Norbert and Johanna Link and the entire family are saddened to announce the death of Norbert’s mother, who died peacefully on May 8 from congestive heart failure on their flight from Denver to San Diego. A Memorial Service in honor of Frau Link will be held on Sunday, June 10, at 12:00 noon, in the Ramona Women’s Club, where Frau Link attended services, when visiting the US. We welcome your continued prayers for strength and comfort, as well as your attendance at the Memorial Service.
Norbert Link’s most recent video-taped sermon, “Why?”, which was recorded on May 12, 2012, was posted on YouTube.
Proposed Feast of Tabernacles Newspaper
As decided during our recent conference and as previously announced, we would like to publish a special news edition for the Feast of Tabernacles 2012. As we are bombarded by negative news these days, signalizing the soon-coming end of this present evil world, we would like to concentrate on the news as it might be announced once Jesus Christ has returned and begun to establish God’s government on this earth. We would like our readers to contribute to this special news edition by communicating first with and sending proposed articles to Mr. Brian Gale.
Set forth below are some guidelines:
* Assume that the date of the newspaper is 20 years into the Millennium
* No undue speculative situations
* Suggest a maximum number of words to 250 – 400 words per article
* All articles to be uplifting and encouraging for the future we are all looking forward to
* Anyone to be able to submit an article including children and teens
* It would be helpful if anyone who has an idea, to let Brian Gale know the subject so that he can try and avoid unnecessary duplication.
* All articles to be submitted to Brian Gale at bgofderby@btinternet.com
* Brian Gale to collate all of the articles and submit to Mr. Link and/or the editorial team. Karen Myers has agreed to put the project together
* It would be helpful if articles could be submitted sooner rather than later in order to facilitate this project
Some suggested subjects:
• Churches in every area – Sabbath and Holy Days to be kept – only worship of the true God to be allowed
• Education – rewritten curriculum – evolution discarded
• Importance of marriage stressed – living together, rape, homosexuality and other wrong sexual activities banned
• Food production upgraded
• Health – hospitals no longer needed
• War a thing of the past
• Crime rates drop to zero
• Urban renewal
• Property
• Finance
• Sports – and sportsmanship reintroduced
• Style/Fashion/Clothing
• Cruelty eliminated
• Improvement in technology (spam eliminated)
To help you see what we are envisioning, we are setting forth below two proposed articles:
Sportsmanship in Vogue Again
by Brian Gale
Towards the end of man’s rule, sportsmanship had been overtaken by the necessity to achieve results, seemingly, at all costs due to the rewards received by the “winners.” In fact, sportsmanship was rarely seen and when this happened, it was looked on as something abnormal. Money ruled and fairness in play, and graciousness, were seen as weaknesses and not to be either encouraged or embraced. Money dominated and standards deteriorated badly.
Wikipedia had made these comments just a few years before Christ’s return: “Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one’s competitors. A sore loser refers to one who does not take defeat well, whereas a good sport means being a ‘good winner’ as well as being a ‘good loser.’”
However, as those who lived at that time will attest, theory and practice were often poles apart. Grantland Rice, a 20th century writer had written in his poem “Alumnus Football”: “For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes not that you won or lost – but how you played the game.”
Now that the “One Great Scorer is in charge of events” on earth, sportsmanship is the order of the day. Sports are played by participants who perform to the best of their ability. If they win, they are modest in their achievements and are praised by their opponents; if they lose, they praise their victors. And that’s the way that sports should be played, and will be played, for the rest of the Millennium for the benefit of all concerned.
Irrespective of the result of any game or match, as the result of sportsmanship having been compulsorily reintroduced in the new regime, everyone is a winner.
Animal Cruelty Now a Thing of the Past
by Brian Gale
Much has been achieved in the past 20 years since Jesus Christ returned and set up the Kingdom of God on earth. Many of those achievements are chronicled in this newspaper and one of the most encouraging is the way that animals are now treated. Of many examples we could consider, let us review just one – that of dogs.
In the age of man, dogs were often badly and shamefully treated; many bought as a gift and soon discarded. Specifically, many greyhounds who were used for racing which itself was primarily for betting purposes, were often abandoned when they were no longer able to race! Worse was the fact that some of these had their legs broken and left in the wild to die when they became of no further use–such was the cruelty dished out to man’s “best friend”. Pit bull terriers had been used in dog fighting so that illegal online gambling operations could flourish.
Many pedigree dogs had suffered from genetic diseases following years of inbreeding and had suffered acute problems because looks had been emphasised over health when breeding dogs for shows. Examples had been of spaniels with brains too big for their skulls and boxers suffering from epilepsy.
But that has all changed in the last 20 years. Cruelty is now, quite simply, not allowed in any sphere of life. And in the case of dogs, all breeds are now properly cared for and proving what a wonderful pet they are. Good pets enhance the nature of a child or pet owner, and whether they are large or small, they offer a special kind of companionship. Dogs, and other pets for children, are important for youngsters to learn many important traits including compassion and responsibility.
Someone wrote that “Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans” and that may have been true in the age of man. But now, with right government and love permeating the whole of society, the nature of mankind has been transformed and our animal friends are now treated as they should be.
Pets are never critical and accept us for what we are and, at last, they are being rewarded for that approach. Cruelty is out and care for others, including animals, is in. What a great change that has been in society!
