As my wife and I beheld the launch-
ing of this movement-already pledged
to co-operate with similar movements
on the European continent-I realized
that this entire scheme was destined to
evolve into the prophesied “beast” of
Revelation 17. Yes, this movement-
working now with many others-is la-
boring feverishly in an attempt to bring
about a United States of Europe!

All of our older readers know that
this work has been warning our people
for over twenty years of the certainty
of this coming European Union-and
of its FEARFUL portent for the British
and American people. And now, it is
almost upon us!

Anti-American Attitude -Wide World Photo
True to its real nature and its proph-
esied outcome, this movement is start- The German army marches again! Adenauer himself admitted,
ing out with an attitude of hate and
bitterness toward America. And it will ’’I am convinced that the German national a r m y . . . represents a
not be long until this same attitude is
felt toward the British people as well! .grave danger for Germany and Europe. . The German nation-
For prophecy says that this coming
European Empire is the FRANKENSTEIN alists [Nazis] are ready to go along with the Russians. Make the
that will destroy Britain and America!
The meeting I attended-a meeting most of the time that I still live; once I am gone it will be too late.”
pledged to help create this European
union-was addressed first of all by a ning was a great deal more radical in able to oppose either Russia or the
member of the British Parliament, Sir his statements and assertions. This man, United States if need be! He described
Victor Raikes. He began his speech by Mr. Kenneth de Courcy, has for some the political, economic, and military
stating that he was “proud” to be asso- time been known as an extreme rightist advantages such a United Europe would
ciated with this movement to form a in minor British political circles. He have-and said he favored a common
third force in the world. Then he stated that the United States has been European citizenship for everyone! H e
launched an attack on American policies a poor warmaker and even worse at also elaborated on the great opportuni-
and asserted that the European powers making peace. ties in the European development of
must now integrate in order to have Africa and its untapped resources.
sufficient strength to “go it alone.” After more general attacks on Ameri-
But the principal speaker of the eve- can policy, he said: “I would hate to For You-for your family and loved
see the United States as the main west- ones-the really significant point in this
ern power in another war!”
is that these men and many of their
Then, he got into the heart of his
message-a plea for Britain to join in counterparts in Germany and France-
a United Europe, a Third Pow.er Bloc are NOW beginning to build the very
power which God says will ultimately

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-Wide World Photo of Europe stand or fall together.”
Yes, the paralyzing fear of Russia
This is NATO’s Southern European headquarters building in
dramatized by the recent blood bath in
Naples, Italy. Notice the twelve flags representing the member Hungary is now bringing about what
nations whose European forces are now under German control. might have seemed impossible only a
few years ago. The European nations are
destroy our people! And they are bas- and resources can be used in the most at last going to forget their ancient ri-
ing it on the same principles and describ- effective manner.” valries and get together. By this, they
ing it in almost the EXACT way that hope to build a Third Power Bloc even
The PLAIN TRUTHhas been warning But the most definite and dramatic stronger than Russia or the United
you to watch for over the past twenty headlines of all were those of a recent States.
years! issue of the British “Picture Post” mag-
azine-which is perhaps the largest and True to their nature, the British are
Prophecy is future REALITY! It is most popular of its kind in all the proving to be the most slow and stub-
NOW taking place before your very British Isles. These headlines pro- born people to sell on this idea. But as
eyes! claimed: “A UNITED STATES OF EU- we have seen, a large-scale propaganda
ROPE” and continued, “The need of the campaign is now being waged to win
A “THIRD FORCE” in the World hour is for action to create a powerful, them over.
integrated, United States of Europe.
To advertise the eye-opening meet- This would, at long last, forge into one However, make no mistake about it,
ing just described, its backers purchased strong political, economic, cultural, and the British will NOT go all the way on
a full half-page advertisement in the strategic union the people who inhabit complete unification with other Euro-
stately, influential “London Times.” Its our great European cradle of Western pean nations, and will probably pull out
banner headlines advertised the plan for civilization. It would transform free of any “Free Trade Area” agreement
creation of “The Third Force” in Europe. Europe, with its 300,000,000 people, before this leads to the ultimate goal of
Clearly, such large-scale propaganda will into a powerful unit: economically as
do much to prepare the British people able to stand upon its own feet as the complete unification. Prophecy says that
for the acceptance of a European Union. United States of America: as rich in Britain will not be in the final United
human resources-not to speak of crea- States of Europe.
Significantly, it was not long after tive talent-as the Union of Soviet
until this subject again hit the headlines. Socialist Republics.” Rather, this European Empire is al-
But this time the proposals came from most certain to be dominated by a re-
an official government source. The head- This leading article continued: “The vived, aggressive, rearmed GERMANY!
lines stated that because of the Com- problem of uniting Europe is now in-
munist threat the British Foreign Sec- escapable. The time is desperately short. Referring back to the meeting to help
retary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, had “urged Furthermore, the issue transcends party build the Third Power Bloc which I
Europe to unite in face of it.” He said and creed. And the events of the past have already described, I am reminded
further: “It is absolutely necessary rhar few months must have convinced the that near the close of the meeting the
the countries of Western Europe should most hesitant minds that the peoples chairman laughingly remarked that one
come closer together so that their efforts of the largest contributions they had
received so far to help propagandize the
European Union idea was sent over by
none other than a G,ermun busiwess-
man who chanced to see their ad in the
“Times!” If he could only foresee the
ultimate resalt of Germany’s interest in
a United Europe, this chairman’s laugh-
ter would quickly turn to sober fear!

GERMANY Will Dominate T h e
Coming European Empire

Politically and economically, Ger-
many has made an amazing comeback
since the war. In many past issues of
The PLAINTRUTHwe have described
to you this amazing recovery.

The essence of it is that Germany is
now strongcr industrially, and in a bet-
ter political bargaining position, than
any other nation in Europe. She has re-
ceived a tremendous “shot-in-the-arm”
by receiving over THIRTY BILLION DOL-
LARS in aid from America.

April, 1957 The PLAIN TRUTH Pqe 9

Thc mighty German industrial ma- Ncar East Burcau in Cocbbcls’ Propa- WHY THE PLAIN TRUTH HAS
chine--prhcipdly guided by the pery ganda Ministry. NO SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
same men who bacRed Adolf Hider-
is fast out-stripping every other Eu- The latest fantastic news on the Ger- So many ask: “How can you publish a maparinel
ropean nation in the trade markets of man situation is that a former Nazi without subscription price, and without adverrrsing?
the world. Alfried Krupp, former war General who was Rommel’s chief of
criminal, is now being allowed to build staff in World War I1 is now being The answer is simple. The GOSPEL must 80 to
military jet planes! And now Herr nominated to assume command of all rhe whole world, and it must go FREE. It must nnr
Strauss, Germany’s new Defense Min- the NATO ground forces in central be sold like merchandise. “Preely ye have rcccjved,”
ister, is pressing for atomic weaports Europe. He is Lt. Gen. Hans Speidel, Jesus said to His disciples whom He was sendin to
for the new German army. proclaim the Gospel GIVE.” Witlfout
who was named February 6 as com-
Just last summer, a new Nazi party mander of all U.S., French, British, money and without phc?f?%od*s way. W e pro
was formed in Frankfurt, Germany, claim a FREE salvation. Therefore, we cannot put a
under the leadership of Otto Strasser, a Canadian, Belgian, Dutch, and German PRICE upon the PLAIN TRUTH.
former henchman of Hitler. As one troops on NATO’s first line of defense.
veteran newsman put it: “If anyone has We have been called of God to conduct this work.
a Lhaiice to rouse doiinant Nazi feclings, This paradoxical situation was summed It is not our work, but God’s. W e have set out
Strasser generally is conceded to be the up pretty well in a recent British car- to conduct God’s work Gad’s way. W e rely in
man.” toon which showed the troops of his FAITH, upon God’s promises to supply every &d.
former enemies, thc allied nations,
Meanwhile, reliable reports from the marching in review before Gen. Speidel, God’s way is the way of LOVE-and that is the
Middle East revealed that the amazing while he is pictured giving the “Heil
success of Nasser’s propaganda c a m - Hitler” salute to an illusory image of way of giuing, nnr gening. God CXPCCN every true
paign against Britain and her allies is his former commander, Field Marshal child of His to GIVE of tithes and offerings that His
due to the sinister influence of four Erwin Rommel, and saying: “Desert work may go FREE-that His true ministers may
victory at last, mein Field Marshal!”
“Goebbels” - trained Nazi propagan- GIVE the precious Gospel to others. We simply
What Prophecy Says Will Happen TRUST GOD to lay it on the minds and hearn of
dists. They are the brains behind the tor- His people to give of their tithes and offerings that
rent of abuse and lies which pours end- God Almighty is the One who makes we may be enabled to GIVE the good thin@ of
lessly from Nasser’s “Voice of the Arabs” and unmakes nations. He is the One God’s Word to the hundreds of thousands who hear
radio station. One of the four is Baron who-hundreds of years ago-foretold the Message over the air, and the scores of thousands
von Mildenstein, formerly chief of the the soon-coming formation of a Ger- who read The PLAIN TRUTH.

Many times our faith has been severely tried. but
God has never failed us. W e must not fail HIM!

man-dominated United States of Eu-
rope which H e would use to panisb and

destroy America and Britain!

W e are God’s people lsrael-and He

is going to rebuke and chasten us for
our mounting SINS just as H e does every
son H e loves-nationally and individu-
ally (Heb. 12:6). If you do not yet
understand the amazing truth of our
national identity, that we in Britain and
America are the descendants-twt of
Judah-but of rhe so-called “lost” ten

Lt. Gen. Hans Speidel, shown with his

family, has recently been named com- Here are German soldiers being taught by Americans the use of

mander Of a’’ a”ied land forces in weapons developed since 1945. Though Americans are used for
instructors, the Germans do the actual running of their army.
Europe. He was instrumental in counteract-
-Wide World Photo
ina the Allied invasion of Normandy in

1f i 4 ! -Wide World Photo

Page 10 The PLAIN TRUTH April, 1957

tribes of the housc of Isracl, write im- Have you enrolled in our free Europe. It is this ancient re1igion-polit-
mediately for Mr. Armstrong’s free Bible Correspondence Course? ical system which God is speaking of
booklet, “The United States and British all through this chapter.
Commonwealth in Prophecy.” The T h i s is a Lut;illy i i r w , h f f s r e a t
knowledge contained in this booklet is It i z in continental Europe that this
vital to a right understanding of Bible kind of Bible study course, designed system WILL rise again! It is the very
prophecy. to lead you, by the study of your thing that many of our tax dollars are
o w n Bible, to UNDERSTAND the helping to pay for! I t is some form of a
In Isaiah 47:1, God speaks of a “vir- whole meaning of today’s world- United-States of Europe which will un-
gin daughter” of the ancient Babylon. chaos, of the PURPOSE being doubtedly be dominated-not by democ-
H e describes her future punishment. worked out here below, of P R O P H - racy loving Britain-but by a revived,
“Sit thou silent, and get thee into dark- ECY, of SATVATTON, of this en- rearmed Fascist-minded GERMANY!
ness, 0 daughter of the Chaldeans: for tire Treasure-House of knowledge,
thou shalt no more be called the lady which is GOD’S WORD-the Notice also in verse 14 that this sys-
of kingdoms. I was wroth with my peo- TRUTH. tem finally comes to its end in war
ple, I have polluted mine inheritance, against the “Lamb”-Jesus Christ in His
and given them into thine hand: thou The most VITAL, most IMPOR- second coming as King of kings. So the
didst show them no mercy; upon the T A N T questions of YOUR LIFE time for these things is soon-in OUR
ancient thou very heavily laid thy yoke” are thoroughly gone into, and you generation!
(verses 5 and 6). are directed to the clear, plain,
simple answers, zn your BIBLE! Prophecy is DUAL. God used ancient
Remember that it was the ancient You will learn HOW to study the Assyria to punish Israel of old over one
Assyrians-not Babylon-that invaded Bible-WHY so few U N D E R - hundred years before the Jews were
and conquered Israel. But here is pic- STAND it. You will PROVE taken captive by Babylon (11 Kings
tured a “daughter” of the ancient Baby- whether the Bible really is the I N - 17:6).
lon to rise up in modern times and im- SPIRED W O R D O F GOD!
pose a “yoke” upon God’s people Israel. I n this time of the end, God is going
Just address your letter request- to use the modern descendants of ancient
Notice that she is called “The lady ing thc Ambassador College Bible Assyria-the Germans-together with
of kingdoms,” and that she says, “I am, Correspondence Course to Box 111, the prophesied revival of the modern,
and none else beside me; I shall not sit Pasadena, California. Babylonish Holy Roman Empire con-
as a widow, neither shall I know the sisting finally of a ten-nation UNITED
loss of children” (verse 8 ) . this system is the Holy Roman Empire STATES OF EUROPEto punish His way-
which dominated Central Europe for ward, sinning people, Britain and
To understand w h o this “daughter of hundreds of years during the Middle America.
Babylon” is, we should not use faulty Ages. T h e five main heads of this system
human reason, but let the Bible interpret were, in order, Justinian, Charlemagne, Modern Israel is going to be punished
the Bible. Otto the Great, Charles the Great, and for her sins just as surely as our ances-
Napoleon. tors were. And the Jews will receive
In Revelation 17, we find this same their share of punishment at the same
false system described perfectly. Study The Final “Beast” time.
this chapter.
The head pictured as existing when There IS a way of escape and protec-
The great “whore” pictured in this the prophecy would be understood at tion! God is revealing it through the
chapter has had an illicit relationship the time of the end is the Mussolini- same source from which you are now re-
Hitler dynasty which was officially called ceiving these prophetic warnings.
with the kings of the earth (verse 2 ) . -as the others had been--“The Holy
Roman Empire.” “He that hath an ear, let him hem.”
She also “reignerh over the kings of the Watch future issues of The PLAIN
earth” (verse 18). The “waters” where In verses 11 and 12, we see that one TRUTHfor more details of the revival
she holds dominion are “peoples, and more head is to rise u p - o n e more re- of this final “beast” power. S t d y these
multitudes, and nations, and tongues” vival of this system is to take place! things. This is your life!
(verse 1 5 ) . Truly, as Isaiah prophesied, Notice that the “ten horns” pictured on
she is a “lady of kingdoms.” the original beast “are ten kings”--or POUR NOS LECTEURSFRANCAIS!
dictators! They “have received no king-
Also, compare Isaiah 47:s with Rev- dom as yet; but receive power as kings Nous sommes heureux d’informer nos
elation 18:7: “For she saith in her heart, one hour with the beast.”
I sit a queen, and am no widow, and lecteurs que, petit i petit, les articles de
shall see no sorrow.” Here we see that ten kings or dictators Monsieur Herbert W. Armstrong sont
are to rise u p simultaneously and unite
Coming now to the time when this in pledging their allegiance and support traduits dans la langue franqaise. Pri-
prophecy was to be understood in the to the final great military-political lead-
latter day, we find that in this religious- er called the ”beast.” sentement, nous tenons i la disposition
political system “there are seven kings:
five are fallen, and one is, and the other Where would this last revival of the de ceux qui nous en font la demande
is not yet come; and when he cometh, Holy Roman Empire be? Who would une copie d e I’article fragais, intituld
he must continue a short space.” these kings and nations be?
“Pourquoi Etes-Vous NC?”
Many prophetic students realize that The answer is abundantly clear! This
empire has ALWAYS existed in Central

April, 1957 The PLAIN TRUTH Page 11

THE RACE QUESTION

(Continued from page 6 )

ings. There is only one human K I N D , planned it to be this way at creation. -Wide World Photo
but there are many human varieties or T h e Negro, as well as the Oriental,
races. This Pigmy from the depths of the
ir a mutation from Adam’s stock. Each Belgian Congo stolidly sits for a
How did all the varieties originate? is a distinct variety of man. The Negro “beauty treatment“ in the African
God did not separately create each reproduces after his own likeness, not jungle. The l i n e s on the face will
variety of animal. Adam named every after the likeness of Adam, who was become permanent scars.
KIND in a few hours before he saw Eve white. The Negro is the result of a
-but he couldn’t have named every change in hereditary factors. malformations, such as the sudden ap-
variety in a week’s time! Neither would pearance of six fingers and six toes.
there have been room enough on the ark Notice that mutations occur in heredi- But no new racial mutations are occuz-
of Noah for every variety. Noah took tary units in reproductive cells. That ex- ring, nor have they occurred in. the last
in only the Genesis KINDS-not every plains why ectch distinct mew variety- two or three thousand yems!
variety. Then how did the original KIND the Negro and the Oriental, for example
-the cattle, for exampledivide up in- --reproduces after its own likeness, Science, of course, has not been fully
to many distinct varieties? rather than after the parent stock. The able to discern the divine mystery that
The answer is very simple. God crea- new variety has arisen from a change in causes mutations or new varieties. How
ted the cattle kind in the beginning. A hereditary factors. GREAT indeed is God! Even with power-
KIND will reproduce after its own kind.
Cattle always reproduce cattle. (This is God set this law in motion. He ful microscopes man cannot clearly see
just one proof that evolution is impos- planned that certain limited changes
sible.) A KIND will never develop into would occur from time to time in the these changes which sometimes occur
a new and different kind-but it will reproductive cells of plants, fish, birds in reproductive cells of plants or the
divide up into many new varieties. and animals-including man. That is lower animals. It is still beyond science
That’s why there are so many colors how the various races or distinctive vari- to learn why it happens. Science can
and sizes in each kind. eties of human beings arose! It is a discover only that it does happen.
God intended that each kind should matter of naturd, physical law God set
reproduce distinctive varieties FOR in motion at creation. Races Before the Flood

BEAUTY A N D FOR THE SERVICE OF M A N . Negroes, then, are not black because Human races NOS& before the fiood.
of Ham’s sin.
Imagine what kind of world it would be But how did the racial types pass
if we could only eat one variety of apple, Parent stock always reproduces after through the flood if all were drowned
or look at one only variety of rose, or its own kind except when a mutation except Noah’s family?
eat only one variety of fish! suddenly appears. That is why the white
parent race of men always reproduces The plain and simple answer is that
God knew what man needed. H e whites-after its own kind. all racial types today developed from the
solved this need in two ways. One, He five strains that passed through the
purposed that there should be natural But you ask, why do not whites still
v h t i o n s in every creature or plant. No reproduce Negroid or Mongoloid muta- flood ( Gen. 7 :7 ) . There were Noah and
two things are exactly alzke. ’l’wo, H e tions from time to time?
also purposed that distinct and totally his wife-two strains-and the three
new varieties should, from time to time, The answer is again found in nature. wives of the three sons of Noah, mak-
~ d a k n l ydevelop within an original Some plants and animals continually ing five in all. These individuals in-
kind. THESEDISTINCT NEW VARIETIES reproduce mutations. Other kinds, how- herited specific traits which they passed
WE MAY CALL MUTATIONS. ever, soon exbaast themsekes. They can to you and m e today. All nations arose
reproduce only a certain number of mu- from these strains.
Remember these two types of vari- tations. In other words, when all the
eties. They are the keys to the difference possible changes in the reproductive From Shem, oiir of Noah’s sons, arose
between nationality and race. Races are cells have been expressed in new vari- the white Europeans as well as the
mutations. Natiunaliries are, in general, eties there are no others left to occur.
natural variations. (Please continue on page 1 4 )
That is what happened in the case of
But what is a “mutation?” man! All the possible racial variations
which A d a m and his immediate de-
Sudden Changes in Nature scendants were able to reproduce have
already been reprodwed. That is pruved
A mutation is a sudden change that by the fact that none are now appear-
occurs in the stracture of reproducfive ing.
cells of the parent stock. Such a change
may give rise to a new variety. God Of course there are visible non-racial
mutations still occurring in human be-
ings. Most of these are harmful or are

-The M o t r o n Photo S e r v i c e Lo' A r r g e i r r

Here is one of the most hideous and de-
generate types of "facial beauty" imogin-
able. This is a native w o m a n of Dar es
Salam in Tanganyika. Notice the patterned
face w i t h permanent scars and t h e e x -
tended upper lip.

Schoolgirls of a Mission in Tanganyika, East Afri
from the farm demonstration center. Here i s a s

The t w o men you see hc
treme variations among tt
man a t the right i s a t3us
the left, a Hottentot. I
degeneration of these tw
t w o are mutations from

Semi-civilized African natives, lower

in their finery for Princess Margaret on

These natives, whose headgear includ

clumps o f leaves, danced for the Eng
Tanganyika. What a great difference i
those who finally learn Western ways.

I, East Africa, carry home their crop of pumpk9r,s
+ere i s a scene you would never see * P Amer'ca'

IOU see here illustrate the ex-
s among the Negroid stock. The
i t i s a Bushman, the person at
0ttento.t. Notice the extreme
f these t w o tribal types. These
ions from the Negroid stock.

IS, lowfer left a n d lower right, decked out

rgaret on her African Tour i n October, 1956.

ear included horns of varying length, thick

Ir the English Princess upon her arrival i n

ifference there i s among these natives a n d
ern ways.
-Wide World Photos

Page I4 The PLAIN TRUTH April, 1957

-Wide World Photo goloid types throughout Asia. Over one Now the question arises: why were
half of Japheth’s sons were white- the different racial characteristics pres-
Not everyone realizes that vast por- the others were Mongoloid. ent in Noah’s family?
tions of North Africa are inhabit-
ed by non-Negroid tribes. Here you Through Ham many of the light peo- Doesn’t this imply that there must
ple of North Africa arose. The black have been racial intermarriage before
see Abd El Krim, leader of the peoples throughout Africa and South- the flood? How else could Noah’s three
Berber R i f f tribe in Morocco. The east Asia also descended from Ham. sons have passed on such divergent
Only two of Ham’s four sons were characteristics?
Sahara-meaning desert in Arabic black.
-separates these white tribes from Indeed it does meatz that there was
the Negroes of Central Africa. In this article there is not sufficient RACIAL INTERMARRIAGE before
space to trace the families of Noah the Flood!
(Continued from page 1 1 ) mentioned in Genesis 10. But a sequel
to this article will trace the migrations That is exactly what brought the flood
Arabic Shemites. Shem is also the father of the people throughout the world. In upon the world!
of the brown men of India. Most of this coming article you will learn that
Shem’s sons were white. not all black people are Negroes-you Consider. Prior to the flood God did
will discover where the American In-
Japheth produced the Latin people of dian came from. N o story of fiction not intervene to separate the races. They
Europe and also the major portion of could be more interesting than to trace all had one language before the flood.
Russia. From him also sprang the Mon- the origin of the nations that exist to- God left it to men to volantari!y obey
day. Him. But they refused! To continue His
Plan, God chose Noah, an obedient man.
Color Tends to Predominate
Noah was “perfect in his generations”
But to return to the races that escaped -that is, in his ancestry. H e came from
the flood in Noah’s day. Did you ever a pure stock. H e was not only spiritually
notice that at the tower of Babel about “just,” but physically “perfect in his
three quarters of the human families
were WHITE? WHITEwas the parent ancestry” (Gen. 6:9). Few people
stock. Only ONE THIRD was NON-
WHITE. BUT TODAY OVER TWO THIRDS understand this key verse.
OF THE ENTIRE WORLD IS NON- Noah’s family was of the original
WHITE! The color factor tends to be
predominant over white. stock-though it seems that at least two
of Noah’s sons married women who
were racial mixtures.

Notice: “For just as it was in the days
of Noah, so shall be it in the day when
the Son of Man cometh. For as in those

(Please continue on page 1 8 )

The public market in Kigezi in Uganda, East Africa. Each morning Zulu Negress from Sauth Africa grinding
“mpupu” or flour on a sloping flat stone.
crowds of natives dressed in hides and carrying baskets of produce The flour falls onto a grass mat, is then
emptied into basket and ready for use.
on their heads come to trade. This i s an illustration of the primitive life

lead by natives o f Africa. -Wide World Photos

WHERE Did God Command YOU

to Observe Lenf?

Where and when did the custom of observing Lent originate?
Here is an article revealing amazing FACTS hidden for centuries

-facts that will surprise you!

by Herman L. Hoeh

BELIEVE it or not, Lent was ob- “but also concerning the very manner of What about Easter?
served 4000 years ago! the fast”-the fast of the Lenten season.
It was still being observed when “For some think that they should fast Here is what Socrates Scholasticus
Christ was b o r n d u r i n g His ministry one day, others two, yet others more, and wrote in his Ecclesiastical History, not
-and in the days of the apostles, yet some forty,” reports Irenaeus, Bishop long after Emperor Constantine, in the
Christ did not institute it and H e never from France. fourth century after Christ:
observed it! The apostles never observed
it. The Church Jesus built never ob- How did all this confusion originate? “Neither the apostles, therefore, nor
served it. God is not the author of confusion!
Then who originated this confusion over the Gospels, have anywhere imposed . . .
The apostle Paul commanded the Lent?
Gentile-born Christians to cease observ- Easter . . . Wherefore inasmuch as men
ing it! More startling, Christ commands “And this variety in its observance,” love festivals, because they afford them
us today to cease observing it. continues Irenaeus, “has not originated cessation from labor: each individual in
in our time; but long before in that of every place, according to his own pleas-
How, then, did Lent enter the Chris- our ancestors. It is likely that they did ure, has by a prevalent custom celebrated
tianity of our Western World? not hold to strict accuracy, and thus
formed a custom for their posterity ac- [Easter] . . . The Saviour and his apos-
Isn’t it time we pause to ask our- cording to private fancy”-not apostolic
selves w h y we observe the customs we authority or Christ’s command! (From tles have enjoined us by no law to keep
do? W e may have supposed Lent was Eusebius’ Church History, Book 5 , chap- this feast . . . just as many other customs
taught in the Bible. But have we ever ter 24.) have been established in individual local-
looked into the Bible to see what the ities according to usage, so also the feast
Bible really says? Lent came into the Church through of Easter CAME TO BE OBSERVED IN
cusToM-through PKIVATE FANCY. The
WHY the Churches Observe Lent EACH PLACE ACCORDING TO THE INDI-
churches observe Lent, not because the
The Lenten season is a period of 40 Bible commands it, but because profess- VIDUAL PECULARITIES OF THE PEOPLES
days abstinence, beginning on “Ash ing Christians adopted the custom from
Wednesday.” Do you know what the their Gentile neighbors. inasmuch as none of the apostles legis-
meaning of “Lent” is? lated on the matter. And that the ob-
“As long as the perfection of the servance originated not by legislation,
The word “Lent” comes from the old primitive church [the inspired New BUT AS A CUSTOM the facts themselves
English word “Lencten” meaning the Testament Church] remained inviol- indicate” (chapter 2 2 ) .
“spring” of the year. You can verify able,” wrote Cassian, the Catholic prelate
it in the Encyclopaedia Britdnnica. The of the fifth ceutury, “.dwre wus PLV ob- Did you notice that? Easter originated
Lenten celebration was originally associ- servance of Lent; but when men began as a custom of the people! And so did
ated with the spring of the year. But to decline from the apostolical fervour of Lent. Lent is merely the introduction to
today it begins in the winter! Why? devotion . . . then t h e priests in gerzerul
agreed to recall them from secular cares Easter. Easter is the climax to Lent. (If
Where did the spring-time celebra-
tion of Lent actually originate? When by a canonical indiction of fasting . . .” you have not already read the TRUTH
was the celebration of Lerit chariged about Easter, write immediately for
from spring to winter? Here is the sur- (Antiqwtties of t h e Christian Church, Mr. Armstrong’s free booklet entitled
prising answer! Book 21, chapter 1.) “Easter.” It will give you many astound-
ing facts about the origin of Easter-and
Let us first turn back the pages of Fasting, or abstinence from certain it will reveal what the New Testament
time till we reach the close of the second foods, was irnposcd after thc days of the Church observed instead of Easter!)
century. This was 100 years after the apostles-by the authority of the priests!
death of the last of the 1 2 apostles. IIere But from what city did the celebra-
is what Irenaeus writes to the Bishop Lent is not of apostolic origin! It did tion of Lent really begin to spread
of Rome about Lent at this time: not originatc with Christ! It cntered the throughout the professing Christianity
Christianity of the Roman World in the of the Roman World?
“For the controversy is not only con- second century. It entered a t the same
cerning the day”-there was a contro- time that Easter did! Lent is always as- Here is what the Catholic Encyclo-
versy over the time to celebrate Easter- sociated with Easter! But when did pnedin records:
Easter originate?
“In any case it is certain from the
‘Festival Letters’ of St. Athanasius that
in 331 [he] enjnined upon his flock a
period of FORTY DAYS of fasting pre-
liminary to . . . Holy Week, and second

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that in 339 after having travelled to tising Christians merely adopted the cus- know better! Observe what God says H e
Rome and over the greater part of Eu- toms found in their respective countries will do to those who refuse to repent of
rope, [he) wrote in the strongest terms -that is why they were divided as to this abomination: “Is it a light thing
to urge this observance’’-Lent-upon its length from the beginning. It took
the people under his jurisdiction. the churches of the Western World . . . that they commit the ABOMINA-
nearly eight centuries to impose a total
Athanasius was influenced by Roman period of 40 days abstinence as had been TIONS which they commit here? . . .
custom. It was at Rome that not only the original custom at Babel!
Easter, but also Lent, entered the Chris- Therefore will I deal IN FURY: mine
tian Church. Irenaeus wrote that Lent Christianity today has turned to. the eye shall not spare, neither will I have
and Easter were introduced during the pagan customs of Babel instead of the pity: and though they cry in mine ears
time of Bishop Xystus of Rome. This commands of God in the Bible! with a loud voice”-of course they pray
Bishop “did not permit those after him” to God--“yet will 1 not hear them!”
to observe the practices of the apostles, Where Mentioned in the Bible (Ezek. 8:15-18).
but instead introduced the custom of
Easter and of Lent. Lent is nowhere commanded or men- But what if Easter and Lent are an-
tioned in the New Testament. But it is cient pagan festivals. Isn’t it .rtill all
But from where did the bishops of mentioned in the Old Testament! right, if we use them to honor CHRIST?
Rome obtain the custom of Lent? That’s the way people reason today. Let
“Lent,” remember, “seems to have GODanswer that question:
T h e Origin of Lent been an indispensable preliminary to the
great annual festival in commemoration Jesus Christ-the Word of God-
In the early Catholic Church, Lent of the death and resurrection of Tam- spoke to Moses to warn the people not
was always called tessarakoste, in Greek, muz”-the pagan Babylonian Messiah. to follow these customs of the heathen.
or qzladrageszma, in Latin. These two The month of June was named in honor Here is what Jesus Christ said: “Take
words mean “count forty.” Lent-though of the false Babylonian Messiah. Forty
sometimes celebrated for only one or days preceding the feast of Tammuz heed . , ~ that thou inquire not after
two days, or for several weeks-WAS (usually celebrated in June) the pagans
held their Lenten season! Ezekiel de- their gods, saying: ‘How used these na-
ALWAYS CALLED THE CELEBRATION OF scribes it vividly in Ezek. 8: 13-14: ttons to serve their gods? even so will

FORTY DAYS! “He”-the Lord--“said also unto me, I do likewise.’ THOU SHALT NOT w so
‘Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see
Why? greater abominutions~”’ Notice that God UNTO THE ETERNAL THY GOD; FOR
Why should a period of abstinence calls what Ezekiel is about to see an EVERY ABOMINATION TO THE ETERNAL,
have gone by this name even thozlgh it ABOMINATION. What does the prophet which H e hateth, have they done unto
was not until the beginning of the see?
eighth century after Christ that the final their gods” (Deut. 12:30-31) .
number of forty days was fastened on “And, behold, there sat women weep-
the whole Church? ing for Tammm!” Here is what God says-it doesn’t
The answer is obvious-abstinence matter what we think-but it DOES
among the pagans was called by the They wept for Tammuz, the false MATTER what God thinks. He calls these
name “count forty” because that is the Messiah of the pagans! That weeping pagan Easter and Lenten customs abomi-
length of time they celebrated their preceded the pagan festival in honor of nutions. No wonder the apostles did not
spring festival! Remember, Lent means the supposed resurrection of Tammut. teach the early spirit-filled New Testa-
“spring.” Fasting was joined with weeping FOR ment Church of God to observe these
The historian Wilkinson, in his book A PERIOD OF FORTY DAYS before the traditions of men!
festival in honor of Tammut. The period
Egyptian Antiquities, chapter 111,p. 181, of weeping and semi-fasting fell during Is it any wonder that Jeremiah was
springtime. That is why the word Lent inspired to write: “Learn not the way of
wrote that the pagans kept “fasts, many means “spring!” Lent is a continuation
of which lasted from seven to forty-two of the pagan spring-time custom of ab- the heathen . . . for the customs of the
days, and sometimes even a longer staining from certain foods just prior to
period.” celebrating a fake resurrection! And God people are vain?” (Jer. 10:2 ) .
calls LENT an A B O M I N A T I O N ! Jesus Ieft us an example of what we
The Christians, after the death of the
apostles, were also divided as to the That is why Christ and the true New ought to d-and that example is nor
length of their periods of fasting! Testament Church never observed it! Easter or Lent!
Paul forbad Christians to observe these
But the original length of the fast, pagan “times” or “seasons” (Gal. 4:10). A Fake Resurrection
traced back to ancient Babylon 4000
years ago, was a “forty days’ fast in the Jesus Christ Forbids Lenten Notice that Lent immediately pre-
spring of the year! ” ( from Layard’s Celebrations cedes the celebration of a Sunday res-
urrection-supposedly of Christ! Bat
Nineveh and Babylon, chapter 4,page Surely the people today are sincere- Christ was not resurrected 072 Sunday!
93). That is why it bore its nmze of but so were the pagans!-they didn’t (For the astounding proof of this, write
for Mr. Armstrong’s shocking free book-
“forty days!” Each nation gradually let “The Resurrection of Christ Was
changed the length of celebration, but NOT on Sunday.” You will be amazed
they all retained the ndme. The aposta- with what you will learn about Christ’s
resurrection directly from the New
Testament. )

Nowhere does the New Testament
command us to observe the resurrection

April, 1957 The PLAIN TRUTH Page 17

of Christ! We are commanded to ob- Heart to Heart Talk the instructions contained therein, they
serve the MEMORIAL OF HIS DEATH- will be found carrying out the Great
“Do this in remembrance of Me,” com- with the Editor
manded Jesus! T h e early inspired triie Commission of Christ - proclaiming
New Testament Church did observe (Continued from page 2 )
that memorial, but it never observed with a LOUD VOICE His Gospel, just as
Easrer or Lent! God never commanded others. Differences of belief divided and Jesus brought it from God the Father,
Easter in honor of the resurrection! re-divided these - new offshots con- to all the world as a witness.
Easter is in honor of the false Messiah- tinued, more and more denominations
Tammuz. and sects arose, until today there are And when you find that Church, you
more than 400 different churches in the will find UNITY, not in the various con-
Easter and Lent celebrate the res- United States alone.
urrection of a false Christ. Paul warned flicting ideas and beliefs of men, but in
that this very custom would develop- This is not harmony, peace, and
“For if he that cometh preacheth another UNITY-this is strife, disagreement, and GOD’STRUTH. They will ALL BELIEVE
Jesus, whom we have not preached”- DIVISION. What is the difference be- THE SAME THING, because they must be
and that is exactly what has happened tween one denomination and another?
Different BELIEFS about either doctrine people who have repented of their own
(I1 Cor. 11:4 ) . Lent celebrated another or practise or both. ideas or convictions, or the beliefs and
practises and customs of the world, and
Jesus, a false Messiah from Babylon! Is this what God once DELIVERED to
The celebration of a festival on Sun- the true Church of God? No, these sec- whose lives are now devoted to seeking
tarian beliefs disagree with God’s TRUTH GOD’Struths and HIS WAYS.
day in honor of the resurrection comes which GOD delivered to His Church!
directly from PAGANISM. The pagans What, then, is the real BASIS for each of In the world you find men of con-
celebrated the resurrection of Tammuz, these hundreds of Churches? Each one is flicting beliefs CLAIMING that they seek
the false Messiah, immediately after based on its own peculiar DISAGREE- to find God’s Truth-but they are not
Lent. This festival crept into the pro- MENT in part or in total with GOD’S fully honest in this. They usually refuse
fessing Christian world after the death ’TRUTH once delivered. to accept God’s Truth unless it is what
of the apostles. The Christians began to they want to believe, or what their group
neglect th’e annual memorial of Christ’s What, then, must of necessity be the believes. They do not always let Scrip-
death. They substituted a Sunday Easter basic foundation that would identify the ture correct them where they are wrong.
in its stead. (If you want to know what ONE and ONLY true Church of God,-
the inspired New Testament Church if such exists today? Why, complete Here, then, is the UNITY you will find
really observed, also include in your let- ACCEPTANCE of ALL of the faith once
ter a request for Mr. Armstrong’s booklet deliuered-that is, believing, and obey- in God’s true Church:
“When and How Often Should W e Ob- ing that Truth and instruction delivered
serve the Lord’s Supper?” It will give from God to His Church thru Christ They will “. . . stand fast in ONE
you the amazing answer. ) and thru His written Word!
SPIRIT, with ONE MIND, striving together
Notice that immediately after the That means a Church made up of for the faith of the Gospel“ (Phil.
Lenten observance, the prophet Ezekiel people who have, first, repented of their 1:27).
sees the people observing an Easter sun- own ways, beliefs and practises, and
rise service: “Then said He unto me, those of the world-and who have ac- The O N E MIND is the MIND OF
‘Hast thou seen this?’”-the Lenten cepted, without reservation, the WORD CHRIST, now in them by the power of
fast. “‘Turn thee yet again, and thou OF Go-people who now LIVE by every
shalt see GREATER ABOMINATIONS than Word of God, which means they STUDY the Holy Spirit. “Let this MIND be in
these.’ ” What does the prophet see: the Bible to be corrected, reproved, and
people bowing down toward the sun in instructed in GOD’Sways. It means peo- you, which was also in Christ Jesus”
the East. Easter sunrise services-the ple whose lives no longer are conformed (Phil. 2:Z).
climax to the 40 days of Lent! (Ezek. to this world, bur are rransformed by
8:16). the power of God’s Holy Spirit into the They will be of the SAME MIND, I N
pattern GOD HAS DELIVERED thru His THE LORD-not apart from the Lord
God calls the sunrise service an wrirteri Word! (Phil. 4 : 2 ) . Here is GOD’SWAY to
ABOMINATION! - Sun-Worship! It is UNITY: “Now I beseech you, brethren,
a sin! Ic does make a difference tu God. This means a Church composed of by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
He labels Lent and Easter exactly what people who regard the Holy Bible as thut ye ull speuk the same thing, and
they are-pagan festivals! the SUPREME AUTHORITY over all Iives that there be NO DIVISIONS among you“
-who actually tremble before this in- ( I Cor. 1 : l O ) . If all these professing
Your eternaI destiiiy depends upon spired Word-who fear to disobey it- Christian denominations were in truth
what God SAYS, not upon what seems who regard it as the sole source of Christian, there would be NO DIVISIONS
right to you. TRUTH and the right way to happiness, -but there are more than 400 divisions
peace, and eternal life. And in OBEYING in America alone!
And don’t delay writing for Mr. Arm-
strong’s booklets. If you have not yet Just speaking the same thing is not
read them, request them i-mmediatelj’.
enough. That is what the leaders at the
Nicene Council agreed to do-but it
must be the SAME THING as the W O R D
of GOD!

Here at headquarters of the Church

of God, we do all speak the s m e thing!
Our ministers are men who have gone

rhru t h e real exeerieme of conversian-

who have been CONQUERED by the Eter-

nal God, who have known what it is

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to really SUFFER to have t h e d f cruci- ot three of our young ministers had WHAT we believe? Yes, it may make
fied, to have to give up their own way, all the difference between eternal LIFE
and to be willing to give up all for never as yet come to clear understanding :ind eternal DEATH!
Christ! of whether Satan is mortal, and in the
BUT-and I want every reader to heed
W e have quit seeking our own way. future to be destroyed - to cease to this!-remember GOD does not cram
Whenever there is doubt in the mind of His precious TRUTH down any individ-
any about some truth, doctrine, or God’s exist. The others had studied the ques- ual’s throat! God made every person a
way in any problem, we ministers meet tion and knew that the Scriptures re- free moral agent. Every one must decide
together in council, asking GOD’Sguid- vealed that Satan and all angels and for himself WHETHER to accept truth-
ance and wisdom, seeking HIS truth! demons are immortal beings who can WHETHER to obey God. D O NOT try to
There bas neuer been any disagreement. never die or be destroyed. In many of force your ideas or convictions-even
our conferences we had this question
God’s Word instructs us: “In multi- on the agenda for complete study and tho you may be sure they are GOD’S
tude of counsellors there is safety.” So discussion, but always it seemed other
we meet and counsel together, seeking problems or questions were more irn- Y R U T H - o n any who is not interested
God’s true understanding from His mediately pressing. W e never got to and desirous of listening to you!
Word. God is always willing to give this particular question until our annual
it. As long as each man is yielded t o ministers’ conference in January of this What should be our attitude toward
God in his heart, there will always be year. Each January all our ministers are those who have different beliefs? It
unity. Yet not one of these men would called to Pasadena headquarters for a should be an attitude of L O V E - o f com-
yield to the convictions of the others if two weeks’ study and conference to- plete TOLERANCE. They have as much
he believed God’s Word revealed other- gether. Meanwhile, none of these young right to their wrong beliefs as you have
wise. ministers expressed any definite convic- to your right ones! God ALLOWS any and
tions on this question. But when we every individual to be wrong, or to do
Because this great work of God is went into it prayerfully with “multi- wrong! Of course they shall have to reap
growing, and more and more conse- tude of counsellors” the truth became what they sow-but GODALLOWS IT.
crated and trained young ministers are very plain to all.
being ordained as they graduate from So, above all, have a heart of CHAR-
Ambassador College and otherwise qual- There is a great deal more joy in ITY, tolerance, love, toward all others.
ify, I do not personally write all of the finding GOD’Sway, even when contrary TREASURE the Truth! Thank GOD for
articles in The PLAIN TRUTH any longer. to our own previous beliefs or desires, it! Give Him praise for His mercy in
And a few of our readers, apparently than having our own way! opening your understanding! PRAY for
reading something contrary to their own others, that their eyes may be illumined,
previous and well imbedded convictions, But now one last CAUTION on this too. But never argue with them-never
under the by-line of one of our mini- matter of what we believe. debate-never enter into controversy or
sters, have assumed that these men were strife. Just have love and charity, and
writing their own ideas, contrary to what It is ONLY the TRUTH that shall make PRAY for others, being always ready to
I personally believe. us FREE, and in which we may find give an answer-if they ask it!
eternal life. Does it make any difference
Usually this has happened when it
was known that I was in Europe or THE RACE QUESTION
away on a trip. Letters have come ask-
ing me to check up on what some of (Continued from page 14)
our men are putting into The PLAIN
TRUTH when I am away. days before the flood, they were eating for all FLESH had corrupted His way
and drinking, MARRYING AND GIVING upon the earth” ( Verse 2 , l l - l Z ) .
So I want to take this opportunity to I N MARRIAGE, till the day that Noah
tell all our great family of readers that entered into the ark, and they knew not VIOLENCEfilled the earth-very
we here do all have ONE MIND-the until the flood came, and took all likely RACIAL VIOLENCE!
MIND OF CHRIST;and we do all speak away” (Mat. 24:37-38).
the same thing, as God Himself re- It may well have resulted from inter-
veals thru His Word! If any one of us One of the SINS that led to the flood marriage between races. Men chose
comes up with something NEW, not involved not only eating and drinking whatever women pleased them. They did
previously understood and agreed to be not ask God’s advice or counsel. They
the true revelation of God’s Word, he the wrong things, but MARRYING AND freely intermarried with those of other
does not speak it publicly, or write it GIVING IN MARRIAGE! Marriage in itself races, when they knew they should not
in any article, UNTIL we ministers can is not wrong. So this must have involved have done so! God sent the flood to save
all study independently into it, and the W R O N G K I N D OF MARRIAGE. the human race from itself!
counsel together regarding it, and all Now turn to Genesis, chapter 6.
come to the same mind. Immediately after the flood the same
“The sons of God [not angels, but .sin developed. This is recorded in Gene-
As a specific example: Some three or sis 11. The racial stocks at the Tower
four years ago we discovered that two men} saw the daughters of men that of Babel wanted to racially intermix.
they were fair; and they took them wives Leading the rebellion at Babel were
Semiramis or Ishtar, a white woman,
whomsoever they chose . . . and the and her husband Nimrod, a black Cush-

earth was corrupt before God, and the

. .earth WAS FILLED WITH VIOLENCE ,

April, 1957 The PLAIN TRUTH Page 19

From DER GROSSE BROCKHAUS, 1952 ff, with permission of the publishers.

Here you see the four racial strains of mankind. Upper left are Germanic and Mediterranean types of
the White Race. In the upper right are a Tibetan man and a Japanese woman illustrating the Yellow or
Mongoloid Race. The two pictures in the lower left illustrate the characteristics of the Brown Race. The man
is of the Sioux Indian tribe, the woman i s a Hindu. The Sioux i s a n exception to the general rule that most
American Indians are Mongoloid. In the lower right are the two major branches of the Black Race. The man
toward the center i s a Somali (of Cush), the other man i s a typical Sudanese Negro.

ice. Nimrod, of course, was not a Negro. same mistake. “As it was in the days of inheritances. Most people would not
Nimrod came from Cush, but Cush is Noah, 50 shall it be in the day when take their own inheritance. They wanted
not the father of the Negroes. Cush be- the Son of Man”--Christ--“cometh.” to intermarry after the flood and make
gat the black people scattered through- their own kind of ONE WORLD.
out Southern Asia and into East Africa. Now let’s understand why God inter-
Cush means black in Hebrew. The Ne- vened at Babel to segregate the races. They could have had one world then,
groes descended from Phut, Cmh’i with one language, IF THEY HAD BEEN
brother. God Separates the Races OBEDIENT. But the people rebelled. They
were not satisfied with separate inheri-
God put a quick end to this act of God always allows men to obey Him tances. They did not want to be segre-
rebellion. H e intervened. H e confounded voluntarily. After the flood H e allowed gated. “So the Lord scattered them
or confused the languages so that each men to voluntarily refrain from inter- abroad from thence”-from Babel-
racial and national stock would there- marrying between the races. “Remember ”upon the face of all the earth. There-
after remain separate. This whole ac- the days of old”-just prior to Babel- fore was the name of it called Babel;
count is made plain in Genesis 11. You “when the Most High gave the nations because the Lord did then confound the
should read the entire chapter when you THEIR INHERITANCE, when H e SEP- languages of all the earth” (Gen. 11:8-
finish this article. AKATED the children of men. H e set the 9 ) . And what are the people trying to do
borders of the peoples” (Deut. 32:7-8). today?-the same thing that God put
Very few realize that the flood came W e already read in Acts 17:26 that God 3 stop to at Babel! Why won’t we learn
r ~ p o nthe world becuuJe of ruLiu1 mter- determined “the bounds of their habita- cur lessons!
marriage. The world has forgotten that tion.”
fact. Today they are trying to repeat the Now we come to another startling
God gave the nations their separate

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fact Mow people do not know the The experience of the Negro proves and Wh8kessometimes met in the New
difierence between “segregation” and that when you violate this principle and Testament Churc,h together-as we read
“discrimination.” integrate the Negro geographically you in Acts 1 3 : l : “Now in the Church at
introduce discrimination. Geographic Antioch were prophets and teachers,
Segregation Is NOT Discrimination intqration in Egypt led to racial dis- both Barnabas and Simeon, wh.0 was
crimination against Israel in the time of called Niger [the Greek word for N e -
As it is used today, the word discrim- Moses (Exodus 1) . God put an end to
ination means evil treatment of individ- discrimination by separating or segre- g r o ] , and Lucius . . .” Simeon was a
uals because of race, creed or color. Dis- gating Israel!
crimination is a sin! W e are to help Negro in the Church at Antioch. Ne-
people, not treat them evilly. Segrega- Many fail to understand this simple groes could meet with Whit’es in the
tion is not discrimination. Segsegation distinction between segregation and dis- N e w Testament Church.
means separotion. Separation is not dis- crimination. This is usually due to mis-
crimination! Discrimination has often understanding Paul’s statement in Gal- God told Peter to “make no distinc-
been miJlabeled “segregation.” If men atians 3:28: “There is neither Jew nor tion” spiritually, i n matters of chgrch
had followed God’s ways in the first Greek, there is neither bond nor free, worship, over Gentiles in the Church
place, and if each race would have re- there is neither male nor female: for ye (Acts 11:12). This was a hard lesson
tained its own inheritance, there would are all one in Christ Jesus.” for Peter to learn (Gal. 2 : 1 2 ) . But
be no discrimination today. If men had social fellowship, apart from religious
followed God‘s ways in the first place, What does it mean to be “ONE IN fellowship, was not permitted! Here is
and if each race would have retained its CHRISTJESUS”? the proof!
own inheritance, there would be no dis-
crimination today. Notice that Paul is speaking of being God’s Law Forbids Intermarriage!
divided outside of Christ, but united or
God separated the races at Babel. In one in Christ. Consider what God specifically says
other words, God segregated the races about social fellowship and interracial
socially and geographically at Babel. Does it mean we cease to be males marriage. Speaking to Israelites about
What they would not voluntarily do, He or females any longer? Of course not! the sons of Canaan, the son of Ham,
forced them to do. G O D IS T H E Christians are still male and female in God said: “Neither shalt thou make
A U T H O R OF SEGREGATION. But Christ-after conversion! Christians may marriages with them: thy daughter thou
God is no respector of persons. H e does still be racially Greeks or Jews-or shalt not give unto his son, nor his
not discriminate. He gave His own Son Whites or Negroes-after conversion. daughter shalt thou take unto thy son”
for the whole world-no matter what The color of one’s skin does not change (Deut. 7:3).
one’s color is. upon conversion. Then what is it that
makes us one after conversion? God did not want them to mix social-
How W e Become ONE i n Christ ly or to intermarry. The religion of the
Turn to James 3:16: “For where Canaanites was also involved, as well
True segregation would never lead to cnvying and strife is, there is confusion as their race. Marrying outside of one’s
discrimination. In America, as a result and every evil work.” Did you notice religion is as bad if not worse than
of slavery, there is geographic integra- that? Where there is jealousy, strife and marrying outside of one of the primary
tion-not total segregation-and dis- envy, there is division and confusion! races.
crimination is the inevitable result! God
segregated the races geographically at Outside of Christ males and females Notice God’s command through Gov-
Babel-to keep the world from discrimi- are envious and jealous of one another. ernor Nehemiah: “In those days also
nating because of race and color. True Outside of Christ freemen and bondmen saw I the Jews that had married women
geographic segregation would have pre- are striving with each other. of Ashod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
vented discrimination. and their children spoke half in the
Outside of Christ there IS discrimina- speech of Ashod [a Philistine city] and
DISCRIMINATIOIS NA RESULT OF tion between White and Colored. But could not speak in the Jews’ language
GEOGRAPHIC INTEGRATION! It is not a in Christ our A T T I T U D E S are, through
result of Biblical segregation. Man’s at- conversion, to become ONE! . . . And I contended with them . . . Ye
tempt to wipe out discrimination by ed-
ucational and social integration is merely It is our ATTITUDE that changes at shall not give your daughters unto their
stirring up more trouble! It will never conversion! W e all develop one atti- sons, nor take their daughters for your
solve the problem. God knew this long tude of mind-the attitude of love, sons, or for yourselves. Did not Solomon
ago! That is why He segregated the which means OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S
races geographically in the first place. LAWS. “Love is the fulfilling of the law” king of Israel SIN by these things . . .
(Kom. 13:10).
It seems that neither Whites nor Shall we then hearken unto you to do
Negroes have ever really understood this Men and women are one in Christ, but all this great evil, to break faith with
MOST IMPORTANT definition of Biblical Paul did not permit a woman to teach our God in marrying foreign women?”
segregation. Biblical segregation begins or usurp authority. God’s law com- (Nehemiah 13:23-27).
with GEOGRAPHIC SEPARATION. manded that! Whites and Colored are
one in Christ, but we shall notice short- Here again God stresses the same
ly that God’s law commands ihem not principle. It is wrong to mix socially or
t o mix socially or to i v ~ t e r i ~ u t r y . to intermarry between the races. Despite
his wisdom, Solomon sinned by doing
Due to migration and slavery Colored SO. H e married the daughter of Pharoah,
an Egyptian.

April, 1957 The PLAIN TRUTH Page 21

From DER GROSSE BROCKHAUS 1952 ff,
with permission of the publishers.

Another view of the four racial strains of mankind. I n the upper left are two pictures of the Black Aborigi-

nal inhabitants of Australia. At the upper right i s a picture of a Black Wedda of India and a black inhabi-
tant of the South Sea Isle of New Caledonia. In the center row are Brown and Yellow racial stocks. At the
left, a brown Cushite woman from the island of Ceylon, at the tip of India. Next i s a Polynesian from Samoa.

The other two are of the Yellow race-the first i s a Tungu, an inhabitant of Siberia, the other i s a polished
Chinese. In the lower row we notice different White stocks. At the lower left i s a Spaniard, next comes a
Greek. Lower right brings us to two Germanic types from Hesse and Baden, i n Germany.

Notice the law God set in motion seed . . .” (Lev. 19:19). Here is God’s both “kind” and “variety.” The word
concerning mixing different kinds or “kind” here must mean varieties of the
varieties. “Ye shall keep my statutes”- law. This is not Moses’ law. These are original Genesis kind. The original Gen-
most people want to forget God’s stat- “MY”statutes, God says. Do we believe esis kinds can never mix. Cattle can
Utes--“Thou shalt not let thy cattle never interbreed with sheep. They are
gender with a diverse kind; thou shalt Him? of two different Genesis kinds. But this
not sow thy field with two kinds of H e tells us not to let different kinds law means that we are not to allow

or varieties mix. In the Hebrew Ian-
guage, there is only one word meaning

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different kinds. that is, varieties of cattle IT IS NOT A PHYSICAL MATTER. mix with Negroes. That is why God
to interbreed. Spiritual fellowship in the Church is separated them so widely. But brown
Mongolians may mix with brown Cau-
Every breeder of purebred stock rec- permitted, but not social fellowship. casians of India, for instance, or yellow
ognizes this law. No breeder would al- Social fellowship is the first step in Mongolians. Racial intermarriage is a
low his prizewinning purebred stock to breaking down the God-erected barriers matter of degree.
degenerate by mating with any other to interracial marriage. The New Testa-
than the purebred strain. H e would have ment examples show this clearly. Nationalities, by contrast, are sep-
no pure strains left. Mongrels or hybrids arated by political borders. Nations are
would result, instead. God does not want to have the differ- political units. Some have natural bar-
ent races of human beings mix socially. riers, but most are only arbitrary polit-
Retaining the Best Qualities That is why HE segregated them at ical divisions which permit easy cross-
of Each Race Babel! ing. No marriage is forbidden between
different nationalities of the same race.
God wants us to keep the strains Nationalities Are N O T Races There may be factors, at times, which
would limit marriage within the nation-
p u r e t o bring out the best qualities k W e should clearly distinguish be- ality (See Numbers 36). But these
dween nationditty and race. Nationalities factors are not racial. The different tribes
each. are basically natural variations and are of Israel were permitted to intermarry
For example, the Negro has a natural generally to be distinguished from sud- freely.
den and distinct variations due to mu-
inborn resistance to many tropical dis- tations. However, some national stocks The very fact, however, that the na-
eases. Whites do not have this natural within a race-such as the Pigmy-are tionalities or tribes remain separate
resistance. It is the Negro who was made due to non-racial mutations. units is strong indication that greatest
to live in Africa. Even the very color of happiness is found within the nation-
the skin makes it more tolerable for a Races are due to mutations. Intermar- ality. Even nationalities tend to differ
Negro to withstand tropical climate. riage between the four primary races- emotionally and mentally. There is a
Whites were not meant to populate white, yellow, brown and black-is sin. great difference between the Negro and
Central Africa. South Africa, however, God says so. And it is God who deter- the black Pigmy or the Bushman, for
does provide the type of climate suitable mines what sin is. But within the races instance. They are different tribes of the
for Europeans. And it was the WhiteJ, there are nationalities. God segregated same race.
not the Negroes, who reached Sogth the nationalities (tribaI divisions with-
Afric, first. in races) primarily for political reasons Negroes in Africa practice segregation
rather than racial reasons. with Pigmies and Bushmen. They rec-
Take the example of the Mongolians. ognize xgregatiori as a lx3tUrdl law
Only in East Asia does the climate con- There are only four primary races, among themselves.
stantly vary from extremely hot to ex- but dozens of nationalities exist. Each
tremely cold. No other portion of the of the primary races is separated by A Bible Illustration
earth’s surface presents such a variation bodies of water, deserts or great moun-
in weather. The Oriental was made ex- tain barriers. This is to prevent inter- The Bible contains a specific example
actly for that climate. His blood vessels marriage. Africa is almost totally sur- of the DISTINCTION BETWEEN NATION-
are not so near the surface of the skin rounded by water. A great desert is in ALITY AND RACE. Shortly after Moses
as among Whites. Hence the color of its northern half. The whites of Europe fled from Egypt he married Zipporah, a
his skin. Mongolians do not theretore are separated from the brown men of
notice the extremes in climate. Southeast Asia by mountain passes and Midianitess (Ex. 2 :2 1) . Zipporah’s
from the yellow men by the central
Next, take the example of the Ger- Asian deserts. And the brown and yellow father was Reuel, a Midianite priest.
mans. They are an energetic people. ’l’hey peoples of Asia are separated by the He was also called Jethro (Ex. 2:18).
form the very heart of Europe. That is greatest mountain barrier in rhe world- Moses’ wife was of the white race, but
why God led them there-so that the the Himalayas. Look a t a map of the of a different nutionality from Moses.
whole of Europe could be efficiently and world and see how true this is! Moses was of the nation Israel. Zip-
thoroughly integrated in its economy. porah was of Midian. God did not object
Similar parallels may be drawn with all This does not mean chat there arc LU this union.
peoples-races and nationalities. abrupt changes in racial lines. The races
are so pIaced that they shade from one About forty years after this event,
Promiscuous intermixing of races pre- into anorher. There is IIU hard and fast Moses married another w o m n . Notice
vents each human stock from developing rule in the border regions. the account in Numbcrs 1 2 : l . “And
its best qualities. As far as physical in- Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses
heritance is concerned, “man has no pre- Dark whites in North Africa can because of the Ethiopian woman whom
eminence above a beast” (Ecc. 3: 19). freely mix wit11 peoples of Southern
Man, like other animals, degenerates Europe as well as with the darker peo- he had married: for he had married an
with interbreeding. ples of Central Africa. But for the ex-
Irciiics o f Central and North Europe to Ethiopian woman.”
Of course, those of us who are nzzxed mix with Central Africa is wrong. It is Here we find Moses marrying a
racaally stdl can make the best of lifr. dso just as wrong for Mongolians to
W e cannut help what we were born. w ~ i n d nof the black r ~ c eA. n Ethiopian
SALVATIONIS A SPIRITUAL MATTER.
is .I Cushitr-from East Africa. (This
woman was not a Negress, for the Ne-

April, 1957 The PLAIN TRUTH Page 23

-Wide World Photo slavery, America could have solved the
whole race question by providing a
A wretched African native and her little child. The Ubangi Negroes home ir, Africa and putting all Negroes
back on their rightful, God-given in-
have prided themselves in atrocious forms of decoration. Both upper heritance. Because the nation failed to
solve the problem then, we have had
and lower lips have been cut and plates have been placed in them. nothing but trouble!
Successively larger plates are placed in the extended lips as they
gradually s’tretch. ’ The South, after the Civil War, failed
to provide the Negro with the moral
groes come from West, Central and W e are inheritors of their sins! The and spiritual encouragement he sorely
South Africa.) It was, however, wrong Negroes, especially, have inherited the needed. Most of the South, perhaps
for Moses to have married this woman. consequences of slavery. They have been without fully realizing it, continued to
Moses was not perfect. H e made many lorded over, discriminated against and practice discrimination in the name of
mistakes, and this was one of them. His made to feel inferior. They actually “segregation”-but it was discrimination
sister, and his brother Aaron knew God’s have been inferior due to degeneracy of just the same!
law. They knew Moses made a mistake. their race for nearly four thousand years
But instead of coming to Moses in pri- prior to being brought to the United The whole problem would have been
vate, they made a public issue of it. States. solved if the Negroes had been restored
Their sin was even greater in Gods to their rightful inheritance in Africa.
sight than Moses’ sin was. God there- Slavery would never have happened
fore punished them publicly, whereas to the Negro if they had not allowed The North after the Civil War did
H e dealt privately with Moses. themselves to stagnate and to become absolutely nothing to put the South on
inferior. Tlie pictures accurnpariyirig this its economic feet so that the South, in
This episode shows clearly the dis- article illustrate vividly the complete turn, might aid the Negro to become
tinction between nationalities of the degredation to which the Negro sunk better educated. Instead, the North sent
same race, and peoples of different races. before coming to America enslaved. The its men into the South to take advantage
astounding fact is that the Negro in of both the Whites and the Negroes-
A Time of Reckoning Coming Africa was often sold into slavery by tor selfish profits!
hi.r OWTZ tribal chief because he would
No race problem would face America not work for his chief! Most Southerners, let me repeat, have
today were it not for the SLAVE TRAFFIC not realized that they have had a type
imposed on the Negro by our ancestors. After the Negro was freed from of integration ever since they brought
slaves to America. Slavery introduced
geographic integration, which inevitably
led to discrimination.

Southerners saw the natural differ-
ences between Whites and Negroes-
due primarily to lack of education
among the Negroes-and it made them
feel superior. The feeling of superiority
led unconsciously to discrimination.

If the South and the North would
have recognized, after the Civil War, the
importance of geographic segregation
and would have practiced it-as God
ordained in t h e first place-there would
have been no discrimination against the
Negro. The Negro should have been
returned to his rightful inheritance in
Africa, just as Egypt should have re-
turned the enslaved Israelites to Palestine
under Moses.

This narion has to pay for its racial
discrimination. It cannot atone for dis-
crimination by socially desegregating the
Negro! That is nut going to solve the
problem-it is only fanning the flames
of racial strife even further.

WE ARE GOING TO BE MADE TO PAY

FOR OUR SINS BY GOING INTO SLAVERY
OURSELVES! That’s prophesied! That

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W time of reckoning is fast approaching!
0 In the meantime, however, we must

X all be subject t o the laws of our land
-. and t o its court dec<isions.WE MUST
NOT RESIST AUTHORITY. NEITHEARRE
From DER GROSSE BROCKHAUS 1952 ff,
WE TO SUPPORT AND MEDDLE IN THE with permission of the publishers

ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE ESPOUSING An African Pigmy. These little peo-

EITHER INTEGRATION OR DISCRIMINA- ple, often under 4 feet in stature,

TION. W e must keep ourselves unspotted live in the dense African forests.
from the politics of this world! They are an extreme variant of
the Negroid race. Even in old age
God commands us to respect Govern-
ment Authority. This means that we Pigmies give the appearance of
must submit to the local regulations of
the different States. W e are not to par- being physically and emotionally
ticipate in boycotts in order to force child-li ke.
officials to change their policy. If local
administrators do nut adhere tu the rul- their inheritance at Babel, but Christ
ing of the Supreme Court, it is the Gov- is going to restore what H e gave them
ernment’s responsibility-not yours-to millenniums ago. They will each have
enforce obedience. In the meantime we their SEPARATE inheritances!
are to live at peace with our neighbors
and submit to State requirements. That is God’s way of bringing peace
to the nations. When they learn that
Also, in those areas when the local lesson, all nations will be permitted to
Government is extending integration in learn and speak one lrongllage again
the schools, we are not t o resist. “Who- (Zeph. 3:9 ) . They will communicate
soever therefore resists the power [of in trade and commerce peaceably. There
Government), resists the ordinance of will be no slavery and discrimination.
God”-because God allows Government Each will develop his own inheritance.

to function (Romans 13:2 ) . There will be no degeneration! There
will be progwss and abundance! Each
A Better Time Coming! will share with the other what he pro-
duces from his own inheritance!
Despite all the bad news today, there
is hope ahead. Jesus Christ is coming to Isn’t that a glorious time to which to
look forward? Peace between nations
ABOLISH RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND and races is coming-soon!

VIOLENCE. Jesus Christ is going to bring COMING!
peace between the races. He is not going
to do it by integration and intermar- in the next issue
riage, but by segregation. Notice the
prophecy of the times of ‘frestitutzonof How YOU Can Control
all things” (Acts 3:21). That’s when
Jesus returns. Your Emotions

What are some of the things to be We regret that there was insufficient
restored? Here is the answer: “Wait on space in this number of The PLAIN
the Lord,”-be patient till Christ re- TRUTH for this vital article.
turns--“and keep His w a y ” 4 o n ’ t
meddle in this world’s attempt to solve
the racc: problem, bur obey God-“and
He shall exalt thee to INHERIT THE

LAND” (Psa. 37: 34).But whose land?

Why, the land that God g w e each
nation and race in the first place! It is
a time of RESTORATION. God “di-
vided to the nations their inheritance”
long ago, “when H e separated the son of
Adam” (Deut. 28:8).

The nations forfeited their right to