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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
September 29, 1976
Dear Co-Workers with Christ,
After a very strenuous and successful trip around the world,
with stops at Rome, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Tokyo--with nine meetings
and banquet-dinners--I am resting a few days at Palm Springs, to be
in top shape for the Feast of Tabernacles--at which I hope once
again to speak at every site in the continental U.S.
I am expecting my son Garner Ted to either fly in or drive in
to have lunch with me and Mr. Stanley Rader here today--as well as
last minute planning for the Feast. Garner Ted also is planning,
as in the last three or four years, to try to speak at every
continental U.S. site, though I jokingly question whether he will be
able to make it. You see, he is now approaching 50, and as you know,
I have been only 37 going on 36. However, I have decided it will be
better for me to change my age now to 38 going on back to 39 where
I used to be.
Ted and I had a rare and enjoyable experience the other evening.
I had just landed in our GII jet from Tokyo. We were getting the
luggage off the plane and into waiting cars, when suddenly Ted
taxied up in the Falcon jet. We had not seen each other in weeks,
and we embraced in a real joyful father-and-son embrace. He had a
funny story. Although we are in no way involved in politics, we,
like God, are observers of what's going on in this present evil
world. He had heard a story about how a presidential candidate is
so UNclear as to where he stands on the "issues."
The story was that this candidate's father had said, when the
boy was about 12, "Son, did you chop down that cherry tree out
there?" "Father," answered the son, "I cannot tell a lie. Either
I did or I did not chop down that tree." Ted and I have such sobering
things to deal with and talk about in this evil world, that a little
lessening of tension once in a while is a relief.
My schedule for this last trip called for flying from Hong Kong
direct to Seoul, South Korea, where I had a definite and important
private meeting set up with President Park. I wrote to you about
a year ago that I was trying to get to Seoul before the communist
North Koreans reopen the war and attack South Korea. Well, try as
we did, it seems we were too late but only by a very few days. The
North Koreans are now openly threatening, as I knew privately they
were a year ago. It had become unsafe for us to fly in there.
However, all other meetings were a real success.
We are looking forward to the most WONDERFUL Feast of Tabernacles
so far. We may not be able to have many more. It is even possible,