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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
May 26, 1975
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
I am seven miles high over the Sahara Desert flying to Nairobi,
Kenya, for the next big campaign. We expect a large and very
successful campaign there. All Black Africa is now opening to us.
Europe is now opening to my personal public appearances. The
satellite states of eastern Europe, under Communist control, are opening.
This new dimension, carrying Christ's true Gospel Message in all the
world as a witness to all nations, is SPEEDING UP. It is an absolute
MIRACULOUS INTERVENTION FROM GOD!
And it MUST speed up! That is, if we are to reach these
heretofore UNreachable mass-population nations before even these new
doors are CLOSED TIGHT by Communist control. Of course, if God so
wills, even Communist doors could open to this last vital Message.
Time did run out on us in South Vietnam and Cambodia. We were
making splendid headway toward a really BIG campaign in Saigon.
Already I had held a testimonial dinner in Saigon attended by about
a hundred of the very top people in government, education, business
and industry. I had made a very friendly personal acquaintance with
President Thieu. We were planning a huge campaign of successive
nights with upwards of 25,000 or more in attendance in the university
stadium. The big offensive of the North Vietnamese got underway, and
it became dangerous to chance assembling so huge a crowd in one place
-- it might have attracted bombing. The offensive did not let up,
and now the Communist North Vietnamese have won an unconditional
surrender. Both South Vietnam and Cambodia are now Communist, and
Laos is in turmoil, ready to surrender to Communist government.
I hope we may yet have a big campaign in Thailand before it is
too late there. Already it is impossible to get a permit to assemble
more than 2000 people in Bangkok, and, as a result of the recent
United States military rescue of the Mayaguez, the whole Thai nation
is seething in anger against the United States. I do not believe I
would find the king, the new prime minister, Madame Sunirat Telan
and our warm friends will have turned unfriendly to me, but still
they very likely might consider it ill-advised for me to hold any
kind of campaign there now.
Thailand is now SURROUNDED by Communist powers. They have an
1800-mile border with Cambodia and Laos. When I was last in Bangkok
in late February, our friends there expressed the impression they had
nothing to fear from the Communists. But they are due for a rude
awakening from that altruistic supposition, in due time. The
Communists move slowly. But they KEEP MOVING! They WILL keep moving,
too, until they have conquered the whole world, UNLESS -- what
actually will happen -- events in Europe and the Middle-East will