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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
Bombay, India
January 23, 1975
Dear Inner Family of
Co-Workers with Christ:
Last night, here in Bombay, India, halfway around the
world from Pasadena, we had the biggest and most successful
"testimonial dinner" since this new phase of God's Work began.
More than 400 distinguished leaders and wives attended.
This large dinner was hosted by Judge Nagendra Singh of New Delhi,
Judge of the World Court of International Justice at The Hague,
Holland. Present were 15 justices of the High Court of Bombay,
presidents of universities, chairmen or presidents of several of
the largest industrial and commercial organizations, the Deputy
British High Commissioner, several civil service officials of
India's government for the Bombay area, and others of like status.
The dinner was held in the large ballroom of the hotel
where we are staying -- the newly opened Oberi-Sheraton, and it
was in my honor.
When the dinner had reached the dessert stage, Judge Singh
stepped to the microphone of the public address system -- there
were nearly 50 round tables seating 10 each in the large room --
and introduced me. I planned to speak between 30 and 40 minutes,
and actually spoke for 22, saying many of the things I said in the
Cairo address, only going further into the Bible than I did there.
I wonder if you realize that if I spoke to this type of
distinguished audience as I might to one of our own church groups,
they probably would turn a deaf ear or rise and walk out. Christ
taught that we need to be wise in how we give out His message.
But when I told them at the outset that I was sobered, as I
traveled around the earth and observed the terrible state of this
world as it is today, and then went into the CAUSES of these world
evils -- with the wars and threats of wars, with violence erupting
all over the world, weapons of mass destruction now capable of
erasing
all human life from this planet -- they paid rapt attention.
I spoke on the astonishing accomplishments humans have made
on earth in this century -- breathtaking inventions like the
incredible computer, the marvels of space flight, to the moon and
back -- yet, at the same time producing weapons of mass destruction
to kill millions of people with one H-bomb. I asked if that made
sense to them, and there were a number of expressions of " NO! NO!"
I asked if it made sense to them that, with the human mind