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on the long drawn-out court procedures, as our attorneys seek to get it up to
the state
Supreme Court and then to the United States Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, God had led me, without my realizing His hand in it, to take a
residence
in Tucson, Arizona, the year before. When I sent a letter to members and regular
contributors requesting emergency funds for legal expenses to free us from the
receivership,
on January 4th, the receiver managed to stop the letter from going out at the
Pasadena
Post Office. Consequently I have incorporated in this state as a corporation
sole, as
custodian for our organizations. I have moved the necessary portion of our Mail
Processing
Department here, and opened a Mail Processing office in Tucson to receive and
process
mail, and protect incoming funds in local banks in Tucson.
Since we put up the bond, the court has not appointed any further
receivers. The
case is now, as it were, shoved on the back burner. We are thus enabled to carry
on God's
Work, although until a higher court discharges this whole thing, the case hangs
over our
heads.
Actually, God has blessed us so that the income for carrying on the Work
of God
has continued, and has shown enough increase through 1979 to offset inflation.
I have been able to carry on this past year, personally, at age 87,
evangelistic
meetings in two points in Africa, the Middle East, Japan, and just recently--in
December--I
was the first and only church leader from the Christian world to be invited, as
guest of the
government of the Communist People's Republic of China. There I spoke to
audiences
of approximately 400 and 200, including top government officials, with a private
one-hour
meeting with one of the three top men in the government, Vice-Chairman Tan Zhen-
Lin,
a contemporary of the late Chairman Mao, and Premier Chou En-Lai. Also I had
several
meetings with the President of the Chinese Educational Society. The latter met
us at
the airport, and also went to the airport to see us off on our departure. These
men are
in a peculiar and MOST SIGNIFICANT position. The present Chinese government is
educating
the entire nation in the government's present philosophy. So in fact I was
actually able
to deliver to a number of top men who are now RESPONSIBLE for the beliefs of
ONE-FOURTH
of all the people on earth--to deliver to them the GOOD NEWS of the coming
KINGDOM