A SAD PASSING
We must write of the death of President Nixon but we do so
with the deepest of sadness and with very troubled minds. For he is a man
we cannot honor and a man who will not enter into Heaven. And we find it
a strange paradox that he is condemned in Heaven for the very thing for which
he is praised on Earth....the opening of mainland China to the world.
How, I'm sure you ask, can The Lord Of Heaven send a man away from Him for
such a great act? We do not know if we can put it into words that humankind
can understand, but we will try.
Nixon did not care that China was a slave state, that its leaders were dictatorial
butchers oppressing their people. He thought only of the economic benefits
to The United States if China's vast population was made accessible. He cared
nothing for the good of the Chinese people, but only for what benefit dialogue
with the Chinese leaders might bring his own. So he allowd the Chinese people
to remain enslaved, opened up a dialogue with their government, and began
to trade while continuing to allow that government to oppress its people.
From that point on Nixon's hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese
people. He was responsible for their suffering. Earthly politicians cannot
understand the great principle that when a man knows of an evil and permits
it, he is as guilty as the person committing that evil.
So many lose their place in Heaven because of this. Another example is President
Theodore Roosevelt, a man who tried to do good throughout his life, but made
one mistake that cost him eternal peace. Two years before the end of World
War Two the American government became aware, without doubt, that the Germans
were exterminating the Jews. Roosevelt allowed himself to be persuaded to
keep it secret, to say and do nothing.
We cannot tell you when he spoke to us of this how bitter he was with those
who persuaded him to do that great evil. "All that I had done," he cried,
"all that I had accomplished was swept away. And oh, how bitter were the
words of my Lord when He said to me "You knew."
In that moment I could not answer, for I understood full well His condemnation
and when He said "Go from me, you knew me not," I knew I had no excuse with
which to defend myself."
How hard it is for humankind do speak out when they know an evil, how easy
it is for them to ignore evil for their own gain. How bitter the hours they
must spend regretting their actions, shut off from those they love. If some
wonder why we do not hesitate to speak when we see evil, if they do not understand
after they read this, they never will, though we pray to The Blessed Ones
they do.
"How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"-
-The Bible