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AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG, Chairman
Publisher of The PLAIN TRUTH Magazine
EXTENSION DEPARTMENT
An educational service at all levels
for all people worldwide
May 25, 1972
Dear Family of Co-Workers:
April 25th I sent you the most difficult and painful
announcement I have ever had to make in a Co-Worker letter. Since
then certain newspapers, publications and broadcasts have made
scurrilous, deceptive and misleading attacks on the Work of God,
filled with fallacious, distorted, exaggerated and false
accusations.
It has never been our practice to answer false accusers or
persecutors, nor to attack or accuse others.
Recently a group of dissident Leftists hung President Nixon
in effigy -- and if a Democrat had been in the Presidency, he
probably would have received the same abuse.
1941 years ago, the chief priests, elders and all the
Council at Jerusalem sought false witnesses against Jesus, to put
Him to death. (Matthew 26:59.) "At the last came two false
witnesses, And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the
temple of God, and to build it in three days. And the high priest
arose, and said unto Him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which
these witness against thee? But Jesus held His peace." Jesus did
not answer His false accusers. He was not hung in effigy -- HE WAS
CRUCIFIED in person AND KILLED!
This is HIS WORK! He, the resurrected, living Jesus Christ,
is the HEAD of this Work. He guides, directs, and inspires it
through the power of the Holy Spirit. Its FRUITS bear ample
witness. Christ's own Gospel is preached and proclaimed to the
MILLIONS as a witness worldwide. Thousands of lives have been
changed, made happy, received God's Holy Spirit, made heirs of God
and joint-heirs with Christ, to inherit eternal life.
Jesus Christ is IN this Work. He said He would never leave
nor forsake it. But, on the other hand, He also said, "If they
have persecuted me, they will also persecute you...." But, again,
the Apostle Paul wrote: "If so be that we suffer with Him, that
we may also be glorified together. For I reckon that the
sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with
the glory which shall be revealed in us" (Romans 8:17-18).
Again, 1941 years ago, the Pharisees and chief priests sent
officers to take Jesus. But after listening to Him, they returned