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The WORLD TOMORROW
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, Calif. 91109
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
November 29, 1963
Dear Co-Workers with Christ:
GREETINGS from Pasadena once again. Mrs. Armstrong and
I returned by jet polar flight a week ago Sunday from London.
This letter should have been written in time to enclose
with my semi-annual letter dated November 10. But now
circumstances impel me to rush it to you without further delay.
For almost a week we, here at Headquarters on the
Ambassador College campus, as well as the whole nation -- and in
somewhat lesser degree almost the whole world -- have been almost
in a state of shock. On Thursday afternoon I had addressed our
entire student body in the weekly Assembly, arousing them to a more
real sense of URGENCY. I had mentioned that the apparent easing of
the Cold War with Russia -- the sort of lull in world happenings of
VIOLENCE -- was only temporary -- that violence and world tensions
could break out again any moment. We have a tremendous job to do,
and not many more years to do it in.
Then late the next morning came startling emphasis to
those remarks -- the stunning, almost unbelievable news that
President Kennedy had been assassinated!
We are making the forthcoming January number of The PLAIN
TRUTH a special Kennedy Memorial number. I will save further
comment about this tragic incident of violence for my editorial in
this edition -- and I must write it immediately, yet today.
So I will try to come immediately to the point and make
this letter as brief as possible. Tragic, shocking, horrifying
though the killing of the President of the United States was, the
WORK OF GOD must press right on without slacking, just as the
activities of the nation and the world will continue right along.
And I am informed by our Business Office that receipt of tithes and
offerings for the Work have dropped off to a trickle -- even less
than half of normal -- since this event. Indeed, it seems as if
most of our Co-Workers have been stunned and paralyzed into
inactivity.
Co-Workers, shocking though such terrible happenings are,
THEY ONLY PUT VIOLENT EMPHASIS ON THE STERN TRUTH THAT THIS WORK OF
GOD MUST BE PRESSED ON, MORE URGENTLY THAN EVER!