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    Divine rulership The only hope of all mankind

    DIVINE RULERSHIP

    -the only hope of all mankind HOW has the mounting world trouble affected you, our reader?

    Has it caused you to lose all hope for a brighter tomorrow? It has not affected us in that way. You may wonder why not. Well, it is because we have a hope that is solidly based. In fact, the growing world trouble makes us all the more confident that we have an unfailing hope, the best hope. Our desire is to share it with you. This explains why we are publishing this booklet. It presents in print the public address that features the chain of Divine Rulership Assemblies that is encircling all the earth. May your reading it bolster, if not even rekindle, hope within your heart.

    —THE PUBLISHER

    Copyright 1972

    by

    WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY

    OF PENNSYLVANIA

    Publishers

    WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY

    OF NEW YORK, INC.

    INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION

    Brooklyn, New York

    Made In the United States of America

    DIVINE RULERSHIP THE ONLY HOPE OF ALL MANKIND

    WHAT can "divine rulership" give to all mankind that human rulership has not already given to the human race? That which human rule has given all mankind till now has certainly not been "divine," as we oftentimes call something that is "surpassingly excellent." Judged in the light of the way that things are going in this world, human rule promises to give us nothing better than what it has already given us thus far. And that is far from being soul-satisfying. Really it is very disappointing. During all the centuries and millenniums past, humankind has proved that all that it can give us people in the way of government rulership is human rulership. Since humankind is imperfect, it has been imperfect human rulership. The widely held theory of the evolution of man furnishes us no grounds for hoping that men will evolve, during our generation or in the hundreds of millions of years to come, into gods, by sudden "mutations" of a surprising and beneficial kind. Hope for relief from present world distress cannot be based on human rulership.

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