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expenditures for other purposes.
Some of you pay a certain tuition, and some seem unable
to pay any, or very little. But in no case does any of you pay
even a fraction of the actual cost of providing this education for
your children. The lion's share of the cost of educating your
children must be borne by other Brethren or Co-Workers whose
children are not receiving any of this benefit. All this money
COULD go into the WORK OF GOD, buying time on a few more important
radio stations and PROCLAIMING CHRIST'S GOSPEL TO HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS IN PARTS OF THE WORLD NOT NOW BEING REACHED.
Now Brethren, in my position directly accountable to
Jesus Christ, the HEAD of this Church, and knowing I shall have to
give account and be very strictly judged, I think in all frankness
you can see that I do feel, personally, VERY RELUCTANT to let
these Imperial Schools continue in existence any longer, at such
cost, IF you Brethren do not appreciate them enough to want to co-
operate. It is a HEAVY BURDEN, not only in money, but to those of
us responsible for oversight and direction of these schools, taken
FROM the work of CHRIST'S GREAT COMMISSION of getting the GOSPEL to
the world, and for the benefit of A VERY FEW OF YOU.
To the very few of you who have griped, criticized, and
failed to cooperate, let me tell you in PLAINEST LANGUAGE, I am
completely ASHAMED OF YOU, and I have to pray to God and intercede
for Him to be merciful toward you and make allowance for a lack of
complete understanding before He punishes you or shuts you out of
His Kingdom! And if you who are guilty of this do not rectify it
immediately, I shall see that your children are removed from
sharing in this great and costly benefit--and if your attitude
remains rebellious to the authority of GOD in His Church and we see
that God has removed you from His Church, you will be denied
fellowship. And in this God is no respecter of persons. Let me
make it PLAIN! IF one of these very few guilty parents should be
my son, and Vice President of God's Church, Garner Ted Armstrong,
he would be dealt with in exactly the same manner. The difference
is, that he well knows it, and is very careful of his conduct--and
that, and not being my son, is THE REASON that Jesus Christ has put
him in the position he occupies!
At the general annual Ministers' Conference I came into
a meeting already in progress and found them discussing the matter
of organizing another elementary school and high school in Chicago.
I realized the other ministers did not know, as I did, the
financial problem, and how our payroll had gotten out of hand. I
immediately called a halt, explained how utterly IMPOSSIBLE it
is to start a third system of schools at this time, and the subject
was dropped. The Chicago Brethren must be deprived of the school.
which YOUR children enjoy.
We KNOW--by the actual tests of the public schools--that
our fourth grade children are equal in progress and ability with
the sixth graders in the public schools. We KNOW, in absolute
FACT, that these Imperial Schools your children are privileged to
attend are FAR SUPERIOR to the public schools. Your children are
obtaining a far superior education. And DISCIPLINE is the