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RADIO CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT and PASTOR
March 2, 1967
Dear Brethren, and Co-Heirs of GOD:
This is the MOST IMPORTANT letter I have ever written to
YOU--and it is to go to all members of GOD'S CHURCH, worldwide!
I'M sure most of you have heard, by now, of the very
critical illness of Mrs. Armstrong--the wife of my youth whom God
gave me, fifty years ago (lacking a few months) to be my help.
There are, in some kinds of illness, some things we can,
and should, do for ourselves. But only GOD can HEAL. We left no
stone unturned, but we came to the place, more than a week ago,
where there was nothing more we could, or OUGHT to do without
assuming to ourselves the prerogative of GOD. Like the children of
Israel at the Red Sea, we were helpless. We had to do, as Moses
said to them, "STAND STILL, and see the salvation of the ETERNAL!"
We committed her wholly into God's hands for healing.
Do you realize that, actually, God started His Church of
this "Philadelphia era" through Mrs. Armstrong? First, He opened
her mind to His Law and His TRUTH. Then, through her, He brought me
to Him and to His TRUTH. Then He used us together as a TEAM.
God says it is not good that a man should be alone. He
made a help for Adam. He gave Mrs. Armstrong to me for my help.
After He used her for the first starting of His great Work--now
becoming powerful and worldwide--and for starting His Church for
this era, He has used her ever since as my loyal, faithful, loving,
and very helpful PARTNER. Our ministry has been as a TEAM--
together. She is a vital HALF of that team! Most of our members
know that!
And now, dear Brethren of GOD'S CHURCH, He is using her to
start a direly needed spiritual REAWAKENING--a tragically needed
spiritual REJUVENATION in God's whole Church--and in His Work.
It has begun with those ministers God has placed at the
top level responsibilities in His great Work, right here at
Headquarters. This ordeal has rudely SHOCKED us into a realization
that we were becoming sluggish spiritually--AND WE WERE UNAWARE OF
IT!
It has begun with me! I didn't realize it! I seemed to
have a heart condition, so that I felt I had to slow down--and even
a two- or three-block walk brought pains in my lungs, associated
with my heart. There was high blood pressure. Brethren, I have
been frankly STARTLED to find that even I, whom God is using as
your human leader, was bogging down--just barely crawling along, so
to speak, on this narrow, rutty, difficult ROAD that leads to God's