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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
May 21, 1974
Dear Inner Family of Co-Workers with Christ:
It was an overwhelming, smashing SUCCESS! Beyond our
most optimistic hopes!
This may be the BIGGEST, MOST IMPORTANT NEWS about the
progress of GOD'S WORK since it began, more than forty years ago!
Our biggest problem -- how to get Christ's true Gospel Message
proclaimed to the great-population Gentile nations, where the
doors have been until now closed and barred to us -- IS AT LAST
SOLVED!
The first of the PUBLIC APPEARANCE CAMPAIGNS in world
capitals, at Manila, has fully demonstrated all that we expected.
This Manila campaign has proved what I began to realize about
sixteen months ago -- that God's opening doors for private meetings
with so many heads of governments -- kings, presidents, emperors,
prime ministers and other high government officials -- was
opening the way to get Christ's Message to those nations.
I am writing from Bangkok Tuesday morning, May 21, after
closing the Manila campaign Sunday night with a receptive, upper
and middle-class adult audience that packed the huge 24,000-seat
Coliseum, with only some of the peripheral outer rafter seats
unfilled. For three successive nights, these large crowds heard
three successive sermons on the soon-coming KINGDOM OF GOD to
restore PEACE on earth! The first night there were some empty
seats scattered here and there. The second night the main
auditorium portion of the huge Coliseum appeared almost packed,
and solidly packed the final Sunday night.
The Coliseum is the largest and best air-conditioned
indoor meeting place in the Philippines. If we had carried through
the originally-scheduled campaign two months earlier, we should
have had to use an 1800-seat auditorium the first two nights, and
possibly an outdoor stadium the final Sunday night.
It has been a thrilling, exciting, super-inspiring
experience. And, even more for the assurance that God has shown
us the way whereby we can now really get His Message to "ALL THE
WORLD, FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS."
I arrived a week ahead of the beginning of the actual
public meetings. I was met at the airport, on my first arrival,
two months before, with a brass band welcome, provided by the
Philippine government. As you know, after one day, at that time,
I was called by an emergency to return immediately to Pasadena.
My son Garner Ted had sent a most urgent SOS. A small handful of
dissident ministers, at that time, were threatening to destroy the