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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91123
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
February 25, 1977
Dear Co-Workers With Christ:
I am writing from Bucharest, Rumania. I am spending two or
three weeks at the Otopeni Clinic, famous over all of Europe,
recharging tired batteries.
I have kidded about being 37 going on 36. It is acknowledged
by all, so far as I know, that I appear to be at least some 20 years
younger than I actually am. I have said that not one man half my
age (42) out of a hundred could keep up with the pace I do in God's
Work.
But there may have been a slight misunderstanding in some of
this, and I wish to be utterly FRANK, and not to pretend. It is
true, the dynamic power, energy and drive has been there. It is
true that probably not one in a hundred half my age could do the
work that I have been doing.
But what I feel most of you have NOT realized is that MUCH if
not MOST of all that energy, vitality, drive and power has come from
two sources--God, of course (Isa. 40:29-31), and sheer determination
and SELF-drive, even when I did not feel up to it.
But it's like one lady wrote to me years ago. "You may stand
in that pulpit and preach with the energy and power of a 40 year old,
but you must remember you are standing on 80-year-old legs."
Under the STRENUOUS travel, with the continuous speeches before
Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, Kiwanis, Knights of Columbus, etc., etc.,
besides numerous other meetings with leaders around the world, I
have had to keep up constant writing, besides the OVERSIGHT of the
entire vast worldwide Work.
Of course in the latter I have had the very able assistance
of my son Garner Ted. I like to think of our relationship--and I
think God looks upon it this same way--as in the very beginning,
when there were only the TWO Great Supernatural Beings in existence--
the WORD, who later became Jesus Christ, and God (John 1:1-3, 14).
But although they were a TEAM working in perfect HARMONY, with one
mind--that is each in perfect agreement with the other--God was the
Leader over the WORD. When the Word was made flesh and dwelt among
us (John 1:14) as Jesus Christ, He said, "My father is greater than
I," and He said He spoke only what the Father told him to speak.
Yet THERE WAS PERFECT HARMONY, as between Garner Ted and me, and
the Eternal God has delegated to me THE GREAT COMMISSION, to take
the announcement of His true Gospel TO ALL THE WORLD, and I will
leave no stone unturned to see that it is done.