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would be, if we could all be in ONE PLACE!
However, unless or until GOD MAKES THIS POSSIBLE, we must
continue to cheerfully and happily comply with HIS will, and
observe His Festivals in the place HE puts His name!
It is vitally important that all of you brethren
receiving THIS LETTER go to the Tabernacle, unless you have
received special permission from a minister to do otherwise. It
has come to me that some few brethren, who perhaps wanted an
opportunity to visit the campus, or relatives on the West Coast,
have heard of how God opened Squaw Valley to us. They promptly
began making plans to come to the West Coast for the Festival of
Tabernacles this fall. Brethren, this simply CANNOT BE DONE! All
of you brethren living east of the continental divide are receiving
this special letter with directions about the big Tabernacle near
Big Sandy. There will be no space or provision made for any of you
at Squaw Valley in California.
I do know that it is a natural, and a gratifying desire
to want to visit Ambassador College campus in Pasadena. I do
sincerely hope that every single one of you will have that
opportunity at some time in future years---but we simply cannot
jeopardize our whole program for observance of the Festival by
allowing brethren to indiscriminately trade back and forth.
I do want to stress this point, brethren, that all of you
receiving this letter should go to the big Tabernacle near Big
Sandy! There will be no place to stay, no place to eat, no
provision for you at Squaw Valley.
This year, I hope to be in Squaw Valley for just a PART
of the Feast, but expect to spend MOST of the Feast with you
brethren in our own Tabernacle building near Big Sandy. My son,
Garner Ted Armstrong, and also Mr. Roderick C. Meredith and Dr.
Herman Hoeh will change places during the Feast, to meet with
brethren in both locations.
IMPORTANT! READ CAREFULLY!! Many members have been
inexcusably careless and inconsiderate, by bringing sick children
to the Festivals---and also to local Church services on the
Sabbaths. Frequently children are brought with whooping cough,
measles, mumps, flu, chicken pox and other contagious diseases.
Other members' children have been exposed and come down with these
diseases because of this. THIS MUST STOP!!! If your child has
even been exposed within two weeks before coming, DON'T bring him.
If your child is sick, call upon God through one of His
ministers for healing---or write to Headquarters for an anointed
cloth. But DO NOT, under any circumstances, bring such a child
UNTIL you can actually see that he has been completely healed. When
anointed, have FAITH---BELIEVE---but if God does give you a test of
faith, DO NOT bring the child on the strength of that faith. Let
him be HEALED on the strength of your faith, but do not bring him
to any Church meeting or Festival until every physical symptom is
gone, and the healing is complete. Moses expelled those with
communicable diseases from the camp of Israel. We shall have to do