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audiences of brethren. He even said to many of you, "my father
is a great man." That, of course, is not true--the GREATNESS is
in Christ. But at the same time--whether you realized it or not--
Satan was craftily leading my son to say--or imply--that his father
was now old and senile--my mind was in a fog--I did not know what
was going on--I was being manipulated by those in top administrative
positions, and Mr. Rader.
He has spread the POINT BLANK LIE that Mr. Rader is now actually
heading the Church and Work. Brethren, I brand that as a Satan LIE!
Mr. Rader does not even have any administrative position--except in
the AICF--AND LET ME INTERRUPT HERE TO SAY THAT I HAVE GIVEN THE
DIRECT ORDER TO MR. RADER TO SELL OR DISPOSE OF THE MAGAZINE QUEST 78
as soon as possible. I was never enthusiastic about this magazine,
but I went along with it under the understanding that I was to write
the LEADING ARTICLE in every issue. I said emphatically at the
beginning that the magazine could not succeed otherwise. But men
of SECULAR EXPERTISE hired to run it deceived Mr. Rader. The
magazine now is showing a slight profit through advertising sales and
subscription price, but I have given a firm order which Mr. Rader
will at once follow: "SELL IT OR GET RID OF IT!"
On May 8 last month, I learned that my son had appointed a man
I do not even know as President of Ambassador College. I then wrote
him that this was the last straw--of his assuming authority never
given to him to make major decisions. I then told Garner Ted to
take a temporary compulsory leave of absence, which he did not do.
He came to me and in a four hour talk was full of hostility and
angry emotion on his part. His wife was present and in anger twice
left my office. My wife also was present. This nerve-shattering
session, wrestling with a defiant spirit seeking only to HAVE HIS
WAY, finally ended in a tearful hug.
After that, we had one more private talk in which he rose and
said to his father, "I could DESTROY you, Dad!" He wrote some three
or four letters and we had two or three telephone calls--all hostile,
nerve-shattering ordeals I do not feel I should have to submit to.
This side of things I have kept from you in my desire to protect
my son's name and reputation.
But while he has professed to uphold me and extol me, he has
subtly been destroying me--his father's credibility, dishonoring
his father and his God.
Finally, about ten days ago, I sent him another letter telling
him that UNLESS he did go into the compulsory leave of absence and
if he did anything more to CAUSE DIVISION among brethren in God's
Church, or if he "went to the world's newspapers" as he had
threatened, I would have no alternative but to MARK HIM, according to
Romans 17, for causing division, and DISFELLOWSHIP him from the
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD.
My irate, red-hot, angry, hostile son went to the Los Angeles
Times with distorted, twisted facts and non-truths. He sent me by
special personal messenger the day before yesterday a seven-page
single-spaced typed letter literally breathing out "threatenings
and slaughter," as Saul was before God struck him down and