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(at that time, $2.50 a week). To print and send out The Plain
Truth, I had to have a typewriter, a secondhand one I bought for
$10, and an old secondhand ancestor of the Mimeograph, a
hand-cranked Neostyle, which I procured also for $10.
This Work always has required physical facilities to operate.
Now the receiver is locking up our executive and other office
facilities. This Work started with a little inside office room
with NO VENTILATION -- no outside window or door -- just a transom
over the one door leading to a corridor and another transom over a
covered window leading into a large room used for labor union
meetings. Tobacco smoke rolled in. We could work in the office
only one or two hours at a time, then had to stay out two or more
hours until the air cleared -- and the office rent was $7 per month.
These physical facilities are part of the operation of a
Church. God commanded His apostles to go into all the world with
His Gospel Message. Satan SUPPRESSED that Message from going to
the world for 1,900 years. And now he is trying to DESTROY the
CHURCH OF GOD in order to STOP that Message from going out to ALL
THE WORLD.
I have told you this was actually precipitated by my own son
whom I still love in deep sorrow. My son, just before I
excommunicated him, stood over me as I was seated, thundering, "Dad,
I could DESTROY YOU!" His wife Shirl telephoned saying, "This is
WAR!" My son said in a letter that this is a war I can't win,
because, he said, it is a nationally known television personality
fighting me.
Brethren, anyone can sue anyone for anything at any time.
That's the kind of justice system in Satan's world. This present
outrageous civil action by the State of California was brought by
false charges and NO PROOF by only five or six malcontent former
members. It's a tremendous travesty of justice that such a thing
can be done.
The VERY PURPOSE of the Church, first of all, is to stand
back of and support the carrying of Christ's Gospel MESSAGE out
to all the world as a witness to all nations. The second purpose
is to prepare those God has called into His Church, in holy,
righteous character so that they may enter -- at the time of the
resurrection, into the Kingdom of God as a King and/or Priest
under Christ when He comes to RULE THE WORLD! But the first
mentioned purpose, standing behind the proclaiming of the Gospel
around the world, is the MEANS God has given us of developing all
in God's Church into that holy and righteous character of God.
God's Church cannot carry out either PRIME PURPOSE without
facilities!
But, my dear brethren, let us stop and realize that Christ,
the Head of our Church, HAS ALLOWED THIS UNPRECEDENTED MONSTROUS
ATTACK BY STATE GOVERNMENT AND STATE COURTS OF LAW to come upon
us. God will give us the VICTORY in the end.
But meanwhile we as God's called and chosen people need to