Ambassador College - Envoy Yearbook (Big Sandy, TX)

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a » 0m In spite of the lessons taught through thousands of years of historical experience, man is still unable to live in peace. It is only through the sleep of death that many find freedom from the slavery of enforced bondage.

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nee Again... in the following pages the ENVOY takes you on an excit- ing, thought-challenging tour. In the 1965 edition we took ENVOY readers on a quest for (he answers to the most important— and heretofore unanswered — questions of human existence. In the four ensuing years world trou- bles have multiplied. NEVER was the world like it is today! Gigantic leaps ahead in technology and certain sciences— men walking and cavorting about on the moon, yes — BUT, unsafe to walk on sidewalks here on earth • crime rampant even in residence neigh- borhoods • hundreds of university campuses riot-ridden • racial violence threatening all law and order • morals in the cesspool of homosexuality, perversion, public nudity on stage and television, widespread acceptance of premarital sex, adultery, divorce, break- ing up more than afourth of our homes! It was a chronically sick world four years ago. Now world-sickness is criti- cally acute! Today the BIG QUESTION is that of SURVIVAL ! Five factors exist, each ofwhich threatens to erase human life from the earth! This year the ENVOY takes you on a questforthe SOLUTIONS! But WHERE shall we find them? We shall start our tour with a survey of this world ' s search for the answers. If experience is the best teacher, the chronicle of 6,000 years of human ex- perience ought to produce solutions. So first we examine briefly the record of HISTORY. Then we shall survey the six major components of organized Society which constitute Civilization: Education, Science and Technology, Commerce and Industry, Governments, the Social Order, Religion. Our quest culminates in an extended tour of the three campuses of this unique institution, and of its worldwide Extension Program of education, where the true answers are known, taught, and joyfully lived! . . . where smiling students radiate happiness, assurance, purpose . . . where there is vigorous, enthusiastic, enjoyable study, work and play in a refreshing atmosphere of tone and character, beauty and true culture. So come along! Enjoy a new and refreshing experience! y T

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History I IS Experience the best teacher — or orily the costliest? Does a two-year old child learn better from experience, or from teaching with proper discipline, the danger of running headlong Into a traffic-heavy boulevard in front of on- rushing automobiles? Man, allowed free moral agency, has chosen to learn how to live and organ- ize his civilization by his own ideas and experience— rejecting his Maker ' s re- vealed instruction. So listen, first, to the VOICE OF EX- PERIENCE. IF human ideas, theories, desires tried by experience is the better way, the chronicle of 6,000 years of man ' s efforts to find peace, comforts, pleasures, happiness, ought to teach the present generation THE WAY to these desired ends. But we meet only disillusionment here. True, the lesson of experience has been written— in human pain and anguish, in failures and frustrations, in human blood and death. It has brought us to our present hopeless plight. But the lesson has not been learned! Experience has been a most costly teacher. But humanity, paying exces- sively for the instruction, refuses to learn. Human nature always has resented RIGHT WAYS, even when experience has demonstrated the evil y Tl results of wrong ways. v 2