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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
April 27, 1975
Bombay, India
Dear Co-Worker with Christ:
I have returned to Bombay to speak this afternoon to 4,000
delegates attending a Lion's Club District Convention. Last
February 26, I spoke here in Bombay to a group of 400 at a Lion's
Club banquet. Many of the leaders of this organization were
present, and they asked if I would return to be the guest speaker
this afternoon to the entire 4,000 at this convention. I will
tell them HOW world PEACE is soon coming -- in this very
generation. Christ is coming in all the supreme glory of WORLD
RULER, to set up the KINGDOM OF GOD on earth. This is Christ's
GOSPEL MESSAGE!
Yesterday afternoon I spoke to a group of nearly 300 PLAIN
TRUTH readers from this part of India. After that meeting my hotel
room telephone kept ringing constantly, with people saying that
they had just received their invitation from Pasadena -- too late
to come. I would estimate there would have been 500 at this meeting,
but for the delay in the mail.
At this meeting I covered the entire "skeleton" framework of
the Bible from the creation of the earth and pre-history through
the creation of man -- explaining God's PURPOSE in putting man on
earth, the process of conversion and the gift of eternal life, on
to the imminent coming of the KINGDOM OF GOD. They were a MOST
ENTHUSIASTIC audience, bubbling over with happy smiles, to have
me visit their country.
GOD'S WORK is leaping ahead with more power than ever. But
in the WORLD, it is not GOOD news but BAD news that is accelerating.
World conditions are fast WORSENING.
The long drawn-out war in Vietnam is now a total LOSS for the
United States and South Vietnam. Last week Cambodia fell and
Communist forces took over. The bloody loss of life in the closing
days, both from the final fighting and from the chaotic efforts of
many to escape before it was too late, was horrible beyond words.
Communist forces have taken over all of South Vietnam, except in
areas surrounding Saigon.
Last Monday President Thieu resigned, turning the Presidency
over to Tran Van Huong. And today, the South Vietnam National
Assembly is in the process of turning over the Presidency to the
third president within a week, to General Duong Van Minh (commonly
called "Big Minh"), to try to negotiate for "peace" -- which means,
of course, surrender to Communism with whatever concessions Hanoi