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necessity to write an article for The Good News on WHY God has
called US NOW -- before the time -- instead of LATER, when He
will call ALL in the world to salvation, that I simply could not
resist, and I sidetracked everything else and wrote the article.
After mailing it to Pasadena, I was HEAVILY BURDENED -- I know
now, FROM GOD -- to get it into the hands of all brethren
IMMEDIATELY. So I telexed Headquarters to send the whole article,
as a personal letter, to the entire membership! I did not then
know WHY!! I do, now! The article is included with this letter. I
ask every one of you to read it carefully and thoroughly.
The number ONE MISSION in your life and mine -- the very
REASON we were called NOW -- is to GET CHRIST'S GOSPEL OF THE
KINGDOM OF GOD TO THE WORLD AS A WITNESS TO ALL NATIONS! The
issues these defectives are magnifying in their own eyes are as
NOTHING compared to that GREAT COMMISSION!
Here I am, in Manila, all set and signed for the FIRST of
these REALLY BIG PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS in foreign Gentile nations all
over the world--backed, sponsored, approved, endorsed by those
high in the government (members of the President's Cabinet),
beside many other top people close to them. And SATAN DID NOT WANT
THAT FIRST CAMPAIGN TO TAKE PLACE. This defection of Ministers,
seeking to draw a FOLLOWING for THEMSELVES to rule and for selfish
gain, has made it necessary for me to leave to return to Pasadena
as soon as I finish this letter. WHAT INJURY TO GOD'S GREAT WORK!
This was the most important event in the Work for forty years! I
am assured by local leaders we were to have had audiences up in the
many thousands.
A large white-uniformed brass band welcomed our plane at
the airport. Also T.V. cameras, newspaper photographers,
reporters. I was greeted as I stepped down from the plane by a
Minister of Education and high official of the Angeles University.
It was all in the papers that I was to receive an honorary Doctor's
and Master's degree at the Graduation on Wednesday. I was
interviewed by reporters and on T.V. at the airport. We visited
the Minister of Social Welfare for the government in her lovely
home, because she was just recovering from an operation and unable
to greet us at the airport. I presented her with a gift, and she
said, with warmth, "Your mission here this week, Mr. Armstrong, is
a great gift to our nation."
Now I am forced to postpone the Manila campaign!
Fellows, there has been some TOTALLY unwarranted criticism
on the theme of DOCTRINES. They are NOT BEING NEGLECTED -- but I'm
sure you realize I cannot DROP the Great WORK OF GOD, and devote my
entire time to DOCTRINE because some are questioning them.
Let me give you the record. I think you may not have
realized the TRUTH. It must have been about one and one-half
years ago that the issue of the Hebrew names for GOD came up. I
was told that an outside minister was taking our members by the
scores and even hundreds on that issue. I got right into it
immediately. I took time, and then it took time to get it printed
in The Good News. But I have heard no bad news over the issue